Nominations are open for the 2024 Future of Government Awards

This post was written by Content Creator and Network member, Amy McNichol.

Nominations are now open for this year’s Future of Government Awards. The event – which champions those who are transforming people’s lives by applying digital solutions and leveraging technology to reform the public sector – will culminate in an online ceremony on Thursday 20 March. You can sign up to attend here.

We’re excited to be hosting this year’s awards alongside AWS and UNDP for the second year running. You can watch last year’s ceremony below. Last year, we received over 330 nominations from 63 countries across the 5 categories.

We acknowledge that brilliant progress looks different in different contexts, for example, in national and local governments, and the Selection Committee judges take this into account. So this year, we’d like to encourage more nominations for local governments. We know many are doing important work on tight budgets and sharing successes ad challenges will encourage discussion between them.

Digital team of the year

Public sector entrepreneurs work tirelessly to improve people’s lives. This award recognises a small, public sector team that has created and sustained meaningful change by championing digital transformation. 
Nominate a team

Open source creation

Celebrating the innovators, developers, and leaders who are building their own solutions in government and making them available for others to re-use. This award recognises an open source solution that has been created and has been made available for others to adapt and reuse by other governments.
Nominate an open source creation

Open source reuse

This award recognises a team that has reused, reconfigured or adapted an existing, proven solution rather than choosing to recreate it, and then applied it in a different context or setting.
Nominate an example of open source reuse

Leadership award

Teams can only achieve success and create meaningful difference if they have the space to explore and learn; fail then iterate, and focus on what matters most. This award recognises a leader in the tech and digital space who has created and protected the conditions for success so that their team or organisation has been able to make significant improvements for citizens.
Nominate a leader


Thank you to our Selection Committee

We’re thrilled to welcome (and in some cases welcome back) judges from around the world who are highly experienced and respected in the public sector transformation space. They’ll create a shortlist for each category and later decide on a winner.

They’ll also choose the winner of the Lifetime achievement award which recognises someone who has improved the lives of many people, likely over a number of years – someone with a legacy of real and evidenced positive change through digital transformation. This category is not open for nominations.

Nomination deadline: 20 January 2025.

Best of luck!

Watch last year's Awards ceremony.