About
The DPI Mapping project aims to advance our understanding of digital public infrastructure and promote its inclusive and safe deployment by:
- Developing a baseline dataset on DPI around the world.
- Communicating the “State of DPI” and promoting collaboration across the ecosystem.
- Highlighting opportunities to support DPI deployment and develop safeguards.
Over fifty national governments have committed to build national-scale digital public infrastructure in the coming years. Despite this pledge, it remains challenging to measure the number and status of DPI pilots and deployments globally.
The absence of a reliable resource to quickly access this information creates challenges for many important stakeholders. For example, it limits researchers ability to explore and understand what is happening around the world. It prevents government officials and implementors from identifying peers and best practices as well as coordinating on deployments. And, among others, it impedes civil society actors from identifying emerging trends or governance patterns.
The DPI Map addresses this. It offers the first global investigation of digital identity, payment, and data exchange systems.
Updates
- Apr 2025 - DPI Map Data for Statistical Analysis
- Mar 2025 - DPI Dataset Update
Articles
World Economic Forum - What is Digital Public Infrastructure and why does it matter?
What’s the hype around digital public infrastructure? How different is it from conventional approaches to digital transformation? Krisstina and David write for the World Economic Forum.
UCL IIPP Blog - Data Exchange Systems as a foundational layer of digital government
The DPI Map team demystifies data exchange systems, and how they can be meaningfully understood as a DPI component.
UCL IIPP Blog - Preliminary insights from the DPI Map
There is emerging evidence on the ubiquity of DPI and its parallel evolution across the world. Read this commentary to explore emerging insights about the start of DPI across the globe.
Timeline
- Oct 2025 - Global State of DPI Report
- Mar 2025 - Launch of the DPI Measurement Community of Practice Global Dataset Update (Q1 2025)
- Oct 2024 - Launch of global dataset and DPI Map 🚀
- Jul - Sep 2024 - Global dataset compilation, peer review of the framework
- Jun 2024 - Beta launch
- May - Jun 2024 - Compilation of first dataset and framework
- Mar - Apr 2024 - Expert interviews and consultation rounds
- Oct 2023 - Feb 2024 - Preliminary desk research and framework development
Team
David Eaves
Principal Investigator and Associate Professor in Digital Government
UCL IIPP
Krisstina Rao
Project Manager and Research Fellow
UCL IIPP
Jordan Sandman
Principal, Investments
Co-Develop
Michelle Wronski
Research Assistant
UCL IIPP
Mitchel Pass
Research Fellow and Community Manager
UCL IIPP
Erik Paessler
Research Assistant
UCL IIPP
Jordyn Fetter
Research Assistant
UCL IIPP
Oli Evans
Webmaster
UCL IIPP
Alumni
Contributors
This project is led by the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP) at University College London UCL. It is presently supported by Co-Develop.
We would like to thank the following organisations from where we sourced data on the active state and understanding of DPI deployments.
Key organisations and datasets
- State of Inclusive and Instant Payments Systems, AfricaNenda
- Asian Development Bank (ADB)
- Govstack, GIZ
- Global DPI Repository, ICD Department, Ministry of Electronics and IT, Government of India
- Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)
- Modular Open Source Identity Platform (MOSIP)
- Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions (NIIS)
- Fast Payments Toolkit, World Bank
Individual contributors from governments
- Ministry of Trade, Co-operatives and Small and Medium Enterprises (Fiji)
- Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (Egypt)
- Innovation and Digital Development Agency (Azerbaijan)
- Department for Digital Transformation (Italy)
We would like to thank the following individuals for contributing their insight and experience to the project.
- Allison Price, New America
- Arun Gurumurthy, Modular Open Source Identity Platform (MOSIP)
- Beatriz Vasconcellos, UCL IIPP
- Christine Kim, Co-Develop
- Daniel Abadie, Centre for Digital Public Infrastructure (CDPI)
- Garth Willis, Co-Develop
- Priscilla Koo Wilkens, Central Bank of Brazil
- Jonathan Dolan, Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL)
- Jonathan Marskell, World Bank
- Manuel Aguilera, Centre for Digital Public Infrastructure (CDPI)
- Matthew McNaughton, Co-Develop
- Naeha Rashid
- Nay Constantine, World Bank
- Nick Coleman, Digital Public Infrastructure Center (Egov)
- Nigel Edmead, Place
- Olivia Rakotomalala, World Bank
- Sabine Mensah, AfricaNenda
- Sarthak Satapathy, Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL)
- Siim Sikut, Digital Nations
- Soujanya Sridhar, Aapti Institute
- Tim Wood, Co-Develop
- Ville Sirviö, Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions (NIIS)
- Waddah Hago, Place