Future Perfect 10

World governments have an insatiable need to make incremental improvements in the services they deliver while at the same time tackling the longer-term public sector challenges that limit their socioeconomic potential. As leading nations have discovered, the right use of digital technology is the pathway to achieving both objectives. Successful nations have technology strategies that are both aggressively practical and profoundly aspirational. A breakthrough global public-private partnership recently collaborated to identify the top 10 government technology (govtech) initiatives worldwide that will contribute the most to sustainable improvements in 192 countries' economies and societies. MIT Technology Review Insights and the United Arab Emirates-based World Government Summit (WGS), a non-government organization promoting future-oriented public-private dialogue, worked together to select the most interesting govtech implementations from among the world's more innovative initiatives.