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Cape Verde Pairs Its GOV.CV One-Stop Portal With a New National AI and Data Strategy for Public Administration

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Cape Verde opened GOV.CV, a one-stop digital-government portal, in Feb 2026, then in May 2026 began drafting a national AI Strategy and Data Strategy for Public Administration with EU input — infrastructure is live, but the AI policy itself is still at the drafting stage.

Cape Verde Pairs Its GOV.CV One-Stop Portal With a New National AI and Data Strategy for Public Administration

Details

Promoter
Cabo Verde Ministry of Finance / Secretary of State for the Digital Economy
Period
2026
Keywords
digital government, AI strategy, data governance, public administration

Context

On 24-25 February 2026, Cape Verde's Prime Minister Jose Ulisses Correia e Silva launched GOV.CV, a web-and-mobile one-stop portal meant to become the single gateway for public services spanning civil registration and identity, tax and financial operations, higher education, transport and social services, with the government describing a gradual, phased onboarding of further services.

Objectives

Minister of State Modernisation and Public Administration Eurico Monteiro said the aim was to increase interoperability, efficiency and transparency and to end the need for citizens to move between offices to obtain documents the state already holds. No AI component or usage figures were reported for GOV.CV itself.

Activities

On that infrastructure, in May 2026 Prime Minister and Finance Minister Olavo Correia opened work on two companion instruments: a Data Strategy for Public Administration and a national Artificial Intelligence Strategy. The kick-off meeting, attended by the Secretary of State for the Digital Economy, the digital-economy team, external consultants and European Union representatives, set out to move government from siloed data systems toward an integrated, coordinated model and to establish, in Correia's words, conditions for 'responsible and ethical use of artificial intelligence' in the public interest.

Conclusions

As of this writing, no budget figure, timeline, or measured outcome has been published for the AI strategy itself: it is a policy-drafting exercise built on top of an already-live digital-government platform, not yet a deployed AI system, so the practice should be read as early-stage policy groundwork rather than demonstrated public value.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Low (< €50k) — No budget figure published for the Data Strategy or AI Strategy; GOV.CV itself carries no disclosed AI-specific cost since it is described as having no AI component.
Time to results
Short (< 1 year) — GOV.CV portal launched 24-25 February 2026; Data Strategy and AI Strategy drafting kicked off May 2026; no strategy document, budget or timeline published yet.
Staffing & skills
Cabo Verde Ministry of Finance, Secretary of State for the Digital Economy, external consultants, European Union representatives (advisory role)

Conditions for success

  • Building the AI/data strategy on top of an already-live interoperable portal (GOV.CV) rather than starting from siloed systems
  • Direct sponsorship from the Prime Minister and Finance Minister
  • International technical input (EU representatives, external consultants) during the drafting kick-off
  • Publishing the strategy document, budget and timeline once finalised, to allow independent evaluation

Where it fits

Governance type
national government
Scale
national
Income level
small island developing economy (per source text)

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