The Digital Government Summit is hosted annually at the Global Entrepreneurship Congress, a meeting of 4,000 delegates from 200 countries who meet to share and strengthen approaches to empower entrepreneurs and increase innovation.
The invitation-only Summit is attended by policymakers and officials to discuss how governments can best use digital facilitation tools to simplify administrative processes, and support entrepreneurs and investors to establish, operate and grow their operations. Delegates examine success stories and best practices from around the world and identify key lessons for governments to adopt.
The 2025 Digital Government Summit will be held at the Global Entrepreneurship Congress in Indiana, United States in June 2025. To request an invitation to attend, please contact Matt Smith, Director of Policy and Research by emailing matt@genglobal.org.
Past Discussion Topics:
- Lessons learned on how governments can remove the obstacles to entrepreneurs
- The transformational power of digital government in delivering public services
- UNCTAD’s principles of digital government and administrative simplification
- How countries around the world are using digital government tools to support business creation and its impact
- Why the US government supports the digitalization of public administration as a donor
- Case study: How Iraq used UNCTAD’s digital government tool to move business creation online and coordinated with stakeholders to overcome resistance to change
- Case study: How Cameroon used a digital business registration portal to support SMEs
- Case study: How El Salvador is implementing UNCTAD’s digital accounting and tax-filing tool to benefit SMEs
Past Speakers:
- Akeel Khazaal, Advisor to the Prime Minister of Iraq
- Arlette Verploegh Chabot, Chief, Enterprise Section, UNCTAD
- Eddie Copeland, Director, London Office of Technology and Innovation
- Ian Richards, Economist, UNCTAD
- Ingmar Vali, Strategy Director, Centre of Registers and Information Systems
- Jonathan Ortmans, President of the Global Entrepreneurship Network
- Karma Dorji, Minister of Industry, Commerce and Employment, Bhutan
- Maria Luisa Hayem, Minister of Economy, El Salvador
- Mireille Menanga Abongo, Technical Advisor, Ministry of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises, Social Economy and Handicrafts, Cameroon
- Nelson Pérez, Senior Advisor, El Salvador SME Agency
- Shaymaa Al Muqdadi, Economic Advisor, US Embassy, Baghdad