Authors

• Daniel Abadie, Centre for Digital Public Infrastructure (CDPI) https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielabadie/

Reviewers and Contributors

Between August 2025 and January 2026, successive drafts of this paper circulated across the DPI ecosystem through emails, calls, and in-person conversations. I am 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 (United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)), Stela Mocan (World Bank), Julia Michal Clark (World Bank), Oleg Petrov (World Bank), Goran Vranic (World Bank), Craig Jolley (World Bank).