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Bridging the Digital Divide: A Strategic Framework for Deploying Inclusive Digital Public Infrastructure in Emerging Economies
Abstract
Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI)—the interoperable stack of foundational digital rails for identity, payments, data exchange, consent, and trusted services—has emerged as a powerful lever for inclusive development. Yet deployment in emerging economies is uneven, and the digital divide persists along axes of income, gender, geography, language, age, and disability. This chapter proposes a strategic, end-to-end framework for designing, deploying, and governing inclusive DPI. Drawing on lessons from diverse contexts, it synthesizes policy, technical, institutional, and societal levers into a practical roadmap emphasizing inclusion-by-design, safety, accountability, and sustainability. The chapter provides conceptual foundations, a typology of divides, case mini-studies, actionable design principles, governance models, financing options, risk management, monitoring and evaluation (M&E) metrics, and an implementation playbook.
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