September 26, 2024, Technical Committee Meeting

Observations from Country Engagement

Nabhonil, Roy

Key Pointers Discussed During the Meeting

• Target audience and intended outcomes - Countries struggle to internalize the concepts owing to the amount of abstraction and confusion owing to nomenclature (IM - Messaging, Registrations, etc.)

• The attractiveness of GovStack is primarily to the technical community. However, the ground reality is, that without a clearer articulation of business value proporition to departmental heads, it is difficult for it take roots. Issues such as sharing of budget, custodianship of systems, etc. 

• Principles and frameworks are great, but their needs are here and now. So, they want to talk about products.

• Should we be certifying for compliance of country implementations, and if so, how? And, how do we define success and say that we have arrived at a point where it is safe to say we have delivered impact the GovStack way?

• With the structured inception phase and the prototyping approach that we have taken in the last few months, the haze is clearing, but it is creating other issues from a product neutrality standpoint.

• GovStack in principle is a national framework but in action is bottom-up. Hence, unless we initiate two parallel streams of work, where we help them develop tangible solutions in parallel to national policies, and architectures.

Release Status of Building Block Specs (ID & Wallet Building Blocks)

Rounak Nayak