This is great news. Thank you for the update. On Thu, Jan 19, 2023, 3:06 AM Ed Cable <[email protected]> wrote:
> Community, > > In the most recent report of the Fineract PMC to the Apache Board, the PMC > announced that Fineract has been recognized as a Digital Public Good. > Myself, James Dailey and Steve Conrad are active participants in the > Digital Public Goods Alliance and help to represent and maintain Fineract's > standing as a DPG including participation in roundtables, giving feedback > to movements being led by the Digital Public Goods Alliance like the DPG > Charter, maintaining our DPG listing, and ensuring that the Fineract > codebase and community norms adhere to the DPG Standard - > https://digitalpublicgoods.net/standard/. We recently updated our > listing as additional clarification was sought as to how Fineract helps to > advance the UN SDGs 1, 16, and 17. The updated listed will be viewable in > DPG registry which will soon be live once again at > https://digitalpublicgoods.net/registry/. > > A major focus of Fineract's role as a DPG is ensuring representation and > participation in public sector adoption of DPGs as part of Digital Public > Infrastructure primarily around use cases like G2P (Government to Person) > payment and social protection programs. Members of the Fineract PMC have > been actively representing Fineract in cross-sectoral movements like the > Digital Public Goods Alliance, Digital Convergence Initiative, GovStack, > G2P Connect and OpenG2P. James and myself shed light on this broader > movement by facilitating a couple of talks during ApacheCon in New Orleans > including a discussion with Jake Watson from DIAL on GovStack and a talk > providing an update on OpenG2P. > > James, myself and Steve will continue to keep the community informed of > progress and participation in the Digital Public Goods space. > > Thanks, > > Ed >
