# 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