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 […]
Share this post on Social Media: May 7th, Madrid, Spain — At the Govtech 4 Impact World Congress 2026 the first Mayors` Leadership Forum took place where governmental leaders from across Europe and the United States joined forces to define the moonshot for GovTech: starting with citizens in the center, a coordinated, market-shaping approach that […]
Share this post on Social Media: This article was written by Agustín Pino, Junior Project Associate at Gobe Studio Platformed by the G4I World Congress, this year’s inaugural GovTech4All Awards were created to celebrate and reward projects developed between European public administrations and startups or digital SMEs that demonstrate the power of the GovTech revolution to tackle some of […]
Share this post on Social Media: Jonas Onland is Chief Vision Officer at Serendipity Tech and a member of the G4I 2026 Expert Committee — a role he stepped into after speaking at last year’s Congress. A recognised voice in the GovTech ecosystem, Jonas works at the intersection of digital transformation, public-private collaboration, and innovation strategy. […]
Share this post on Social Media: Author’s Note:This article was prepared in collaboration with the Govtech 4 Impact World Congress 2026 as part of its official content agenda. Authors:Hernán M. Perin — Director General of GovTech, CorLab — Secretariat of Smart City and Digital Transformation, Municipality of Córdoba.Marcela Nicolaides — Director of Knowledge Economy, CorLab […]