Panel Session: Women Building Digital Public Infrastructure: From Vision to Delivery

As governments accelerate Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI), leadership, inclusion, and long-term sustainability are becoming critical to delivering services at scale. This panel explores practical lessons for designing and governing people-centred, inclusive DPI, while also reflecting on how initiatives such as the GovStack Women in GovTech Challenge could helping strengthen women’s leadership and participation in building resilient digital ecosystems. 

Moderator: 
Puja Raghavan, Advisor – GovStack, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Germany 

Panellists: 

- Mei Lin Fung, Co-Founder & Chair, People-Centered Internet, Singapore 
- Sharmista Appaya, Global Lead, AI Business Line, World Bank, United States 
- Dini Maghfirra, Director of Data for Development and Digital Government, Ministry of National Development Planning, Indonesia 

- Nicole Greene, Team Lead for Communications, National Information and Communication Technology Company Limited (iGovTT), Trinidad and Tobago 

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