Dear colleagues,

You are warmly invited to apply to a new programme from The Digital Statecraft Academy (DSA), which may be of interest to those working on digital government, data and AI in public institutions.

DSA Algorithmic State Architecture Programme, Cambridge: an in-person deep dive into the systems and structures behind digital statecraft

Residential Programme Dates: 24 - 30 January 2027
Location: Cambridge, United Kingdom
Full details and to apply: https://digitalstatecraft.academy/dsa-algorithmic-state-architecture-asa-programme/

Governments everywhere are under pressure to make AI-enabled transformation work as a coherent architecture that holds together end to end. Most training in this space offers a general survey of AI and data governance. This one-week residential programme takes a different approach.

The framework : The programme is built on DSA's Algorithmic State Architecture (ASA) framework, which treats the four domains at the centre of this challenge not as parallel initiatives to be run separately, but as components of a coherent whole that depend on and shape one another:

• Foundation — Digital Public Infrastructure
• Intelligence — Data for Policy
• Process — Algorithmic Government / Governance
• Service — GovTech

A failure or gap in one layer propagates into the others, even when each is governed carefully on its own terms.

The week: Over five intensive days, participants work through each layer: its mechanisms, its dependencies, and where it most often breaks.

• Hands-on workshops rather than lectures
• Comparative case material from governments at different stages of digital transformation
• A live problem from your own institution or research, carried through all five days
• A closing maturity map of your own institution: where its strengths lie, where its bottlenecks sit, and what to prioritise next
• Direct working access to the scholars and practitioners behind the ASA framework (who we are)

Who it is for: The cohort is small and deliberately cross-disciplinary, drawn internationally across government, research, and public-sector-facing private and civil-society roles:

• Senior civil servants and public-sector technologists
• GovTech, digital government and public-sector data leaders
• Researchers and academics working on digital government, AI governance or public administration
• Policy leads, regulators and oversight professionals
• Consultants and multilateral agency officers working across several governments

Applying: Applications are reviewed as they arrive and close when all places are filled. Early application is therefore encouraged, particularly for those who need time for visa, travel or funding arrangements.

• Final application deadline: 25 November 2026
• Registration and payment: 15 December 2026
• Residential programme in Cambridge: 24 to 30 January 2027

Full details and the application form are on the programme page. Please feel free to share this programme with colleagues who may be interested.

Best wishes,
The Digital Statecraft Academy