Research Type: Spotlight

The lifecycle of Digital Public Goods consist broadly of four stages — Create, Deploy, Sustain and Evolve. Current funding models for DPGs focus primarily on the first two stages. This paper applies the lens of an open source practitioner to look at funding models that support all four stages, and is aimed at DPG funders and developers.

Could algorithms be the answer to government’s most persistent problems, or simply create more?

Two intersecting trends in the world of data will have far-reaching implications for data governance and provide new opportunities and challenges for developing countries.