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Authors & Contributors

The DPI-AI Framework was developed by CDPI with input from practitioners, researchers, and digital government leaders across the global DPI ecosystem.

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About the author

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Daniel Abadie

Centre for Digital Public Infrastructure (CDPI)

Daniel works at the intersection of digital public infrastructure, AI governance, and development policy. He leads the DPI-AI initiative at CDPI, developing frameworks and practical tools for governments integrating AI into public service delivery.

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Centre for Digital Public Infrastructure

CDPI works to accelerate the adoption of Digital Public Infrastructure globally — providing technical assistance, knowledge resources, and convening across governments, development partners, and the DPI ecosystem.

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Reviewers & Contributors

With deep gratitude

Between August 2025 and January 2026, successive drafts of this paper circulated across the DPI ecosystem through emails, calls, and in-person conversations. We are deeply grateful to all those who took the time to read, reflect, challenge ideas, and provide thoughtful feedback — and in particular to those acknowledged below, whose contributions helped strengthen and refine version 1.0 of this paper.

Christine Kim
Mozilla
Fernando Ruiz
Grape Software
Tanushka Vaid
CDPI
Vijay Vujjini
CDPI
Vineet Bhandari
CDPI
Antony Muriithi
CDPI
Kamya Chandra
CDPI
Kanwaljit Singh
Gates Foundation
Richard Gevers
DSU South Africa
Tanner Lewis
Gates Foundation
David Eaves
UCL
Jack Hilton
OpenFn
Taylor Downs
OpenFn
Pete Herlihy
AWS
Jon Crowcroft
Cambridge University
Antonio Garcia Zaballos
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Kristo Vaher
Digital Nation
Brandon Jackson
James Stewart
Public Digital
Yann Le Tallec
Lea Gimpel
Digital Public Goods Alliance
Jagadish Babu
Ekstep
Sourav Das
Co-Develop
Ben Bertelsen
UNDP
Stela Mocan
World Bank
Julia Michal Clark
World Bank
Oleg Petrov
World Bank
Goran Vranic
World Bank
Craig Jolley
World Bank
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CDPI Abadie, D. (2026). DPI-AI Framework: Building AI-Ready Nations through Digital Public Infrastructure. https://digitalpublicinfrastructure.ai
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Published 2026

Version 1.0. CDPI Vision Paper series.

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