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Despite recognition of its importance, reliable methods for inclusive digital public infrastructure resistant to both outages and capture are still lacking. Progress is hindered by incomplete mechanistic knowledge, high capital and operational barriers, and the absence of deployment models suited to the contexts of greatest need.

Current approaches to systems ensuring the reliability and security of digital infrastructure under climate extremes either underperform under variable field conditions or generate externalities that undermine long-term sustainability and equity. Closing the gap requires coordinated advances in science, systems design and enabling institutions.

Current approaches to real-time digital twins of entire river basins for adaptive management either underperform under variable field conditions or generate externalities that undermine long-term sustainability and equity. Closing the gap requires coordinated advances in science, systems design and enabling institutions.

Secure identity, transaction authorization, audit trails, public verification, and dispute mechanisms for land registries targeted by organized fraud.

Develop low-burden reporting, threat-sharing, insurance, legal, and recovery systems so small firms disclose attacks without fear of ruinous consequences.

Develop systems that preserve chain of custody, privacy, authenticity, and access in jurisdictions with uneven digital capacity and public trust.

Create verification, dependency management, secure update, open-source support, and contracting standards for software bought by public institutions.

Create accessible cybersecurity, segmentation, monitoring, emergency operations, and workforce tools for water utilities with aging operational technology.

Create affordable security monitoring, backup, staff training, and recovery systems for hospitals without dedicated cybersecurity teams.

Develop monitoring approaches that work despite persistent cloud cover, fragmented enforcement, local economic dependence, and rapidly changing extraction routes.

Develop fair insurance, road safety, earnings stability, algorithmic transparency, and worker representation for app-mediated delivery riders.

Create voting systems that are independently usable, secure, private, and accessible across physical, sensory, cognitive, language, and digital barriers.

Develop audit methods, legal standards, and consumer remedies when data-driven pricing disadvantages people due to proxies for race, disability, gender, or poverty.

Develop interoperable standards, open contracting, data portability, and technical capacity so public agencies retain control over essential digital systems.

Create secure, accessible, dispute-aware processes for converting paper and customary land claims into digital records without enabling elite capture.

Develop rights-preserving identity systems for displaced people, informal workers, and marginalized groups without creating surveillance, exclusion, or vendor lock-in.

Build cross-platform methods that identify influence operations moving among local apps, messaging networks, social media, and video platforms.

Create enforceable design standards that prevent manipulative engagement, data extraction, profiling, and advertising in products marketed to children.

Develop independent methods to measure when ranking algorithms intensify ethnic, religious, electoral, or communal tension in specific regional contexts.

Build datasets, models, human networks, and distribution interventions for misinformation in languages poorly represented in major technology platforms.