NEWS & REPORTS · EDITORIAL BRIEF
Digital Government Outlook 2026
OECD
OECD · 15 June 2026 · background reading
The finding or development
The Digital Government Outlook 2026 examines public-sector digital capability and the gap between strategies and delivery. Its service-design discussion calls for services organised around people’s lives and stronger evaluation.
What supports it
Comparative institutional report · 2025 indices
Reviewed: Report overview and executive summary
Why it matters for design
Useful context for service designers working across institutions, particularly when defining outcome measures and identifying excluded users.
Read with this in mind
National indicators describe institutional capability. They should not be read as direct measures of individual users’ experience or evidence that a specific interface works.
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DOI: 10.1787/0496b2bc-en
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