Kora

Animal health software, built for the public good.

Across the Asia-Pacific and beyond, billions of people depend on animals for food and income. Most of the people responsible for keeping those animals healthy still work with paper records, spreadsheets that never meet, or nothing at all.

Kora is one system for recording animals, spotting disease early and protecting the people, farms and wild places that depend on them. A field worker uses it on a phone. A ministry uses it to see the whole country.

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One system, from the field to the capital

Kora holds the tools that animal health work needs in one place, so people can:

spot animal disease and follow where it goes
act before an outbreak spreads
record where animals move and what has happened to them
use antibiotics and other medicines more carefully
inspect meat and keep food safe
look up practical guidance while out in the field

A community animal health worker records a sick animal or a vaccination on their phone. A district officer sees every case in the district. The ministry sees the country. All of it comes from the same records.

Each person sees the animals, cases and tools that belong to their own work, and nothing they don't need.

Any kind of animal

Kora works for livestock, for wildlife and conservation, for farmed fish and for bees.

A goat herd in one district and a protected forest in the next can be recorded in the same system, by different teams, in the way each of them already works. The same setup serves a small community program and a national animal health service.

Animals, people and land get sick together

A disease in cattle can reach the family that keeps them. A disease in wild birds can reach the farm next door. When a forest is cleared or a river changes course, animals and people meet in new ways and new diseases follow.

This connected approach is often called One Health.

Kora keeps livestock and wildlife records in one system, so a disease moving between farmed and wild animals shows up in one place, and the people responsible can act on it earlier.

Practical knowledge for people in the field

Kora includes a Knowledge Hub: plain, practical guidance for animal health workers and for the communities they work with.

It can provide:

guides to animal diseases
meat inspection training
step-by-step procedures for work in the field
information in multiple languages

The Knowledge Hub works without a connection, so a worker in a village with no signal can still look up a disease, a procedure or a dose.

Built for the conditions in which it is used

Kora works offline, supports local languages and runs on the phones that field workers already use.

The records belong to the government or organisation that keeps them, and Kora can run on their own servers. Nobody outside can switch it off, and nobody rents it back.

Ready to use

Kora is built and running, with a demo available at kora.openimpact.studio. It can be set up for a new organisation, district or country from there.

It is a project of OpenImpact Studio, built under a commitment that puts the public good ahead of any return for investors. No venture capital has funded it, and none will.

Work with us

If you want to run Kora in your district, province or country, or want to see how it would fit the way your team already works, write to us at hello@openimpact.studio.