2025-05-26 Governance Committee Meeting Notes

2025-05-26 Governance Committee Meeting Notes

This page describes the GovStack meeting notes. We use this meeting page to both run the meeting and keep notes, actions and decisions.

To avoid long meeting where the current status of each report is read out, we ask all participants to read the links below before the meeting, add in any questions they may have and then ask them in the meeting. This will focus the meeting upon the questions, decisions and actions needed for greatest impact.

Participants -

ITU: @Marushka Chocobar @Van Wyk, Jody

GIZ : @Nora Hauptmann @Sarah Fischer

EE (moderating): @Hans Christian Ende

 

 

0. Celebrate

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Women in GovTech challenge

 

Congratulations on the successful work.

 

 

 

1. Roadmap

2. Priority Discussions

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Playbook updates

GIZ/ EstDev

Playbook updates/ Digital Government Service Design Playbook - as a chapter of the playbook?

In the grant ammendment there is a section on playbook update. Need more clarity on what is intended @Marika Popp.

Advisory Board Preparations

GIZ/Sarah

  1. Who will be representing ITU and Estonia (as speakers) from ITU and MFA?

  2. As discussed in a previous GC meeting, we would like to involve AB members in the planning of the AB meeting. Will be taken up in the invitation, additional conversations could include questions like:

  • What did you appreciate or find valuable in the last Advisory Board meeting? What do you feel did not work well ?

  • Which topics or issues would be particularly relevant for you to discuss within the Advisory Board setting in general, and particularly for the upcoming AB meeting?

Suggested conversations:

IEEE - GIZ
Smart Africa - GIZ
World Bank - GIZ
DGPA - EstDev ?
UNDP - ITU?
others?

  1. Estonia and ITU will clarify speaker engagement.

 

  1. Make few suggestions who would be included in this process. In order to get a feeling on where our partners stand - i.e. is there anything that they would see as a potential area of collaboration or if there is something that needs to be improved. GIZ will distribiute an email on who will reach out to which AB partner. ITU, might reach out to Mei Lin.

Country implementation feedback mechanism to technical working groups

Jody/ITU

 

Jody to present on new ideas at the next GC meeting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Actions

3. Team Updates and Opportunities for Strategic Decisions

Every GC meeting one cohort is requested to share updates in written form in this table.

Every team has the opportunity to request direction/decision from the GC.

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4. Communications and Events

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 e-governance academy conference 27-29. May

 

 Request to amplify the post made by ESTDEV during the e-gov conference.

 

 

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5. AOB

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 e-mail from the vice-minister Dominican reublic

 

ITU will share the information.  

 

 

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