Tag: Digital public infrastructure

While digital public infrastructure (DPI) holds enormous promise, essential safeguards are also needed to protect against potential risks. In a welcome step forward, the UN has released a Universal DPI Safeguards Framework, outlining the necessary principles and processes of DPI implementation that prioritize people’s rights and wellbeing. To learn more about the framework – and where we should go next – read our expert comment.

As digital transformation accelerates, digital public infrastructure and the digital services it unlocks offer incredible potential. Yet, there is still significant work to be done to meaningfully understand how technology is impacting people – both positively and negatively. In this expert comment, we highlight the importance of targeted, ethnographic research in understanding the hidden impacts of DPI, and how technology be leveraged for the benefit of people and communities across the world.

Every day, governments generate massive amounts of data, spanning everything from birth certificates to weather data. Effectively managing and sharing that data can deliver a wide range of benefits to governments, the private sector, academia, and — crucially — to people. To support these efforts, this expert comment outlines some of the foundational components – and attributes – that make up effective, trusted national data exchange systems.

We have reached a point in history where analog governance models are no longer sufficient for regulating digital societies. While technology-enabled regulations might be one feasible solution, they come with both promises and challenges that must be considered. To learn more, read the expert comment.

In today’s digital age, technology is the ultimate double-edged sword – holding the potential to benefit or harm, to uplift or undermine. Its true impact on individuals and society lies in the choices we make in its design, deployment, and governance. Amidst this technological balancing act, digital public infrastructure (DPI) offers a pathway to harness digital power for public good – but it must include robust, effective safeguards. Read more in our expert comment.

As the effects of climate change worsen, carbon credit markets are an increasingly important tool in reducing global emissions. Yet, for these systems to be wholly effective, they require access to credible, transparent, and representative data. Digital public infrastructure (DPI) offers one approach to advance the large-scale data exchange needed to mitigate the challenges faced by carbon credit markets, while simultaneously promoting interoperability, scalability, and trust.