Empowering State Governments with Cloud-Based Tools for Policy Management

Data is one of the most valuable resources of modern digitized governance, but raw data alone can not provide the decision makers valuable insights. To turn the numbers into knowledge, we need to separate noise from the data. We also need to choose the right way to present the data, so that it’s easily interpreted.

Local governments can be powerful partners for changing the food system. As the Good Food and local food movements continue to gain momentum and visibility, local officials are becoming more interested in how these initiatives can help their communities.

Cloud-based solutions can help government agencies accelerate digital transformation. By migrating workloads to the cloud, agencies can improve their processes from end-to-end while offering solutions that enhance data security, mitigate risk and provide next-generation speed and flexibility. The common thread in all these improvements is artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) which allows non-technical staff to use prebuilt tools to improve service delivery.

Government cash management can be defined as “having the right amount of money in the right place and time to meet the government’s obligations in the most cost-effective way”. Despite the clarity of this definition and the multiple references in the IMF-WB Guidelines, the exact perimeter of government cash management is not always consensual: “from the perspective of budget policy or management, it is an internal government function - ensuring that cash flows to where it is needed without wastage or idling. But to debt managers and central banks it is about the impact and management of the government’s cash flows in the financial sector”.