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[Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx>]

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 <gadanya@xxxxxxxxx> 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
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