Digital Progress Association — Shaping how technology serves society
Shaping how technology serves society.
An ecosystem platform closing the gap between technological change and public readiness — where individuals, communities, and organizations connect, learn, and act together so that technology serves human needs and the public interest.
Infrastructure for the public interest.
DPA operates as a platform connecting individuals, institutions, and the space between — locally grounded, globally connected.
How we work →Individuals & communities
“The tools don’t fit my life — they’re built in language I don’t speak, for needs I wasn’t asked about.”
If you are a resident, learner, worker, or community organizer, you deserve technology shaped with you — in your language, around the realities of your daily life, and answerable to the people it affects.
Institutions
“We’re asked to deploy technology faster than we can responsibly understand, govern, or staff it.”
If you lead a public agency, multilateral or international organization, civil society organization, hospital, school, or mission-driven institution, you carry responsibility for systems moving faster than they can be governed — and you need shared evidence, frameworks, and peers to act with confidence.
Ecosystem — the space between
“The right people aren’t in the same room, and no single actor can build the trust or infrastructure we all need.”
If you work in the connective tissue between communities and institutions — convening, translating, brokering trust — this is the coordination layer no single actor can build alone, and where DPA sits.
Locally grounded
Anchored in the communities where our partners operate, with co-production at the center.
Globally connected
Moving knowledge and relationships across borders — from local experience into global conversations.
Ecosystem-first
Coordinating across access, research, and governance so that work compounds rather than fragments.
Local roots · Global reach
Featured publication
Digital Righteousness: Artificial Intelligence & the Diaspora
By Byron A. Love, MBA, PgMP, PMP, CISSP
A landmark contribution to the global conversation on AI, equity, and the diaspora — examining how communities shape, and are shaped by, intelligent systems. Required reading for anyone working at the intersection of technology and the public interest.
Featured tools & repository
Open, practical, and built for everyone to use.
Working tools and shared resources — designed so communities, frontline staff, and institutions can put public-interest technology into practice today.
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Building for the public interest, from day one.
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