The Digital Public Goods Alliance co-hosted and participated in high level events during the United Nations General Assembly emphasizing open source and the relevance of DPGs for building open culture and open societies in the UN and around the world. Read the takeaways from these events here.
GitHub’s Social Impact team empowers nonprofits and the greater social sector to drive positive and lasting global contributions. Participants in thirteen countries across five continents engage, including through Tech for Social Good, which is a portfolio of programs that leverages GitHub’s products, community, and people to strengthen the social sector’s efforts to achieve the Sustainable […]
Today we’re pleased to announce The Office of the Secretary-General’s Envoy on Technology as a new member to the Digital Public Goods Alliance.
The DPGA is pleased to announce that the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) are joining the Digital Public Goods Alliance as new members, and joining an evolved DPGA board from January 2022.
On August 30th, the DPGA, alongside Rockefeller and The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, brought together leaders from around the world to frame an ambitious, truly collaborative agenda for building digital public infrastructure. Here the DPGA shares some examples of the most relevant core, coordinated and aligned ongoing DPI-related activities driven by the DPGA Secretariat and organisations listed in the DPGA 2021 Activity Roadmap.
Organisations all over the world are already working to support and advance digital public goods. Over the coming months the DPGA Secretariat will invite stakeholders whose activities are significantly advancing the strategic objectives outlined in the DPGA strategy to be a part of the DPGA Annual Roadmap.
Safe YOU, Armenia’s first digital public good The Digital Public Goods Alliance is excited to welcome Safe YOU as a digital public good, now searchable on the DPG Registry. Safe YOU is an application and platform designed to help combat violence against women and girls (VAWG) by providing security functions to those seeking help during […]
DPGA co-leads Liv Marte Norhaug and Lucy Harris reflect on the release of the DPGA’s 5 year strategy.
What does it take to become a digital public good? In May 2021, AEDES became a digital public good and is the first UNICEF Philippines DPG pathfinding pilot. Learn more about their experience.