GovTech: Putting People First

To support countries in adopting sound practices and solutions in GovTech, and to ensure a broad global partnership for effective exchange and transfer of knowledge and good practice, the GovTech Global Partnership (GTGP) was established by the World Bank's Governance Global Practice in December 2019.

The Partnership is a multi-stakeholder initiative that includes advanced and aspiring GovTech countries, development partners, private sector, academia, civil society and others involved in the GovTech domain.

GTGP Areas of Work

The GovTech Global Partnership supports beneficiary countries through a range of activities and works in three components:

1. Analytical and Thought Leadership. The partnership is advancing the development of new knowledge, policy guidance and good practice examples. In the first year the following reports were produced: Artificial Intelligence in the Public Sector; The GovTech Procurement Practice Note and Finding Fraud: GovTech and Fraud Detection in the Public Administration. New reports include: The GovTech Handbook on Universal Accessibility and TechSavvy:  How to Build GovTech Skills in the Public Sector.
2. Global Public Goods and Convening. This work program includes a range of capacity building and knowledge exchanges such as the development of the GovTech Maturity Index to measure the state of GovTech building blocks in client countries, the development of handbooks and toolkits, making available self-paced online learning courses provided on the OLC platform, and organizing regular knowledge sharing events to discuss good practice.  
3. Country and Regional Engagement. The Partnership supports client countries with technical advisory work such as assessments, roadmaps and strategies, GovTech readiness through strengthening capacity and skills as well as developing, piloting and implementing GovTech solutions.