# Digital Public Infrastructure **Domain:** Digital Afterlife / Public Infrastructure / Digital Government **Doc Type:** Canonical Concept **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Established policy and government-program concept ## Definition **Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI)** is shared, interoperable digital infrastructure—commonly identity, payments, data exchange, credentials, and related trust layers—used to enable public and private services at population scale. ## Continuity Significance DPI supplies the utility-like identity and transaction substrate that a future continuity registry or entitlement system would inherit. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence OECD, UNDP, G20, World Bank, national governments, and other bodies actively develop DPI frameworks emphasizing interoperability, inclusion, safeguards, sustainability, and public benefit. ## Evidentiary Boundary / Red-Team Note DPI does not currently imply a right to postmortem computational continuation. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Essential Digital Infrastructure|Essential Digital Infrastructure]] · [[wiki/Digital Public Utility|Digital Public Utility]] · [[wiki/Continuity Election Attestation|Continuity Election Attestation]] · [[wiki/ID-Based Digital Administration|ID-Based Digital Administration]] ## Sources / Provenance - https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/digital-public-infrastructure-for-digital-governments_ff525dc8-en.html ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > A village with almost no practical access to physicians can still gain medical guidance when someone has a smartphone and an AI doctor. AI does not replace a clinical system, but it can let countries leap over parts of the infrastructure they never had. > **— Adapted from Salim Ismail**, *Moonshots, October 7, 2026* [[reminders/AI Access/AI Medicine Can Leap Over Missing Clinical Infrastructure by Salim Ismail|AI Medicine Can Leap Over Missing Clinical Infrastructure by Salim Ismail]] > Countries that never built dense landline networks moved directly to mobile phones, and Kenya used mobile payments to route around older banking infrastructure. AI may enable the same kind of institutional leap: building twenty-first-century systems with the technology of the present instead of reproducing every legacy layer. > **— Adapted from Salim Ismail**, *Moonshots, October 7, 2026* [[reminders/Digital Government/New Technology Lets Countries Leapfrog Legacy Institutions by Salim Ismail|New Technology Lets Countries Leapfrog Legacy Institutions by Salim Ismail]]