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Home Portugal Digital Portugal, when the State becomes a competitive advantage Digital Portugal, when the State becomes a competitive advantage Portugal reached 3rd place in the OECD's Digital Government Index 2025. In two years he climbed from 11th to the world podium.
The Portuguese Government on Monday unveiled the Digital Company Wallet, a project in which Portugal is a European pioneer and which will, in a later phase, allow companies to be created through the app, access European funds or take part in public procurement. Although it is free in an initial phase, more advanced features may ...
As governments adopt AI and data-driven systems, this asks who will oversee and be accountable for a technology-driven ‘smart’ state, raising questions about governance, privacy and concentration of power.
The Government announced on Tuesday that the gov.pt app experienced a peak in usage on the day of the presidential election. The statement was made by the Secretary of State for Digitisation, Bernardo Correia, during a formal hearing before the Commission on State Reform and Local Government. According to the minister, “more than 750,000 accesses” were recorded.
The gov.pt app has added two more features, making it now possible to request duplicate copies of documents and to access the documents of children or dependents, according to an announcement on Friday. In a statement, ARTE — Agency for the Technological Reform of the State — indicates that, in cases of loss, theft, robbery, damage or alteration ...
In the race to lead in artificial intelligence (AI), the European Commission took a decisive step in October by presenting the Apply AI strategy. The initiative aims to accelerate AI adoption in SMEs and public bodies by using a new governance model that brings together industry, academia, the public sector and a European AI observatory. ...
The project aims to address the main obstacles currently hindering the adoption of AI within the public administration, such as the 'fragmentation of projects' and the 'complexity' of public procurement.
The National AI Agenda includes investment of over €400 million by 2030.
The Government will invest €25 million to support the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in the Public Administration, according to information released today by the Ministry for State Reform.
The Ministry says it is “not about training programmers”, but about “providing useful tools to managers, technicians and assistants, adapted to different roles”.
As we near 2025, we witnessed, at the start of the century, subtle reforms of public administration, among them the creation of Simplex in 2007 (at the time when, for example, Citius was created), which resonated in the Plan for the Reduction and Improvement of Central Administration (2011–2013). Since then, successive governments have ...
Examines whether the Simplex programme is aligned—or misaligned—with pressing economic and social priorities, questioning its effectiveness and relevance.
