Exploring Innovative Approaches to Financing Digital Public Infrastructure

For global digital transformation to be successful, stakeholders must assess how to develop and deploy more inclusive systems collaboratively, safely, and effectively. Mounting evidence shows that digital public infrastructure (DPI) can support better people-centered outcomes by enabling identity verification, digital payments, data sharing, and other essential, society-wide functions that power the delivery of services across the public and private sectors. However, for the emerging field to live up to its promise, there must be a clear path to sustainable financing. As part of this effort, New America, EY, and Co-Develop teamed up in a cross-sector collaboration to explore financing mechanisms for DPI. Please join this session discussing the findings from their joint report, “Financing Digital Public Infrastructure: Approaches to Sustain Digital Transformation,” published in December 2022.