How artificial intelligence could change digital public infrastructure.
Guard rails and algorithmic transparency in the race by governments to adopt artificial intelligence
A snapshot of the main discussions at the Open Government Partnerships Summit 2025 around AI use in government services. Read more.
Artificial intelligence and open data – a mutually beneficial interaction
We have grown used to reading and hearing about the enormous potential of artificial intelligence (AI). The rapidly evolving nature of the technology makes it difficult to pinpoint specific shifts in the relationship between AI and open data.
Continue ReadingPublic governance in a time of polycrisis: what I learnt from Berlin’s Creative Bureaucracy Festival
The idea of a Creative Bureaucracy Festival may sound like a contradiction in terms, but the intent behind the day-long event in Berlin in early June makes complete sense: to create space for public administrators to discuss how to work smarter and, particularly, to ramp up their use of data and digital to provide more innovative, efficient, and better services.
Continue ReadingReimagining data systems for human agency
Imagine if you could declare exactly how you want companies to use your data, with systems that automatically verify compliance.
Data Challenges of Smart City Digital Twin Initiatives: How CKAN can help
It is no newsflash that governments at all levels are using data more to improve public policy and meet both the increasingly complex challenges they face and the expectations of a more data literate business sector and citizenry. Much of this data comes from what might be termed traditional sources – official statistics, surveys and censuses, etc.
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