All posts tagged "govtech"

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  Solving the right problems: Five minutes with Wei Boon Goh, chief executive of Singapore’s Government Technology Agency

  In this sister series to our ‘Five minutes with’ interviews, we share insights from the civil and public service leaders who will speak at our Innovation 2025 conference. Taking place in

  • Posted March 5, 2025
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  Digital identity dilemmas – and how governments are working to overcome them

  If done right, digital credentials can provide the convenience and user experience citizens crave. At the Global Government Digital Summit, public service leaders shared their approaches to digital ID Citizens

  • Posted February 28, 2025
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  ‘An unparalleled opportunity’: experts discuss the potential for digital ID to unlock fintech in government

  Governments are keen to spur innovation in financial technology (fintech), both in terms of encouraging private sector investment  and themselves adopting fintech solutions to improve public policy delivery. Ian Hall

  • Posted September 16, 2022
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  Singapore launches GovCash service to replace 500,000 cheques

  A service that will allow 40,000 Singaporeans to directly receive payments from government without needing to cash cheques has been launched to make it easier and quicker for citizens to

  • Posted February 21, 2022
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  From response to recovery: public service leaders reveal their standout COVID-19 innovations

  From tracking apps to continent-wide collaboration, public and civil services around the world have responded to the coronavirus pandemic with a series of impressive new tools and approaches Faced with

  • Posted January 26, 2022
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  International GovTech maturity “lower than expected”, says World Bank

  Despite increasing investment across the world, GovTech maturity is “lower than expected” in most countries and digital citizen engagement lacking, research from the World Bank has found. While most governments

  • Posted September 22, 2021
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  Making artificial intelligence fit for a life inside government

  Move fast and break things; reward risk-taking; scale fast. These three credos have allowed technology companies to upend our everyday lives in the past two decades, while producing fortunes for

  • Posted July 16, 2021
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  A closer look at Singapore’s AI governance framework: insights for other governments

  As officials across the world work to establish AI ethics codes, Amit Roy Choudhury argues that Singapore’s system provides a model for others at a time when common global standards

  • Posted May 6, 2021
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  US president Joe Biden names pick to lead General Services Administration

  US president Joe Biden has chosen digital government veteran Robin Carnahan as his pick to lead the federal government’s procurement agency. In a statement posted on the White House website

  • Posted April 7, 2021
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  Emotion recognition tech fundamentally flawed, says human rights charity

  Emerging AI-based emotion recognition technologies are “untenable” under international human rights law, and developing, designing or sharing such tech should be banned, a recent report has argued.  The study, which

  • Posted February 12, 2021
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