🇳🇬 Exciting news! The Government of Nigeria has officially joined the Digital Public Goods Alliance 🎉

As a new member, Nigeria will embed #DPGs into public services and strengthen its #DPI, championing openness, inclusion, and innovation.

The announcement came from Minister Dr. ‘Bosun Tijani of the Federal Ministry of Communications, Innovation & Digital Economy.

👉 Read more about #Nigeria’s commitment to DPGs : https://www.digitalpublicgoods.net/blog/nigeria-joins-the-dpga

🇳🇬 Exciting news! The Government of Nigeria has officially joined the Digital Public Goods Alliance 🎉

As a new member, Nigeria will embed #DPGs into public services and strengthen its #DPI, championing openness, inclusion, and innovation.

The announcement came from Minister Dr. ‘Bosun Tijani of the Federal Ministry of Communications, Innovation & Digital Economy.

👉 Read more about #Nigeria’s commitment to DPGs : https://www.digitalpublicgoods.net/blog/nigeria-joins-the-dpga

🌍 Last week in NYC, the #DPICooperationInMotion #50in5 milestone event marked big progress for safe, inclusive & interoperable #DPI

Convened by the #DPGA at #UNGA80, global leaders reaffirmed openness as the foundation of digital transformation. ✨

✔️ New #50in5 countries + new @dpgalliance members
✔️ Regional spotlights on West Africa, Latin America & Caribbean, East Africa
✔️ Launch of DPI Safeguards Accelerator + global DPI learning exchange

🎥 Watch the recap video: https://youtu.be/AUlagutTs3k

We are honored to welcome Salima Monorma Bah, Minister of Communications, Technology and Innovation, Sierra Leone, as a speaker at the #50in5 #DPICooperationInMotion Milestone Event next Monday in NYC.

She will share Sierra Leone’s experience in building safe, inclusive, and interoperable #DPI and join leaders from the #50in5 campaign in celebrating global cooperation during #UNGA80

➡️ Learn about the program and subscribe for updates on the live streaming: https://50in5.net/dpi-cooperation-in-motion/

Next Monday high-level representatives from countries participating in the #50in5 campaign will gather in NYC for the #DPICooperationInMotion milestone event — a celebration of the positive impacts of global collaboration to build safe, inclusive, and interoperable #DPI in the context of the #UNGA80. Join the live streaming to hear transformative stories and the announcement of new countries joining the 50-in-5 campaign.

https://50in5.net/dpi-cooperation-in-motion/

Robert @rriemann, EU OS project lead, has met yesterday Dirk Schrödter @dirkschroedter, Minister for Digitalization and Head of the State Chancellery Schleswig-Holstein (SH) in Brussels. SH will organise a public tender for a #Linux OS. To be seen to which extend #EU_OS can be reflected in the tender specification! 🤔

#endof10#DigitalSovereignty#EuroStack#GermanStack#DPI #KDE

Robert @rriemann, EU OS project lead, has met yesterday Dirk Schrödter @dirkschroedter, Minister for Digitalization and Head of the State Chancellery Schleswig-Holstein (SH) in Brussels. SH will organise a public tender for a #Linux OS. To be seen to which extend #EU_OS can be reflected in the tender specification! 🤔

#endof10#DigitalSovereignty#EuroStack#GermanStack#DPI #KDE

Please reshare ♻️! Mario #Draghi on 22 Oct: "For years the European Union believed that its economic dimension, with 450 million consumers, would itself bring geopolitical power and leverage in international trade relations. This year will be remembered as the year in which that illusion evaporated."

He goes on: "One lesson is now clear from the way the global economy is 1/x

#DigitalSovereignty#EuroStack #LaSuite #opendesk #DigitalEU #OSPO#EDIC#DPI #endof10#Linux#Fedora #opensuse

Please reshare ♻️! Mario #Draghi on 22 Oct: "For years the European Union believed that its economic dimension, with 450 million consumers, would itself bring geopolitical power and leverage in international trade relations. This year will be remembered as the year in which that illusion evaporated."

He goes on: "One lesson is now clear from the way the global economy is 1/x

#DigitalSovereignty#EuroStack #LaSuite #opendesk #DigitalEU #OSPO#EDIC#DPI #endof10#Linux#Fedora #opensuse

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

#Matrix#OpenSource#FOSS#ProtocolsNotPlatforms#DPI#DPG

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

#Matrix#OpenSource#FOSS#ProtocolsNotPlatforms#DPI#DPG

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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“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

🌎 «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'.

👉🏾 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KNHav1vnxA

🌎 «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'.

👉🏾 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KNHav1vnxA