Global Program on GovTech & Public Sector Innovation

Brief

Beneficial Ownership Registers: Implementation Insights and Emerging Frontiers

This EFI Insight distills critical insights from the implementation of Beneficial Ownership Registers (BORs) in Nigeria, North Macedonia, Kenya, and the United Kingdom. The experiences of these countries offer valuable lessons for similar reform efforts worldwide aimed at enhancing beneficial ownership transparency.
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Guidance Note

Greening Public Administration with GovTech

This guidance note provides useful advice to policymakers on how to implement coordinated GovTech and Green policies, underlining the importance of adequate leadership and commitment.
Tool

GovTech Maturity Index

The new GTMI data dashboard helps users visualize and explore the contents of the GovTech Dataset and the GovTech Projects Database.
How-To Note

“From e-Government to m-Government” - Presentation and Discussion on the Mobile Government How-to Note

mGovt offers many opportunities to connect citizens to their governments, but challenges remain. This presentation will feature the latest mGov How-to-Note, which offers strategies for maximizing opportunities and overcoming implementation challenges.
How-to-Note

CivicTech : Transparency, Engagement, and Collaboration for Better Governance

Digital technologies and data have the potential to increase substantially the tools that governments have available to further involve citizens in policy and service design and delivery. This how-to-note provides advice on how to use digitalization to strengthen the engagement between the governments and citizens, with various examples of what CivicTech is and why it is an important element of the GovTech approach.
How-To Note

Interoperability: Towards a Data-Driven Public Sector

Interoperability frameworks are a key enabler for GovTech. However, governments may face several challenges when setting up and implementing sound interoperability approaches. This How-to Note explores interoperability in the public sector, why it is needed, and how it can be implemented.

GovTech Publications and Learning

Browse publications and explore learning resources in the tabs below.

Publications
Learning

Our GovTech publications are classified into 5 categories namely, Cross Cutting, Core Government Systems, Public Service Delivery, Citizen Engagement, and GovTech Enablers . Browse through our reports, notes, case studies and more below:

World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) is The World Bank’s official open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products. Check out knowledge products related to GovTech and more.
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World Bank Documents and Reports

The World Bank's repository contains official documents and reports which are made available to the public in accordance with the Bank’s Access to Information Policy to better share the institution's knowledge base.
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