Global Government GenAI Observatory (G3O): A Database of AI Adoption by 700,000 Public Institutions

How rapidly is generative AI being adopted inside government, and who is using it? Headlines on AI in the public sector tend to consist of vendor claims and one-off pilots; the underlying record of adoption is fragmentary. The Global Government GenAI Observatory (G3O) builds a panel of AI adoption signals across roughly 700,000 public institutions worldwide — central governments, regional administrations, subnational units, and special-purpose agencies — by combining public procurement records, agency communications, and structured web-scraping pipelines. The project will release the database publicly in 2026 and produce downstream papers on adoption drivers, institutional variation, and consequences.