# Digital Public Utility **Domain:** Digital Afterlife / Utility / Digital Government **Doc Type:** Canonical Concept **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Corpus synthesis grounded in utility and DPI doctrine ## Definition A **Digital Public Utility** is a digital service whose indispensability, market structure, or public function justifies obligations resembling traditional utility duties such as continuity of service, nondiscrimination, affordability, oversight, and last-resort provision. ## Continuity Significance It is the institutional form through which continuity could eventually become a regulated service rather than a discretionary platform product. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence Broadband, telecommunications, identity, payments, and other digital services show partial utility characteristics in different jurisdictions. ## Evidentiary Boundary / Red-Team Note There is no general public utility for computational afterlife services today. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Continuity Utility|Continuity Utility]] · [[wiki/Universal Digital Service|Universal Digital Service]] · [[wiki/Digital Public Infrastructure|Digital Public Infrastructure]] · [[wiki/Continuity as Public Utility|Continuity as Public Utility]]