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What does responsible AI look like for digital public goods in practice?

How the Community Health Toolkit (CHT) is adopting AI while staying compliant with the DPG Standard.As digital public goods explore how AI could strengthen their impact, they face a critical question: How do you embrace AI’s potential without disempowering humans or creating new dependencies?For the team behind Community Health Toolkit (CHT), this meant starting where impact actually happens - with frontline health workers. Facing heavy workloads, limited supervision and little decision support, frontline workers need tools that match their realities and keep them in full control. CHT’s “AI-ready” approach puts those needs at the centre of decisions—ensuring AI serves health workers and local developer teams, rather than replacing them. In our new case study, we dive into how CHT is putting this approach into practice while remaining compliant with the DPG Standard.

Introducing a Practical Guide to the DPG Standard

Technical standards are essential for building trust, but they can quickly feel complex and require dense documentation, making it difficult to understand what they mean in practice.Yet, for country governments, funders, implementers, and others working with digital public goods, understanding the DPG Standard is essential to making informed decisions about the digital solutions they adopt, support and invest in.The DPGA Secretariat developed A Practical Guide to the DPG Standard aiming to make that understanding more accessible.The guide breaks down all nine indicators of the DPG Standard into clear, practical questions, explaining not only what each indicator requires, but also why it matters for building digital solutions that are open, interoperable, responsibly governed, and designed for public benefit. By translating technical requirements into accessible explanations, it helps bridge the gap between regulatory jargon and the real world considerations that matter to decision makers. This guide aims to make the DPG Standard easier to apply, enabling more stakeholders to engage meaningfully with the principles and safeguards that underpin trustworthy digital public goods.

Celebrating Global DPI Milestones: Highlights from the 50-in-5 Awards

Implementing safe, inclusive, and interoperable digital public infrastructure expands access to essential services, fosters strong economies, and delivers impact. By collaborating to share lessons and open technologies rather than going it alone, countries can radically shorten implementation journeys, avoid duplicative costs, and maximise progress.To celebrate these achievements, the 50-in-5 campaign hosted the inaugural 50-in-5 Awards during the 81st UN General Assembly week at The Morgan Library & Museum. Organised by the Digital Public Goods Alliance and Co-Develop, the 50-in-5 Awards recognise the countries and individuals turning digital public infrastructure into real-world progress and sustained human impact.Across the Impact, Collaboration, and Leadership categories, the 50-in-5 Awards highlight practical approaches, from foundational digital IDs reaching entire populations to regional payment networks for small businesses, that other countries can adapt to their own contexts.Read the full announcement to discover the category winners and runners-up honored at the 50-in-5 Awards ceremony, as well as the 40th country to officially join the campaign.