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The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) is launching a project based on what’s known as “digital public infrastructure,” aka, DPI. And the overarching justification/explanation of these activities is reaching the UN’s sustainable development goals (SDGs).

What UNDP is supposed to be doing is pretty clear from its name, but what DPI itself is, is a buzzword used in somewhat interesting/alarming concord by organizations such as the UN, but also the European Union (EU), the Gates Foundation, and of course, the World Economic Forum (WEF) is never quite out of any such picture.

November 8 is the date when the UNDP is implementing its “50in5” program, described as advancing “the conversation around the development of safe, inclusive and interoperable digital public infrastructure (DPI).”

If you’re a citizen of a UN member-state, and your government (i.e., taxpayers) are contributing to various UN efforts and, you feel either uneasy, or just insufficiently informed about all this (it could also be that any association with the Gates Foundation gives you proper Halloween-style goosebumps) – well, too bad. They’re going ahead anyway.

50 countries are designated as “guinea pigs” of sorts here, where the DPI in question will receive a concerned push from said entities.

These countries are what you might unfortunately easily assume they would be – those in Africa (sub-Saharan, particularly) and also, for some reason, still, India.