Governments and Public sector entities around the world are already reaping the rewards of investing in AI technology. From reducing backlogs, cutting costs to predicting fraudulent transactions, AI has the potential to improve public services while maximizing the ability of government staff to innovate and make more informed decisions. While there is an increasing interaction between AI technologies and our socio-political and economic institutions, consequences are not well defined. The rapid development of AI has raised numerous ethical concerns, pushing us to redefine the future of work, society and humanity. Will people become jobless due to the expansion of AI? How do we ensure that machines do not harm other humans? Could AI long-term development lead to the end of humankind as numerous technologists have speculated? How could we control an AI system that has gone beyond our understanding of complexity? The role of the public sector is essential and twofold – acting as both a role model and regulator. The report proposes tools to navigate the future of AI and develop AI ethical standards based on a global regulatory model.

The award achieved a great success over the previous 5 editions and has seen the quality of submissions improve tremendously. Now, in its 6th edition, the award has continued to evolve and raise its bar as part of the United Arab Emirates’ continuous efforts to improve mobile government services, and as part of the nation’s global mission to improve the lives of citizens across the world.

The world is awash with data. In the past quarter of a century, smart phones, Wi-Fi, robotics, artificial intelligence (AI) and other technological marvels have swept the globe, transforming all societies. It is a world of data abundance and immense promise, yet it is also one of potentially vast inequalities. Without a determined and innovative approach by policymakers, the benefits of our new data economies will not be shared equally. Mutual engagement between government and youth will bring mutual benefits; simultaneously empowering youth to shape the digitized future they are to inherit, whilst enabling governments and older public servants to learn new skills and acquire fresh insights from new generations. In this report we outline the challenge of data economies, and the reasons why governments are falling behind. We look at why youth must be involved, and examine the six imperatives necessary to making youth the drivers of data economies.

The world is in the midst of an unprecedented technological revolution that is transforming economies, governments and societies in complex and unpredictable ways. This process is fundamentally changing how people live, interact and work, which inevitably affects their relationship with government and requires a transformation in the design and delivery of public policies and services. The volume and complexity of challenges are growing rapidly, and governments are locked in a game of catch-up, with better. Poverty and hunger rates are at an all-time low, countries are uniting in extraordinary ways to achieve global goals, people are living longer than ever, and education and literacy rates are at record highs. Governments are integral to these successes and will play a central role in achieving the goals of tomorrow, by building on what has been accomplished and working to tackle emerging challenges. Governments at the edge of innovation are pioneers in this context, using fantastic, novel solutions to harness today’s opportunities for the collective good.

Food security is the most important issue of our time, given the dramatic advance of climate change and increasingly severe weather events as well as population growth, increased urbanization, aging population, changing dietary patterns, and decreased arable land. Meeting future demand will require a change in the status quo and a reinvention of our global food system. This will mean rethinking and restructuring everything from investments in production and infrastructure to our welfare programs and dietary patterns. This paper offers to consider the issue of global food security through different lenses including megatrends, technology, value chain disruption, urbanization, changes in consumption patterns. and include the requirements from the various parties involved: Companies, Governments, R&D centers and Citizens.

According to estimates, in five years there will be a shortage of 700,000 people who possess technological skills such as complex data analysis or web development in Germany. There is also predicted to be a skills gap of 10.6 million employees with the necessary cross-disciplinary skills. These are alarming figures considering how important technological and cross-disciplinary skills are in preparing for a rapidly changing workplace and to ensure continued participation in society. This paper analyzes over 30 current initiatives in Germany dealing with future skills. The analysis reveals challenges in the education system that prevent the future skills gap from being closed—there is a lack of transparency in future skills training, future skills content is lacking in schools and universities, and there is no systematic further training of future skills at the workplace.