Rachel Toku-Appiah

Key message: Digital public goods (DPGs) deliver positive, concrete results for people & communities when leveraged for digital public infrastructure (DPI). 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 and their role in driving safe, trusted, and inclusive digital public infrastructure at scale by 2030. Co-led by the Digital Impact Alliance and the DPGA, these efforts are in line with the UN Secretary-General's Roadmap for Digital Cooperation, and the activities of the Global Digital Compact and the 2024 Summit of the Future. In 2022, the DPG Charter vision and commitment framework was finalized, informed by consultations with 100+ individuals working in 20+ countries. These consultations informed the scope and substance of the DPG Charter and identified a number of focus areas and potential gaps that can be addressed through collective action, improving the current and future state of digital public infrastructure. These findings have been consolidated into five key outcomes related to: products; capacity; implementation; safeguards and inclusion; and the ecosystem. The DPG Charter campaign will mobilize and celebrate endorsements through June 2023. After the campaign closes, the DPG Charter document will remain as a reference document for aligning on-going efforts to ensure that digital public goods are a sustainable, secure, and inclusive option for digital public infrastructure.