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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.

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...