The concept of digital public goods (DPGs) is new, particularly in the Sub-Saharan Africa region, and they possess three fundamental characteristics: they are non-rivalrous, non-excludable, and it is widely accepted that digital public goods would be globally available. These properties allow DPGs to counteract limited access to information technologies. We note that limiting the supply of digital public goods would widen the global digital divide and reduce the immense benefits that an efficient supply of digital public goods would provide1