# What is DPI? The term Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) is primarily used in two ways: 1. To describe *an approach* to addressing socio-economic problems at population scale. This approach combines open technology standards with robust governance frameworks to encourage private and community innovation to address societal scale challenges such as financial inclusion, affordable healthcare, quality education, climate change, access to justice and beyond. 2. To describe *real-world examples* of that approach represented by well-designed, population-scale infrastructure that abide by the [principles](/the-dpi-wiki/dpi-tech-architecture-principles.md) of the DPI approach. Examples include India's digital identity system *Aadhaar*, Brazil's payment system *Pix*, Estonia's data-sharing platform *X-Road*, Singapore’s national digital ID *SingPass*, Thailand’s instant payment system *PromptPay*, and Argentina’s *Mi Argentina* digital services platform. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.cdpi.dev/the-dpi-wiki/what-is-dpi.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.