Governments face a growing disconnect between rising expectations for speed, adaptability and responsiveness, and institutional systems that have not kept pace. Digital technologies are now essential for addressing today's policy and service delivery challenges.
While the OECD data shows progress in digital strategies and frameworks, the focus must shift to delivering real impact through stronger data governance, wider use of digital infrastructure, modernised investment, trusted AI, and more human-centred services.
This high-level virtual event marks the public launch of the first OECD Digital Government Outlook. The report provides a comprehensive, forward-looking assessment of these dynamics across 36 OECD Members and 8 accession candidate countries. Drawing on the results of the 2025 DGI and OURdata, it evaluates both progress and persistent gaps across key areas of digital transformation, identifying what governments need to do to move from digital ambition to public sector performance in an environment of rapid technological change, fiscal constraints and limited public trust.
During this high-level virtual event, the OECD will present the report's key findings and cross-country trends, and convene a strategic, forward-looking debate on the policy choices that will determine whether governments are able to move from digital foundations to transformational impact. Through ministerial interventions and a moderated panel with senior digital leaders, the event will explore the trade-offs governments face in turning digital foundations into tangible results for people, and the role of international co-operation in navigating those choices.
