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[Lars Kristian Roland <lars@xxxxxxxxx>]

As an example of an abbreviation that has changed meaning, I would mention
GSM, which I believe first meant Group Speciale Mobile (excuse my french)
and later Global System for Mobile communication.

I would support Prosper's observation that District may not cover the
distributed system that DHIS2 has become.

MobiLars
On 2013 5 2 15:12, "Knut Staring" <knutst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> There is indeed a long history, as Jason points out, and the "district"
> focus took its inspiration from the WHO Alma Ata Declaration from 1978 and
> its focus on Primary Health Care and "Health For All"
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alma_Ata_Declaration
>
> Furthermore, the very first versions of DHIS came out of close
> collaboration with three pilot districts in Cape Town:
> http://www.mn.uio.no/ifi/english/research/networks/hisp/hisp-history.html
> http://folk.uio.no/patrickr/refdoc/BraaHedberg02.pdf
>
> http://www.mn.uio.no/ifi/english/research/networks/hisp/integrated-health-information-architecture.html
>
> However, by this stage, it seems to me that the acronym DHIS has also
> acquired quite an identity of its own, a bit like e.g. IBM, a name much
> like others, which could be used without necessarily going into "what it
> stands for".
>
> Knut
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Jason Pickering <
> jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi Proper,
>>
>> Remember, with open source software, you are free to call it what you
>> want! I know of a private company who has now forked DHIS2 and are calling
>> it something entirely different, for their own reasons. In other countries,
>> DHIS2 has been  branded differently, according to their own acronyms.
>>
>> I would however, not expect a change on this, given the long history. :)
>>
>> My two cents,
>> Jason
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 7:41 PM, Prosper BT <ptb3000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear team,
>>>
>>> Quite often end users especially below and above the district level have
>>> asked Why 'District' and we have struggled to explain this by first telling
>>> history. In passing someone suggested renaming District to Decentralized
>>> and Software to System.
>>>
>>> What it if in respect of maintaining the acronym it becomes
>>> "Decentralized Health Information System - DHIS?
>>>
>>> 'Don't kill the messenger'
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> --
>>> Prosper Behumbiize, MPH
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