DPGA

The Digital Public Goods Alliance is a multi-stakeholder initiative with a mission 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. Digital public goods are open-source software, open data, open AI models, open standards and open content that adhere to privacy and other applicable laws and best practices, do no harm by design, and help attain the SDGs. The DPGA relies on engagement and leadership from private sector technology experts, think tanks, governments, philanthropic donors, international implementing organisations, and the UN. The governments of Sierra Leone and Norway, alongside UNICEF and the Indian think-tank iSPIRT, launched the DPGA in 2019. The DPGA is not a legal entity, but an initiative jointly supported by the current co-hosting entities, the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad), UNDP, and UNICEF, who ensure that the DPGA is staffed and resourced.