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#digicoop1B: We recommend that a broad, multi-stakeholder alliance, involving the UN, create a platform for sharing digital public goods, engaging talent and pooling data sets, in a manner that respects privacy, in areas related to attaining the Sustainable Development Goals.

A recommendation on an inclusive digital economy and society, affecting the digital landscape and its support for human journeys.

Source: The Age of Digital Interdependence, Report of the UN Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation, June 2019, url (Available in English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese and Russian) (Twitter: @UNSGdigicoop)

Relevant initiatives

• The Digital Public Goods Alliance is a multi-stakeholder initiative to accelerate the attainment of the sustainable development goals in low- and middle-income countries by facilitating the discovery, development, use of, and investment in digital public goods.
• For the languages at Language we provide a link to Digital Public Goods for foundational literacy and early grade reading that are part of a first vetted list (Announcing the First Vetted Digital Public Goods for Foundational Literacy and Early Grade Reading by Lucy Harris, July 20, 2020).
• A digital library for all major languages of the world is an important part of the platform for sharing digital public goods, alongside digital creative works in those languages.