Principles for digital development cooperation

The Principles for Digital Development Cooperation (also: Principles for Digital Development) are nine guidelines that are intended to help use digital technologies in development cooperation projects more efficiently, effectively and sustainably. The international principles were developed in 2014 and are based on earlier approaches such as UNICEF's innovation principles . Based on empirical knowledge, the principles are intended to minimize essential risks when using digital technologies, as described in the technology assessment.

The nine principles are:

1. Design with the user
2. Understand the existing ecosystem
3. Design for scale
4. Pay attention to sustainability from the start (Build for sustainability)
5. Be data driven
6. Use open standards , open data , open source software and open innovation (use open standards, open data, open source, and open innovation)
7. Reuse and improve things
8. Observe data protection and (data) security (Address privacy and security)
9. Be collaborative

Since 2017, there has been a community of practice on the principles , in which practitioners exchange ideas on how the guidelines can be used to better shape the use of digital technologies in development cooperation projects .

Signatory

Numerous implementation organizations of development cooperation and donors of development aid, IT service providers and international organizations have signed the principles for digital development cooperation, including:

• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
• Digital Impact Alliance
• energypedia consult GmbH
• FHI 360
• Grameen Foundation
• German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ) GmbH
• International Rescue Committee
• Jhpiego
• ODK
• RTI International
• Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency
• UNICEF
• United Nations Development Program
• United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
• United States Agency for International Development
• World Health Organization
• World Bank group
• World Food Program
• World Vision International

Web links

• Principles for Digital Development (presentation of guidelines on the principles website)
• " Principles for digital development cooperation" (informal translation into German by Damian Paderta)

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1. ↑ Principles of digital development cooperation . April 8, 2016, accessed on March 16, 2019 (German). 
2. ↑ gut.org non-profit corporation - Betterplace Lab (Ed.): Trend Radar 2030 - A look into the future of digital technologies and how they can make our world better . 2017, p. 35 ( trendradar.org [PDF]).
3. ↑ ^{a b} Principles for Digital Development . Accessed January 31, 2018.
4. ↑ About | Principles for Digital Development. Retrieved March 16, 2019 . 
5. ↑ ^{a b} Principles for Innovation and Technology in Development | Innovation . Accessed January 31, 2018.
6. ↑ Damian Paderta: Principles of digital development cooperation . Retrieved March 16, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Allana Nelson: DIAL as steward for the Principles for Digital Development. In: DIAL. September 12, 2017. Retrieved March 16, 2019 (American English). 
8. ↑ Community | Principles for Digital Development. Retrieved March 16, 2019 . 
9. ↑ Endorsers | Principles for Digital Development . Accessed January 31, 2018.
10. ↑ giz: Digital Principles for Sustainable Development signed ( en )
11. ↑ Open Data Kit . Accessed January 31, 2018.
12. ↑ Why the World Bank endorses the Principles for Digital Development | Information and Communications for Development . Accessed January 31, 2018.