DPGA Blog

Unpacking concepts & definitions – digital public Infrastructure, building blocks, and their relation to digital public goods

Strengthening the digitization of government services is critical for governments working to attain the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The last few decades have seen a surge in these services, ...

PATH welcomed as new member of the Digital Public Goods Alliance

Today, we’re thrilled to welcome PATH as a new member of the Digital Public Goods Alliance, a move which furthers PATH’s leadership and partnership in the digital health ecosystem and elevates digital...

Survey reveals enablers and challenges faced by DPG product owners

In 2021, one of the member organisations of the Digital Public Goods Alliance, UN Global Pulse, conducted qualitative research to understand the enablers and challenges of implementing and scaling dig...

DPG Charter process announced at OECD event & Estonia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs joins as the latest member of the DPGA

Today, the Digital Public Goods Alliance had the pleasure of collaborating with the OECD and the Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL), to co-host a high-level discussion on digital transformation, specifica...

Digital Public Goods and Open Data

Today, there is an unprecedented opportunity for low- and middle-income counties to harness digital resources to help accelerate development. That’s why improving access to and discoverability of digi...

data.org joins as a member of the Digital Public Goods Alliance

The amount of data being produced is greater than ever before. Understanding and unlocking this immense amount of data can play a critical role in improving the lives of people all around the world. T...

Case Study: Jamaica uses digital public goods in COVID-19 response

From certification, to vaccine scheduling, to resource management, digital technologies have proven to be critical throughout the pandemic. Since 2021, Jamaica, much like the rest of the world, was in...

Digital Public Goods MOSIP & OpenG2P Announce Collaboration

OpenG2P, a digital public good co-founded by the Government of Sierra Leone, Mifos, and open source volunteers, and catalyzed by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), has announced its coll...

Addressing the global risk of information pollution

The Digital Public Goods Alliance Secretariat, Omidyar Network, and UNDP convened relevant experts in January 2022 for an exploratory discussion on the urgent challenge of information pollution and th...

Thoughtworks advocates for and advances digital public goods

Today, the Digital Public Goods Alliance welcomes Thoughtworks as a new member. We are particularly excited about this membership both because of Thoughtworks’ leadership in advocating for, and creati...

DPGA Welcomes Governance Board

At its formation, the Digital Public Goods Alliance was governed by an interim strategy group (ISG) made up of co-founding members. They included iSPIRT; the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperati...

DPGA, ITU, and WMO call for weather, climate, and hydrological datasets to be DPGs

Globally, climate change is exacerbating the frequency and severity of hazards including wind storms, drought, flooding, landslides, and wildfires. In the World Economic Forum’s 2021 Global Risk Repor...

2021 Digital Public Goods Alliance Report

Today, the Digital Public Goods Alliance is pleased to share our 2021 Annual Report. This report was written with contributions from over 20 organisations working in the digital public goods ecosystem...

DPGA welcomes eGov Foundation as a new member

Today we’re announcing eGov Foundation as the newest member of the Digital Public Goods Alliance. eGov is a mission-driven non-profit fueled by the belief that every person should be able to access se...

Omidyar Network joins as a member of the DPGA

The Digital Public Goods Alliance has, over the past year, worked closely with Omidyar Network at events like Co-Develop: Digital Public Infrastructure for an Equitable Recovery and during the World E...