Digital public infrastructure and digital public goods are two abstract concepts. Here you can find here a list of curated organizations and resources involved in this field. The focus is primarily on digital public infrastructure for the public sector, emphasizing the role of governments. A separate but overlapping field is the development of digital public infrastructure alternatives for corporate platforms, such as Whatsapp vs. Signal or Twitter vs. Mastodon.
Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA)
The Digital Public Goods Alliance is a multi-stakeholder initiative that accelerates the attainment of the sustainable development goals by facilitating the discovery, development, use of, and investment in digital public goods.
Resources
Digital Public Goods (DPG) charter
The DPG Charter is an initiative from 2022 uniting various stakeholders and initiatives towards a shared vision for digital public goods (open-source tech for public good). It aims to drive safe, trusted, and large-scale digital public infrastructure.
GovStack Initiative
The GovStack initiative aims to build a common understanding and technical practice on fundamental reusable and interoperable digital components, which they collectively refer to as building blocks.
Digital Public Infrastructure Campaign 50-in-5
Launched in 2023, 50-in-5 is a country-led advocacy campaign. By 2028, the 50-in-5 campaign aims to have helped 50 countries design, launch and scale components of their digital public infrastructure.
Partners: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Centre for Digital Public Infrastructure, Digital Public Goods Alliance, Co-Develop and UNDP.
Co-Develop
Global non-profit fund supporting an inclusive shared digital public infrastructure (DPI) at scale. Co-Develop funds a range of DPI organisation and projects such as Mojaloop, OpenG2P or OpenCRVS.
Centre for Digital Public Infrastructure
The DPI Wikipedia from CDPI has a range or resources such as the DPI tech architecture principles and the curated specifications.
Sovereign Tech Fund
A german initiative that supports the development, improvement and maintenance of global open digital infrastructure.
UNDP
The DPI Safeguards initiative adopts a comprehensive risk mitigation approach, identifying potential risks across various layers of digital transformation and the DPI implementation life cycle.
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
- Open Source Ecosystem Enabler project with the following outcomes:
Open-Source Ecosystem Enablement Framework (OSEEF),
Open-Source Technical Facility (OSTF) and
Global Knowledge Hub for Open-Source Public Services
Digital Public Infrastructure at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure
The initiative, which lacks a government focus, addresses general questions and potential solutions for an open Internet, such as for social media. It is based at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.