A unified government data lake with an Arabic decision-intelligence layer: executive dashboards, live indicators, predictive models.
Full details
- Problem
- Government data sits in disconnected islands, so national decisions are made without a unified picture.
- Beneficiaries
- Cabinet office, planning and finance ministries, statistical bodies.
- Components
- Ingestion layer, unified store, governance and permissions engine, decision dashboards, agency APIs.
- Technologies
- Open-standard data lakes, end-to-end encryption, Arabic language models, in-country hosting.
- Delivery phases
- Readiness study → two-ministry pilot → phased rollout → national operating handover.
- National value
- Government decisions built on live data instead of months-old reports.
- Success measures
- Connected agencies, time-to-indicator, decision-maker satisfaction.
A generative AI assistant speaking formal Arabic and Iraqi dialect, guiding citizens through the right procedure step by step.
Full details
- Problem
- Citizens spend hours working out government procedures and where to complete them.
- Beneficiaries
- Citizens, government service centres, the government hotline.
- Components
- Arabic dialogue engine, verified procedural knowledge base, web and phone channels, government content console.
- Technologies
- Tuned Arabic language models, retrieval-augmented generation, accuracy guardrails with human hand-off.
- Delivery phases
- Single-service pilot → five services → multi-agency rollout.
- National value
- Shorter transaction times and fewer in-person visits.
- Success measures
- Audited answer accuracy, human-referral rate, user satisfaction.
A national security operations centre for critical infrastructure: monitoring, threat intelligence and coordinated cross-sector response.
Full details
- Problem
- Critical infrastructure faces escalating cyber threats without unified national monitoring.
- Beneficiaries
- Energy, water, telecom and banking sectors.
- Components
- Central monitoring platform, threat-intelligence unit, response teams, sector coordination protocols.
- Technologies
- Leading SIEM/SOAR platforms, OT-systems integration, NIST CSF framework.
- Delivery phases
- Advisory design → single-sector operating core → sector expansion → national accreditation.
- National value
- Incident-detection time cut from months to minutes.
- Success measures
- Mean time to detect/respond, sector coverage, successful exercises.
A national programme measuring the maturity of one hundred agencies and running executive-level simulation exercises.
Full details
- Problem
- Most agencies do not know their cyber maturity and never test their response plans.
- Beneficiaries
- Federal and regional government entities.
- Components
- Unified assessment methodology, measurement platform, simulation exercises, per-agency remediation map.
- Technologies
- ISO 27001 and NIST frameworks, digital assessment platform, realistic simulation scenarios.
- Delivery phases
- Ten pioneer agencies → fifty → one hundred, on an annual cycle.
- National value
- A measurable national baseline raising readiness agency by agency.
- Success measures
- Agencies assessed, year-on-year maturity gains, response-plan readiness.
05 / 14 — Fintech
Unified Government Payments Platform
Concept project
A unified e-collection platform linking agencies to existing national payment rails with instant settlement and reporting.
Full details
- Problem
- Government collection is fragmented cash, while a standing mandate requires electronic payment by July 2026.
- Beneficiaries
- Ministry of Finance, collecting agencies, citizens and businesses.
- Components
- Unified payment gateway, settlement engine, live revenue dashboard, integration with licensed PSPs.
- Technologies
- ISO 20022 financial messaging, transaction encryption, open integration architecture.
- Delivery phases
- Pilot agency → ten agencies → full linkage. (Delivered with CBI-licensed providers.)
- National value
- Instant revenue transparency and reduced cash leakage.
- Success measures
- e-Collection share, settlement time, connected agencies.
06 / 14 — Fintech
National Financial-Inclusion Wallet
Concept project
A simple Arabic digital wallet linking national ID to a basic payment account for salaries, transfers and bills.
Full details
- Problem
- A wide segment of Iraqis remains unbanked despite smartphones and digital ID.
- Beneficiaries
- The unbanked, social-welfare pensioners, daily-wage workers.
- Components
- Wallet app, agent network, national-ID integration, KYC/compliance stack.
- Technologies
- Secure cloud wallet architecture, biometric verification, AML/CFT controls.
- Delivery phases
- Conditional on Central Bank of Iraq licensing — begins with a licensing study and bank partnership.
- National value
- Bringing millions into the formal digital economy.
- Success measures
- Active accounts, transfer volumes, inclusion of women and provinces.
A single window for government services with one digital identity, one design system and one procedural language.
Full details
- Problem
- Government e-services are scattered across disparate sites with uneven experiences.
- Beneficiaries
- Citizens, residents and businesses.
- Components
- Unified portal, digital-ID single sign-on, procedural forms engine, case tracking.
- Technologies
- A unified government design system (GOV.UK pattern), microservices architecture, WCAG AA accessibility.
- Delivery phases
- Five high-demand services → fifty → hundreds, on a repeatable release method.
- National value
- A government service completed from a phone in minutes.
- Success measures
- Services live, full-digital completion rate, user satisfaction.
A secure, audited data-exchange layer between federal agencies and their KRG counterparts.
Full details
- Problem
- Data exchange between federal and regional systems runs on paper, slowly.
- Beneficiaries
- Federal agencies, the KRG, citizens moving between both.
- Components
- Standard exchange contracts, shared audit log, secure gateways, bilateral governance framework.
- Technologies
- Government interoperability standards, channel encryption, accredited e-signature.
- Delivery phases
- One use case (credential verification) → five → a permanent framework.
- National value
- A citizen's transaction completed in their own province, whatever the issuing authority.
- Success measures
- Active use cases, completion time, shared-log reliability.
09 / 14 — R&D
Babylon Arabic AI Lab
Concept project
An applied research core, with university partnerships, building datasets and reference models for Iraqi Arabic.
Full details
- Problem
- Global tools stumble on Arabic and its dialects, while local research is fragmented.
- Beneficiaries
- Iraqi universities, government agencies, the regional market.
- Components
- Core team, university agreements, training infrastructure, publication programme.
- Technologies
- Tunable open language models, rights-cleared datasets, benchmark evaluation.
- Delivery phases
- Two university partnerships → first published dataset → an Iraqi reference model.
- National value
- A national knowledge asset serving every government AI project.
- Success measures
- Peer-reviewed publications, open datasets, resident researchers.
10 / 14 — R&D
Emerging-Technology Observatory
Concept project
An observatory issuing annual foresight reports and readiness assessments of emerging technologies from an Iraqi perspective.
Full details
- Problem
- National agencies buy technology reactively, without systematic foresight.
- Beneficiaries
- Policymakers, regulators, government technology leadership.
- Components
- Scanning methodology, expert network, annual reports, decision briefs.
- Technologies
- Open-source scanning platform, trend analysis, expert adjudication.
- Delivery phases
- First annual report → sector series → agency subscription service.
- National value
- Procurement and legislation built on foresight, not vendor pitches.
- Success measures
- Reports published, subscribing agencies, documented decision impact.
A national cloud built to global standards — designed as advisory today, operated as investment and partnerships complete.
Full details
- Problem
- Sensitive government data needs a modern cloud environment that never leaves national borders.
- Beneficiaries
- Government agencies, critical sectors, banks.
- Components
- Two geographically separated data centres, cloud platform, government service portal, security accreditation framework.
- Technologies
- Tier III+ and ISO 27017/27018 standards, data isolation, qualified local operations.
- Delivery phases
- Feasibility and design → technology and investment partnership → operating core → expansion. (Capital project — under development.)
- National value
- Full data sovereignty with modern cloud flexibility.
- Success measures
- Hosted agencies, service availability, security accreditations achieved.
A pilot smart-city platform in Erbil: utility sensing, traffic management and a unified municipal operations dashboard.
Full details
- Problem
- Utility and traffic management in major cities runs manually at rising cost.
- Beneficiaries
- The KRG, Erbil municipality, city residents.
- Components
- Sensor network, IoT platform, operations dashboard, resident reporting app.
- Technologies
- IoT and edge computing, real-time analytics, OT security standards.
- Delivery phases
- One pilot district → three service sectors → an expansion map for other cities.
- National value
- Lower municipal operating costs and measurably better service.
- Success measures
- Active sensing points, report response times, measured savings.
A secure institutional fibre network linking government entities under one encryption and service standard.
Full details
- Problem
- Inter-agency connectivity relies on scattered networks with no single security standard.
- Beneficiaries
- Federal and regional agencies, national data centres.
- Components
- Dual fibre routes, exchange points, channel encryption, network operations centre.
- Technologies
- Modern fibre architecture, secure routing, live performance monitoring. (With existing infrastructure operators.)
- Delivery phases
- Ten Baghdad agencies → Erbil and provinces → permanent operating framework.
- National value
- Reliable government connectivity underpinning every national digital service.
- Success measures
- Connected agencies, network availability, outage incidents.
A national upskilling platform targeting ten thousand government employees over three years in digital and cyber skills.
Full details
- Problem
- Every transformation project stalls on the shortage of trained staff inside agencies.
- Beneficiaries
- Government employees, new graduates, institutional technology teams.
- Components
- Arabic learning platform, accredited career tracks, applied labs, completion certificates.
- Technologies
- Modern e-learning platform, practical assessment, international accreditation partnerships.
- Delivery phases
- Three foundation tracks → ten tracks → official curriculum accreditation.
- National value
- Every national digital project sustained by local talent.
- Success measures
- Certified trainees, track completion rates, graduate placement on live projects.