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GCRIDigital Public InfrastructureIn development
Country applications

Country applications

Country work of Digital Public Infrastructure, linked to national programmes and the national source register. Country pages show only work that a programme record supports.

Publisher
The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation
Field
Digital public infrastructure, Cyber and digital resilience
Status
In development
Service level
R0: information and enquiries

Workstream tracker

Country applications · Programme year 2

Two milestones at riskGCRI · Digital Public Infrastructure

Workstreams

owner · stage · status

Resilience and failover testDPI operatorReviewM2 · week 28On track
Grievance redress improvementDPI operatorBuildM5 · week 20Blocked
Inclusion and offline accessDPI operatorTestM4 · week 36On track
Consent manager roll-outData protection authorityBuildM4 · week 8At risk
Vendor concentration reviewData protection authorityTestM3 · week 31Blocked

Effort against plan

person-weeks

Resilience and…17 pw · req 21Grievance redress…45 pw · req 34Inclusion and…29 pw · req 23Consent manager…20 pw · req 40

Milestones

  1. W4M1Resilience and failover test: scoping note signed
  2. W14M2Inputs qualified at the gate
  3. W22M3Grievance redress improvement: build review
  4. W29M4Controlled test with observers
  5. W37M5Publication and decision record

Digital Public Infrastructure · Workstream trackerWorkstream tracker, in outline: domain structure with placeholder names and illustrative values, not a record.

01In brief

The short answer.

Digital Public Infrastructure country applications are the national parts of its work on digital public infrastructure, each linked to a national programme and the national source register. A country page shows only work that a programme record supports, and the national institutions own the question, the data and the decision.

02Canvas

Scoping to review.

Canvas · scoping to reviewDesign, not a record
Country applications: a programme through its gatesA request with a named owner becomes a scoping note; inputs are qualified at a gate; delivery runs in workstreams; a controlled test and an independent review precede publication; the owner decides. Design of the process, not a record of a run.

Fig.A programme from scoping to the owner's decision. Design, not a record.

03Geography

Connected activity in India.

For country applications, in GCRI's spatial-intelligence reading, the map opens on population density, night lights and true-colour imagery with place names and borders from NASA GIBS, framed on India; every other NASA layer, live feed and forecast waits in the layer list.

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Layers 3

Connected activity, for this page

Latest available

NASA GIBS / EOSDIS · ASTER GDEM (METI, NASA) · Blue Marble (NASA) · © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · Natural Earth

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For country applications, in GCRI's spatial-intelligence reading, the map opens on population density, night lights and true-colour imagery with place names and borders from NASA GIBS, framed on India; every other NASA layer, live feed and forecast waits in the layer list.Satellite and model products as NASA publishes them, each with its own date; indicators, not assessments of any place; claim ceiling INTEGRATED.

Data: NASA GIBS · ASTER GDEM · Blue Marble · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Natural Earth · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Copernicus Sentinel-2 L2ASources and licences

  • We acknowledge the use of imagery provided by services from NASA's Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), part of NASA's Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS). Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • We acknowledge the use of imagery provided by services from NASA's Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), part of NASA's Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS). Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University. 2018. Gridded Population of the World, Version 4 (GPWv4): Population Density, Revision 11. NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC). Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). CC BY 4.0
  • VIIRS Black Marble night-time lights, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; distributed by the NASA Level-1 and Atmosphere Archive and Distribution System (LAADS DAAC); imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • VIIRS near-real-time products (flood, land surface temperature, snow cover, corrected reflectance), NASA LANCE; imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • MODIS land products (vegetation indices, gross primary production, land cover), NASA LP DAAC and LANCE; imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • ASTER GDEM is a product of METI and NASA (ASTER Global Digital Elevation Model V003, NASA LP DAAC); imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • Made with Natural Earth. Free vector and raster map data @ naturalearthdata.com. Public domain
  • © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), via NASA GIBS (coastlines, boundaries, roads and place names). Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). ODbL
  • Blue Marble, NASA Earth Observatory; imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • Context on the globe and flat map: coastlines, boundaries, roads and place names from NASA GIBS reference layers (OpenStreetMap data, ODbL, © OpenStreetMap contributors); Blue Marble imagery as an optional base; 3D terrain and the elevation read-out from the ASTER GDEM elevation colour index (5 m to 200 m classes, exaggerated for legibility). Boundaries are drawn as published and imply no position on any territory.
  • Globe: MapLibre GL JS 6.9.1, BSD-3-Clause, © MapLibre contributors.
  • Context: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), via NASA GIBS. © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), rendered by NASA GIBS.
  • Observed (EO): Copernicus Sentinel-2 L2A (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026), Microsoft Planetary Computer
  • Optional layers (35 sources in the layer list: live, forecast, observed and context) print their provider credit on the map and here when switched on; forecasts are model output and derived indices are estimates.

Layers and dates

  • Population density, 2020: Population: CIESIN, Columbia University, Gridded Population of the World v4.11 (2018), NASA SEDAC, CC BY 4.0 · static
  • Night-time lights, daily: VIIRS Black Marble (VNP46A2), NASA LAADS DAAC · 12 Oct 2026
  • True colour: VIIRS NOAA-20 corrected reflectance, NASA LANCE · 13 Oct 2026
  • Land cover type (IGBP), yearly: MODIS Terra and Aqua land cover (MCD12Q1), NASA LP DAAC · 2024
  • Enhanced vegetation index, rolling 8 days: MODIS Terra EVI, NASA LANCE · 13 Oct 2026
  • Vegetation greenness (NDVI), rolling 8 days: MODIS Terra NDVI, NASA LANCE · 13 Oct 2026

04Scope

Country applications in Digital Public Infrastructure.

  1. 01

    Identity and authentication

    Identity infrastructure, exclusion and consent.

  2. 02

    Digital payments and services

    Digital service interfaces and dependencies.

  3. 03

    Interoperability and apis

    Standards, exchange and reliability.

  4. 04

    Data spaces and rights

    Sovereign and personal data governance.

  5. 05

    Digital inclusion

    Coverage, access, affordability and literacy.

  6. 06

    Public cloud and concentration

    Vendor dependency and continuity.

05National instruments

The national decisions DPI evidence is prepared for.

InstrumentUsually held byEvidence it needs
Identity system law and designIdentity agenciesInclusion and security evidence
Fast payment systemsCentral banksResilience and fraud data
Data exchange frameworksDigital agenciesRights and use
06Status

Work is shown as its record stands.

Programmes are listed as exploring, forming, constituted, active, paused or archived. Country and regional entries appear when a programme record supports them.

07Key terms

Terms used on this page.

Each term as this page uses it. Where a standard-setting body defines the term, the wording follows that body.

TermDefinition
Country ownershipThe principle that a country leads its own development policies and strategies and coordinates the actions that support them, set out in the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness.
National portfolioThe set of programmes, projects and evidence a country maintains in the Nexus network, each with its owner, status and records.
Country systemsA government's own budget, procurement, financial management and reporting systems, used by donors when they deliver through them.
InteroperabilityThe ability of health information systems to exchange data and use it with the same meaning, using standards such as HL7 FHIR.
09Questions

Questions and answers.

How do I propose work at this level?
Write to contact@therisk.global or a regional desk. A proposal receives a reference.
Digital Public Infrastructure

Bring your expertise to this field.

The current service level is R0: information and enquiries. An enquiry receives a reference and names the next step; applications, payments, compute allocations and registrations open only when their team, terms and review capacity exist.