As more people globally connect to the internet, governments and private sector organizations have a tremendous opportunity to harness the power of data and digital technology to improve the quality of life for all.
Yet today, governments and implementing actors often rely on – or only have access to – short term digital solutions targeted at a single use case. As a result, these solutions – while implemented with good intentions – fail to address the range of needs people and communities have and the challenges they face. There is a significant missed opportunity to utilize digital solutions and systems that are interoperable, and can offer society-wide benefits.
Our team of technologists research, analyze, and catalog digital solutions and tools that actors across public and private sectors can use in their quest for positive digital transformation. Our efforts center around understanding and promoting effective digital public infrastructure and trusted data governance.
We encourage ways that deliberately consider and promote people’s rights and aspirations, and we spend time looking at how the technology layer of digital public infrastructure can be designed, built, and governed to empower people.
We care about interoperability, effective systems design, good standards, and most importantly, sharing what we learn along the way.
Today, government leaders face a dizzying array of fragmented options and siloed efforts as they work to move critical public services to digital. Civil society practitioners face the challenges of limited resources and a crowded landscape of vendors and tech service providers.
Our technical work helps to reduce silos, increase efficiencies, navigate the pitfalls of vendor lock-in, and make government technology more cost-effective for everyone involved. This means that governments and other actors can more easily build the digital systems and services needed to improve people’s lives and help communities thrive.
