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Why can one government transform the way millions of citizens access public services while another struggles to move basic processes online? Technology matters, but successful digital government transformation depends on more than technology itself. Leadership, institutional coordination, public trust, clear priorities and the ability to change how government works all shape whether digital transformation moves beyond individual projects. In the Code the State podcast, Oleksa

A maternal health service. A national digital identity system. A platform connecting citizens with public services. Behind each is a practical question: how does a government turn an idea into a digital service that people can actually use and trust? This is one of the questions explored in this episode of Code the State by Tuntufye Laura Ntaukira, Digital Governance Analyst at the United Nations Development Programme in Malawi and a mentor in the Women in GovTech Challenge 2

Governments continue to invest heavily in digital platforms, yet citizen trust and adoption can remain difficult to secure. The instinct is to treat this as a technology problem: fix the interface, add more features, run another awareness campaign. But according to Alana María Ali, a Trinidad and Tobago-based digital government and trade facilitation advisor, and Nicole Greene, a GovTech communication strategist and digital public infrastructure (DPI) advisor from Trinidad an

Lose your documents in your home country and there is usually a clear path to replacing them. Abroad, even a routine procedure can become significantly more complicated. A bank in another country may require additional proof of identity, while some administrative procedures can mean obtaining documents from several countries where you previously lived. What was straightforward at home can become a bureaucratic project once a border is involved. The problem is not that a perso