https://opendigitalecosystems.net/An independent magazine on digital public infrastructure and the open digital economyhttps://opendigitalecosystems.net/case-studies/digital-land-registries-open-property-data/https://opendigitalecosystems.net/case-studies/digital-land-registries-open-property-data/2026-10-24A dated comparison of three digital property registries and their open price data: Estonia's e-land register and transaction database, the Dubai Land Department's open data and Dubai REST, and HM Land Registry's Price Paid Data under the Open Government Licence, with how valuation models use them and the safeguards that apply.https://opendigitalecosystems.net/blogs/measuring-dpi-impact/https://opendigitalecosystems.net/blogs/measuring-dpi-impact/2026-10-20How to measure whether digital public infrastructure works: why adoption numbers are not outcomes, what the IMF, BIS and field experiments in India found, and a practical set of indicators covering reliability, inclusion, cost, market structure and trust.https://opendigitalecosystems.net/blogs/open-source-vs-proprietary-govtech/https://opendigitalecosystems.net/blogs/open-source-vs-proprietary-govtech/2026-10-16A balanced analysis of open-source and proprietary software in government technology: what the evidence and policies say (EU, France, Italy, UK, US, Germany), real costs, security, lock-in and skills, and a decision framework for public infrastructure.https://opendigitalecosystems.net/blogs/dpi-governance-and-safeguards/https://opendigitalecosystems.net/blogs/dpi-governance-and-safeguards/2026-10-14An analysis of how digital public infrastructure is governed: the main operator models (agency, statutory authority, not-for-profit, central bank, intergovernmental), the accountability mechanisms that matter, and the UN-led Universal DPI Safeguards Framework and 50-in-5 campaign.https://opendigitalecosystems.net/data-exchange-layers/https://opendigitalecosystems.net/data-exchange-layers/2026-10-12The third pillar of digital public infrastructure compared: law-based exchange between registers (X-Road, the EU Once-Only Technical System), consent-based personal data sharing (India's Account Aggregators, Singapore's Myinfo, open banking) and sector data spaces under EU law.https://opendigitalecosystems.net/digital-id-privacy-safeguards/https://opendigitalecosystems.net/digital-id-privacy-safeguards/2026-10-09A guide to privacy safeguards for national digital identity systems: data minimisation, sector-specific identifiers, tokenisation, selective disclosure, access logs, biometric data handling and legal protections, with examples from India, Austria, Kenya, Jamaica and the EU wallet.https://opendigitalecosystems.net/interoperability-and-open-standards/https://opendigitalecosystems.net/interoperability-and-open-standards/2026-10-07What interoperability means at its four levels (legal, organisational, semantic, technical), what makes a standard 'open', the standards that matter for identity, payments, health and data exchange, and what the EU's Interoperable Europe Act requires.https://opendigitalecosystems.net/blogs/reimagining-indias-healthcare/https://opendigitalecosystems.net/blogs/reimagining-indias-healthcare/2026-10-05An analysis of the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM), launched in September 2021: health accounts, registries, consent-based health information exchange and the Unified Health Interface, and the open questions on consent, standards adoption and data protection.https://opendigitalecosystems.net/blogs/creating-good-digital-public-infrastructure/https://opendigitalecosystems.net/blogs/creating-good-digital-public-infrastructure/2026-10-01Digital public infrastructure is now a global policy priority, from the G20 to the UN's 50-in-5 campaign. An analysis of five tests that separate good DPI from systems that are merely large: purpose, reach, rights, markets and resilience.https://opendigitalecosystems.net/case-studies/upi-and-instant-payments/https://opendigitalecosystems.net/case-studies/upi-and-instant-payments/2026-09-29How India's Unified Payments Interface works, why it grew so quickly, how it compares with Brazil's Pix and the EU's instant payments regulation, and the open questions on market concentration, fees, fraud and cross-border links.https://opendigitalecosystems.net/case-studies/gstn/https://opendigitalecosystems.net/case-studies/gstn/2026-09-25A case study of the Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN), the company created in 2013 to run the IT system behind India's GST: its ownership, its open API model for third-party providers, e-invoicing, and the lessons on governance and reliability.https://opendigitalecosystems.net/case-studies/mosip/https://opendigitalecosystems.net/case-studies/mosip/2026-09-22A case study of MOSIP, the Modular Open Source Identity Platform started at IIIT-Bangalore in 2018: its modular architecture, vendor-neutral biometrics, licence, adoption in countries such as the Philippines, Ethiopia and Morocco, and the governance questions it leaves to each state.https://opendigitalecosystems.net/case-studies/singapore/https://opendigitalecosystems.net/case-studies/singapore/2026-09-18A case study of Singapore's national digital identity (Singpass, since 2003), the consent-based Myinfo data service (2016), the PayNow instant payments overlay and its cross-border links, and the lessons and limits for other countries.https://opendigitalecosystems.net/case-studies/estonia-x-road/https://opendigitalecosystems.net/case-studies/estonia-x-road/2026-09-15A case study of X-Road, the data exchange layer Estonia launched in 2001: how it works, why it is federated rather than centralised, how it became open source and cross-border with Finland, and what other countries can and cannot copy.https://opendigitalecosystems.net/toolkit.htmlhttps://opendigitalecosystems.net/toolkit.html2026-09-12A practical checklist for teams planning a digital identity, payments, data exchange or sector platform: purpose, legal basis, architecture, data protection, inclusion, procurement, operations and measurement, with links to open resources.https://opendigitalecosystems.net/principles.htmlhttps://opendigitalecosystems.net/principles.html2026-09-10A practical reading of the design principles behind digital public infrastructure and open digital ecosystems: minimal cores, open interfaces, federated data, privacy by design, inclusion, accountability and more, with what each looks like in practice.https://opendigitalecosystems.net/what-are-open-digital-ecosystems/https://opendigitalecosystems.net/what-are-open-digital-ecosystems/2026-09-08Where the term 'open digital ecosystem' comes from, how it relates to digital public infrastructure (DPI), what the three layers of platform, community and governance mean, and the questions worth asking about any such system.