Share this post on Social Media: A panel on sovereignty, cybersecurity, and geopolitical risk kept returning to a deceptively simple test: digital transformation only matters if it tangibly improves people’s lives. It would have been easy for a session titled “Fostering and Defending Digital Nations” to disappear into abstraction – sovereignty, cyber resilience, geopolitical risk, […]
Share this post on Social Media: Most governments debate digital sovereignty as though there were only two answers: own everything or surrender control. G4I 2026 offered a more useful way to think and a framework you can use. Ask a room of public officials whether their government has digital sovereignty and you will get an uncomfortable silence. Not because […]
Share this post on Social Media: A Madrid city council made the case that next-generation connectivity is no longer a telecoms upgrade: it is critical public infrastructure for emergencies, major events, and the moments when a city is under the most pressure. It is tempting to think of 5G as a faster way to stream video on a crowded street. The […]
Share this post on Social Media: Image Source: @igorlys/LinkedIn The GovTech 4 Impact World Congress is coming this May and promises to be a central stage for GovTech innovation. As the event draws near, we had the opportunity to interview one of the key speakers for this year’s congress – Igor Lys, the Founder of […]
Share this post on Social Media: As citizens increasingly reach public services through commercial AI assistants, the UK’s digital chief asked an unsettling question: who gets the credit, and who keeps the accountability? The most provocative idea in this Main Stage fireside chat was not about what AI can do for government. It was about […]
Share this post on Social Media: The best ideas in digital government are already built, tested, and working. They are just in someone else’s country. There is a peculiar kind of waste in the public sector. Somewhere in the world, a government has already solved the exact problem you are staring at: funded it, argued […]
Share this post on Social Media: A landmark study presented in Madrid argued that the reason 40% of public-sector AI projects fail is structural — and offered a function-based way to fix it. Manuel Kilian came to the Main Stage with a number designed to focus attention. Roughly nine in ten citizens and businesses say they would […]
Share this post on Social Media: Taiwan’s first Digital Minister made the case that democratic deliberation isn’t too slow for the AI era – it may be the only thing fast enough to keep up. The conventional wisdom about government and technology goes like this: democracies are too slow, too cautious, and too consensus-bound to keep pace […]
Share this post on Social Media: Every government has an AI strategy now. Far fewer have AI working. In Madrid, four practitioners explained why the gap is so wide and what it actually takes to close it. There is a peculiar moment in the life cycle of any new technology in government. The strategy is published. The press […]
Share this post on Social Media: What three days in Madrid revealed about the state of digital government and where it needs to go next. The third edition of the GovTech 4 Impact World Congress closed in Madrid on 7 May 2026, bringing together more than 1,000 registered participants from 57 countries across three days of keynotes, panel sessions, fireside chats, and […]