Community Systems Foundation (CSF) is pleased to share a new paper presented at the CIES 2026 Conference, titled:
“Leveraging OpenEMIS for Efficient, Fair, Secure, and Accessible Education Assessments: Pathways to Integrated National Systems.”
As education systems worldwide face increasing demands to deliver high-quality, equitable, and secure assessments, this paper explores how OpenEMIS can serve as a practical and scalable…
Community Systems Foundation (CSF) is pleased to announce the publication of a new concept note exploring the intersection of climate change and education systems, and the critical role that modern data systems can play in strengthening resilience.
As climate-related events become more frequent and severe, education systems around the world are increasingly disrupted—through school closures, infrastructure damage, displacement of learners, and long-term impacts on access and equity.…
Community Systems Foundation (CSF) is pleased to announce the publication of a new case study highlighting how OpenEMIS supports governments to strengthen early childhood development and education (ECDE) systems through better data.
Early childhood—from birth to age eight—is a critical period for cognitive, social, and emotional development. Yet in many countries, fragmented or incomplete data systems limit the ability of governments to track progress, identify vulnerable children, and…
Community Systems Foundation and the OpenEMIS Lab announce the release of the latest version of OpenEMIS Core Version 5, a major update to the platform used by ministries of education around the world to manage and strengthen education systems.
Read more about the release in the full press release and explore the release through the…
Education systems worldwide are under increasing pressure to deliver learning outcomes that are measurable, equitable, and secure—while navigating rapid digital transformation. At Community Systems Foundation (CSF), we believe that global public goods—open, adaptable, country-owned digital solutions—are essential to building resilient and sustainable education systems.
At CIES 2026, we look forward to engaging with partners, researchers, and…
OpenEMIS Country Highlights 2025
In 2025, CSF worked closely with education partners to deliver real, national impact:
- Guyana — Completed the first nation-wide production and distribution of official report cards for 20,000+ students
- Tonga — Rolled out OpenEMIS across all public schools
- Namibia — Enhanced OpenEMIS Exams with verification, case management, and online examination features
- Belize — Contributed targeted feature upgrades in OpenEMIS Core…
Over a decade ago, Community Systems Foundation partnered with UNESCO to transform education systems through robust, data-driven solutions. That partnership birthed OpenEMIS—a vision for a shared, open-source Education Management Information System (EMIS) adaptable to every country’s context. Our brief at that time was very…
Supporting Education Management in Aruba
In late October 2022, Community Systems Foundation’s OpenEMIS Project Officer, Stephanie Betancourt traveled to Aruba to provide direct training to a team from the Department of Education Aruba (DEA). The OpenEMIS trainings aimed to strengthen the department’s ability to administer and use OpenEMIS.
The training was a part of CSF’s multi-year partnership with the DEA. In 2019, just before the onset of the COVID19 pandemic, OpenEMIS…
OpenEMIS Guyana: Monitoring the Education Sector Plan
As the 2014-2018 National Education Sector Plan (ESP) comes to a close in Guyana, a comprehensive sector review is being conducted within the Ministry of Education (MoE) to draft the 2019-2023 plan and to address education sector challenges and needs. Several of these challenges include several staff members lacking the capacity to effectively…
Putting Passion into Practice to Support Women and Girls Everywhere: A Spotlight on Menna El Shiati, Programme Advisor
As a third year student at the American University in Cairo, Egypt, Menna El Shiati first learned that nearly 8 out every 10 women in her country undergo…