Public-sector AI in practice

From experiments
to shared capacity

A community of practice where municipalities and public organisations share AI experience, test assumptions and build capacity together.

03 visual presentations06 shared learning tracks24 members

Meetings & materials

See the conversation.
Take it further.

At each meeting, members share solutions, uncertainties and technical choices. Minutes, architecture and working documents make the learning useful across organisations.

Latest network meeting

Hosted by Velatir in Odense · 3 September 2026

Presentations and documented discussions on AI operations, vibe coding, agentic engineering, KONTEKST, Agent Harness and modular AI.

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AI-assisted minutes. The content should be quality-assured. No formal decisions or agreed owners are documented.

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Curated horizon scan

Current knowledge on
public-sector AI.

News and analysis from public authorities, municipalities, universities and recognised specialist sources — selected for their relevance to public-sector practice.

More perspectives

More knowledge from beyond the network

22.07.2026European Commission
Regulation

New generative-AI pilots for public administrations

Three EU projects will test trustworthy generative-AI solutions for specific public-authority and citizen needs, focusing on public procurement, interoperability and reuse across organisations.

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09.07.2026Danish Data Protection Agency
Regulation

Three AI projects selected for the regulatory sandbox

The third round includes a quality-assured Lex chatbot, AI translation with the Capital Region of Denmark and an AI platform that can run on an organisation’s own infrastructure. Findings will be published after the programmes conclude.

View source · Danish-language source
09.07.2026Technical University of Denmark
Infrastructure

AI can support the climate transition — while increasing resource consumption

DTU describes the technology’s dual climate impact: AI can optimise areas such as solar cells and CO₂ capture, while data centres also place pressure on electricity and water resources.

View source · Danish-language source
06.07.2026Gentofte Municipality
Municipalities

Gentofte sets a direction for responsible AI use

Ten citizens and five elected representatives have developed recommendations covering a shared ambition, ethical guidelines, human decision-making for critical matters, data security and transparency.

View source · Danish-language source
30.06.2026KL
Municipalities

AI-assisted documentation rolls out across 64 municipalities

The municipalities are organised into seven clusters to share and reuse experience. Speech-to-text is the common focus, while some clusters are also working with interpreting solutions and open source.

View source · Danish-language source
11.06.2026Aarhus University
Research

Award-winning study: AI and public leadership can complement one another

The study examines decisions made by AI and public-sector leaders. Its findings suggest that people and AI can sometimes produce more balanced decisions together because they tend to make different kinds of mistakes.

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12.05.2026Djøfbladet
Citizen services

AI-shaped citizen enquiries challenge public authorities’ casework

Seven of nine surveyed authorities report more lengthy and resource-intensive enquiries. The article describes inaccurate or fabricated legal references and a growing need for fact-checking.

View source · Danish-language source
30.03.2026Aarhus University · CEFAU
Working life

AI changes tasks and skill requirements at work

The research brief suggests that AI primarily changes tasks and skill requirements rather than simply removing entire jobs. Continuous, profession-specific upskilling will therefore be central.

View source · Danish-language source
02.03.2026Danish Ministry of Digital Affairs
Infrastructure

Report on Denmark’s digital development 2026

The national status report brings together developments in digitalisation and AI, with attention to skills, trust, resilience and sovereignty, and describes the large-scale public AI projects launched in 2026.

View source · Danish-language source

Shared knowledge · put into practice

What we are
learning.

The network's practice tracks connect hands-on experience with standards, sources and actionable approaches. Use them to improve decisions on governance, security, development and operations.

01Governance

AI becomes an operational capability

Jesper Schmidt · Sønderborg

Copilot Credits are a shared unit of consumption for Microsoft’s AI services. Pre-purchased capacity can be combined with pay-as-you-go, and consumption can be managed through budgets, alerts and limits. Credits should therefore be treated as an operational resource: every use case needs an owner, an environment, a budget and an agreed response to deviations. Microsoft describes the Default environment as suitable for experimentation and lightweight development, not business-critical solutions. Governance consequently spans finance, security, law, product ownership and continuous change management.

  • Measure AI consumption and assign a budget, alert and accountable owner to every solution.
  • Separate experimentation, development, testing and production in governed environments.
  • Bring product, finance, operations, security and legal expertise into shared decisions.
02Development

Vibe coding with a production gate

Daniel Corydon-Petersen · Gladsaxe

Vibe coding can shorten the route from need to prototype, but responsibility for software in operation remains unchanged. GitHub recommends checking function, context, security, maintainability and dependencies, supported by automated tests and human review. A responsible municipal model therefore gives low-risk prototypes an isolated experimentation track, followed by a clear production gate. Otherwise, the maintenance burden and technical debt appear only after the impressive demonstration.

  • Give low-risk prototypes a fast but isolated experimentation track.
  • Require a repository, system owner, tests, scanning and qualified review before production deployment.
  • Plan patching, monitoring, backups and decommissioning from the outset.
03Development

Agentic engineering as a discipline

Kim Stannov Søvsø · Aarhus

A coding agent can inspect a repository, make a plan, change several files and run tests, documentation and review tools. This makes agentic engineering more than code generation. Versioned Agent Skills and repository instructions can make organisational standards repeatable, but people still own the process: acceptance criteria, bounded implementation, automated controls, independent review and approved release.

  • Store shared standards as versioned instructions and skills in repositories.
  • Give the agent clear acceptance criteria and something against which it can verify its work.
  • Keep people accountable for design, review, release, risk and operations.
04Security

Claude Code, security and AI-assisted interpreting

Morten Ingemann Zeiner · Hillerød

Claude Code can access files, commands and external tools. A security assessment must therefore cover permissions and data flows, not only the model. For AI-assisted interpreting in schools and early-years settings, a lawful basis for processing does not come with the product. The authority must document purpose, necessity, proportionality and legal basis; children’s data require especially strict data minimisation and risk controls.

  • Combine managed permissions with file-system and network sandboxing.
  • Assess the purpose, data and public task in the specific context.
  • Clarify the DPIA, data-processing agreement, retention, transfers and human oversight.
05Architecture

A modular public-sector AI platform

Astrid Vestergård Greulich · Copenhagen

A modular platform is not one large chatbot, but a separation between shared capabilities and specific service solutions: identity, integrations, search, model gateway, logging and a governed release path. A use-case register can connect every product with its purpose, owner, data, risk, cost and service level. Open standards, documented data exports and replaceable components reduce vendor lock-in.

  • Build reusable, loosely coupled capabilities with clear interfaces.
  • Connect every use case with its purpose, owner, data, risk and costs.
  • Preserve the ability to change models and suppliers through portability and standards.
06Security

Agent Harness: control outside the model

Parthee Vijayamohan · Kalundborg

Agent Harness moves enforcement out of the model and into a shared, vendor-neutral control framework. The proposal is not an adopted standard; the model must not itself be the security enforcement point. A signed execution manifest binds identity, purpose, data, versions, tools, network access and approvals. Execution is isolated, while access to models, tools, secrets and networks passes through external gateways using deny-by-default and least privilege.

  • Place enforcement outside the model and keep it independent of the agent engine.
  • Bind each run to a manifest and enforce access through isolation and gateways.
  • Retain evidence covering code, builds, policies, tests, approvals and release.

Technical deep dive · architecture proposal

Control that sits
outside the agent.

Agent Harness moves enforcement out of the model and into a vendor-neutral control framework. The proposal is not an adopted standard: identity, policy, tool and network access, and evidence are controlled by components outside the agent engine.

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Signed manifest

Binds identity, purpose, data profile, versions, tools, network access, autonomy and approvals to the run.

02

Isolated execution

An ephemeral environment with a read-only base, resource quotas and deny-by-default networking limits the impact of failure.

03

External policy gateways

Model, tool, secret and network access is mediated centrally and granted with least privilege.

04

Reproducible evidence

Provenance, policy versions, tests, approvals and audit trails are bound to the commit, build and release — not only to a chat log.

Core principle

A change to a prompt, plugin or agent engine must not be able to remove enforcement.

Tools & reading

Sources for
better decisions.

A curated library of official guidance, standards and technical articles for responsible public-sector AI practice.

01

Guide

How public authorities can adopt AI responsibly

A practical starting point for accountability, risk assessment, transparency and organisation before a public authority selects or develops an AI solution.

02

Checklist

Public authorities’ use of artificial intelligence

Data-protection considerations from the first idea and development through deployment, control and ongoing accountability.

03

Architecture

Joint Public-Sector Digital Architecture

Principles, rules and reference architectures for coherent, secure and reusable public-sector digitalisation.

04

Practice

Large-scale AI projects in Danish municipalities

An overview of the cross-municipal tracks in which AI is being tested and scaled in documentation, planning and building-control casework and citizen services.

05

Standard

Secure Software Development Framework

A technology-neutral foundation for integrating security throughout the software life cycle, including when AI generates code and changes.

06

Engineering

Building effective agents

A clear-eyed explanation of the difference between workflows and agents, when complexity helps and why feedback loops are essential.

The network behind AI Alliancen

Expertise across
municipal boundaries.

Members bring experience from municipalities, public organisations, research and technology into play, turning local solutions, questions and mistakes into shared learning.

Meet the Alliance members

Knowledge grows stronger when it is shared

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