Current Situation
National governments play an active role to promote economic growth and create good jobs through public policies, funding and enabling digitalization initiatives so that their constituents can improve their lives through economic generation. There is a constant need to ensure that the national economic sectors continue to be competitive, both domestically and internationally, and contribute positively to GDP growth (e.g., national productivity drives). Governments play a strategic and facilitator role to ensure that their country attracts investments and talents in order to nurture a deeper base of domestic enterprises that will grow to achieve large global footprints.
Goals and Objectives
To oversee a coordinated response to structural shifts in national economic sectors, build alliances across enabling agencies, statutory boards, industry-led coalitions, and key stakeholders to drive increased digitalization. Such alliances can include the government’s efforts to digitalize the built environment and invest in regtech, edutech, digital health, agritech, digital commerce, supply chain digitalization, sustainability industries, and so forth.
Technology Deployed
Hardware: PCs, tablets, smartphones, servers, cloud platforms, and network equipment
Software: Coordinating portals, collaborative tools, and open data platforms on real-time economic indices for the government to engage the various industry sectors and industry-led coalitions through FGDs, committee meetings, with smart forms, CRM, ERP, cloud-based reporting applications, AI, Big Data and analytics with prepackaged reports and dashboards, supply chain management, and security
Services: IT services, business services, collaboration, connectivity, corporate digital identity, distributed ledger technology (DLT), and security services
Use Case Summary
Innovation, talent development, economic productivity focuses, and internationalization are the core tenets of industry digital transformation. Governments should lead with strategic foresight directives and policies, funding programs and creating ecosystems to test innovation — all to groom local industries to challenge the way things have always been done, toward a more productive and globally relevant creation of goods and services.