🎯DaaS in a nutshell

DPI as a packaged Solution (DaaS) refers to rapid deployment of DPI, through upgrades of existing infrastructure (instead of greenfield implementations) through non-procurement routes.

There are multiple operational modules for DaaS:

1. Benefit from Open Source Artefacts + Funded & Pre trained Service Provider: Countries can choose to join the funded DaaS program to receive pre-packaged offerings of their chosen product (digital public goods), and pre-trained service provider (trained by the digital public good owner) to support deployment, along with policy frameworks, program management kits, legal templates and costing models.

2. Benefit from only Open Source Artefacts: Countries can also choose to reuse any of the reusable implementation DaaS artefacts to rapidly upgrade their existing systems to DPI (for example, reusing an eSign module to add authentication on any ID) using an existing vendor, at their own cost and according to their own timelines.

3. Benefit from only Pre-trained Service Provider: Countries can also choose to deploy an offering from a private pre-existing vendor who has been trained under the DaaS program by the DPG owner

The reason DaaS stresses on non-procurement is to ensure rapid deployments of minimalist DPI blocks that can exponentially increase benefits to individuals and institutions in society - and procurements by governments, while necessary in some cases, tend to be a year or two long process and are not required for simple upgrades to existing systems.

DaaS differs from traditional pilots or POCs because the infrastructure is built for population-scale from day one using country resources and capacity, and can reach full coverage in a matter of months. This is supported by the fact that DaaS applies only to minimalist layers such as authentication on top of existing ID (and not ID enrolment itself - which even on a best-effort basis would take years to cover the whole population).

Regardless of whether countries choose to join the funded DaaS cohort or independently execute DPI blocks, it can be helpful to reuse some standardised DPI artefacts that can help expedite the process of execution, regardless of the DPI block chosen, the choice of vendor, or the scale of execution.

DaaS will fast track DPI adoption to any ‘hard to reach areas’, applicable beyond the globalisation effort.

•⁠ ⁠reusable for sub national/state level adoption within any large countries (such as state level registries)

•⁠ reusable wherever decentralised private adoption of a module is required (such as verifiable credentials)

A presentation on DaaS can be viewed here: