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Digital Public Goods

Explore 7 projects in the Digital Public Goods category of the Civic Tech Field Guide.

"Digital public goods are open-source software, open data, open AI systems, and open content collections that adhere to privacy and other applicable best practices, do no harm, and are of high relevance for the attainment of the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)." - Digital Public Goods Alliance

7 projects

OpenYC

OpenYC is an early-stage effort to build a publicly-funded, democratically-governed "public alternative to Y Combinator", a digital public infrastructure for incubating and codifying AI-native digital public goods as a public utility.

Kenya's Open Source Programme Office (OSPO)

Kenya's Open Source Programme Office (OSPO) is a national government open-source programme office, housed in the Ministry of Information, Communications and the Digital Economy, that coordinates open-source software adoption across Kenyan public agencies.

Nairobi

Landscape Scan of Digital Public Goods Use in Government

Landscape Scan of Digital Public Goods Use in Government

The George Washington University, I Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA

Digital Public Goods Charter

The DPG Charter is a multi-stakeholder campaign to align and mobilize diverse stakeholders and initiatives around a compelling shared vision for digital public goods (open-source technologies designed for the public good) and their role in driving safe, trusted and inclusive digital public infrastructure at scale.

United Nations Foundation

Digital Public Goods Alliance Registry

A collection of open source digital public goods sorted by Sustainable Development Goals

Partnerships for the Goals

Digital Public Goods Standard

The Digital Public Goods Standard is a set of specifications and guidelines designed to maximise consensus about whether a digital solution conforms to the definition of a digital public good: open-source software, open data, open AI models, open standards, and open content that adhere to privacy and other applicable best practices, do no harm by design and are of high relevance for attainment of the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Partnerships for the Goals

Digital Public Goods Alliance

The Digital Public Goods Alliance is a multi-stakeholder initiative to accelerate the attainment of the sustainable development goals in low- and middle-income countries by facilitating the discovery, development, use of, and investment in digital public goods.

Partnerships for the Goals