DPGs for Digital Public Infrastructure
Digital public infrastructure (DPI) — the secure, interoperable systems that power digital identity, payments, data exchange, registries, and trust services — is what lets countries deliver public services at population scale. Digital Public Goods (DPGs) are how countries build DPI without starting from scratch.
Every DPG here has been assessed against DPGA's DPI-specific technical criteria, and deployment data is independently verified wherever a primary source exists — each figure says which.
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What it takes to be in this collection
Not every Digital Public Good is DPI. Inclusion here requires meeting three layers on top of DPG Standard recognition.
Layer 1 Recognised Digital Public Good
Already meets the DPG Standard — open licensing, SDG relevance, do-no-harm.
Layer 2 DPI Relevance
Core capabilities in at least one DPI domain, reusable across sectors, built for population scale.
Layer 3 DPI Architecture Alignment
Open specifications, modular building blocks, federated deployment, infrastructure-grade security.
Digital Identity
Identity management, authentication, verifiable credentials
Digital Payments
Payment orchestration, instant payments, core banking
Data Exchange
Secure data sharing between systems, API gateways
Registries
Civil, population, and social protection registries
Trust Infrastructure
e-Signatures, PKI, consent management, digital wallets
General-purpose government software — a health records app, a learning platform, a single tax portal — can be a valuable DPG without being DPI. What earns a place in this collection is functioning as shared infrastructure that other systems build on.
Read the full technical criteriaThe collection
All 18 DPGs assessed against the DPI criteria · sorted A–Z
Showing 18 of 18
Altinn
Data ExchangeGovernment service and data-exchange platform for national e-services.
Apache Fineract
Digital PaymentsCore banking engine underpinning financial-inclusion providers.
CREDEBL
Trust InfrastructureVerifiable credential issuance, wallets and consent management.
Janssen Project
Digital IdentityAuthentication, authorization and single sign-on services.
Mifos Payment Hub-EE (PH-EE)
Digital PaymentsRouting between core banking, G2P disbursement and mobile money.
Mifos X
Digital PaymentsCore banking platform for financial service providers.
Mojaloop
Digital PaymentsInstant, interoperable payment switching between providers.
MOSIP
Digital IdentityFoundational identity issuance and biometric authentication.
OpenCRVS
RegistriesCivil registration and vital statistics for population registries.
OpenFn
Data ExchangeWorkflow automation and integration between government systems.
OpenG2P
Multiple DomainsBeneficiary registries wired to payment orchestration for G2P.
Rafiki
Digital PaymentsInterledger gateway for cross-network payment clearing and settlement.
Sunbird RC
RegistriesConfigurable electronic registry framework for public records.
TradeTrust
Trust InfrastructureVerifiable document exchange for cross-border trade.
WSO2 Identity Server
Digital IdentityIdentity and access management for government portals.
X-Road®
Data ExchangeSecure information mediation between information systems.
DPI in Action
What deployment of these DPGs looks like today. Each figure below names its source and says what it does and doesn't cover.
77 governments
run DHIS2 as their national health system of record
HISP Centre, University of Oslo · May 2026
Steward-reportedWhat this covers: a health-data footprint, not identity or payments. The countries where DHIS2 is the national health information system have a combined population of 3.6 billion — that measures the territory the software runs in, not the number of people the system directly serves. The same platform also runs national education management in 4 countries, agriculture in 1, and One Health in 1.
91M+
Filipinos registered in PhilSys, the national ID built on MOSIP, with roughly 100M authentications recorded
Philippine Statistics Authority · early 2026
VerifiedWhat this covers: one deployment, not a pattern. This is MOSIP's largest; countries adopt it at different stages. Published by the government's own statistical authority, not by the software's steward.
73 days
from project start to the first real-money transaction on Liberia's national payment switch, built on Mojaloop
Central Bank of Liberia · December 2025
VerifiedWhat this covers: a measure of speed, not scale. It records how quickly one national switch was stood up, documented by the central bank that ran the project. How widely Mojaloop is deployed is a separate question.
USD 1.65B
in World Bank financing supports six verified DPI deployments built on these DPGs
World Bank project financing documentation
VerifiedWhat this covers: rollout funding, not core support. Sovereign loans and IDA credits that pay for country deployment — not grants maintaining the software itself. It is not evidence that these DPGs are well resourced.
How we verify this data
A deployment is an instance of a DPG that performs a public function, runs at national scale or above a defined threshold, and has reached at least pilot stage. Figures tagged Verified are checked against primary sources — government records, central bank documentation, multilateral project documents — or corroborated across two independent ones. Figures tagged Steward-reported are recorded as the platform's maintainer supplies them, and labelled as such. Deployment counts are only meaningful alongside their scope and evidence threshold, so we publish both.
DPGs working together in one national stack
Three countries where more than one DPG in this collection operates as a single integrated stack.
TONGA
Identity meets civil registration
Vital events registered in OpenCRVS feed TongaPass, the national identity layer — 107,000 people across 170 islands, replacing paper and a Microsoft Access database. Live at national scale since June 2025.
National · Digital Transformation Department, Office of the Prime Minister
PHILIPPINES
ID-verified benefit delivery
PhilSys authentication feeds OpenG2P's benefit-disbursement platform for AICS crisis assistance, replacing a paper-based process. PhilSys is live at national scale; the OpenG2P layer is at pilot.
National ID, pilot disbursement · Philippine Statistics Authority · DSWD
ETHIOPIA
One ID, two very different jobs
Fayda ID authenticates recipients for two unrelated programmes on the same OpenG2P layer: emergency relief for 300,000+ returnees, and a farmer registry of 17 million. The same identity rail, reused rather than rebuilt per programme.
National · Ethiopian ID Program · Ministry of Agriculture
Powering the 50-in-5 campaign
Many of the DPGs in this collection are already part of how 50-in-5's 39 member countries are building their DPI.
