UNDP and India team up for digital public infrastructure guidance to spur SDG catch-up

The Sustainable Development Goals set by the United Nations remain a long way from being realized, more than half-way to the 2030 goal. To speed up the progress, the government of India and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) have published a pair of documents as resources for government agencies and officials to help them harness the power of digital public infrastructure (DPI).

Encouraging global adoption of DPI has been a major theme of India’s G20 Presidency, of which the country’s …

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