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).
About the team
David Eaves
Principal Investigator
Associate Professor in Digital Government
IIPP UCL
Anjum Dhamija
Researcher
IIPP UCL
This project is led by the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP) at University College London UCL. It is presently supported by Co-Develop.
We benefit greatly from partnerships for data, research and funding. Get in touch with us to contribute to the ‘State of DPI’.
Contributors
We would like to thank the following organisations that submitted/ from where we sourced data on the active state and understanding of DPI deployments.
State of Inclusive and Instant Payments Systems, AfricaNenda
Global DPI Repository, ICD Department, Ministry of Electronics and IT, Government of India
Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)
Modular Open Source Identity Platform (MOSIP)
Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions (NIIS)
Fast Payments Toolkit, World Bank
We would like to thank the following individuals for contributing their insight and experience to the project.
Allison Price, New America
Arun Gurumurthy, Modular Open Source Identity Platform (MOSIP)
Beatriz Vasconcellos, IIPP UCL
Christine Kim, Co-Develop
Daniel Abadie, Centre for Digital Public Infrastructure (CDPI)
Garth Willis, Co-Develop
Priscilla Koo Wilkens, Central Bank of Brazil
Jonathan Dolan, Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL)
Jonathan Marskell, World Bank
Jordyn Fetter, IIPP UCL
Manuel Aguilera, Centre for Digital Public Infrastructure (CDPI)
Matthew McNaughton, Co-Develop
Naeha Rashid
Nay Constantine, World Bank
Nick Coleman, Digital Public Infrastructure Center (Egov)
Olivia Rakotomalala, World Bank
Sabine Mensah, AfricaNenda
Sarthak Satapathy, Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL)
Siim Sikut, Digital Nations
Soujanya Sridhar, Aapti Institute
Tim Wood, Co-Develop
Ville Sirviö, Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions (NIIS)
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