Digital Government Academy

UNCTAD – UNITAR · Digital Government Academy

Strengthening capacities to transform government services

Learn to design, prototype and run digital public services — no programming skills required.

Delivered inBurundi, Benin, Cameroon, Colombia, Jordan, Kenya, Lesotho, Libya, Palestinian Territories, Syria, Zimbabwe0 civil servants trained11 countries9 trainings

Upcoming trainings

Live sessions and self-paced courses, open to government practitioners everywhere.

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Oct 5, 2026 – Oct 16, 2026
WorkshopClosed

Designing Digital Single Windows with eRegistrations

Workshop · Hybrid · English / Français

  • No-Code Development+40
  • Procedure Simplification+30
  • Service Design+20
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Nov 9, 2026 – Nov 13, 2026
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eRegistrations Platform Implementation Workshop

Workshop · Online · English / Français

  • No-Code Development+25
  • Procedure Simplification+15
  • Stakeholder Engagement+10
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How the Academy works

Train

Register for webinars, workshops and courses on user-centric digital government.

Grow skills

Each completed training earns points across a catalog of practitioner skills.

Get certified

Completion issues a verifiable UNCTAD–UNITAR certificate, automatically.

Build for real

Apply it on the eRegistrations platform — like the country projects we showcase.

From training room to production

Government systems built by Academy-trained teams.

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CameroonLive

Cameroon Business Registration Project (EasyBusiness.cm)

An expanded digital single window for business registration, extending online sole-proprietor and company incorporation to seven new regional Centers for Business Formalization.

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Burundi

Burundi Business Registration Project (EasyBusiness.bi)

A fully online platform (easybusiness.bi) streamlining business creation, reducing paperwork and enabling automatic data exchange between agencies, with gender-disaggregated statistics for policy planning.

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Benin

Benin Investment and Export Facilitation Project (APIEx)

An online single window managed by APIEx handling investment approvals, special economic zone authorizations, export support and certification subsidy applications with no physical visits required.

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Benin

Benin Business Registration Project (MonEntreprise.bj)

A fully digital single window for business registration at monentreprise.bj, integrating tax, trade, social security and labor compliance with automatic digital certificate issuance.

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Our mission

To help governments cut waste, deliver better services and rebuild trust — by training civil servants to design and run simple, efficient digital procedures.

User-centric design

Procedures must be simple and clear for citizens, not just convenient for administrations.

Ease of use

Technology should save time — not waste it.

Scalability

Good solutions must last. Procedures should grow and adjust as needs change.

Accessible tools

Civil servants build and run digital services themselves, without relying on costly external experts.

In partnership with

UNITARInternational Trade CentreGlobal Entrepreneurship NetworkGovernment of the Netherlands