What is OpenG2P?
OpenG2P enables governments and humanitarian organisations to deliver critical social benefits directly to those who need them. OpenG2P is envisioned to contribute to an open and inclusive approach to benefit transfers, while ensuring privacy, gender equality, and financial inclusion, aiming to leverage digital technology for government-to-person service delivery.
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OpenG2P offers open-source building blocks for governments to digitise and automate social benefit delivery processes, from registration to benefit delivery and monitoring. It supports secure, inclusive registries, efficient program management, and digital cash transfers, serving as a key component of Digital Public Infrastructure. OpenG2P is recognised as a Digital Public Good by DPGA.
OpenG2P Offers:
• Open-Source, Interoperable Ready-to-deploy Software Building Blocks
• Support for Country Adoption
• Capacity Building
The not-for-profit Digital Public Good is currently housed in the International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore (IIIT-B), a premier university for IT education and innovation. The project primarily promotes product development and dissemination at scale.
OpenG2P supports multiple SDGs, helping countries achieve SDG Target 1.3 by providing inclusive and efficient cash transfers. This contributes to poverty alleviation (SDG1), food security (SDG2), health (SDG3), education (SDG4), gender equality (SDG5), and sustainable livelihoods (SDG8).
OpenG2P was brought to life with support from volunteers with a desire to contribute to an open and inclusive approach to benefit transfers, ensuring privacy, achieving gender equality, and financial inclusion. Jeremi Joslin and the OpenSPP team made significant code contributions that were adopted in version 1.1.0 of OpenG2P (released in August 2023).
Guiding Principles
OpenG2P is built on a bedrock of good practices and principles, that will continue to drive our journey towards empowering populations around the world through technology.
Interoperable versatile, modular technology
Transparent open-source, vendor neutral, and open to community contributions and feedback
Inclusive human-centric design that leaves no one behind
Sustainable cost- and time-efficient, and cognisant of existing ecosystems
OpenG2P: A building block for DPI
The concept of Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI), facilitated by Digital Public Goods (DPGs), is swiftly gaining prominence. Among these DPGs, OpenG2P addresses the crucial requirement for digitising and automating essential processes related to the distribution of social benefits, forming a key pillar in the DPI framework. OpenG2P interfaces seamlessly with other DPGs in an interoperable manner to fully unlock the potential advantages of DPI for a country.
OpenG2P is formally recognised as a DPG by the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA).
