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Understanding the Relationship between Digital Public Goods and Global Goods in the Context of Digital Health
Paper launched on understanding the relationship between digital public goods and global goods in the context of digital health.
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Immunization Delivery Management Solutions Should be Digital Public Goods
Join the DPGA in calling for immunization delivery management solutions to be digital public goods.
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500 and counting
It has been a year since we launched the DPG Registry, a repository that houses nominees and digital public goods. We are thrilled to announce this week that we have reached a milestone — 500 nominations!
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Financing the Digital Public Goods Ecosystem
Even digital public goods that are in wide demand, and have proven their potential to address development needs in multiple countries, struggle to attract the contributions and financial support required to maintain and evolve over time. This blog considers how to change that through coordinated, sustainable grant funding.
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Launching DHIS2 Pathfinding Pilots
Pathfinding pilots are meant to increase the number of countries implementing DPGs, promote and support the creation of DPGs in low- and middle-income countries, and increase national capacity for implementing projects utilizing DPGs.
Today, DHIS2 launches pathfinding pilots to break down sector-specific barriers in development.
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Launching a resource platform to help projects become digital public goods
The DPGA is beta launching DPG Resources, an emerging collection of resources to support projects to become digital public goods. Aiding the discovery and development of digital public goods is at the core of everything we do. Which is why we are excited to announce that this week we launched Read more…
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Embracing openness in delivering an API for digital public goods
Since day one, the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA), has embraced open source values including transparency, openness, and community. The DPGA seeks to advance open source software, open data, open AI models, open standards and open content as solutions to create a more equitable world; and, simply put, we couldn’t Read more…
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Year in Review
While, like many, we were eager to end 2020 and look towards the new year with new energy, it is important to take time to reflect on the achievements made, the challenges overcome, and the opportunities presented in 2020. For the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA), reflecting on 2020 actually Read more…
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Community Sourcing Digital Public Goods
Calling all contributors: The DPGA is now community sourcing reviews of digital public goods! Today, the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA) launched our first community sourcing exercise! We’re asking you to participate by reviewing open source projects against the Digital Public Goods Standard with the ultimate goal of determining if Read more…
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Licensing within the Digital Public Goods Standard
As we said in our last post, “not all open source projects are digital public goods, but all digital public goods must be open source”. To be open source, there must be distribution terms, or a license, that allows for distribution and reuse. That is why licensing appears as the Read more…