India framed DPI as a tool for achieving development goals, a message echoed by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) report outlining DPI use cases for the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, launched as a G20 product. In mapping DPI in 210 countries and interviewing policymakers for case studies and academic research, we’ve identified five distinct objectives shaping the DPI agenda. If governments don’t clearly define what they want DPI to achieve, they risk wasting public resources, importing policy objectives by default, or failing to build the governance structures needed for success.