Nominations are open now!
Deadline for nominations. 28 February 2026
Best Fintech Solution
The public-sector fintech organization or project, which played a key role in promoting financial inclusion for unbanked people in Pakistan, including women and other marginalized groups, and introduced locally developed innovative solutions for product delivery, greater efficiency and impact, will take the award.
Criteria: The Nominee must meet the following criteria:
Innovation: Describe how the product or service is innovative, leveraging technology in a unique way to address financial challenges and improve financial outcomes.
Impact: Demonstrate a measurable positive impact on financial outcomes, such as expanding access to financial services etc.
Scalability: Explain if and how the product or service has the potential to be scaled up or replicated to have a wider impact on financial sector.
Inclusivity: Has the initiative enhanced inclusion of unserved segments of the society or has the potential to do so.
Best Fintech Solution
Digital Leader
The Digital Leader award recognizes a government leader whose work has clearly advanced digital transformation and influenced colleagues and subordinates.
Criteria: The Nominee must meet the following criteria:Leadership: Describe how the nominee demonstrates exceptional leadership skills in driving digital transformation within the public sector, through setting a clear vision, strategy, and direction.
Impact: Demonstrate a measurable positive impact such as efficient public sector service delivery and enhanced citizen engagement.
Innovation: Demonstrated innovation in the delivery of digital services and solutions, leveraging emerging technologies, or fostering a culture of innovation within the public sector.
Inclusivity: Has the initiative enhanced inclusion of unserved segments of the society or has the potential to do so.
Digital Leader
Best Digital Skills Initiative
The award will be presented to the initiative that demonstrated exceptional performance in training the highest number of Pakistanis, particularly women and youth, in high-demand digital skills, enabling them to earn income rapidly and efficiently, while maintaining cost-effectiveness and innovative approaches.
Criteria: The Nominee must meet the following criteria:
Innovation: Describe how the product or service is innovative, leveraging digital technologies, to address the challenges of digital skills development in the public sector.
Impact: Is there a measurable impact on the development of digital skills or talent in the public sector, such as increasing the number of digitally skilled employees, reducing skills gaps?
Scalability: Does the product or service have the potential to be scaled up or replicated to have a wider application
Inclusivity: Has the initiative enhanced inclusion of unserved segments of the society or has the potential to do so.
Best Digital Skills Initiative
Best AI Innovation
Best AI Innovation
The AI project distinguished by its originality, clear alignment with Pakistani needs, measurable or potential impact on millions of individuals, and readiness for cost-effective national expansion will be recognition.
Criteria: The Nominee must meet the following criteria:
Innovation: Describe how the product or service is innovative, leveraging AI technologies in a unique way to address public sector challenges and deliver tangible benefits.
Impact: Demonstrate a measurable positive impact this AI solution has on public sector operations, such as improving efficiency, reducing costs, or enhancing user experience.
Scalability: Detail ways in which the AI solution can be scaled up to address wider public sector challenges. 200 words.
Inclusivity: Has the initiative enhanced inclusion of unserved segments of society or has the potential to do so.
Best Data Innovation
The data project that innovatively leverages Pakistani datasets to achieve significant, ethical, and equitable impact at scale, ensuring data sovereignty and long-term sustainability, will be considered.
Criteria: The Nominee must meet the following criteria:Innovation: Describe how the product or service is innovative, leveraging data technologies in a unique way to address public sector challenges and deliver tangible benefits.
Impact: Is there or can there be a measurable impact on public sector operations, such as improving decision-making, generating insights or providing a competitive edge.
Scalability: Does the solution demonstrate possible scaling up options.
Inclusivity: Has the initiative enhanced inclusion of unserved segments of society or has the potential to do so.
Best Data Innovation
Best Citizen Experience
Best Citizen Experience
The digital service that ensures government interactions are streamlined, accessible, and equitable for all Pakistanis, from urban residents to rural farmers, will take the lead.
Criteria: The Nominee must meet the following criteria:
Innovation: Describe how the digital solution is innovative and designed with a user-centric approach, ensuring that it meets the needs of citizens and delivers an exceptional experience.
Impact: Demonstrate the measurable impact on citizens’ experience, such as improved convenience, accessibility, or satisfaction.
Scalability: Detail how the digital solution is sustainable and scalable, capable of delivering an exceptional citizen experience to a large number of citizens over time.
Inclusivity: Has the initiative enhanced inclusion of unserved segments of society or has the potential to do so.
Leading Woman in Digital Transformation
The female public servant who led a significant and innovative digital transformation within government, positively impacting thousands of Pakistani women and overcoming systemic challenges to achieve this progress, will be recognized for her accomplishments.
Criteria: The Nominee must meet the following criteria:Leadership: Describe how the person demonstrates exceptional leadership skills in driving digital governance transformation within the public sector.
Impact: Has there been any impact on public sector, such as improving delivery, reducing costs, etc.
Innovation: Has the individual demonstrated exceptional innovation in the delivery of digital governance, services or solutions, leveraging emerging technologies, or fostering a culture of innovation within the public sector.
Inclusivity: Has the initiative enhanced inclusion of unserved segments of society or has the potential to do so.
Leading Woman in Digital Transformation
Best Climate Tech Innovation
Best Climate Tech Innovation
The public-sector initiative that utilises digital technology to substantially mitigate Pakistan's climate risks, empower vulnerable communities, and aims to achieve scalable implementation nationwide with minimal resources will be selected.
Criteria: The Nominee must meet the following criteria:Innovation: Describe how the product or service is innovative, leveraging technology in a unique way to address climate challenges and improve climate outcomes.
Impact: Has there been a measurable positive impact on climate outcomes, such as reducing deforestation, improving energy efficiency, weather warning system, or reducing carbon footprint and environmental protection etc.
Scalability: Does the product or service have the potential to be scaled up or replicated for wider application.
Inclusivity: Has the initiative enhanced inclusion of unserved segments of society or has the potential to do so.
Best Public Private Partnership
The public-private partnership that combines public vision with private sector resources to achieve significant, innovative, and equitable digital impact at a sustainable scale is selected for the award.
Criteria: The Nominee must meet the following criteria:
Innovation: How the Public Private Partnership/ project has created synergies to solve a challenge and created public value.
Scalability: Does the Project or approach have the potential to be scaled up or replicated to have a wider application.
Impact: Demonstrate the measurable impact of this initiative both within the collaborative teams, and for the community that it benefits or problem it solves. 200 words.
Inclusivity: Has the project or initiative enhanced inclusion of unserved segments of society or has the potential to do so.
Best Public Private Partnership
Regional Connectivity Innovation
Regional Connectivity Innovation
The public-sector initiative, which pioneers secure and innovative digital connections across borders, enhances Pakistan's trade and inclusion, and stands to expand regionally with resilience, will be selected for the award.
Criteria: The Nominee must meet the following criteria:Innovation: How is the product or service innovative, leveraging technology in a unique way to address and improve regional connectivity challenges.
Impact: is there impact on facilitating cooperation between two or more regional countries etc.
Scalability: Does the Project or approach have the potential to be scaled up or replicated to have a wider application.
Inclusivity: Has the project or initiative enhanced inclusion of unserved segments of society or has the potential to do so.
Best Project implementation
The award recognizes the public-sector digital/tech project (federal, provincial or local) that has been executed with discipline, speed, quality and measurable citizen impact.
Criteria: The Nominee must meet the following criteria:Innovation: Describe the novel approach the project took to overcome systemic or other challenges.
Impact: How significantly successful the implementation of approach has been in achieving planned outcomes.
Scalability: Does the approach taken have the potential to be scaled up or replicated to have a wider application.
Inclusivity: Detail the inclusiveness of the project, does it covered ensure inclusion of unserved populations of the country.
Best Project implementation
Best Private Sector Value Contribution
Best Private Sector Value Contribution
The award is presented to the private company that provided a valuable digital service to disadvantaged populations in Pakistan for several years, generating public value, without pursuing profit, while also generating significant cost savings for the government.
Criteria: The Nominee must meet the following criteria:
Innovation: The Initiative has benefited a large number of citizens and underserved communities by addressing a public sector gap or a priority, such as digital inclusion, education, health, disaster response, environment, financial inclusion, etc
Impact: Demonstrates a measurable impact on sustainability
Scalability: Demonstrates clear potential for scalability and holds potential for genuine collaboration or knowledge transfer.
Inclusivity: Has the initiative enhanced inclusion of unserved segments of society or has the potential to do so.
Best HealthTech Innovation
The public-sector HealthTech solution that delivers the greatest positive impact on lives, effectively reaches underserved populations in Pakistan, and does so with innovation, cost-efficiency, and security will be recognised as the leading initiative.
Criteria: The Nominee must meet the following criteria:
Innovation: Describe how the product or service is innovative, leveraging technology in a unique way to address healthcare/ sector challenges and improve health outcomes.
Impact: Demonstrate a measurable positive impact on health outcomes, such as reducing hospitalisation rates, improving patient outcomes, or reducing healthcare costs, etc.
Scalability:Detail how the product or service has the potential to be scaled up or replicated to have a wider impact on health and wellbeing. .
Inclusivity: Has the project or initiative enhanced inclusion of unserved segments of the society or has the potential to do so.
Best HealthTech Innovation
Best EdTech Innovation
Best EdTech Innovation
This award highlights how digital tools can boost efficiency, improve service standards, and promote inclusion in Pakistan’s public sector education. The selected innovation should use advanced technology and deliver significant, measurable results.
Criteria: The Nominee must meet the following criteria:
Innovation: Describe how the product or service is innovative, leveraging technology in a unique way to address education sector challenges and improve education outcomes.
Impact: Demonstrate a measurable positive impact on education outcomes, such as improving enrolment, reducing out of school children, improving learning outcomes, or reducing education costs.
Scalability: Detail how the product or service has the potential to be scaled up or replicated to have a wider impact on education.
Inclusivity: Has the project or initiative enhanced inclusion of unserved segments of the society or has the potential to do so.
Best AgriTech Innovation
This award highlights how digital tools can boost value chain efficiency, improve service standards, and enhance productivity in Pakistan’s Agriculture sector. The selected innovation should use advanced technology and deliver significant, measurable results.
Criteria: The Nominee must meet the following criteria:
Innovation: Describe how the product or service is innovative, leveraging technology in a unique way to address agriculture challenges and improve agriculture outcomes. 200 words.
Impact: Demonstrate a measurable positive impact on agriculture outcomes, such as reducing greenhouse gas emission, improving crop yield, market access, value chain, water quality and management, soil health, or reducing agriculture costs, etc. 200 words.
Scalability: Does the Project or approach have the potential to be scaled up or replicated to have a wider application.
Inclusivity: Has the project or initiative enhanced inclusion of unserved segments of society or has the potential to do so.
Best AgriTech Innovation
Best New Idea in Digital Transformation
Best New Idea in Digital Transformation
The "Best New Idea" will be an innovative, effective technological application that enhances service delivery or processes, enabling government to operate more efficiently, equitably, and with future readiness for all stakeholders.
Criteria: The Nominee must meet the following criteria:
Innovation: Describe how the idea is innovative in proposing solutions to address public sector challenges.
Impact: Demonstrate how the idea can have a measurable positive impact on public sector governance, operations or service delivery
Scalability: Does the Project or approach have the potential to be scaled up or replicated to have a wider application.
Inclusivity: Has the project or initiative enhanced inclusion of unserved segments of society or has the potential to do so.
Interoperability Excellence
The "Interoperability Excellence" public sector digital transformation award would focus on the impact, sustainability, and technical execution of initiatives that enable seamless data exchange and collaboration across different government agencies or with external partners.
Criteria: The Nominee must meet the following criteria:
Innovation: Describe how the project has championed/delivered a product or service which excels at interoperability.
Impact: Demonstrate how the idea can have a measurable positive impact on public sector governance, operations or service delivery
Scalability: Does the Project or approach have the potential to be scaled up or replicated to have a wider application.
Inclusivity: Has the initiative enhanced inclusion of unserved segments of society or has the potential to do so.
Interoperability Excellence
Tech for Social Good
Tech for Social Good
The "Tech for Social Good" Public Sector Digital Transformation Award recognizes initiatives that demonstrate innovative use of technology, deliver measurable impact for citizens, promote inclusivity, ensure sustainability, and support a digital culture to enhance public service delivery and quality of life. The criteria emphasize achieving tangible societal benefits, rather than focusing solely on implementation.
Criteria: The Nominee must meet the following criteria:
Innovation: Describe how the product or service is innovative, leveraging technology to address social challenges.
Impact: Demonstrate how the idea can have a measurable positive impact on public sector governance, operations or service delivery.
Scalability: Does the Project or approach have the potential to be scaled up or replicated to have a wider application.
Inclusivity: Has the initiative enhanced inclusion of unserved segments of society or has the potential to do so.
Special Category
Patron of Digital Technology and Innovation
Criteria: Please provide a 500-word description detailing how the nominee has actively supported technology and innovation within the country through impactful projects or initiatives. This award recognizes distinguished senior leaders who leverage their influence and authority to champion, endorse, and enhance the credibility of digital transformation efforts. Nominees may represent the public sector, private industry, civil society, or non-governmental organizations, and can be nationals of any friendly country.
Patron of Tech and Innovation
Leadership in the Face of Challenge
Special Category
Leadership in the Face of Challenge
This award recognizes public sector leaders who have demonstrated exceptional resilience and strategic foresight in navigating complexity to drive digital transformation and delivering public value.
Criteria: The Nominee must meet the following criteria:
Leadership: Describe how the individual demonstrates exceptional leadership skills in the face of challenge providing direction and solutions
Impact: Detail how leadership in the face of challenge demonstrated a measurable positive impact on the public sector
Innovation: Detail how the individual demonstrates exceptional innovation solving the challenge, leveraging emerging technologies, or fostering a culture of innovation within the public sector.