that the term "digital public infrastructure" conflates two distinct meanings of "public": population-scale deployment versus public accountability and governance. A system may serve an entire population while remaining structurally unaccountable to those it affects. The G20 definition uses aspirational language ("should be," "can be") rather than verifiable structural conditions, leading scholars to argue that current definitions exclude nothing and therefore define nothing.

Privacy and surveillance

Digital public infrastructure

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