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The second half is the one page a Progressa team writes to fix the scope of its own assessment. ## What this step produces Before anyone asks a question, the team agrees what it will look at. The result is one page. It names the five domains, says which public question each domain answers, and says who in the country answers for each domain. Every later step uses the same five domains in the same order and with the same codes, so that a finding (step 5), a gap (step 6), a roadmap component (step 7) and a budget line (step 8) can each be traced back to one domain. ## The frame, for any country PAERA calls the whole a digital governance infrastructure. It has a foundation of governance, policy and legal components, and four pillars that stand on it: Access, Digital Data, Interoperability and Digital Identity. Sector services, such as registering a learner or paying a scholarship, stand on the pillars. The team reads the foundation as a fifth domain that cuts across the other four, because a pillar without a law, a budget and a body that decides is not yet infrastructure. That reading is the team's own; the five names are PAERA's. ``` Sector services (for example: learner registration, scholarship payment) ┌──────────────┬──────────────┬──────────────────┬──────────────────┐ │ Access │ Digital Data │ Interoperability │ Digital Identity │ │ ACC │ DAT │ INT │ IDN │ └──────────────┴──────────────┴──────────────────┴──────────────────┘ ═════ Foundation: governance and policy, with the legal framework (GOV) ═════ ``` | Domain | Code | Where PAERA describes it | The question of PAERA section 5.3 it answers | Sub-components scored in step 5 | | ----------------------------------------------- | ---- | --------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Governance and policy, with the legal framework | GOV | 3.3.1 (the foundation); 3.1 | Questions 1 to 4: principles and policies, the governance framework, the legal framework, human rights and the development goals in law | G1 leadership and coordination · G2 strategy and policy · G3 legal framework · G4 funding and budgeting · G5 rights and safeguards | | Access | ACC | 3.3.1; 3.4.1 | Question 5: the status of digital access infrastructure | A1 connectivity of schools and homes · A2 devices and channels · A3 digital skills of staff and parents · A4 assisted and offline service channels · A5 inclusion and accessibility | | Digital Data | DAT | 3.3.1; 3.4.2 | Question 6: the status of digital data management infrastructure | D1 data governance and policy · D2 state registers · D3 data quality and master data · D4 data sharing and reuse · D5 data protection in practice · D6 statistics and analysis | | Interoperability | INT | 3.3.1; 3.4.3 | Question 7: the status of interoperability infrastructure; and question 9, the building blocks available, shared with IDN | I1 the exchange platform · I2 membership of the exchange · I3 exchange standards · I4 the catalogue of services · I5 shared building blocks, including the payment rail | | Digital Identity | IDN | 3.3.1; 3.4.4 | Question 8: the status of digital identity infrastructure; and question 9, shared with INT | N1 identity coverage · N2 authentication services · N3 use of identity by services · N4 identity for children · N5 legal validity and e-signature | Each sub-component is scored in step 5 on the five stages of the UNDP Digital Development Compass (see E5). The sub-components are the team's own division of PAERA's domains; a country may add or merge sub-components, but it keeps the five domains and their codes. **What the frame leaves out on purpose.** The frame looks at national infrastructure that many services share. It does not assess one organisation's own maturity; that is a different object, which PAERA section 5.1 treats with its own scale. An education team that wants both runs them separately. ## Progressa's frame page (filled) **Scope.** The assessment covers the digital public infrastructure that Progressa's education services depend on, whoever owns it. It looks at the ministry of education's own systems only where other bodies or services rely on them. It runs in 2026, sponsored by the ministry of education, youth and skills (MoEYS) together with the Progressa Digital Government Authority (PDGA). **Setting, from the public record (illustrative).** Population 16.8 million, of whom 11.5 million are of school age (4 to 22). 8,200 schools in 24 districts. National identity issued since 2018, with 78 per cent of adults covered. Linkup, the national data exchange, running as a pilot since 2025, with the examination authority, the learner registry and the identity authority among its members. The Progressa Learner Registry (PLR) holds enrolment records for some learners and serves them over Linkup to the examination authority alone; no law names it the learner register, and primary schools keep learner records on paper. | Domain | Who answers for Progressa | What is in scope | Questionnaire used in step 3 | | ------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------- | | GOV | MoEYS planning directorate, with PDGA for the national rules | The education sector digital strategy, the education act, the data protection act, the budget for shared systems | Governance questionnaire | | ACC | MoEYS ICT unit, with district education offices | Connectivity of schools, the channels parents and schools use, assisted service | Access questionnaire | | DAT | MoEYS statistics unit, which runs PEMIS, with the Progressa National Examinations Authority (PNEA) | PEMIS, school records, teacher records, examination candidate records, and PLR, which is not yet the authoritative learner register | Digital Data questionnaire (E3 shows it) | | INT | PDGA, which operates Linkup, with the MoEYS ICT unit; PayPro for the payment rail | Linkup and its members, the exchanges between PEMIS, PNEA and schools, and the path by which a government programme would reach PayPro: through the payer bank of the Payments block, the block being the member of Linkup | Interoperability questionnaire | | IDN | Progressa National Identity Authority (PNIA), with the MoEYS ICT unit | The national identity register, PNIA's sign-in for people and its one service on Linkup, a read of a person by national number, identity for learners under the age of issue | Digital Identity questionnaire | **Out of scope.** The internal systems of universities and of private schools, which the assessment treats only as users of the shared infrastructure. Credentials issued by the Progressa Digital Credentials Authority (PDCA), which come later in Progressa's plans and are named in the roadmap (E7) only as a later horizon. **Handed on.** This page goes to step 2, which loads the five domain codes into the question bank, and to step 3, which sends one questionnaire to each body named in the second column. --- # Agent Instructions This documentation is published with GitBook. GitBook is the documentation platform designed so that both humans and AI agents can read, navigate, and reason over technical content effectively. Learn more at gitbook.com. ## Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation by asking a question. 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