A curated list of relevant standards for Digital Public Goods — covering interoperability, security, data exchange, and sector-specific protocols.
ActivityPub is a decentralized social networking protocol standard for client-to-server and server-to-server communication.
Authenticated Transfer Protocol
A protocol standard that ensures secure and verified data transfers between parties.
Calendar/ Card Distributed Authoring and Versioning
A protocol standard for managing, sharing, and synchronizing calendar and contact data over the internet.
File Transfer Protocol/ Secure File Transfer Protocol
A network protocol standard for transferring files between computers over a TCP/IP network, with SFTP providing secure, encrypted transfer.
Matrix is a standard for open, decentralized, real-time communication over IP using interoperable protocols and APIs.
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
A protocol standard for sending and routing email messages between mail servers.
Advanced Message Queuing Protocol
A protocol standard for message-oriented middleware that enables reliable, asynchronous messaging between distributed systems.
Message Queuing Telemetry Transport
A lightweight messaging protocol standard for publish/subscribe communication between devices, commonly used in IoT.
Web Real-Time Communication
A standard enabling real-time audio, video, and data communication directly between web browsers.
WebSocket
WebSocket is a communication protocol standard that enables full-duplex, real-time data exchange between a client and server over a single, long-lived connection.
OAuth 2
OAuth 2 is an open standard for authorization that enables secure delegated access to resources over the internet.
OpenID Connect
OpenID is an open standard for decentralized user authentication and single sign-on (SSO).
Open Pretty Good Privacy
Open Pretty Good Privacy (OpenPGP) is an open standard for encrypting and signing data communications.
World Wide Web Consortium Verifiable Credentials
A data standard for issuing, presenting, and verifying digital credentials on the web.
AsyncAPI Specification
The "OpenAPI for event-driven architectures
Graph Query Language
A specification for querying and manipulating data in graph databases.
OpenAPI Specification
A standard for defining RESTful APIs in a machine-readable format.
Ontology Web Language
A semantic web standard for representing rich and complex knowledge about things, groups of things, and relations between them.
Resource Description Framework
A framework for representing and exchanging metadata about resources on the web using subject-predicate-object triples.
Representational State Transfer
Representational State Transfer (REST) is an architectural standard for designing networked web services using stateless communication and standard HTTP methods.
A data standard for publishing open, comparable information about grants awarded by funders.
Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine
A standard for storing, transmitting, and sharing medical imaging information.
Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative Standard
Governance, Finance, and Transparency - standard for the governance of oil, gas, and mineral resources.
Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources
A standard for exchanging healthcare information electronically using modern web technologies.
Greenhouse Gas Protocol
The Greenhouse Gas Protocol is an international accounting standard for measuring and managing greenhouse gas emissions.
GovStack Specifications
GovStack Specifications are technical standards outlining interoperable digital building blocks for government digital services.
General Transit Feed Specification
A standardized data format for sharing public transportation schedules and geographic information.
Humanitarian Exchange Language
A data exchange standard for sharing humanitarian crisis information between organizations.
International Aid Transparency Initiative Standard
A global standard for publishing transparent, comparable data on international development and humanitarian aid activities.
International Classification of Diseases - 10th Edition
A global standard for coding and classifying diseases and health conditions.
Land Administration Domain Model
ISO standard that provides a formal language for describing and managing land and property rights data.
Learning Tools Interoperability
A standard for integrating learning applications with educational platforms like LMSs.
Open Contracting Data Standard
A data standard for publishing and sharing information about public procurement and contracting processes.
Open Electronic Health Records
A standard for the secure, interoperable exchange and management of electronic health records.
Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine - Clinical Terms
A comprehensive, standardized clinical terminology for electronic health records and healthcare data exchange.
SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog
A SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog (STAC) is a standard for describing geospatial data assets with spatial and temporal metadata.
United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management
A framework of international standards and best practices for managing and sharing geospatial information globally.
Advanced Encryption Standard
A symmetric-key encryption standard used to secure electronic data.
JSON Web Token
A compact, URL-safe standard for securely transmitting claims between parties as a JSON object.
Public Key Infrastructure
A framework of policies, technologies, and procedures for creating, managing, distributing, and revoking digital certificates and public keys.
RSASSA-PKCS1-v1_5 Signature Algorithm
A cryptographic signature algorithm standard for generating and verifying digital signatures using RSA and PKCS#1 v1.5 padding.
Security Assertion Markup Language
An XML-based open standard for exchanging authentication and authorization data between parties, especially between an identity provider and a service provider.
Secure Sockets Layer
A cryptographic protocol standard for securing communications over computer networks.
Transport Layer Security
A cryptographic protocol standard for secure communication over computer networks.
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
Data Representation & Encoding
Comma-Separated Values
Data Interchange Formats
Geographic JSON
Data Interchange Formats
Geographic Tagged Image File Format
Data Interchange Formats
JavaScript Object Notation
Data Interchange Formats
Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes
Data Representation & Encoding
Universal Character Set
Data Representation & Encoding
Unicode Transformation Format - 8-bit
Data Representation & Encoding
Extensible Markup Language
Data Interchange Formats
YAML Ain't Markup Language
Data Interchange Formats