DPGA Strategy 2023-2028

Overview

As we approach 2030, it has become abundantly clear that high-quality, open-source digital solutions play a critical role in the attainment of the sustainable development goals. While global challenges like the COVID-19 pandemic have brought significant hardship, we have also seen firsthand that digital public goods have enabled governments to swiftly adapt and implement innovative digital solutions that are helping them respond to immediate health and social protection needs.

The first version of this strategy was written in June 2021 when the DPGA was in a formative stage.
Since that time the DPGA has matured significantly: membership has expanded, the Secretariat
has grown, and the DPG community has evolved a new understanding of digital public goods and
their place and importance in the world.

This 5 year strategy guides not only the work of the DPGA itself, but also lays the groundwork for collaboration with governments, industry, the UN, civil society, and more. This strategy is the result of a collaborative effort from more than 30 members, an expanded Board, hundreds of experts in communities of practice, and participation in numerous conferences and events which provided invaluable ideas, input, and feedback.

Objectives & Targets

The five year objectives of the Digital Public Goods Alliance are:

1. Digital public goods with high-potential for addressing critical development needs and
urgent global challenges are discoverable, sustainably managed, and accessible for
government institutions and other relevant implementing organisations.

2. UN-institutions, multilateral development banks and other public and private institutions
that are of high relevance for supporting implementation of digital technologies have the
knowledge, capacity, and incentives to effectively promote and support adoption of DPGs.

3. Government institutions have the information, motivation, and capacity to effectively
implement DPGs that address country needs, including to plan, deploy, maintain, and
evolve their digital public infrastructure.

4. Countries have public sector capacity and vibrant commercial ecosystems in place to
create, maintain, implement, and incubate DPGs locally.

In support of the DPGA Vision and Objectives, the following four operational targets have been
developed to prioritise, coordinate, and align DPGA member and stakeholder efforts:

Target 1: 50-in-5
By the end of 2028, 50 countries have:
● leveraged digital public goods to design, launch and scale at least one
component of their digital public infrastructure stack, in a manner that is safe and
inclusive, and enables one or more priority use cases.

Target 2: Fighting climate change
By the end of 2028, sustainably maintained and highly relevant digital public goods:
● have enabled diverse groups of stakeholders to take action and improve
collaboration to fight and adapt to climate change; and
● are enabling long-term action and collaboration to fight and adapt to climate
change.

Target 3: Fighting information pollution and restoring trust
By the end of 2028, sustainably maintained and highly relevant digital public goods:
● have enabled diverse groups of stakeholders to take action and improve
collaboration to fight information pollution and enhance information integrity; and
● have enabled new norm-shaping technologies to scale that help restore trust and
protect and advance human rights.

Target 4: Making digital public goods the norm for preventing and responding to urgent global
challenges
By the end of 2028, digital public goods are part of the international community’s default
approach for rapidly empowering relevant stakeholders to prevent and respond to urgent
global challenges, including through;
● a globally recognised and scalable methodology for rapidly establishing
communities of practice to align on priority topics and help identify relevant digital
public goods for preventing and responding to urgent global challenges; and
● the establishment of one or more financing instruments to fund digital public
goods of high-relevance for preventing and responding to urgent global
challenges.

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Read the full 2023-2028 strategy here.

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