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The MENA’s First
GovTech Venture Studio

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We advise governments, public bodies and partners seeking to digitally innovate their services and systems

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Design

We advise governments, public bodies and partners seeking to digitally innovate their services and systems

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Build

We advise governments, public bodies and partners seeking to digitally innovate their services and systems

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We help
reimagine & build
digitally enabled
public services.

Our Partners
Who we are?
Our mission is to help the public sector deliver better, digitally-enabled services for citizens. It’s an important aim, and it requires a unique combination of skills, expertise, and experience.
That’s why we combine a deep understanding of government policy and delivery with best-in-class technical leadership to design and scale impactful GovTech solutions.
What makes
us
unique?
Our mission is to help public sector bodies transform the services they offer in order to create a better society for everyone. We strongly believe that public service can be pursued both inside and outside of government.
Advice
We advise governments, public bodies and partners seeking to digitally innovate their services and systems
Build
We build technology products and services to transform the public sector from health and social care to procurement and law enforcement
Convene
We convene innovators, policy-makers and investors to explore and shape the best future of public services
Why to work with us?
We think the next four pillars make working with us unique, energising, enjoyable and effective:
Ecosystem-anchored
We convene an ecosystem of change-makers, facilitating collaboration between public bodies and innovative companies.
Policy-literate
We live in the nexus of policy and technology, knowing that technology - whether AI or automation - cannot alone change the nature of public services.
Product-focused
We know what best-in-class software products look like, how to build and integrate them with existing systems and know how to manage the complexities of procurement.
Startup-cultured
Startup culture informs everything we do and how we work - we are creative, flat, open, motivated, agile, fast-moving, inclusive, user-obsessed and fixated on our mission.
Our Process.
How we do it?
Our Process

Transform

We help public bodies - departments, agencies to transform their services with new technology by setting digital strategy, designing user-centred services and building technical solutions in an agile way.

Focusing on Users

We embed user-centred design from the start in developing strategy and services that work better for citizens.

Agile development

We champion startup methods inside government, and practice agile development to build, test and scale the best solutions for your organisation’s needs.

Convening an ecosystem

We leverage our network of innovators within and beyond government to bring the best stakeholders required to design and embed innovative transformation agendas.

Solve

We run open innovation challenges with public bodies, crowding-in startups and innovators to solve old service problems with the latest cutting-edge solutions at lower cost.

Assess cutting edgetechnologies

Test solutions in a safeenvironment

Scale the best solutions

Promote new workingcultures

Unlock learnings

Wide view of the market

Learn

We teach public servants how to become instinctively innovative, equipping them with the skills, knowledge, and tools to grasp the opportunities of the digital age.

Consultancy

Hands on with each governmental entity to help them shape their digital strategy & overcome their challenges.

Training Programs

Tailored programs designed to cover each organization need to help their team digitally transform every aspect of their user interactions, and build innovative solutions.

Hands on Coaching

Coaching, and Guidance activities for governmental organizations to help them in a step by step professionally designed framework to digitally transform their organization.

Scale

We operate support programmes for innovative companies solving public sector problems, accelerating the pace of digital transformation across the middle east.

Fintech

Cyber Security

Security

AI

Identity

Health

Activities

Challenges and prizes

Open competitions to solve problems that at present lack solutions.

Hackathons

Open competitions to solve problems that at present lack solutions.

Acceleration programmes

Open competitions to solve problems that at present lack solutions.

Reference:
GovTech Best Practices in the EU

Piloting

Non-dilutive funding to experiment with state infrastructure.

Research and development grants

Non-dilutive early-stage funding to accelerate research and development.

Ecosystem building

Strategic convening, networking, matchmaking and advisory services to ease interactions between private and public sector.