CDPI is a pro-bono technical advisory organization that helps governments design, deploy, and scale Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) such as digital identity, payments, and data-sharing systems. It provides vendor-neutral, implementation-focused guidance to drive inclusive economic growth, having partnered with 25+ countries across sectors like agriculture, education, and healthcare.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
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Problem
Many countries lack the technical expertise and architectural guidance needed to design and implement Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) such as digital identity, payments, and data-sharing systems. Without open, interoperable foundations, governments often build fragmented, duplicative systems that fail to scale, exclude citizens from essential services, and slow economic formalization.
Solution
CDPI provides pro-bono, vendor-neutral technical architecture blueprints and implementation support to help countries design, deploy, and scale DPI that is open, inclusive, and country-led. The organization works with governments to build reusable platforms on open standards, such as Trinidad and Tobago's VerifyTT national digital credentials platform, enabling rapid service delivery without sacrificing state control. CDPI collaborates with local stakeholders and international partners, prioritizing upgrades to existing infrastructure and citizen-centric, impact-first solutions. Its approach emphasizes designing for reuse, inclusion, and complete country ownership from the very first use case, helping nations move quickly while maintaining sovereignty over their digital systems.
Target Audience
Primary customers are national governments, ministries, and public sector agencies in low- and middle-income countries seeking to design and implement Digital Public Infrastructure, as well as multilateral development banks and international organizations supporting DPI adoption.
Features
- Pro-bono technical advisory services with no fee regardless of engagement length
- Vendor and product neutral support for both open source and proprietary deployments
- Technical architecture blueprints for national-scale DPI across sectors including identity, payments, and data sharing
- Implementation-focused practical guidance that prefers upgrades to existing infrastructure
- Partnerships with multilateral development banks, international agencies, and universities
- Support for verifiable credentials platforms, such as VerifyTT in Trinidad and Tobago, enabling tamper-proof digital credentials for citizens
- Country-specific use cases including agricultural land records for credit access in Brazil, education credentials for youth employment in São Tomé and Príncipe, and national ID upgrades in Peru and Cambodia