There are a lot of barely functional nations with weak digitisation and awful state capacity. Even the UK has basically worked out it cannot afford to give people ID cards, which is kind of nuts. The majority of nations need to deliver a core set of functions around passports, identity documents, tax collection, elections, social security administration, driving licenses, referenda, public tenders, departmental accounting, audits. It seems with AI, the capability gap is likely to get far worse, ...