The best way to take payments for public services

• Govtech
• Digital Public Infrastructure
• Payments

Accelerating financial inclusion in Africa

• Govtech
• Digital Public Infrastructure
• Payments

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).

• Govtech
• Digital Public Infrastructure
• Payments

Two days of intensive collaboration, knowledge sharing, and strategic planning for the future of digital public infrastructure.

• Conferences
• Identity
• Digital Public Infrastructure

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 public and private services across society.

• Learn about civic tech
• Digital Public Infrastructure

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.

• United Nations Development Programme
• United Nations

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Playbooks and design principles

Das neue Ministerium wird Motor sein für konkrete, sichtbare Fortschritte bei der Digitalisierung und eine moderne, handlungsfähige Verwaltung.

• Germany (federal government)

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Tech or Digital Policy

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 protection, and rule of law

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Foundation initiatives

Digital Infrastructure for Governance and Inclusive Transformation (DIGIT) is an open-source, scalable, interoperable platform for responsive public service delivery and good governance.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Service delivery

Landscape Scan of Digital Public Goods Use in Government

• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech
• Reports

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.

• Civic data
• Govtech
• Civic tech catalogs

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 on public values

• General purpose open source tools
• Social networks
• Digital Public Infrastructure

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 globe.

• Govtech
• In-person meetings
• Conferences

The Public AI Network is a coalition working to bring about public AI.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Peer networks
• Governance of AI

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 experts, working at the forefront of digital transformation efforts around the world.

• Climate action
• Gender Equality

• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships
• Digital Public Infrastructure

A global not-for-profit fund to achieve the catalytic possibilities of digital public infrastructure

• United Nations

• Foundation initiatives
• Digital Public Infrastructure

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 sphere.

• reports

• Reports
• Digital Public Infrastructure

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

• Digital Public Infrastructure
• Public Interest Tech

We’re imagining, studying, and building public spaces and public goods on the internet.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation develops ideas and fosters practices for equal and inclusive, multiracial and multiethnic democracy and self-governance.

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Digital Public Infrastructure

Transparency and accessibility in council action; videos, transcripts, voting records, and legislation -- all searchable under a single website.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Speech recognition

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.

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Digital transformation

We're building a platform where citizens can help realign our institutions and leaders with the public.

• Engagement tech
• Communicating with the government
• Digital Public Infrastructure

Advancing an inclusive digital society

• The People
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital Public Infrastructure