Over the last three months, Internet Society Kyrgyz Chapter conducted rapid assessment of the Digital Public Infrastructure in Kyrgyzstan. This research marks significant contribution to understanding of Kyrgyzstan’s DPI, its foundational blocks, digital public goods as well as understanding current realm of GovStack in the Kyrgyz Republic.
The concept of Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) is relatively new term coined during India’s G20 Presidency in 2023. The DPI refers to the digital systems and services that form the foundational layer upon which a society’s digital economy and public services operate.
The GovStack Initiative was founded by ITU, Estonia, Germany and the Digital Impact Alliance in 2020 aimed to support countries and organizations in building cost-effective and efficient digital public services that are easy to scale, so taht citizens can seamlessly access health records, manage identity documents and utilize other governmental services. The Initiative promotes the use of interoperable, generic and reusable “building blocks” to digitalize any services. To be considered a building block of GovStack, solutions must meet the technical requrements, which primarily focused on Open API, Rest API, and dockerization of modules.
Digital Public Goods refers to open-source software, open data, open AI models, open standards, and open content that adhere to privacy and other applicable laws and best practices, do no harm by design, and help attain the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
This table represents the comparison of three concepts by several criteria
The concepts of digital transformation are moderately new, but have powerful narratives. The best visual correlation had been illustrated by the Digital Public Goods Alliance
Based on the given concepts, the Internet Society Kyrgyz Chapter team conducted technical feasibility, legal due diligence and organizational tech capacity for the sectoral utilization of the such digital public goods as Tunduk data exchange layer, digital consent and credentials, digital payment solutions, etc in the educational as well as healthcare sectors of the Kyrgyz Republic.
Since the launch of Taza Koom Digital Transformation Strategy in 2017, adoption of National Sustainable Development Strategy 2018-2040 and creation of the “Tunduk” Agency, responsible for adoption and implementation of X-Road interoperability platform, Kyrgyzstan made tremendous progress, transformation, in delivering public goods to citizens and businesses. Nowadays, there’s mobile application also called Tunduk which provides such legit digital identities as driver’s license, birth certificate, national ID card and other. The app just like the web portal provides access to hundreds of governmental services that could be obtained in digital format.
Based on the research, using powerful business planning tool Wardley’s map, I’ve charted the value chain depicting current usage of the Tunduk interoperability platform as well as demonstrating further development of the foundational block in country.
The research insights will be presented to key stakeholders and provide practical guidance for development of GovStack, cross-sector utilization of foundational block of DPI to create more benefits to the Kyrgyz society.
Internet Society Kyrgyz Chapteris eager to share insights with decision makers, development partners, stakeholders, and academia. Please feel free to reach out to learn about upcoming research presentations and key takeaways. Contact email asoltobaev (at) isoc (dot) kg.
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