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The Principles for Digital Development are a set of nine guidelines that were established to promote effective practices in technology-enabled programmes for international development and cooperation.[1] A community of practice around the principles provides a focal point for development practitioners, supporting the sharing knowledge and peer learning.

The Principles go back to the UNICEF Innovations Principles (2009–2010).[2] A "Principles for Digital Development Working Group" was launched in 2014, followed by an endorsement campaign in 2015.[3]

The Principles for Digital Development website states that the Principles are:

  1. Design with the user
  2. Understand the existing ecosystem
  3. Design for scale
  4. Build for sustainability
  5. Be data driven
  6. use open standards, open data, open source, and open innovation
  7. Reuse and improve
  8. Address privacy and security
  9. Be collaborative[1]

Endorsers

The Principles for Digital Development are endorsed by a large number of organisations,[4] including:

Within the following organisations, the Principles appear in high profile publications:

References

  1. ^ a b "Principles for Digital Development". digitalprinciples.org. Retrieved 2018-01-31.
  2. ^ a b "Principles for Innovation and Technology in Development | Innovation". UNICEF. Retrieved 2018-01-31.
  3. ^ See https://digitalprinciples.org/about for an overview of the history of the Principles.
  4. ^ "Endorsers | Principles for Digital Development". digitalprinciples.org. Retrieved 2018-01-31.
  5. ^ https://digitalimpactalliance.org/, hosted at the United Nations Foundation
  6. ^ "Open Data Kit". opendatakit.org. Retrieved 2018-01-31.
  7. ^ "Why the World Bank endorses the Principles for Digital Development | Information and Communications for Development". blogs.worldbank.org. Retrieved 2018-01-31.
  8. ^ "Putting digital principles into practice in our aid programmes - DFID bloggers". dfid.blog.gov.uk. Retrieved 2018-01-31.
  9. ^ "How DFID Does Development in a Principled Way". ICTworks. Retrieved 2018-01-31.
  10. ^ DFID Digital Strategy 2018 to 2020: Doing Development in a Digital World, https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dfid-digital-strategy-2018-to-2020-doing-development-in-a-digital-world
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