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FGI Live 2026–2027: AI for Gov 3.0 — what must be true before you scale.

Virtual roundtables with Fellows and reform leaders that work the readiness question no one else is asking. Each session takes one part of the Gov 3.0 foundation — trust, human experience, leadership, capability, and the horizontal systems beneath them — and tests what AI changes, what it does not, and what must be in place first.

Our position: No G3, no G4. No rating, no agent. We help governments build the Gov 3.0 foundations that make AI safe, lawful, and useful — not the other way round.

You will get practical patterns, peer perspectives, and follow-on resources you can use in your organisation.

What we will ship (follow-on resources)

Each quarter produces three lightweight assets:

1. Framework brief (2–3 pages)
   • “What good looks like” in plain language.
   • Case for Action — why change and adopt?
   • Gov 3.0 readiness checklist — which FGX indicators must be green before AI is in scope for this theme.
   • Simple maturity checklist (stage progression applied to the quarter’s theme).
2. Templates pack (3–5 templates)
   • Executive decision memo template
   • Risk and assurance checklist (SPRITE)
   • Pilot scorecard (benefits, harms, inclusion, trust signals)
   • What to ask your team
3. Playbook (5–8 pages)
   • “First 30 / 60 / 90 days”
   • Roles and responsibilities (leaders vs delivery vs trust)
   • Measures that matter (time saved, failure demand reduced, complaints, inclusion and access) </aside>

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How we recognise real G4 (vs claimed G4)

AI is a tool that can help a service reach the stage markers — it is not itself a stage. G4 is about meeting the outcome indicators (continuous, real-time, auditable, outcome-linked), and AI is one of the means of getting there. A few examples of the bar:

• Strategy (Q1 G4): continuously updated from real-time service and operational signals, with AI-enabled scenario simulation, decisions auditable, and directly linked to funding and measurable public value.
• Funding (Q2 G4): investment continuously rebalanced from live performance data and evidence of user need, traceable to delivery outcomes.
• Resilience (Q18 G4): infrastructure adapts dynamically to demand and risk with self-healing and multi-region failover, recovery objectives proven under stress.
• AI in services (Q19 G4): agentic AI embedded in priority services with continuous evaluation, monitoring, human escalation, contestability, audit trails, and rollback tested in practice.
• Algorithmic assurance (Q40 G4): AI risk assessed continuously with automated monitoring, evaluation, incident triggers, and measurable harm reduction.

If the indicators are met — using AI or otherwise — we recognise it as real G4. "Having AI" is not the stage. If the foundations are not in place, the conversation is a Gov 3.0 readiness one — no exceptions for vendor branding.

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Upcoming — Thu 28 May 2026: Practical Digital Accessibility (Global Accessibility Awareness Day)

Hosted with CEWRI | Live online webinar · 45 minutes

Time: 13:00–13:45 GMT

Speakers: Joanna Goodwin (CEO, CEWRI) · Charlie Hamer (Co-founder, Future Government Institute)

What you'll learn: The fundamentals of digital accessibility and inclusive design; practical ways to test and audit websites, apps and digital services; tools and techniques you can start using immediately.

Register free →

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Next session — 15 July 2026: Trust (SPRITE) for AI in Government: "Safe to scale"

Executive focus: what must be true for AI adoption to not damage trust.

Core themes: assurance, privacy-by-design, inclusion testing, transparency, auditability, identity and access as the trust spine.

Readiness lens: Before any decision to scale AI, which FGX trust indicators must already be green? We open with a 5-minute Gov 3.0 readiness check so you leave knowing what must be true in your jurisdiction first.

What we’ll cover:

• What “safe to scale” actually means in practice (beyond principles and comms).
• How to operationalise SPRITE in delivery, procurement, and assurance.
• Minimum evidence for responsible AI: testing, monitoring, and audit trails that people can use.
• Identity and access as the trust spine: authorisation, delegation, and Zero Trust patterns.
• How to measure trust outcomes: harms, complaints, inclusion and access, and confidence signals.

Choose your time zone:

• Session 1 (APAC / Middle East) — 12:30–14:00 Singapore (SGT) | 07:30–09:00 Dubai (GST) | 14:30–16:00 Sydney (AEST)
• Session 2 (Americas / Europe / Africa) — 14:00–15:30 New York (EDT) | 19:00–20:30 London (BST) | 11:00–12:30 San Francisco (PDT) </aside>

Wed 16 Sept 2026 (provisional) — Human Experience: “AI that measurably improves services”

Executive focus: AI is only real if it reduces friction and failure demand — and only if the underlying service is already at Gov 3.0 readiness.

Readiness lens: What service-design and data foundations must be in place before AI goes anywhere near a citizen journey? We work through the FGX Human Experience indicators that turn AI from innovation theatre into measurable service improvement.

Core themes: priority journeys, contact centres and casework, triage, eligibility, content and language access, measurement.

Wed 9 Dec 2026 (provisional) — Leadership: “The AI operating model”

Executive focus: most AI programmes fail on governance, decision rights, and delivery mechanics, not model choice.

Readiness lens: Which Gov 3.0 leadership foundations — portfolio governance, horizontal funding, data ownership, vendor independence — must already exist before an AI operating model is even a sensible conversation? We map the FGX Leadership indicators against the vendor-led agentic vision and show where it breaks.

Core themes: portfolio governance, product teams, funding, procurement, data and platform ownership, vendor independence, benefit tracking.

Wed 17 March 2027 (provisional) — Capability uplift: “The 90-day playbook for Gov 3.0 teams”

Executive focus: AI agents cannot reason their way around a Privacy Act, a missing identity layer, or a siloed budget. Before any agentic pilot, the horizontal Gov 3.0 plumbing must be in place. Skills are not training — skills are repeatable delivery capability against those foundations.

Readiness lens: A frank session on the four walls every agentic state pitch hits — legal personality and data-sharing law, universal digital identity, common data schemas, and cross-departmental budgeting. We use the FGX indicators to show which 90-day moves actually shift readiness, and which are theatre.

Core themes: horizontal data-sharing legislation, identity as the trust spine, common schemas and interoperability, cross-departmental funding and accountability, and a 90-day uplift plan agencies can run across Leadership, Human Experience, and Trust.