Happy New Year, DHIS2 Community! 2025 is here—are you ready for a great year of learning and working on DHIS2 projects together?
Being engaged and participating in this global community makes you a part of projects around the world, so thank you for the great year we had together, and here’s to a vibrant community in 2025.
As a DHIS2 Community member, you have the entire global DHIS2 community—including 23 HISP groups and the DHIS2 Core Team—at your side, so let’s make the best of this opportunity.
As this is a new year, we’d like to remind you that your feedback is most welcome: post in Forum Feedback - Forum or email community@dhis2.org.
In our 41st copmonthly post (January 2025), here’s what we will talk about today:
Top Topics:
- Topics you will need in 2025
- Top Topics from 2024
- Top Topics from December 2024
Slideshows: Top Active Members of 2024 and December 2024
Tagging all helpful community members
copmonthly DHIS2 Challenges
copmonthly Map
We’re Almost There! (Be the one to find the solution!) 
But first we’d like to share some lovely metrics from 2024! 
It was a great year indeed…
Below we’re trying a new format for the post where sections are collapsed, so please click the arrow below each section to expand. (What do you think of this idea? 
Thx!)
Top Topics
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Top Topics:
Topics you will need in 2025
At the end of 2024, the DHIS2 Core Team announced upcoming webinars live-streaming from February 2025 until March 2025, so don’t miss out on these sessions that spotlight the latest DHIS2 features like data entry, capture, line listing, and Android analytics: Webinar Series - Feature Spotlights on DHIS2 Features : Data Entry, Capture, Line Listing and Android Analytics
For developers, make sure to make use of the latest platform updates and features: https://community.dhis2.org/t/app-platform-v12-released-vite-and-react-18/62692
Learn how to build a Capture Plugin - Webinar Announcement
If you’re interested in DHIS2 for Climate & Health project, remember to check out the announcement and participate in the new Implementation category Announcing CHAP: Predictive modeling & climate-sensitive disease forecasting in DHIS2
Top Topics from 2024
Integrating BI tools with DHIS2 seems to get the interest of many. One topic that stands out is the topic: Good practices integrating DHIS2 with BI tools for advanced analytics and local ownership which was a DAC2024 poster from @solidlines (by @cetgo) if you haven’t already, check out their infographic poster!
You already know this one, but this is also a reminder to why you need to prepare for the DHIS2 2025 App Competition 
2024 DHIS2 App Competition Finalists and Voting
Last but not least, it appears that the initiative (DHIS2 Research forum) has attracted researchers and members of the community. It received 190 views in a short time. If you’re a researcher or interested in learning more about DHIS2 research click the topic and join the conversation in being part of the initiative!
Top Topic from December 2024
A big and warm thank you to all members and speakers who participated in the End of Year 2024 event! Our event topic, [🎉 Join the global DHIS2 Community End of Year 2024 Event: Stories & Fun Activity ], was the top post from December 2024.
Are there topics from 2024 that you found interesting? Please reply with the topic link and explain why you found it interesting or important.
Slideshows: Top Active Members of 2024 and December 2024
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Top 10 Active Members in 2024
user profile summarized by AI using public profile info
(Tagging here all the top ten members users in 2024 so they receive a notification - , @Ulanbek, @didate, @nnkogift, @sami12111, @Adisu_Adugna, @ctejo, @rcpoudel, @Matthew_Boddie, @Shapr0019, @Stephan_Mestach )
Top 10 Active Members in December 2024
user profile summarized by AI using public profile info
(Tagging here all the top ten active members from December 2024 so they receive a notification - @Ulanbek, @koloo, @ramavat, @nnkogift, @sami.oracle10g, @rcpoudel, @m.siusko, @ctejo, @gregory, @eviesn )
Tagging all helpful community members
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- Thankful note to all helpful community members:
- Good Samaritans (freely volunteering to help other community members)
Feature finders
Bug hunters
Big thanks to all helpful members (December 2024),
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!
@sami.oracle10g | @Kneec | @PTemu | @MichaelButtsworth | @Ulanbek | @ctejo | @ejimba | @Edward_Robinson | @m.siusko | @gregory | @Stephan_Mestach | @bencapriata | @bencapriata | @emad | @Mayamiko | @Abdulrahman | @nnkogift | @baktash.salehi | @cpharaoh | @Shamah | @Haliz.t | @sele | @daler
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.
@arslan_mughal | @Fatsani | @WaluQ | @Juan_Flamenco | @MELB | @gregory
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. 
@diallotafsir52 | @Kenyuri | @mankgamc
cop Monthly Challenges
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DHIS2-Challenges:
In last month’s challenge, the first person to vote for the correct answer was: @shapr0019 
Congratulations! To check out last month’s challenge click here. All who participated receive the CoP Activity Winner badge today.
The challenge for this month (December 2024):
- Aggregate-level data correct
- Custom web and Android apps
- Individual-level data
- Data entry on desktop computers
- Data entry on Android devices
[First person to answer correctly will be mentioned in the next copmonthly]
HINT: This question is from the Introduction to DHIS2 Customization unit of Module 1 - What can be customized in DHIS2? within the Aggregate Customization Fundamentals digital self-paced course, Aggregate Customization Fundamentals | DHIS2 Online Academy
copmonthly Map
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copmonthly map
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Complete your profile info (profile picture + country)
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Members with the above info are tagged in the map when they help other community members
We’re Almost There! (Be the one to find the solution!)
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New section: We’re Almost There!
This is a new section in the copmonthly where we list topics from the same month that might still need a little bit more help and categorizing them by topic. If you’re looking to help around, please have a look in the list below.
Got an idea about using DHIS2 for Training? Springlearns: Best Practices for Using DHIS2 in Training Programs for Health Sector Professionals
Want to see the Reports > Resource in the Android Capture app? Request to Integrate Resource Feature from Web Reports into DHIS2 Android App
Got some Metadata Country List Optionset ready to share? Request for Country Option Set Compatible with DHIS2 Version 2.40.5
Some Tracker Program questions:
