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 DPGA member the Government of Singapore, aims to inspire new ideas and opportunities to align that will help all DPGA members collectively champion and utilise DPGs. Today, at the opening plenary, the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Open Future, and the Government of Uruguay all announced that they have joined the Alliance.

Asian Development Bank
The Asian Development Bank (ADB), established in 1966, is committed to achieving a prosperous, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable Asia and the Pacific, while sustaining its efforts to eradicate extreme poverty. This work is done by assisting its members and partners via loans, technical assistance, grants, and equity investments to promote social and economic development. ADB maximises the development impact of its assistance by facilitating policy dialogues, providing advisory services, and mobilising financial resources through co-financing operations that tap official, commercial, and export credit sources.

By joining the DPGA, ADB hopes to build stronger ties with stakeholders to ensure that digital solutions used throughout the region can be used for the public good. As members, ADB plans to align relevant digital initiatives with the DPG Standard to help drive impact, enhance their digital product offerings, and foster sustainable development. Recognising the potential of digital public goods, ADB will work towards developing an internal DPG policy to serve as guidelines. Learn more about ADB and their membership here.

Open Future
Open Future is a European think tank that develops new approaches to an open internet that maximises the societal benefits of shared data, knowledge, and culture. Open Future works alongside public institutions and civil society to ensure that the principle of openness is reflected in the European Union’s digital policy framework and actively promotes strategies and policies for cultivating and strengthening digital commons and digital sovereignty.

“Open Future, over the last years, has been advocating for policies that support Digital Commons initiatives, which collectively maintain digital public goods. We believe that sharing digital resources, combined with care for the commons, can serve the public interest and help fight concentrations of power online. As a European think tank for the Digital Commons, we want to partner with other organisations championing digital public goods. We are keen to build bridges with other regions of the world, to share European experiences, and to develop shared perspectives and global standards. There is a need to build a global movement that cultivates and protects the digital commons.” – Alek Tarkowski, co-director of Open Future.

As a DPGA member, Open Future is engaging in three core roadmap activities. First, advocating for long-term funding and support for digital public goods (DPGs) within the European Union. Through the NGI Commons project, Open Future is developing a European strategy to support digital and internet commons, focusing on financial frameworks and promoting awareness of initiatives that steward DPGs with collective governance. Second, they are conducting research to define public AI systems that meet the DPG Standard. In 2025, Open Future will work on pathways for open AI datasets and models, alongside updating the DPG Standard for AI systems. Third, they are enabling Open Data DPGs through research on data commons, applying commons-based governance to training datasets and open-source AI. In 2025, they plan to expand this work with a focus on opt-out frameworks and a registry of Public Domain works. Learn more about Open Future and their commitment to the DPGA here.

The Government of Uruguay
The Government of Uruguay has long been a leader in digital transformation, both in Latin America and beyond. As the third country from the region to join the DPGA, following the Dominican Republic and Guatemala, Uruguay reinforces its commitment to advancing digital public goods and sharing its expertise with the global community.

Joining as DPGA members via the Agency for Electronic Government and Information Society (AGESIC), the Government of Uruguay will strengthen DPG cooperation among countries by facilitating experience sharing and best practices in digital government to enhance the delivery of digital public services. Specifically, Uruguay has made the following commitments as part of their membership: supporting the development of a digital public infrastructure (DPI) component to become a digital public good; enhancing the role of DPGs within government by facilitating knowledge exchanges and coordinating open-source policies; and working with other countries to incorporate best practices for DPI. This effort is underscored by their participation in the 50-in-5 campaign, which they joined in September 2024. Read more about their membership to the DPGA here.

More information on all DPGA members can be found on the Roadmap, a tool designed to provide insight into the efforts of all DPGA members to support digital public goods.