Google.org Impact Challenge: AI for Government Innovation

Introduction

This is the Application for the Google.org Impact Challenge: AI for Government Innovation is a $30M global initiative to help governments use AI to improve public services. We are looking for nonprofits, social enterprises, and academic institutions that are partnering with governments and using generative and agentic AI capabilities to transform how public services function for social good — from everyday essential services to complex societal challenges. Beyond funding, selected organizations will receive dedicated pro bono technical support from Google AI experts through a multi-month Google.org Accelerator to help bring these projects to life.

We’re particularly interested in proposals leveraging generative and agentic AI to help governments solve complex societal challenges across health, resilience, and economy — including public infrastructure and affordability. We will consider compelling proposals outside of these topics with strong alignment across criteria.

Health: Enhance public systems so more effective healthcare services can reach all citizens, regardless of location. For example, by leveraging generative and agentic AI to create seamless “front door” access to services, improve frontline health worker capacity, or drive population-scale preventive care that ensures no community is left behind. 

Resilience: Empower communities to plan, respond, and recover from crises to protect people and save lives. For example, via AI-powered forecasting and response capabilities that ensure no community is surprised by a major crisis, using real-time data to transform how public servants and first responders address disasters.

Economy: Expand opportunity and affordability by improving public infrastructure to ensure accessible, essential services and pathways to prosperity for all.  For example, by leveraging agentic AI and predictive optimization to streamline transit networks and improve the efficiency of infrastructure resource allocation so that no opportunity is out of reach. 

Criteria

Applications will be evaluated using the following criteria: Impact, Innovative Use of Technology, Feasibility, and Scalability. 

Impact: Proposals should address a critical public service challenge through data-driven solutions that drive significant, measurable outcomes for communities, leverage strong government partnerships, and demonstrate a deep understanding of how end beneficiaries will be reached and supported.

Innovative Use of Technology: Proposals should leverage generative or agentic AI applications that go beyond incremental change, accelerating high-potential solutions or enabling new ideas that address the core problem in line with Google’s AI Principles.

Feasibility: Proposals should demonstrate a realistic execution plan in a public service context, supported by a capable team, documented government buy-in, a strategy for government adoption with minimal friction, and clear metrics for success.

Scalability: Proposals should demonstrate potential replication across governments, regions, and use cases, including a plan for knowledge-sharing and continued growth beyond support from Google.org.

For additional information on what we’re looking for, refer to our Frequently Asked Questions.