Next Generation Government - Hyperconnected, Smart and Augmented

Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG2030) requires governments and their various institutions to be more agile, collaborate across agency boundaries and national borders, and also develop specific capabilities. Some of the required capabilities are related to developing and sustaining governance networks, digitally transforming public service delivery, building resilience structures within government for crisis and disasters, and harnessing disruptive technologies for new solutions to hitherto unsolved problems. This paper highlights how the integration of hyper-connectivity, “smartness” and Artificial Intelligence adoption within the context of the recent Post-New Public Management (NPM) paradigms can generate new capabilities to strengthen government institutions towards achieving their relevant SDG goals