The *Community Health Information Tracking System* or CHITS (www.chits.info) is an extensible, modular, open source information system for rural health units in the Philippines. It collects existing routine health data from vertical programs using the Department of Health's Field Health Service Information System (FHSIS) and integrates them into a unified, comprehensive computerized information system. Through CHITS, community-based health information is made available not only to public health agencies requiring community level information but also to the community itself which generates the information. It enables the community to use this information for local decision-making and health planning. In addition to software, CHITS also includes structured capability-building programs designed to improve the health information systems within local health centers, manual or otherwise. CHITS began in Pasay and is now in seven municipalities around the country with requests for installation from many more. It was a finalist at the Stockholm Challenge 2006 and was named one of the top 3 e-government projects by the APEC Digitial Opportunity Center (July 2006). - Alvin Maecelo - Phillipines