Over fifty national governments have committed to build national-scale digital public infrastructure in the coming years. Despite this pledge, it remains challenging to the number and status of DPI pilots and deployments globally. The absence of a reliable resource to quickly access this information creates challenges for many important stakeholders. For example, it limits researchers ability to explore and understand what is happening around the world. It prevents government officials and implementors from identifying peers and best practices as well as coordinating on deployments. And, among others, it impedes civil society actors from identifying emerging trends or governance patterns.

The DPI Mapping project hopes to advance our understanding of digital public infrastructure and promote the development of inclusive, and safe DPI by:

• Developing a baseline dataset on the state of a country’s DPI
• Communicating externally the ‘State of DPIs’
• Promoting collaboration between stakeholders across and outside the DPI ecosystem
• Highlighting gaps and opportunities for stakeholders to support DPI deployment and development of safeguards

Coming up Next

• Whitepaper on the methodology for the ‘Measuring DPI Framework’ (September 2024).
• Data on deployments across (all of) Asia, North America, Europe, Oceania (end of 2024).
• Version 1.1 of existing dataset on Africa, Asia, Caribbean and Latin America (TBD).
• Workshops on how to use the DPI Repository dataset (TBD).

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David Eaves

Principal Investigator

Associate Professor in Digital Government

IIPP UCL

Anjum Dhamija

Researcher

IIPP UCL

Krisstina Rao

Project Manager

IIPP UCL

Giulia Lanzuolo

Researcher

IIPP UCL

Jordan Sandman

Principal, Investments

Co-Develop

Kassim Vera

Researcher

IIPP UCL