Making Digital Public Infrastructure Work: Trust, Interoperability, and Organizational Identity

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Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) is usually debated as a technology question. Pavle Avramovic treats it as a governance and coordination question.

In this episode of Trust Talks, GLEIF CEO Alexandre Kech speaks with Pavle Avramovic, Director of Research and Policy at Financial Innovation for Impact (Fii) and Research Affiliate at the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, about what makes DPI work once it leaves the design stage.

Drawing on cross-regulatory workshops in Ethiopia, Indonesia, and Uganda, and on his earlier work setting up the emerging technologies team at the UK Financial Conduct Authority, Pavle describes a gap he sees repeatedly: technical interoperability is already strong, institutional interoperability is not. Regulators with different vocabularies, systems, and mandates struggle to reach a shared view of the same entity.

He and Alexandre discuss where a standardized organizational identifier changes what regulators can coordinate on, why the governance model behind the Global LEI System is a useful reference point for other DPI programs, and why organizational identity cannot simply be copied from consumer identity design.

The one thing to remember: "DPI is not simply a technology conversation. It is a much bigger conversation that includes governance and regulation, and at the end of the day it includes people." Pavle Avramovic, Financial Innovation for Impact.

Read Alexandre Kech's related blog: The Missing Layer: How the Global LEI System is becoming a Global Digital Public Infrastructure for Business Identity

Listen now: https://linktr.ee/TrustTalks