ASR's Open Drone Suite was added to the Digital Public Goods Alliance DPG Registry! The goal of the DPGA and it’s registry is to promote digital public goods in order to create a more equitable world. Being recognized as a DPG increases the visibility, support for, and prominence of open projects that have the potential to tackle global challenges. To become a digital public good, all projects are required to meet the DPG Standard to ensure that projects truly encapsulate open source principles.
The Open Drone Suite seeks to create re-usable aerial platforms for tackling challenges associated with food security including fighting desert locusts, monitoring crops and soil health, and development of heavy lift drones capable of lifting over 50kgs of supplies for humanitarian support.
For us, being recognized as a digital public good - defined as open source software, open data, open AI models, open standards and open content that adhere to privacy and other applicable laws and best practices, do no harm, and help attain the SDGs - means growing a network of users of our designs and aerial systems, growth of open data and input from peer reviews of the code and designs to be able to evolve a robust ecosystem capable of alleviating effects of climate change such as desert locusts, food shortages, and monitoring carbon emissions and sequestration especially for small holder farmers.
For any inquiries on The Open Drone Suite please reach out through our contacts page.
For more information on the Digital Public Goods Alliance please reach out to hello@digitalpublicgoods.net.
The Digital Public Goods Alliance is a multi-stakeholder initiative endorsed by the United Nations Secretary-General, working to accelerate the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals in low- and middle-income countries by facilitating the discovery, development, use of, and investment in digital public goods.
