• Highlights from the DPGA Annual Members Meeting in Singapore

    Author: Lucy Harris, COO and Interim Director of Membership, DPGA Secretariat Earlier this month, the Digital Public Goods Alliance hosted its 2024 Annual Members Meeting (AMM) in Singapore, bringing together an international group of members, product owners and community to develop relationships, connect, learn and inspire progress for digital public goods! The energy, ideas, and […]

  • UN Women Joins the Digital Public Goods Alliance!

    UN Women has joined the Digital Public Goods Alliance! As a member of the DPGA, UN Women has pledged its commitment to SDG 5 on gender equality by facilitating the discovery, development, use, and investment in digital public goods. “Over the past century, we have learnt that the physical infrastructure we build is not gender […]

  • Transforming the way we learn about DPGs. Introducing the new DPG Registry, Roadmap, Product and Member Profiles!

    Author: Pelin Hizal Smines, Product & Experiences Lead As part of the DPGA Secretariat’s efforts to ensure digital public goods (DPGs) are accessible, transparent, and discoverable, we embarked on a product improvement journey to enhance key products the DPGA Secretariat stewards including the DPG Registry, DPG profile pages, Roadmap and DPGA member profile pages. Today, […]

  • 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 […]

  • New Report Highlights Role of Digital Public Goods for Climate Action

    Data Privacy Brasil has released a new report examining the role digital public goods (DPGs) and digital public infrastructure (DPI) could play in addressing and adapting to climate change. This report aligns with the Digital Public Goods Alliance’s (DPGA) strategic goal to ensure that, by 2028, sustainably maintained DPGs empower diverse stakeholders to take effective, […]

  • The Role of Open Data in AI systems as Digital Public Goods

    Author: Liv Marte Nordhaug, Secretariat CEO, Digital Public Goods Alliance Over the last few years, there has been a surge in interest and adoption of generative artificial intelligence systems, and a corresponding interest in clarifying and delineating what open source should mean for AI and how to ensure AI serves the public interest. The DPGA […]

  • An Invitation to Contribute to Digital Public Goods During Hacktoberfest

    Author: Bolaji Ayodeji, DPG Evangelist and Technical Coordinator It’s October, and something happens in the developer community at this time of the year: Hacktoberfest—a month-long celebration of open source projects, their maintainers, and the entire community of contributors. The Digital Public Goods Alliance seeks to accelerate the attainment of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) by […]

  • Democratizing AI systems as DPGs: Insights from T20 policy brief co-authored by the DPGA

    Author: Lea Gimpel, Director of AI and Country Engagement (Visiting Fellow) Against the backdrop of the G20 DEWG Ministerial Declaration’s emphasis on the role of open-source in AI development and the prominent recognition that DPGs received in the UN Global Digital Compact,  the DPGA secretariat is proud to share its T20 policy recommendations on democratizing […]

  • Press Release: 50-in-5 Milestone Event Illustrates How to Implement the New Global Digital Compact Safely and Inclusively

    Press Release New York City, September 23, 2024 — Today, the 50-in-5 campaign, an initiative that seeks to help 50 countries design, launch, and scale components of their digital public infrastructure by 2028, welcomed numerous new countries while celebrating its near one-year anniversary on the sidelines of the Summit of the Future and the agreement […]