The acronym DHIS has become a bit like IBM - growing out of a historical role at district level in South Africa back in the nineties, into a much broader platform twenty years later.
It is used at all levels, including village communities and global. Also used extensively outside of the health sector. So I just refer to it as dhis2 without spelling it out. Knut On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 8:04 PM, Muktar Gadanya <gada...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear friends, > > I hope this doesn't sound too ridiculous for this forum: we had a (very > primordial) seminar on the Nigeria's HMIS, and attendees asked why the > DHIS2 acronym has the D for district, in spite of the fact that we are > using LGAs as administrative units in Nigeria. I replied that DHIS2 is a > global open access software, and consistency requires that the name is > uniform, even though what constitutes a "district" can vary between > different places. > > Kindly I don't know if I can have additional insights on this. > > Muktar > > Sent from my iPhone > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users > Post to : dhis2-users@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -- Knut Staring Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo Norway: +4791880522 Skype: knutstar http://dhis2.org
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