DPG Resources

The official knowledge base for all documentation, resources, guides, and templates to help open source digital solutions with their Digital Public Good (DPG) application and for successful DPGs to continue to improve their project within the focus areas of the DPG Standard.

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If you are not yet a recognized digital public good, you should consider applying! You can learn more about DPGs here, review the eligibility requirements, or explore the registry of existing DPGs. You should also check out the DPG Wiki for the application support documentation.

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🙋 Getting Started

Welcome, please select the starting point for your journey:

1. I have a project that I want to make open source.
2. I have an open-source solution, how can I make it a DPG?
3. My project is a DPG, how can I improve it?

🔓 Open Sourcing Your Project

You can refer to the Open Source Guides for an in-depth approach to starting an open-source project. While open source is not a panacea, there are certain circumstances and problems to which it is very well suited and tailoring the format of your project to the goals resources, and environment of your organization can help make your project more successful. We encourage you to review this Open Source Archetypes Framework to identify and articulate your open-source goals. Here are some musts for an open-source project:

• Source: Have a public repository or platform where you can host your source code, data or content.
• License: Have a license that allows the code/data/content to be freely used, modified, and shared.
• Documentation: Have some basic documentation for the community to be able to understand, access or contribute to your project.
• People: Make sure you've talked to your legal department and your developer team.

🌍 Becoming a Digital Public Good

Digital public goods are open software, open data, open AI systems, and open content collections that adhere to privacy and other applicable best practices, do no harm, and are of high relevance for the attainment of the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). To successfully become an accredited digital public good (DPG) you must adhere to the DPG Standard and submit an application for review to the Digital Public Goods Alliance.

To get started, use our DPG Eligibility Tool to quickly determine if your digital solution can be nominated as a DPG. Once you know if your solution is eligible, read the Submission Guide for more information about the DPG application process.

Important

For detailed documentation on the evidence that needs to be provided for each type of digital public good, please refer to the DPG Wiki. We strongly encourage all DPG applicants to use this Wiki while they fill out the application form.

If you have any questions, you can visit our DPG Application FAQs or ask directly to the DPG Community for guidance; we're available to help.

🚀 Improving Your Project

We are curating a collection of extra resources alongside the DPG Wiki that will help potential and approved DPGs improve their project within the focus areas of the DPG Standard, open source best practices, open source standards, international development priorities, etc. You should check them out to learn different ways you can improve your project, including links to helpful resources.

🙌 Contributing

Thanks for wanting to help! Kindly check out our contributing guidelines for ways to offer feedback and contribute to this repository.

📋 Licenses

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