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Governments

Public-Sector Digital Transformation Capability

Build the human capability needed to turn digital-government strategy into better services, stronger data use and more consistent execution across agencies.

Last reviewed: 2026-09-30

Challenge Context

The Challenge

Governments are investing in digital services, data platforms and AI, but technology programmes also depend on public servants who understand digital-government principles, service design, data literacy, governance and implementation. Without that wider capability, transformation can remain concentrated in specialist teams.

Evidence

What the Evidence Says

22.4%

The UN E-Government Survey 2024 reported that the share of the population lagging in digital-government development fell from 45.0% in 2022 to 22.4% in 2024, while significant regional gaps remain.

0.61 / 1.0

OECD countries averaged 0.61 on the 2025 Digital Government Index, indicating substantial room to strengthen whole-of-government digital capability.

Root Causes

Why the Gap Persists

Digital transformation is often led by IT or innovation units while wider policy, service and operational teams are expected to implement change without a common capability baseline. This can weaken user-centred design, evidence use, risk awareness and cross-agency execution.

Desired Outcome

What Good Looks Like

A shared digital-government foundation across policy, service and operational teams, with deeper pathways for service design, data, transformation leadership and governance where roles require them.

xtraLesson Response

How xtraLesson Can Address It

xtraLesson Public can provide structured digital-government learning that complements agency technology initiatives and national transformation programmes. It can support a single agency, cross-government cohorts or targeted transformation teams.

Mapped Learning

Relevant xtraLesson Learning

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Academies

Courses

Deployment Model

Illustrative Deployment

Illustrative model: a cross-agency digital-government academy beginning with common foundations and progressing into service design, data literacy and transformation leadership, supported by agency-specific application projects.

Measuring Impact

What to Measure

Track participation, completion, capability assessments, applied-project quality, service-design outputs, evidence-use indicators and programme-defined transformation outcomes.

Sources

Evidence & Further Reading

Sources and publication dates are provided below so you can review the context behind the evidence used in this article.

  1. United Nations DESA — UN E-Government Survey 2024 (2024)

    Global digital-government progress and persistent regional gaps.

  2. OECD — Government at a Glance 2025 (2025)

    Public-sector digital government, efficiency and capability context.

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