Standards

Overview of how OpenCRVS uses best-practice technology standards

We implement as per the U.N. Guidelines for Civil Registration.

Because OpenCRVS is a core component of Digital Public Infrastructure, we are committed to adopting digital gov data standards.

Social protection standards: Digital Convergence Initiative. OpenCRVS are a Standards Committee Member of the Digital Convergence Initiative, CRVS and SP-MIS interfaces. We helped author these standards and interoperate with social protection systems such as OpenSPP.

DPI standards: Centre for Digital Public Infrastructure - G2PConnect standards are in use in the interoperable middleware relevant to the social protection standards above.

Healthcare standards: Event registrations such as births and deaths, that occur in a hospital setting can interoperate with OpenCRVS using FHIR , a global healthcare standard managed by: Health Level Seven International (HL7). We have extended FHIR's model to include custom codes and extensions that assist the Civil Registration context.