Digital Public Infrastructure
This term is contested. Some advocates have used it to brand their campaigns for public sector investments in public interest platforms and services, analogous to updating the concept of public media for modern times. They would like to see "an ecosystem of ideas and practices that could bring into being [public sector] digital infrastructure that aligns with community aspirations, protects personal and group safety, and prioritizes people, communities, and a public good." (Stanford PACS)
Others, including numerous multilateral institutions, appear to use the same term as a vague rebranding of Govtech, primarily identity, payment, and data exchange systems that run the digital state.
The latter camp appears to be winning this name game.
Suggested reading:
- DPI as a Path Forward for Multilateralism and Public Value, by Pau Alvarez-Aragones (May 2025)
- Digital Public Infrastructure for Digital Governments by the OECD (Dec 2024)
GOV.UK Pay
The best way to take payments for public services
The State of Inclusive Instant Payment Systems in Africa
The report highlights key trends, challenges, and opportunities to shape digital payments, with a focus on inclusion and the role of IPS in advancing digital public infrastructure (DPI).
AfricaNenda
Accelerating financial inclusion in Africa
Global Digital Collaboration Conference (GDCC)
Two days of intensive collaboration, knowledge sharing, and strategic planning for the future of digital public infrastructure.
The DPI Approach: A Playbook
This DPI playbook is designed as a practical and public resource that low and middle-income countries (LMICs) in particular can utilize in building an inclusive and rights-based DPI.
Digital Public Infrastructure For Digital Governments
This OECD policy paper explores digital public infrastructure (DPI), defined as shared digital systems that are secure and interoperable and that can support the inclusive delivery of and access to pu...
Bundesministerium für Digitales und Staatsmodernisierung (BMDS)
Das neue Ministerium wird Motor sein für konkrete, sichtbare Fortschritte bei der Digitalisierung und eine moderne, handlungsfähige Verwaltung.
Initiative for Digital Public Interest (IDPI)
The Initiative for Digital Public Interest (IDPI) is launching a fund to support civil society engagement on digital public infrastructure (DPI) projects, with a focus on governance, human rights prot...
Landscape Scan of Digital Public Goods Use in Government
Landscape Scan of Digital Public Goods Use in Government
Digital Infrastructure for Governance and Inclusive Transformation (DIGIT)
Digital Infrastructure for Governance and Inclusive Transformation (DIGIT) is an open-source, scalable, interoperable platform for responsive public service delivery and good governance.
Digital Public Infrastructure Map
Governments across the globe are on their way to building national-scale digital infrastructure. A comprehensive view of the state of DPI, however, is missing. The DPI Map addresses this.
Public Hubs (PubHubs)
A public-owned social network for public institutions (municipalities, schools, libraries, hospitals, museums, etc) to engage communities without using Big Tech, and instead using infrastructure based...
Global DPI Summit
The Global DPI Summit, hosted in Cairo, Egypt, stands as a premier convening of stakeholders in the Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) ecosystem, bringing together representatives from across the glo...
Centre for Digital Public Infrastructure (CDPI)
A global team of DPI builders helping countries co-design localised solutions that scale
Public AI Network
The Public AI Network is a coalition working to bring about public AI.
Digital Impact Alliance Research Fellowship
We are proud to announce the launch of our first cohort of Research Fellows, bringing together a small group of multidisciplinary academics, digital development practitioners, and digital rights exper...
Yale Law School series: A Healthy Digital Public Sphere
In the spring of 2022, we partnered with the editors of the Yale Journal of Law and Technology to commission a collection of papers examining what it means to have a healthy or vibrant digital public...
Co-Develop
A global not-for-profit fund to achieve the catalytic possibilities of digital public infrastructure
Building the Public Interest Technology Infrastructure of the Future
How a robust public interest technology field can overcome historical inequities and ensure that everyone can fully benefit from technology. By Jenny Toomey & Latanya Sweeney
Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure
We’re imagining, studying, and building public spaces and public goods on the internet.
Toward a Smarter Future: Building Back Better with Intelligent Civil Infrastructure -- Smart Sensors and Self-Monitoring Civil Works
The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation develops ideas and fosters practices for equal and inclusive, multiracial and multiethnic democracy and self-governance.
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Council Data Project
Transparency and accessibility in council action; videos, transcripts, voting records, and legislation -- all searchable under a single website.
GovStack
GovStack offers governments with open-source tools for digital services, including building block specifications, a sandbox for testing (upcoming), and communities of practices, and more.
Grove
We're building a platform where citizens can help realign our institutions and leaders with the public.
Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL)
Advancing an inclusive digital society