overview.md

Overview of the Digital Public Goods ecosystem

1. Start with an introduction of the Digital Public Goods Alliance: who we are, our approach and timeline. The Alliance also co-ordinates activities with other organisations that are working on digital public goods. Some of these organisations are official members of the alliance and others participate in the collective roadmap. The roadmap activities are coordinated keeping in mind the 5-year strategy.
2. Read about the Digital Public Goods Standard: nine indicators that define the requirements for a digital solution to become a digital public good. The DPG Standard is itself an open project with an associated GitHub repository that details how these nine indicators are further broken down in a set of questions that are asked of any potential digital public good.
3. An Eligibility Form is provided as an easy entry point into the process of becoming a digital public good. Conceived as a self help resource, it guides the owner of a prospective digital public good to quickly assess if their digital solution is likely to meet the DPG Standard or not. This form is coded in React and the code is open source.
4. The Registry of Digital Public Goods provides an up-to-date list of all the digital solutions that have been reviewed and meet the DPG Standard. The registry also includes a list of nominees: those projects that meet indicators 1 and 2 (SDG relevance and open license, respectively) of the DPG Standard, and may become digital public goods in the future.
5. The DPG Submission Form provides a user-friendly interface that asks all the necessary information from a digital solution to be considered as a digital public good. It includes all the questions documented in the DPG Standard repository linked above in #2. This form is coded in React using Data Driven Forms and the code is open source.
6. The data from the Registry comes from the unicef/publicgoods-candidates code repository, where all the information collected from both nominees and digital public goods is encoded in JSON files.
   • Issues are created to track progress on groups of prospective digital public goods, for example:
     • 2021 Drone Toolkit Nominations
     • DPGs from UNICEF Ghana StartUp Lab
     • 2021 UNICEF Bridge Funding Cohort
     • 2021 UNICEF Blockchain Cohort
     • Fintech for Impact DPGs from the Philippines
     • Backlog of Outstanding UNICEF Innovation Fund investees
     • Climate Change Adaptation Community of Practice
   • When either a full submission or a nomination is received, a pull request is opened in this repository where the review by DPGA staff can be transparently tracked. Each pull request is labeled as a nomination or a digital public good depending on the information provided. The initial triage is currently done by @nathanbaleeta, with subsequent review and approval by @conradsp and @lacabra.
7. The DPG Map visualizes the geographic distribution of digital public goods development and implementations, including elements of storytelling. Data is displayed on a world map using Mapbox, and integrated on a React frontend. Storytelling feature realized with react-scrollama library. The code is open source.