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STEM foundation of Digital Public Infrastructure
The science, technology, engineering and mathematics Digital Public Infrastructure rests on. Each method has a canonical page in the STEM Commons, hosted by the Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI), and a page here on how it is applied in this field.
STEM foundation of Digital Public Infrastructure in four parts.
The methods behind the field.
- 01Digital identity and public digital systemsAssurance design for services · Verifiable credentials · Exclusion error analysisSteward · Digital Public InfrastructureApplied here
- 02Data engineering, interoperability and stewardshipSecure data exchange layers · Common data models · Consent-based sharingSteward · Data and ComputeApplied here
- 03Cybersecurity and cryptographyThreat modelling DPI components · Protecting identity databasesSteward · Cybersecurity and Digital ResilienceApplied here
- 04Payment and financial market technologyFast payment system design · Fraud prevention for instant paymentsSteward · Payments and Market InfrastructureApplied here
- 05High-performance, cloud and edge computingCapacity planning for peaks · Multi-site and multi-provider hosting · Portability engineeringSteward · Data and ComputeApplied here
- 06Distributed ledgers and digital assetsFit-for-purpose assessment · Privacy and erasure constraintsSteward · Fintech NexusApplied here
Why DPI needs this combination of methods.
DPI work combines digital identity, data engineering and cybersecurity for the core systems, payments technology for transfers, computing for hosting and distributed ledgers where they are proposed. The mix reflects how DPI fails: through exclusion at enrolment, outages in hosting, attacks on credentials and errors in payment flows.
DPI work combines digital identity, data engineering, cybersecurity, payments technology, computing and distributed ledgers.
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