Asia

While the Asia and Pacific region has invested heavily in digital infrastructure over the past twenty years, the full realization of digital dividends remains hindered by fragmented services, duplication, and underlying weaknesses in both hard and soft systems. To overcome these barriers and maximize the impact of digital investments, Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) has emerged as a strategic solution designed to eliminate systemic inconsistencies and drive more unified, economy-wide growth. CDPI is working with countries, multilateral partners, private sector ecosystems, to facilitate greater acceleration of DPI in the region.

Our range of technical advisory inputs in the region includes providing advisory and co-creating interoperable foundations, such as registries and SSOs, that can be reused and scaled across multiple use cases and sectors (Cambodia and Indonesia ).

We provided advisory notes on digital ID strategy, use cases, and rollout, factoring into respective countries stages and local contexts (Sri Lanka , Papua New Guinea , Cambodia ).

We also peer reviewed DPI-led digital government blueprints, providing recommendations on rapid deployment options using +1 approach, ways to anticipate frequent design architecture errors from the start (Nepal, Bhutan).

We also supported the DPI regional ecosystem effort in coming up with better understanding and landscapes of the region’s challenges and opportunities by joining forces in peer review mechanism as well as capacity building efforts initiated by partners including ADB, Co-Develop, Gates Foundation, UNDP, the World Bank, and many more.