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Embracing openness in delivering an API for digital public goods
February 10, 2021
Authors: Digital Public Goods Alliance
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, ope...

Year in Review
January 14, 2021
Authors: Digital Public Goods Alliance
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 opportunit...

Community Sourcing Digital Public Goods
December 16, 2020
Authors: Digital Public Goods Alliance
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’r...

Licensing within the Digital Public Goods Standard
November 19, 2020
Authors: Balint
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 licens...

Why Open Source?
November 17, 2020
Authors: Lucy Harris
The Digital Public Goods Alliance has spent the last several months developing the Digital Public Goods Standard, and working with stakeholders from across sectors to determine criteria that allows us...

Accelerating financial inclusion during COVID-19 and beyond
November 10, 2020
Authors: Liv Marte Nordhaug
In September, 2020 the Digital Public Goods Alliance Financial Inclusion Community of Practice (CoP) engaged in a thoughtful, virtual discussion about the relationship between digital public infrastru...

UNICEF’s Open Source Approach to Innovation
October 27, 2020
Authors: Lucy Harris
Yesterday, DPGA Co-Founder UNICEF published this article outlining UNICEF's various tools and platforms that operationalise its commitment to open source. Please find an excerpt below. UNICEF has a 70...

Series Part 4: Meet our Co-Founder, UNICEF
October 26, 2020
Authors: Liv Marte Nordhaug
This week, we wrap up our four part series highlighting the work of each Digital Public Goods Alliance co-founder. This week we’re featuring UNICEF. If you missed it, check out the rest of the series ...

Series Part 3: Meet our Co-Founder, Sierra Leone
October 20, 2020
Authors: Lucy Harris
This is the third in a four-part series featuring exciting work from the Co-Founders of the Digital Public Goods Alliance. This week we’re featuring Sierra Leone. If you missed it, check out Part 1 on...