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
