Global DPI Insights Community: Webinar Series

Advancing DPI: Insights Dialogue, and Practice

The Global DPI Insights Community is led by the Center for Financial Inclusion, with the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth as the founding funder. It hosts a dynamic series of online and in-person events exploring key developments in DPI. These interactive sessions bring together a diverse range of stakeholders to exchange knowledge, share research insights, and engage in peer-driven discussions on timely topics shaping the sector. By blending expert perspectives with real-world experiences, the series fosters practical learning and contributes to the global conversation on DPI systems. Browse our full archive of Global DPI Insights Community webinars below.

DPI, Taxation, and the Case for Citizen-Centered Governance

Speakers: Dr. Daisy Ogembo, Research Fellow, International Centre for Tax and Development; Mary Abounabhan, Researcher, Institute of Development Studies; Ashley Olson Onyango, Head of Inclusive Digital Finance, GSMA

Topic: As aid cuts and debt crises mount, digital public infrastructure (DPI) is expanding rapidly across Africa. Yet, citizens are too often excluded from its design. This webinar examined taxation as a critical frontier of DPI, exploring who benefits and under what conditions it can advance fair and inclusive governance. Speakers discussed how DPI is reshaping tax systems in ways that may strengthen revenue collection and state capacity, while raising concerns about power concentration, accountability, and citizen protection. They emphasize the need for a citizen-centered approach.

Security and Trust: Lessons from Southeast Asia’s Real-Time Payments

Speakers: Dr. Kati Suominen, CEO, Nextrade Group

Topic: Real-time payments are rapidly emerging in Southeast Asia’s digital economy, promoting the growth of mobile commerce and becoming a dominant payment method for both consumers and small and medium-sized businesses. As of 2025, all Southeast Asian economies have implemented domestic RTP systems, while also supporting government regional payments connectivity initiatives, such as Project Nexus. This discussion drew on survey data to identify key trends in RTP adoption among Southeast Asian consumers and SMBs, surface ongoing challenges such as fraud and reliability concerns, and propose collaborative solutions for governments to strengthen RTP security, resilience, and sustainability.

Revisiting the DPI Definitional Space in a Fast-Evolving Landscape

Speakers: David Porteous, Founder of Integral: Governance Solutions; Pavle Avramović, Director of Research and Policy at Financial Innovation for Impact and Research Affiliate at the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance

Topic: As the DPI landscape matures, new pressures are mounting, including constrained funding, new implementation models, and blurred regulatory lines. In this context, without a clear, shared understanding of what DPI is — and isn’t — we risk “DPI washing” and fragmented policy.  The speakers explored how the DPI space is evolving, what is at stake in redefining DPI, and how revisiting the definitional space may shape the future of policy, funding, and practice.