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Digital Public Infrastructure

As Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) increasingly mediates people’s access to rights, services, and economic opportunities, governance choices become as important (or more) as technological ones. Choices around digital system design and mechanisms for oversight are central to ensuring that DPI serves the public interest, strengthens open, resilient, and prosperous societies, and delivers tangible outcomes that people can experience and trust. When embedded in the design and governance of DPI, open government values help ensure that systems are transparent and subject to public scrutiny; accountable through clear responsibilities and accessible mechanisms for redress; participatory by enabling citizens to shape the systems they rely upon; and inclusive by safeguarding against exclusion, discrimination, and unequal access.


The Open Gov Guide

The Open Gov Guide is the go-to resource for open government reformers. The guide provides concrete recommendations for policy makers, civil society representatives, and more on how to apply open government principles to real-world challenges. Readers can also use the guide to learn more about how governments at the national and local level are putting these values into practice through OGP action plans and beyond.

Learn more about this policy area in the Digital Public Infrastructure” chapter of the Open Gov Guide (coming soon).


Challenge Commitments

As part of the Open Gov Challenge, the OGP Support Unit would like to recognize some of the most inspiring commitments made by participants to date. Read more about these exciting reforms on beneficial ownership below.

For a full list of Challenge commitments submitted by members, visit our Open Gov Challenge Commitment Tracker.

UKRAINE

Institutionalize the Diia.Engine Platform for Digital Public Services

After successfully piloting Diia.Engine, a cost-saving, open-source platform that can quickly deliver new digital public services, Ukraine committed to institutionalizing its use in national and local government agencies. The government will provide technical support to train officials as part of this effort, alongside the inclusion of the platform in the CDTO Campus curriculum, which trains Chief Digital Transformation Officers on innovations in public administration. The government also aims to create a toolkit for other countries to replicate the platform.


All Commitments by OGP Members

Explore all digital governance commitments from OGP members.

The following list reflects commitments submitted through national or local action plans. For more details, visit OGP’s Data Dashboard.

Filter the commitments according to three categories evaluated by the Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM): ambition, completion, and early results.

  • Ambition: Beginning with 2020 action plans, the IRM assesses ambition using an indicator called “Potential for Results.” This indicator is an early marker of a commitment’s potential to yield meaningful results, based on how the commitment is articulated in the action plan and the state of play in the respective policy area.
  • Completion: For each commitment, OGP’s Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM) evaluates the degree to which the activities outlined in the commitment were implemented.
  • Early Results: Beginning with 2021 action plans, the IRM assesses commitment results using an indicator called “Early Results”. This indicator compares the state of transparency, citizen participation, and/or public accountability before the action plan with the state at the end of the action plan.

Commitment List

161 Commitments related to Digital Governance by all members
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What is this showing?

This table shows all commitments that match the filters selected at the top of the page. At least one filter must be selected to populate this table. Use the tags above the table to further filter by commitment quality (e.g. ambitious, complete). Click on commitment titles to learn more about each commitment. Click on “Featured” icons to access stories, where available.

Why is this data helpful? (why did we choose it?)

This table enables finding existing commitments in specific policy areas, regions, and years, as well as top-performing commitments by using the built-in table filters.

How is this calculated?

The commitment performance metrics (e.g. ambitious, complete) are derived directly from IRM reports. See the terms below for details. The Year field shows the year in which the commitment was first submitted. Icons in the Featured field indicate that a story is available on the OGP website.


Learn More

Data Dashboard: Explore data on how OGP members are implementing reform in key policy areas, including information on the ambition and early results of commitments

OGP Resources: Find all of OGP’s stories of reform, IRM reports, fact sheets, and other information in one place.

Take the Challenge

The Open Gov Challenge is a call to action for all members of OGP to raise ambition in ten areas of open government to help strengthen our democracies.

Join hundreds of reformers around the world – in government and civil society – who are working to make their communities stronger, more open, participatory, inclusive, and accountable.