Author, founder and public thinker
Gustavo
Maia
Gustavo Maia works at the intersection of technology, artificial intelligence and digital public infrastructure to help governments move beyond the reactive model — toward a future in which the state acts before the citizen has to ask.
Author of
Zero-Click Government
Founder and CEO
Colab
Member of
WEF Global Future Council on GovTech & DPI
Columnist
Exame
The future of government will not be defined by who has more technology, but by who has the greater capacity to turn data into public action.
The thesis
From the reactive state
to the proactive state.
A new generation of governments combines data, AI and digital public infrastructure to act in an anticipatory, intelligent and legitimate way.
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Book
Zero-Click Government
How data, artificial intelligence and digital public infrastructure will make the state proactive.
A paradigm shift that puts citizens at the center and state capacity as the engine of development.
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Building capacity and solutions for governments that want to transform realities.
About ColabZero-Click
Government Institute
Research, experimentation and support for governments on the journey to proactive government.
Learn moreFeatured essays
Reboot Democracy, by Beth Simone Noveck
Zero-Click Government: A Response from Beth Simone Noveck
May 2026
World Economic Forum
Zero-click government: why it's time to rethink when and how the state acts
March 2026
Exame
The 9.8 trillion reasons GovTech will reshape how governments work from 2026 onward
December 2025
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