For our next event #DPIinConversation, we are honored to host Ashish Aggarwal, Vice President at Nasscom, who will bring his expertise in digital policy and governance. Join him as he will share insights on open-source and community-led innovation in the session “Public-by-Design – Ensuring Open-Source and Community-driven DPI on July 9.
Register now: https://form.sflc.in/dpi-in-conversation/
Event Details:
July 9, 2025
6:00 PM IST
Online
Stay Tuned!
Oh, wow! The German IT Planning Council decided yesterday to consolidate a bunch of disparate communication tools into a unified system based on Matrix and MLS.
Here's the record of their decision and the other options they considered: https://gitlab.opencode.de/it-planungsrat/fit-ab/zapuk/-/blob/main/Zielarchitektur/Architekturentscheidungen/ADR-0011-Kommunikationsschicht.md
For our event #DPIinConversation, we are honored to host Aditi Agrawal, an independent journalist known for her incisive reporting on privacy and tech regulation. She will share her insights in the Day 1 session, “DPI and the Digital Divide,” on July 7.
Register now: https://form.sflc.in/dpi-in-conversation/
Event Details: July 7, 2025 6:00 PM IST Online
Stay Tuned!
“In participating health providers (clinics, pharmacy…) across 
, citizens eligible to healthcare support can just come with their aadhar card and the payment is handled by government directly to the provider. Could this has been done without #DPI? Absolutely not.”
Mmh… most 
countries show that you can have direct health insurance payment (and affordable healthcare 
) with non-sovereign payment infrastructure.
#IGF25
“Even if the implementation of #DPI in was done by foundations, with great involvement from the software community, only the State could enable adoption: aadhar was mandated for all welfare, connected to UPI. But is DPI truly independent from Big Tech? The majority of UPI volume is handled through Google Pay, by Phone Pay, to the point that many users don’t see UPI anymore but think of it as ‘GPay’. That’s a bit of a cautionary tale.” — Sabhanaz Radhid Diya
#IGF25
“In 
, one third of GDP is spent on online gambling. The transaction costs for those are a sort of hidden digital tax taken by foreign actors. The information is kept private. With #DPI, we can make inclusion metrics much more visible. We can get a reliable credit score. We can make register holders accountable.” — Keith Breckenridge
#IGF25
“Most people don’t realise that Visa and Mastercard are not payment companies anymore, they are information processing companies. They make more revenue from data collection on their infrastructure than from the transaction fees, and declare that derived revenue in tax havens.” — Luca Belli
#DPI is tax-funded, but does it really cost more? Can we truly measure the opportunity value to society?
#IGF25
“In 
, the Visa-Mastercard duopoly that charged 3–5% for each transaction was broken and open to competition not thanks to more regulation, but by creating an alternative as Digital Public Infrastructure by the central bank: #Pix. The idea was taken from UPI, but with one major improvement: UPI is made by a foundation, on the idea that public sector can’t deliver well. The drawback is there is no transparency and limited accountability. Pix is subject to FoI requests.” — Luca Belli
#IGF25 #DPI
«Latin American countries understood very early on that technology is political» 
@avilarenata @okfn
You can now watch the recording of this morning's #IGF2025 panel discussion, 'The relevance of #DPGs for advancing regional #DPI approaches'.
Tomorrow: For those following #IGF2025 in Oslo, our CEO @avilarenata will be discussing strategies for advancing regional #DPI approaches at the @dpgalliance workshop.
You can join in person or online: https://buff.ly/I2OYL6S
w/ Liv Marte Nordhaug, @rahul, Desire Kachenje, @HenriVerdier
Yesterday's sessions, under the theme "#OSPOS FOR GOOD," delved deep into how #OpenSource is fundamentally shaping #DigitalPublicInfrastructure (#DPI) and the evolving landscape of #AI.
We heard from leaders across public and private sectors, including @thegates Foundation, @sovtechfund, @TheLinuxFoundation, Capgemini, and Mercedes-Benz AG, showcasing real-world implementations from digital customs systems to instant payment platforms.
Learn more :https://europeanopensource.academy/
To continue creating and sustaining open digital infrastructure that serves the public interest, we need to: understand how these different layers work, how they connect, and address them intentionally.
It’s great to see the experts from our delegation actively contributing with their expertise – helping shape the discussions with their experience working on critical digital technologies.
#UNOSW #DPI #DigitalInfrastructure
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Flashreport: the #DigitalPublicInfrastructure day has started at the UN #opensourceweek2025. Follow the live steam here: https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1v/k1vq934jz6
More at https://www.un.org/digital-emerging-technologies/content/open-source-week-2025
At #OSPOsForGood today during #UNOpenSourceWeek, Adriana Groh made several insightful comments during the panel “The Role of Open Source in Digital Public Infrastructure”:
"At the #SovereignTechAgency, we focus on the software that developers need to develop software. We call that 'infrastructure,' which is a different understanding to what many hear when we talk about #DPI. Both things are extremely important and exist at the same time. We need to understand how they are connected..."
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It's a drizzly and dreary day outside in New York, but that hides the energy and optimism inside for #UN #OpenSource Week — today begins day 2 of our 3-track hackathon for good, as even more #FOSS hackers, and advocates in government, arrive from around the world. More at: https://www.un.org/digital-emerging-technologies/content/open-source-week-2025
Where it falls short
• “Digital Public Infrastructure” is currently described almost only as interoperability, which is not sufficient for #DigitalSovereignty and is a missed opportunity for supporting the creation and adoption of #DPI that aligns with EU values.
• There's still “Web 4.0” bs bingo listing VR, blockchain, quantum… let's say it's at least less bad than a few months ago where metaverse was still thrown in the mix.
Zapret GUI (запрет для обхода блокировок discord и youtube, дискорда и ютуба)
Работоспособность на Windows 8 не гарантируются, но возможна. Также программа была проверена на всевозможных сборках - всё работало.
Внутри программы можно менять стратегию по своему усмотрению (если первая не сработала). И пробовать открыть необходимые сайты.
Nerdy piece of the day: "The Economics of Shared Digital Infrastructures". Their key recommendations: "Treat essential digital services as infrastructure" & "Design for value from the start. Value is not automatic. It depends on technical choices, governance, procuring and financing models." Finally: "For smaller countries, maximising #DPI ’s value requires strategic design choices — such as leveraging regional collaborations or #opensource architectures" https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/public-purpose/publications/2025/mar/economics-shared-digital-infrastructures
