[1] The concept has attracted attention as new technologies are increasingly seen as having the potential to benefit society, leading to the development of evaluation frameworks for competing projects.
[2] Some countries, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and private sector entities have identified digital technologies as a tool for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
A global effort is needed to advance the creation and uptake of high value digital public goods for disaster risk reduction.
Collaborating with three Irish SMEs, the programme focuses on creating reusable software building blocks for vital, "cradle to grave" citizen services.
Tony Shannon highlighted the goal of fostering collaboration, driving efficiency, and reducing costs by sharing software across government bodies.
[12]In various sectors, including information science, education, finance, and healthcare, there are technologies that may be considered digital public goods as defined above.
Because FOSS is licensed to be shared freely, modified, and redistributed, it is available in a manner consistent with the principles of digital public goods.
Open educational resources, which are designed to be freely re-used, revised, and shared under their copyright terms, are another example often associated with digital public goods.
The open educational resources (OER) movement has popularized the use of "copyleft" licenses, such as the Creative Commons, which allow content to be freely re-used, shared, modified, and redistributed.
[18] The report recommended advancing a global discussion on how stakeholders could collaborate more effectively to harness the potential of digital technologies for improving human well-being.
Recommendation 1B of the report suggests "that a broad, multi-stakeholder alliance, involving the UN, create a platform for sharing digital public goods, engaging talent and pooling data sets, in a manner that respects privacy, in areas related to attaining the SDGs".
[21] In response to this recommendation, the Governments of Norway and Sierra Leone, UNICEF and iSPIRT formally initiated the Digital Public Goods Alliance in late 2019 as a follow-up to the High-level Panel.