> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://experience-digital-transform.gitbook.io/experience-digital-transformation/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://experience-digital-transform.gitbook.io/experience-digital-transformation/dpi-for-education/home.md). # DPI for Education

*How the UNESCO–UNICEF–ITU Charter for Public Digital Learning Platforms is being put into practice through shared Education DPI building blocks.* Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) is increasingly recognized as a foundational enabler of digital transformation across public sectors, including **Education**. Governments are moving beyond fragmented digital projects toward integrated, whole-of-government solutions that enable secure identity, trusted data exchange, interoperable registries, and scalable service delivery. In education, this shift is especially significant. Education systems must manage lifelong records, serve children and families, support student mobility, verify credentials for employment, and enable equitable access to services. These demands are driving the emergence of sector-specific ecosystems in education – built on shared national digital identity, interoperable education registries, analytics-enabled education management information systems, digital credential verification services, and publicly governed digital learning platforms. Within this ecosystem, public digital learning platforms are Education DPI in practice – the publicly governed infrastructure that puts identity, content, and data to work for learners and teachers directly, expanding access to educational resources and services alongside schools and in-person education. {% hint style="info" %} A few converging trends explain why this matters now: recovery from recent disruptions to learning, growing cross-border mobility of students and workers, rising demand for fast skills verification, and the expansion of AI-enabled education services that depend on high-quality, interoperable data. {% endhint %} ## From principles to infrastructure: implementing the *Charter* The [*Charter for Public Digital Learning Platforms*](/experience-digital-transformation/dpi-for-education/charter-for-public-digital-learning-platforms.md), developed jointly by UNESCO, UNICEF and ITU, sets out seven principles for how governments should establish, improve and sustain public digital learning platforms that treat education as a human right and a public good. The Charter defines what these platforms owe the public; the Building Blocks below show how to build them that way. Turning the Charter into practice requires more than policy commitment. It needs shared technical foundations, including interoperability, open standards, secure data exchange, digital identity and responsible data governance, so that platforms meet the Charter's commitments by design rather than as an afterthought. {% hint style="success" %} ### The Gateways to Public Digital Learning Initiative This work is carried out within the *Gateways to Public Digital Learning* Initiative, a joint effort of UNESCO, UNICEF and ITU that helps countries establish and improve national and subnational public digital learning platforms. The Initiative gives governments a shared international space to exchange knowledge on how these platforms are developed, funded, governed, owned and implemented, and what impact they have. [UNESCO](https://www.unesco.org/en/digital-education/learning-platforms-gateway) brings the educational vision, [UNICEF](https://www.unicef.org/digitaleducation/gateways-public-digital-learning) anchors the work in children's rights, and [ITU](https://www.itu.int/en/action/gateways-public-digital-learning/Pages/default.aspx) contributes the technical foundations. ITU's role builds on its school connectivity work through [Giga](https://giga.global/), extending from connecting schools to the digital building blocks that make that connection useful for learning. {% endhint %} ## Education DPI Building Blocks Each block sits at the education-sector level, alongside national registries and EMIS, and connects a learner's identity, content and record into a single system instead of a patchwork of disconnected platforms.


Learning Verifiable Credentials	A framework for issuing, holding and instantly verifying digital credentials - giving learners ownership of their achievements and letting institutions, employers and platforms verify them in seconds.	Learning Verifiable Credentials
Learning Content Repository	Making curriculum-aligned learning content discoverable, accessible and reusable through standard APIs - so teachers, learners and EdTech providers can find and reuse trusted content instead of duplicating it.	Learning Content
Education Data	A standards-based data layer connecting education registries, reference data and reconciliation services into one authoritative view - powering decisions, services and analytics for ministries, schools and system operators.	Education Data

### Background reading


	Building the Case for a Digital Public Infrastructure for Education ITU publication	The first framing of Education DPI, covering vision, components, benefits and case studies. Read the publication	Building the Case for a Digital Public Infrastructure for Education
	Technical Foundations for Education Digital Transformation Workshop report	Where the translation of the Charter into technical specifications began, with country experiences and an initial building-blocks architecture. Read the report	Technical Foundations for Education Digital Transformation

Building the Case for a Digital Public Infrastructure for Education
ITU publication

The first framing of Education DPI, covering vision, components, benefits and case studies.

Read the publication

Building the Case for a Digital Public Infrastructure for Education

Technical Foundations for Education Digital Transformation
Workshop report

Where the translation of the Charter into technical specifications began, with country experiences and an initial building-blocks architecture.

Read the report

Technical Foundations for Education Digital Transformation

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