The 50-in-5 Awards: Celebrating DPI Leadership, Collaboration, and Impact
The 50-in-5 Awards celebrate countries and individuals demonstrating advancing safe, inclusive, and interoperable DPI. The awards highlight digital cooperation, the positive change driven by digital public infrastructure, and the individuals making a difference — showcasing lessons learned and best practices for other countries globally.
Coordinated by the Digital Public Goods Alliance Secretariat in partnership with Co-Develop
About the 50-in-5 Awards
As 50-in-5 enters its third year, the global conversation has moved from why DPI matters to how it is being scaled – and the real-world impact that is having on people's lives and the economies it is helping to strengthen. The 50-in-5 Awards aim to highlight best practices, inspire learning, and recognize achievements that accelerate and improve safe, inclusive, and interoperable DPI adoption worldwide.
Award Categories
Award recipients will be invited to join digital transformation leaders and speak at the 2026 50-in-5 Milestone Event at The 81st session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA 81), and will be featured across global communications assets, including videos, highlighting their progress in digital public infrastructure. Travel support will be provided to enable participation.
Collaboration
This award recognises that collaboration can accelerate DPI implementation and improve outcomes. It will honour two or more countries that have worked together to implement, or improve a DPI deployment.
Impact
The Impact award recognises a country where digital public infrastructure is delivering meaningful improvements to people's lives. It celebrates tangible outcomes that show how DPI is driving real-world change — such as expanding access to essential services or reaching more people effectively.
Individual Contribution
The Individual Contribution award recognises an individual who embodies the spirit of 50-in-5. Behind every successful DPI initiative are people driving progress — sharing knowledge, and advocating for safe, inclusive, and interoperable systems.
When will the awards be celebrated?
Coordinated by the Digital Public Goods Alliance, the 50-in-5 Awards will be presented during the 50-in-5 Milestone Event at The 81st session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA 81) in New York, USA, on September 21.
Selection Panel
A distinguished panel of leaders from across the digital public infrastructure ecosystem will review nominations.
Sanjay Jain
Panel ChairDirector of Digital Public Infrastructure
Gates Foundation
Robert Opp
Chief Digital Officer and Global Director, Digital, AI and Innovation
UNDP
Fui Meng Liew
Chief of Digital Centre of Excellence
UNICEF
Sabine Mensah
Deputy CEO
AfricaNenda
Marika Popp
GovStack Project Lead for Estonia
GovStack
Daniel Abadie
Head of Technology & Partnerships
CDPI
Jonathan Marskell
Senior Digital Specialist, East Asia and Pacific
World Bank
Eligibility & Submission Guidelines
- Only countries formally participating within 50-in-5 can apply
- Any 50-in-5 country may submit one nomination per award category
- Peer nominations of other 50-in-5 countries are allowed (and encouraged!)
Key Dates
How to nominate?
Submit your nomination through the form.
Submit NominationAbout 50-in-5
50-in-5 is a country-led advocacy campaign for implementing digital public infrastructure, building a foundation for achieving the SDGs and an inclusive and dynamic digital economy.