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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...

Series Part 2: Meet our Co-Founder, Norway
October 13, 2020
Authors: Lucy Harris
NEW: Follow the Digital Public Goods Alliance on Twitter @DPGAlliance Last week we kicked off a four part series. In each part, we will share exciting work from one of the Co-Founders of the Digital P...

Series Part 1: Meet our Co-Founders, iSPIRT
October 6, 2020
Authors: Liv Marte Nordhaug
NEW: Follow the Digital Public Goods Alliance on Twitter @DPGAlliance In our newsletter last week, we kicked off a four part series to introduce the work of the Digital Public Goods Alliance Co-Founde...

Digital Public Goods Alliance and the #DigitalDecade
September 22, 2020
Authors: Liv Marte Nordhaug
On September 18, on the margins of the 2020 UN General Assembly, New America - a Washington, D.C.-based think tank - hosted an online event to launch a #DigitalDecade. The #DigitalDecade is a commitme...