Meeting Notes 2025

Certificates: Architects Training

• Using the list being sent by Skyler to Josephine.

• Puja/ Ayush to verify from Josephine if the TalTech credits have been sent and then to email the Certificate of Completion with Distinction.

Page for Architects Training (website)

Puja

• Ayush and Puja to ready the page and share it with the Comms Huddle.

Network of Architects Training

Pia

• Puja/ Skyler speaking with Martha on Friday and will report back next week on community management of a Slack Channel for the Architects Training.

Women in GovTech Challenge Second Cohort

Puja, Ayush

• Puja to make changes based on comments to the Excecutive Summary document: 20250120_GovStack Women in GovTech Challenge 2025_Executive Summary.docx

• Discussion on Mentor Role vs Technical Experts, do we need mentors?

• Presentation of Mentee Application Form: 20251601_Application Form_Mentees.docx

• Ayush/ Puja/ Skyler to discuss a solution to team applications and bring it up on Thursday.

Update on Taltech WRT the challenge

Shukla, Ayush

• We have Ingrid Pappel onboard with us till May at the least, reach out to her and seek if we have Super Josephine join us as well!

• Share Comp framework with Puja on whatsapp

Proposed timeline by Eskandar, Hani

Shukla, Ayush

• The lion's share of the work is to be completed by May or April 2025.

Updates to be presented to the GC today and seek their input on resources that can be contributed.

Shukla, Ayush

• Link to the GC presentation

• Overview of the challenge

  • Ask an event that we can announce the WIGTC25 at.

  • The facilitators that we have on hand, the participants that we can support

  • Estimate that we will need for technical experts and the travel for participants (Maybe Est can support with tech exp and expenses for travel)

• To be presented by Puja Raghavan and Shukla, Ayush

Certificates for the GovStack Architects Program 2024

skylerblake010

still no response from director's office decision to send certificates out by Jan20th if we don´t hear from the director

Goals 2025

Nora

We checked all goals and apdated them here: GovStack Deliverables 2025.pptx

University collaboration

PSRAMKUMAR

• Countries require some courses on Cloud Infra. 2 levels:

  • General cloud infra (Piggy back on existing PG cloud computing course)

  • SCS specific theory and practice course with Govstack architecture primer.as an elective subject,

• We need a GovStack cobranded courses.

  • We need to check if the universities can set up a demo cloud environment.

    • This may involve signing MOUs, requiring a visit.

  • Sovereign Cloud Stack can be a separate elective course.

Certificates

Nora Hauptmann Shukla, Ayush

• Shukla, Ayush to prep a draft. Send another email 07 Jan 2025 informing them that we are on top of things

• Add members that have been removed from Slack.

• Include a link to the general slack channel as well.

Architects training closing

Nora Hauptmann

• Post-Training Support: Discuss what we can do with them.

• Skyler Blake to add them to the broader community?

• Invite the grads to provide feedback to PAERA and take this to the tech comms call and ask how best we can use volunteers.

Atingi partner page

Nora Hauptmann

To be discussed next week.

Women in GovTech Challenge 2nd ed

Shukla, Ayush Puja Raghavan

Proposal to update invite to 1300 CET at the earliest and include Marushka Chocobar

Shukla, Ayush