Hello DHIS2 Community! 
It’s already the second month of 2026 and the community topic posts have been thriving with your energy and contributions. It’s great to see the community starting the year learning together, from the CHAP webinar series, sharing implementation questions and insights from the field, to testing the latest method in deploying DHIS2 web apps.
Like every month, your contributions are the highlight of this post, so it’s important to take a moment and celebrate the helpful and active community members during January 2026.
To keep you even more engaged, below is a list of things to do early on in February 2026. Thank you for being the heart of this global community! 
Things to do in February 2026:
- Register for the DHIS2 Annual Conference (Online participation is available if you can’t attend in person): The DHIS2 Annual Conference
- Are you a French speaker? Join the DHIS2 CoP Francophone event!
- Check out DHIS2 Android development resources: Latest DHIS2 Android Development Academy - Course material - #2 – reply if you have any questions!
- Join the ‘Climate data tools, GIS, and data harmonization strategies’ webinar which is the last webinar in the Advanced Webinar Series on Spatiotemporal Modeling of Climate-Sensitive Diseases.
- Follow the simple steps to creating a DHIS2 web app (see recording) - reply if you have any questions! Join the next monthly Developer Meetup: (February 2026 Developer Meetup: Custom Intents & Beta Testing)
- Join the weekly Server Admin Meetups.
- Participate in the DHIS2 Challenge, see section below!
For this February 2026 post, here’s what we will talk about:
Top Topics: Most popular discussions from 2025 and key highlights from December 2025.
Top Active Community Members in January 2026
The Heart of the Community: A thankful note to our Good Samaritans, Feature Finders, and Bug Hunters.
cop Monthly Challenge: A monthly quiz to refresh your DHIS2 knowledge.
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Top Topics:
Top Topics from January 2026:
Before listing the top topics from January 2026, it’d be great to point out that the category: Development - Développement > Chap & Modeling has been growing in activity and interest - thanks to all those who are following the webinar series and replying with their questions!
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Launching DHIS2 Climate Tools: A flexible toolkit for climate data integration
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January 2026 Developer Meetup: Building DHIS2 web applications in 2026
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Webinar: Leveraging Chap and the DHIS2 Platform for Stock Forecasting - DHIS2
)Are there topics from January 2026 that you found interesting? Please reply with the topic link and explain why you found it interesting or important.
Top 10 Active Members in January 2026
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(Tagging here all the top ten active users in the Year 2025 and December 2025 so they receive a notification - @Cnote @HanyAly @DAGBEMAMBOU @m.siusko @nnkogift @gregory @sami12111 @Kris_Reinhardt @Msoo @eyeseetea)
* Thankful note to all helpful community members:
Good Samaritans (freely volunteering to help other community members)
Feature finders
Bug hunters
Special thanks to all helpful members (January 2026)
Good Samaritans (voluntarily helping other community members)
Without Good Samaritans, there’s no community! We are very thankful to all users for contributing to the CoP especially when helping other users. Samaritans, thank you for making others feel at home!
@fidelelukeka | @Khoroshaev_Oleg | @Mayamiko | @Yuseif | @ochavez | @Mr_jorge | @EyeSeeTea | @spaton | @ehoumey | @HanyAly | @nnkogift | @HawraaSweidan | @Shapr0019 | @Vishwanideep_Kumar | @Elmarie_Claasen | @Waheed | @chingalo | @Mbevi | @antenehtadele | @gregory | @Silvia888 | @St_lawrence | @Stephan_Mestach | @Reanne.Jean | @DAGBEMAMBOU |
Bug Hunters
Many users who faced issues and discussed them with the community were very helpful in finding bugs. These bug hunters create Jira issues (with link to the CoP post) and support the development of DHIS2.
@moses_mwale | @ramavat | @Msoo | @gregory | @m.siusko
Feature Finders
We do tag feature finders in every copmonthly so if you have features that you’d like to share and discuss with the community feel free to make a post, and follow the instructions to add ideas into the software roadmap process. 
@Elmarie_Claasen | @JaimeLopez | @m.siusko
DHIS2-Challenges:
In last month’s challenge, the first person to pick the correct answer was: @Mayamiko 
Congratulations! To check out last month’s challenge click here All who participated will receive the CoP Activity Winner badge.
The challenge for this month (January 2026):
There are special considerations for implementations using mobile devices for data capture. Which of the following options are correct?
- A) Require constant connectivity as data on android devices cannot be entered offline
- B) Require less devices, one device per district can be enough
- C) Tracker systems frequently involve heavier server load
- D) There are usually more users, so more IT support should be available especially during business hours
[First person to answer correctly will be mentioned in the next copmonthly]
HINT:
This question is from the Devices, Infrastructure and Hosting module, [Devices and Infrastructure] within the Planning and Budgeting DHIS2 Implementations digital self-paced course, Planning and Budgeting DHIS2 Implementations | DHIS2 Online Academy
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