Comment by Imustaskforhelp

17 hours ago

Can someone please tldr me what digital public goods alliance means and how peertube can benefit from being recognized as a digital public good.

From what I can tell, it is UN affiliated/related project where basically it tries to make countries integrate these digital public goods in their country's ecosystem/ work on these (products?)

Is there any amount of sponsorship money that come with this classification or more tax benefits?

Or does UN (thus countries who fund UN) itself fund DPGA?

I find this idea fascinating now thinking about it if that can be the case, for these countries a few millions or even billions collectively might not mean much but it can mean a lot towards open source and digital soveriegnity in my opinion too.

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yanokwa  9 hours ago

I run [ODK](https://getodk.org). It's a offline mobile data collection platform that has been an DPG since 2022.

In practice, being a DPG makes your project slightly easier to choose in UN and government procurements. In most cases, they're choosing your platform because it's free, so it's unlikely that money or code contributions will come your way. It can even be a downside, because your software may end up deployed on an under-provisioned government server that generates a flood of support requests. Ask me how I know...

You may also get a bit more visibility and become eligible for some DPG-related funding calls. But in my experience, funding ultimately depends on demonstrated impact, donor relationships, alignment with national digital strategies, and the ability to deliver at scale.

  • Imustaskforhelp  2 hours ago

    Thank you for your response!

    So I thought that having an open source project in DPGA would be really great but it seems that everything that glitters isn't gold like how you mention support requests etc.

    I have a question tho, What are the best foundations or labels (like DGPA) that an open source software can qualify for which might give it more exposure and funding

    Personally I am starting to believe it might be NLNET (https://nlnet.nl/) but what are your thoughts on it?