Co-designing a virtual community of practice (VCoP) for maternal and child health in Burkina Faso
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Abstract
Abstract Background In Burkina Faso, maternity is a risk. Global Affairs Canada funded the initiative PASME-2 with World University Service of Canada, Laval University and Farm Radio International to improve maternal outcomes. A preventative program was co-developed. Phase 1 included to train the Health Ministry training coordinators. Phase 2 related to the training of nearly 100 health professionals. Phase 3 received funding from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council in partnership with the Centre for International Cooperation in Health and Development and TIESS, a liaison and transfer expert in Québec, to support local teams towards sustainable practice changes. Results On the first objective, to describe the co-development of this living lab are presented. We share our perspective of the co-designing challenges, tools, and solutions. We will demonstrate the VCoP platform and environment. Method. A participative co-design approach, allowed the engagement of several stakeholders in the process. Results. Four workshops were organised. Seventeen maternal and child care health professionals took part in the initial 8-month development phase. Results Four steps of the six phases of Gusche innovation design are presented with associated products and results. Implementation challenges, critical decisions, role of face-to-face meetings, technology factors, digital literacy and solutions are presented. Conclusions Implementing a technology innovation in low income setting with limited access to the web and to technologies is a challenge. Its advantages are greater: access to evidenced-base care, facilitating professional development, creating a safe space and leading to emerging problem-solving collective solutions. Conceived as a capacitating environment (Sen) and supporting strength-based (Gottlieb) care through partnership, this VCoP becomes a driver of action to maintain preventative health competence and to share experiences and ways of knowing. Key messages The digital space crosses the borders and can contribute to human development and expansion of safe, evidenced-based and culturally appropriate professional practices. Working in partnerships, interprofessional and intersectoral, with public and community groups can create synergies that will unfold in greater health equity.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.020 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".