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[Jason Pickering <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Lars,

Sounds interesting. Wish I would have been there for the discussion. Sounds
like it might be possible,  assuming the process and data is transparent,
and allow for an option to "opt-out" of collection of such data.

Having said that, I think we should be exceedingly careful. I assume that
the data would be beamed back to a central server someplace. Who would
control that server? Who would have access to the "sensitive" data like IP
addresses of the servers, i.e. the data which would not be publicly
disclosed? Given recent revelations in the news, how would possible data
requests from third parties be handled (such as a list of IP addresses for
where DHIS2 is used)?

Regards,
Jason





On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 10:07 PM, Lars Helge Øverland
<larshelge@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> during the Uganda workshop last month we had an interesting suggestion
> from one of the participants.
>
> The idea is to let DHIS submit anonymous, non-sensitive data to a central
> system in order to gather basic statistics related to usage. The data sent
> would include:
>
> - A random, anonymous system identifier
> - DHIS 2 version
> - Java server version
> - Operating system and version
>
> Then we could make an optional feature for "activating" or "registering"
> your DHIS instance, where you could optionally inform about:
>
> - System contact person
> - System description
>
> It would be quite useful and interesting to know things like:
>
> - How many DHIS instances there are out there
> - How fast are new DHIS versions adopted
> - What is the dominant server operating system/environment
>
>
> This info would of course be disclosed only in aggregate form.
>
> What do people think about this? Any strong objections?
>
>
> best regards,
>
> Lars
>
>
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