Part IV
Empirical Study

7 The Ethiopian Context
 7.1 Demographics
 7.2 Ethiopia, a Land of History
 7.3 Politics
 7.4 ICT in Ethiopia
8 The HISP project in Ethiopia
 8.1 Tigray Demographics
 8.2 The Tigray team
 8.3 EPI-info
 8.4 Adapting DHIS for Tigray
 8.5 Problems with the DHIS software
 8.6 Getting support from the HISP community
 8.7 Being the farench/faranji
9 FLOSS in Ethiopia
 9.1 Economic argument for FLOSS
 9.2 The TRIPS agreement
 9.3 Political support for FLOSS
 9.4 FLOSS usage
 9.5 Ethiopian FLOSS organisations
 9.6 Participation of Ethiopia in FLOSS
 9.7 Analysis of the network in Ethiopia
10 Development of a Plug-in Framework for DHIS 2
 10.1 Why the need for a reimplementation?
 10.2 The community model in DHIS 2
 10.3 My role in the project
 10.4 What motivated me to participate
 10.5 Making the application extensible
 10.6 Interaction with other DHIS 2 developers
 10.7 Interaction with projects we depended on