Tag: Sustainability

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.

This guide details key challenges and potential solutions when scaling and sustaining digital development programs beyond the “valley of death” – the problematic phase many digital development implementers face when the pilot is over and the funding may be running out.