Sovereign by Design: A Blueprint for the Digital Government Operating System
Every government faces the same three questions at once: who are our citizens digitally, how do agencies share data, and where does AI actually run? Answered separately, they produce a decade of disconnected projects. Answered together, they produce a sovereign government operating system - three layers a nation can own, host and audit.
Drawing on WSO2's work behind 18 national ID deployments and 2.5 billion identities across 42 governments, this session walks through those layers: sovereign digital identity for citizens, workforce and organisations; a national data exchange built on the open source OpenNDX stack; and the citizen services that sit on top. We'll show where AI agents genuinely add value - and how to adopt them without handing over control of your data or your models.
Speakers
Mifan is a senior leader heading the Solution Architecture function, the team that handles customer technical interactions and technical selling at WSO2. Mifan also works on the solutions side of WSO2 products. He works with many large customers to define their strategic roadmap and assist with architecture strategy. Before joining WSO2, Mifan has played multiple technology leadership and advocacy roles, including as co-founder and CTO of a technology startup, and as consultant spatial and technology architect for many government and private initiatives. He was also a founding member and board director of the Sahana Software Foundation, a global foundation that created the Open Source Sahana Disaster Management System. Mifan is a frequent speaker at events globally, dabbles in music, and is a fan of the Arsenal football club.