What We Do

The Digital Public Goods Alliance: unlocking the potential of open-source technologies for a more equitable world..

Digital Public Goods

The Digital Public Goods Alliance stewards and maintains the DPG Standard and Registry, advocates for the implementation of DPGs, and convenes expert communities of practice to work on topics like climate change and disinformation. As a members-based alliance, the DPGA brings together creators, implementers, and supporters working towards a shared global vision for DPGs, and coordinates and mobilises resources in priority areas to facilitate a healthy DPG ecosystem, facilitating growth, sustainability, and impact.

Read more about each of these core functions below.

Products: DPG Standard & Registry

The DPGA stewards the DPG definition and measures solutions against the DPG Standard.
The DPGA maintains the DPG Registry of digital public goods, increasing their discoverability.

Advocacy

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is pathfinder21.png

The DPGA advocates for the implementation of DPGs globally. Examples include the Digital Public Goods Charter.

Read more about our advocacy initiatives below.

50-in-5

50-in-5 is a global campaign aimed at accelerating DPI adoption by bringing countries together to help radically shorten implementation journeys. Participating countries share learnings, best practices, and technologies that can ultimately reduce costs and maximise impact. The goal of 50-in-5 is for 50 countries to design, launch, and scale at least one component of their digital public infrastructure stack in a safe, inclusive, and interoperable manner in five years, by the end of 2028.

Visit the campaign website here.

Communities of Practice

Communities of Practice (CoPs) are groups of experts who convene to support the discovery, assessment, and advancement of digital public goods with high potential for addressing critical development needs and responding to urgent challenges.

The Digital Public Goods Alliance, alongside co-chairing organisations, produce reports Community of Practice reports highlighting the particularly relevant digital public goods in each category. Find these reports here.

Membership

The DPGA, via its membership, coordinates and mobilises resources across the DPG ecosystem.

The DPGA is a members-based alliance, where all members work to advance digital public goods and are aligned in our efforts to achieve the DPGA’s strategic objectives. We use a Member Roadmap to showcase the activities undertaken by the DPGA and our members.

Our members consist of governments including their agencies; multilateral organisations including UN entities; philanthropic foundations, funders, and think tanks; and technology companies.