Share this post on Social Media: At GovTech 4 Impact World Congress, leaders from government, international organizations, and digital identity programs around the world explored a question that is becoming increasingly urgent: how do we build digital identity systems that citizens trust, understand, and actually want to use? For years, digital identity has been discussed largely through the […]
Share this post on Social Media: A Main Stage panel argued that modernising government means redesigning operating models, evidence pathways, and institutional habits, not just replacing the software underneath. The title of the session promised a conversation about legacy systems. What the panel actually delivered was a quiet redefinition of the word “legacy” itself. The real legacy holding governments back, the […]
Share this post on Social Media: Trust was the most repeated word in Madrid. Here’s what the Congress actually had to say about it. Say a word often enough at a conference and it starts to lose meaning. “Trust” was in danger of that fate at G4I 2026 – invoked in nearly every session, on nearly every panel, until it […]
Share this post on Social Media: The architect behind India’s Aadhaar argued that digital public infrastructure is not a fixed menu of identity and payments, it is a way of thinking, and copying it blindly is the surest way to fail. Pramod Varma, Co-Founder and Chief Architect, Networks for Humanity; Co-Creator, FINTERNET and BECKN; Co-Chair, CDPI […]
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 […]