DPI is the backbone of digital transformation in sectors like healthcare, education, and finance. With SmartCare Pro, Zambia is using DPI to bridge the gap between people like Isaac and essential services. Through digital identification, residents now access healthcare services without the need for physical IDs or cumbersome paper records.
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Insight: What is Digital Public Infrastructure?
We understand digital public infrastructure (DPI) to be society-wide, digital capabilities that are essential to participation in a digital era. Read more
Insight: Foundations for a Fairer Digital Future
While there seems to be an inevitability to digitisation, countries still have the choice of deciding how to digitise. Read more
Country Focus: Building Zambia’s Digital Economy Foundations through Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI)
Percy Chinyama, Emmanuel Khisa, Luke Mate, and Garikai Nhongo look at how Zambia is fostering inclusion and growth through shared digital infrastructure. Read more
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About Co-Develop
“Co-Develop catalyses the efforts of countries in their digital transformation journeys, with a focus on leveraging shared digital infrastructure”
Co-Develop is a global non-profit fund helping countries accelerate their digital transformation journeys, by leveraging safe and inclusive shared digital public infrastructure (DPI) at scale. Enabling this digital transformation for 50 countries in the next five years, Co-Develop makes investments to:
· Unlock bottlenecks in the adoption of safe and inclusive shared digital infrastructure by countries
· Learn about the impact of shared infrastructure as countries go through with their digitisation efforts
We operate on the ethos that, together with like-minded partners, we must “co-develop” the foundations for a fairer future.
Understanding “Infrastructure Thinking”
At Co-Develop, we understand digital public infrastructure (DPI) to be society-wide, digital capabilities that are essential to participation in society and markets as a citizen, entrepreneur, and consumer in a digital era. Because it is essential, DPI should be guaranteed by public institutions to be 1) inclusive, 2) foundational, 3) interoperable, and 4) publicly accountable, as it is deployed in countries around the world.
DPI is not a technology output. It is services deployed with a specific approach along side strong governance, thoughtful policies, and deep civil society engagement.
Co-Develop recently released a framework for how we understand digital public infrastructure (DPI). If you haven’t had a chance to read it, please take a look. As with all of our work, we welcome your comments and feedback as we co-create this work alongside a dynamic ecosystem of partners.
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From Government Solutions to Societal Capabilities
As the DPI debate has evolved over the past couple of years, there continues to be a lack of clarity on what DPI is. There have been several attempts at coming up with a “definition” by various stakeholders, but there is no consensus. Learn more on what needs to be done:
Highlight Reel from the Global DPI Summit 2024 - Cairo, Egypt
Highlights from the Global DPI Summit 2024
Keynote Address by Nandan Nilekani - Cairo, Egypt
Co-Develop CEO C.V. Madhukar on AI and #DPI: Building Trust in Digital Systems
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