Why Invest in GovTech? A leading VC firm weighs in

Quer ler esta matéria em Português? Clique aqui! Astella Investimentos is a leading venture capital firm in Brazil. Here, venture investor Guilherme Lima discusses their decision to add 2 GovTech startups—Gove and Aprova Digital—to their portfolio over the past few months. We recently invested in two GovTech startups: Aprova Digital and Gove. The decision to invest was based on extensive analysis …

Por que investir em GovTech? Uma empresa líder em Capital de Risco analisa

Looking for this post in English? Click here! A Astella Investimentos é uma empresa de capital de risco líder no Brasil. O investidor Guilherme Lima discute sua decisão de adicionar 2 startups GovTech – Gove e Aprova Digital – ao seu portfólio nos últimos meses. Recentemente anunciamos investimento em duas Startups GovTechs: a Aprova Digital e a Gove. A decisão de investir veio depois de extenso estudo …

StateUp Convenes Expert Panel on Future of GovTech

To celebrate the launch of StateUp 21, we brought together startup founders, VCs and policy experts to discuss how governments and entrepreneurs can cooperate to develop resilient, adaptive public sectors and societies. Core themes included: How GovTech startups are tackling new challenges in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic The role of investment and procurement in supporting sector growth Who …

GovTech in Latin America / GovTech en América Latina

English (español abajo) Digital Government units across Latin America are making strides in serving citizens through digitisation, and achieving international recognition for their efforts. Yet they also face major challenges, including recruiting and retaining technological talent. To build and maintain digital transformation agendas that meet citizens’ needs, governments must harness opportunities to work with innovative GovTech providers, whether to rationalise …

How governments can engage digital resources to manage their Covid-19 response

By Tanya Filer & Riley Kaminer From literature to manufacturing, crisis and creativity have often gone hand-in-hand. Lauded inventions, such as radar technologies and the Turing machine used to decipher secret codes, emerged from the collective existential threat of World War II. In recent years, we have seen existing technologies innovatively repurposed to tackle major public crises. Whenminers were trapped …

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Digital Government in 2020

What should governments prioritise for their digital government agenda in 2020? In a recent ‘wishlist’ in NS Tech, Tanya Filer and other leading experts set out their wishes for UK Government (and beyond) in 2020. At StateUp, we chose: Deciding what digital ‘success’ looks like, and measuring and evaluating for it Clear metrics can help to set ambitious whole-of-government strategy, and to …