Digital Public Goods Alliance Strategy 2023-2028

Overview

As we approach 2030, it has become abundantly clear that high-quality, open-source digital solutions play a critical role in the attainment of the sustainable development goals. While global challenges like the COVID-19 pandemic have brought significant hardship, we have also seen firsthand that digital public goods have enabled governments to swiftly adapt and implement innovative digital solutions that are helping them respond to immediate health and social protection needs.

The first version of this strategy was written in June 2021 when the DPGA was in a formative stage.
Since that time the DPGA has matured significantly: membership has expanded, the Secretariat
has grown, and the DPG community has evolved a new understanding of digital public goods and
their place and importance in the world.

This 5 year strategy guides not only the work of the DPGA itself, but also lays the groundwork for collaboration with governments, industry, the UN, civil society, and more. This strategy is the result of a collaborative effort from more than 30 members, an expanded Board, hundreds of experts in communities of practice, and participation in numerous conferences and events which provided invaluable ideas, input, and feedback.

Read the 5 year strategy

Objectives

The five year objectives of the Digital Public Goods Alliance are:

  1. Digital public goods with high-potential for addressing critical development needs and urgent global challenges are discoverable, sustainably managed, and accessible for government institutions and other relevant implementing organisations.
  2. UN-institutions, multilateral development banks and other public and private institutions
    that are of high relevance for supporting implementation of digital technologies have the
    knowledge, capacity, and incentives to effectively promote and support adoption of DPGs.
  3. Government institutions have the information, motivation, and capacity to effectively
    implement DPGs that address country needs, including to plan, deploy, maintain, and
    evolve their digital public infrastructure.
  4. Countries have public sector capacity and vibrant commercial ecosystems in place to
    create, maintain, implement, and incubate DPGs locally.

Read the full 2023-2028 strategy here.