UNDP Indonesia, India's eGov Foundation sign MoU to Tackle Medical Waste Management in Indonesia

UNDP Indonesia and India's eGov Foundation have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to address Indonesia's critical infectious medical waste management challenge. The collaboration intends to use the eGov Foundation's Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) - DIGIT - to implement a unified solution at a rapid and large scale. This historic collaboration between UNDP Indonesia and the eGov Foundation is the result of close collaboration and engagement with a diverse range of stakeholders who share a commitment to driving sustainable and efficient waste management practises in the country.

The collaborative effort aims to bring visibility and accountability to the end-to-end management of infectious medical waste across nearly 13,000 Indonesian health facilities. As part of the collaboration, Indonesia will use the eGov Foundation's open-source foundational system DIGIT Sanitation platform, which is specifically designed to accommodate contextualisation and component reuse across various waste streams and geographies. This platform approach enables Indonesia to accelerate and scale its digitalization efforts beyond infectious medical waste to include other waste streams such as faecal sludge, solid waste, and chemical waste.

The collaboration aims to accelerate the development of efficient and cost-effective applications by leveraging the existing digital building blocks of the technology stack. DIGIT is currently leveraged by six countries, including 16 national and sub-national governments, across four domains, with 100+ partners innovating on the platform, to serve 250 million citizens globally. The DIGIT platform is composed of a microservices-based architecture, which is conducive to scaling services flexibly and can enable massive deployments at the population scale.