The Office of Management and Budget’s public tally of governmentwide AI use again grew in 2025 — this time amid the Trump administration’s push to use the technology in the name of efficiency. Per OMB’s recent publication on GitHub, the U.S. government reported about 3,600 AI use cases across agencies, a nearly 70% increase in…
RIYADH — The Digital Government Authority announced that 76.04% of government entities — 54 entities — are prepared to adopt and activate emerging technologies. Based on the Authority’s “Emerging Technologies Adoption Readiness Index” report, readiness among government entities to adopt and activate emerging technologies reached 76.04%, compared to 74.69% in 2025, with the participation of…
The programme offers role-based training to improve efficiency and modernise government services. Digital Dubai has launched a programme to train 50,000 government employees in artificial intelligence, in partnership with the Dubai Government Human Resources Department and the Dubai Centre for Artificial Intelligence under the Dubai Future Foundation. The initiative, titled the AI Workforce Transformation Programme…
Driven by the Australian Government’s National AI Plan 2025 , Australian organisations are increasingly empowered to take advantage of the benefits of artificial intelligence (AI), with a view to becoming world leaders by 2030. The National AI Plan sets an economy‑wide vision to invest in “smart infrastructure”, expand the adoption of AI, and keep Australians safe…
Armenia’s Minister of High-Tech Industry, Mkhitar Hayrapetyan, emphasized during the Doing Digital Forum 2026 that developing a trust-based digital economy and a digital society is a strategic priority for the government. “We are convinced that one of the key prerequisites for enhancing our national resilience and ensuring the stable, sustainable development of our economy is…
The next time the federal government labels a business a supply-chain risk, as the Department of Defense did last month to San Francisco-based AI tools maker Anthropic, the state of California will review that designation and make its own decision about whether to do business with them. That’s according to an executive order signed by…
The tool will augment decision-making by helping planning officers with administrative and analytical work and offering recommendations for determinations. It will initially focus on householder applications, with the goal of reducing average decision times from eight weeks to four, and has the long-term aim of allowing near-instant decisions for straightforward applications, according to public sector…
Cyprus has outlined a broader push to digitalise public administration in 2026 after expanding online services last year, aiming to simplify procedures for citizens and businesses and move state operations onto upgraded technological infrastructure. Deputy Minister of Research Nicodemos Damianou presented this week, the 2025 review and the planning for the coming year, saying the…
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain New ethnographic research reveals nine justifications that make AI innovations almost “irresistible” across organizational and professional boundaries. The study conducted at the University of Eastern Finland and Aalto University provides rich empirical insight into how innovation teams mobilize multiple conceptions of the common good to keep AI projects going forward. The…
DC is now one of the first cities to require generative AI training for government employees. The required course offers prompting basics, and covers risks inherent when using the tech. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s mandate applies to workers across the public sector, including teachers, unemployment claims examiners and city council staff. Within 90 days of being…
