About Global Goods

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What are Global Goods?

Digital Square Global Goods are digital health tools which are open source (FOSS), have no barrier to access for services or available under open content licenses etc, are supported by an anchor organization/strong community, have a clear governance structures, have been deployed at scale, are used across multiple countries, have demonstrated effectiveness, are designed to be interoperable, and are on a continuum towards sustainability for the tool/service.

Full explanation of what Global Goods are and how Digital Square is involved

Presence of global goods in countries

Global Goods vs DPGs

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Types of Global Goods

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View our Active Global Goods here.


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Software

A mature digital health software global good is software that is Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), is supported by a strong community, has a clear governance structure, is funded by multiple sources, has been deployed at significant scale, is used across multiple countries, has demonstrated effectiveness, is designed to be interoperable, and is an emergent standard application.

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Services

A mature digital health service global good is service that is freely accessible (having no financial or other barrier to access), is supported by an anchor organization/strong community, have a clear governance structures, is utilized at scale, is used across multiple countries, has demonstrated effectiveness, is designed to be interoperable, and is an emergent standard service.

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Content

A mature digital health content global good is a content artifact that is freely accessible (having no financial or other barrier to access) and is published under an open license,  is supported by an anchor organization/strong community, serves a well bounded health domain, is utilized at scale, is used across multiple countries, has demonstrated effectiveness, and is seen as an emergent standard content artifact.

How to become a Global Good

High level overview of how to become a Global Good as well as the investment process…. The process will leverage the same peer and investment review committee processes of the Notice to ensure that there is expert input from the broader digital health domain to support the identification and approval of Global Goods.

Read more on how to become a global good here.

Shelf Readiness & Maturity Model

The term "shelf readiness" stems from the need to ensure that digital health global goods, particularly software, are ready to be deployed as stand-alone products which meet the primary data use needs of a tool. Shelf readiness aims to allow implementers and decision makers to have a higher level of confidence in the solutions as they would be well presented in their product information, ability to perform desired functions as well as interoperability workflows / metadata synchronizations and deployment aspects, to name a few areas.

Digital Square funds a maturity model baseline assessments and reassessments of global goods

Read more about Shelf Readiness.

Read more about our Maturity Model.