Public finance management (PFM) sits at the core of effective governance. It determines how governments plan, allocate, and monitor resources — and how they deliver results for citizens. Yet, across many administrations, financial decisions are still based on partial or delayed information. As governments move towards digital transformation, the smarter use of data in public finance management has become essential. When properly collected and applied, data allows governmen

For many organisations, extracting data from legacy systems remains one of the biggest barriers to digital transformation. Legacy platforms—often decades old—hold valuable operational data, but accessing that information can be slow, costly, and error-prone. Traditional extraction methods rely on manual coding, reverse engineering, or complex data integration projects. These are effective but time-consuming and expensive. Today, artificial intelligence (AI) and generati

Extracting data from legacy systems remains one of the most critical — and often most challenging — stages in modernising an organisation’s technology infrastructure. Many organisations continue to rely on older systems built years, or even decades, ago. While these systems are often stable and deeply integrated into business processes, they can make it difficult to access or reuse the valuable data they hold. As organisations transition to cloud computing, modern database

Across many high-income countries, governments are struggling to modernise how they design and deliver policy, often constrained by legacy systems, fragmented data, and a lack of real-time insights. While elected leaders call for smarter, more efficient public services, the tools available to them frequently lag behind expectations. At the same time, mobile network operators have yet to fully explore the value of repurposing anonymised mobile phone data (MPD) to support evide

How can advances in data, cloud computing, and AI enable a new era of government digital transformation?At the centre of the opportunity is the convergence of: data. Advances in data architecture, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence (AI) and this is ushering in a new era of digital transformation, with governments seeking ways to harness these capabilities for everything from pandemic response to social services management.