DPGA Blog
Insights, stories, and updates on digital public goods and the open-source ecosystem from the Digital Public Goods Alliance.
May 13, 2026
The Wikimedia Foundation joins the Digital Public Goods Alliance
The Digital Public Goods Alliance is excited to welcome the Wikimedia Foundation as its newest member. As part of its membership, the Wikimedia Foundation will undertake activities that strengthen the global digital public goods ecosystem through both technical infrastructure investment and policy advocacy. This includes strengthening Wikimedia Cloud Services, the platform that supports many of the volunteer developed tools behind Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, with improvements focused on scalability, security, usability, and innovation. The organisation will also continue advancing advocacy efforts around open knowledge infrastructure, open-source first approaches, responsible public interest AI, and the role of digital public goods in supporting information integrity and inclusive digital participation worldwide.“The Wikimedia Foundation is honored to become an official member of the Digital Public Goods Alliance. This membership reaffirms our commitment to the importance of open knowledge as a public good, ensuring it remains accessible, rights-based, and governed in the public interest. Wikipedia, Wikidata, and other Wikimedia projects show how hundreds of thousands of people working together across borders can create and maintain free and open knowledge infrastructure built in the public interest. As the host of these projects, we look forward to sharing our learnings and collaborating more closely with fellow DPGA members who share our vision of an internet that protects and promotes community-led spaces,” said Jan Gerlach, Public Policy Director at the Wikimedia Foundation. “We warmly welcome the Wikimedia Foundation to the Digital Public Goods Alliance. Wikipedia and Wikidata have long demonstrated the transformative power of open, community driven digital public goods to advance access to knowledge worldwide. The organization’s leadership in strengthening open knowledge infrastructure and advocating for digital public goods will further strengthen the global DPG ecosystem and support more inclusive and equitable access to trusted knowledge online,” said Liv Marte Nordhaug, CEO of the DPGA Secretariat.Wikipedia and Wikidata were officially verified as digital public goods in 2025 and added to the DPG Registry, reflecting their important role in advancing open, community driven knowledge infrastructure worldwide.To learn more about the Wikimedia Foundation joining the DPGA, visit their announcement.To learn more about the activities they will be undertaking as part of their DPGA membership, visit the Roadmap.
November 14, 2024
Transforming the way we learn about DPGs. Introducing the new DPG Registry, Roadmap, Product and Member Profiles!
Author: Pelin Hizal Smines, Product & Experiences Lead As part of the DPGA Secretariat’s efforts to ensure digital public goods (DPGs) are accessible, transparent, and discoverable, we embar...
November 13, 2024
The DPGA Annual Members Meeting Kicks Off in Singapore by Welcoming Three New Members!
Each year, the DPGA Annual Members Meeting brings together members to strengthen the collective ability to discover, develop, use, and invest in digital public goods. This year’s event, co-hosted by D...
November 6, 2024
New Report Highlights Role of Digital Public Goods for Climate Action
Data Privacy Brasil has released a new report examining the role digital public goods (DPGs) and digital public infrastructure (DPI) could play in addressing and adapting to climate change. This repor...
October 29, 2024
An Invitation to Contribute to Digital Public Goods During Hacktoberfest
Author: Bolaji Ayodeji, DPG Evangelist and Technical Coordinator It’s October, and something happens in the developer community at this time of the year: Hacktoberfest—a month-long celebration of open...
October 29, 2024
The Role of Open Data in AI systems as Digital Public Goods
Author: Liv Marte Nordhaug, Secretariat CEO, Digital Public Goods Alliance Over the last few years, there has been a surge in interest and adoption of generative artificial intelligence systems, and a...
October 3, 2024
Democratizing AI systems as DPGs: Insights from T20 policy brief co-authored by the DPGA
Author: Lea Gimpel, Director of AI and Country Engagement (Visiting Fellow) Against the backdrop of the G20 DEWG Ministerial Declaration’s emphasis on the role of open-source in AI development and the...
September 24, 2024
Press Release: 50-in-5 Milestone Event Illustrates How to Implement the New Global Digital Compact Safely and Inclusively
Press ReleaseNew York City, September 23, 2024 — Today, the 50-in-5 campaign, an initiative that seeks to help 50 countries design, launch, and scale components of their digital public infrastructure ...
August 23, 2024
Enhancing the Openness and Usability of Digital Public Goods by Accepting Only Fully Open-Licensed Content Collections and Data Sets
Author: Amreen Taneja, Standards Lead, DPGA Secretariat The Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA) is committed to maintaining the highest standards of openness and usability of digital public goods (DP...
June 30, 2024
Toward public interest AI: the role of AI DPGs and public resources for AI
Author: Lea Gimpel, Director of AI and Country Engagement (Visiting Fellow)The rise of public interest AI, which broadly refers to AI systems that serve the long-term survival and well-being of humank...
June 28, 2024
Six ways countries are implementing safe, inclusive, and interoperable DPI with open source
Countries worldwide are building and strengthening their digital foundations to help improve public and private service delivery. In a recent roundtable discussion convened by the Digital Public Goods...
June 17, 2024
The Dominican Republic Joins the Digital Public Goods Alliance
The Digital Public Goods Alliance is thrilled to welcome the Government of the Dominican Republic, which will be joining as the newest member of the DPGA via the Ministry of Economy, Planning, and Dev...
June 3, 2024
OpenForum Europe joins the Digital Public Goods Alliance
The Digital Public Goods Alliance is thrilled to welcome OpenForum Europe (OFE) as the newest member! OFE is an independent think tank which promotes the merits of openness in computing to policy make...
May 15, 2024
T7 Policy Brief, co-authored by the DPGA Secretariat, gives recommendations on the democratic governance of AI systems and datasets
In the ever-evolving landscape of artificial intelligence (AI), the uneven distribution of AI’s benefits across societies and economies cannot be ignored. This issue not only exacerbates domesti...
May 1, 2024
Safeguarding Information Integrity during Elections with Digital Public Goods
With elections ongoing in India, already held in Bangladesh, Senegal, and Pakistan, and with more scheduled soon in Mexico, South Africa, the United States, and several other countries, more than 2 bi...
