DHIS2 News: DHIS2 Wins 2025 Future of Government Award

DHIS2 has been named the winner of the 2025 Future of Government Awards in the category of Open Source Creation. This recognition underscores the platform’s role in transforming public health and data management through open-source technology, enabling governments and organizations worldwide to make data-driven decisions that improve public services.

The Future of Government Awards recognize practitioners, teams, and leaders who apply digital solutions to enhance governance and service delivery. In 2025, the awards received over 330 nominations from more than 50 countries, representing a diverse range of digital innovations. The Open Source Creation award honors organizations that develop innovative digital solutions and share them as open-source tools, allowing others to adapt and reuse them for the public good.

DHIS2 is an open source, web-based software platform for data collection, management, and analysis. Today, DHIS2 is the world’s largest health management information system (HMIS) platform, in use by Ministries of Health in 80 low- and middle-income countries. 3.2 billion people (40% of the world’s population) live in countries where DHIS2 is used. With the inclusion of NGO-based programs, DHIS2 is in use in more than 100 countries.

Developed by the HISP Centre at the University of Oslo (HISP UiO), DHIS2 was recognized for its significant contribution to public health and government data systems worldwide. The platform empowers ministries of health, non-governmental organizations, and global institutions with a scalable and customizable system that supports effective data management.

Professor Kristin Braa, director of the HISP Centre, said she is grateful for this recognition and proud of DHIS2’s impact on data use around the world, as well as the work being done by the global network of DHIS2 implementers and partners.

“This award is so meaningful, not only as recognition for the software we develop and maintain, but also for the HISP network, our partners in Ministries and organizations representing more than 100 countries, and the global DHIS2 community. The scale of DHIS2’s global impact is directly related to their efforts and innovations. We thank our partners for their ongoing commitment to DHIS2, and we look forward to forging new partnerships to support the continuation and evolution of DHIS2 as an open digital tool helping power the future of government in countries around the world.” – Professor Kristin Braa, HISP Centre director

The awards ceremony, held on March 20, was hosted by Michael Downey, Project Officer and Open Source Analyst at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and Blessing Ajimoti, Principal Consultant at Public Digital. During his remarks, Downey said the award for Open Source Creation “celebrates the innovators, developers and leaders in government who are designing and building their own solutions, and, crucially, making them available for others to adapt and reuse.” 

The Open Source Creation award was announced by Dasun Hegoda, a technical advisor for Co-Develop and former director for Sri Lanka’s Information and Communication Technology Agency, who said, “DHIS2 is a free and open-source platform that brings together a wide variety of health data from numerous sources. Currently, this digital public good is transforming management information systems in more than 100 countries. Its model allows it to be adapted to different contexts with low barriers to adoption.”

The HISP UiO and our partners in the HISP network remain committed to advancing open-source innovation and supporting governments in their digital transformation efforts. This award is a testament to the impact of collaborative, community-driven development in public sector technology.