New Opportunities

(Any new country interests or exchanges since the last JF)

Pia

Indonesia: Capacity & Use Case Development → GovStack
has agreed with GIZ ZME (Centre for Migration & Development) Indonesia to support the development of a “Digital Kiosk” for
migrant workers. Collaboration was just kicked of. → 1st BB Deep Dive foreseen for March.

Tunisia: Capacity Development & BB Compliance: SMEs e-payment solution “Paysmart” is a functionally excellent, well-documented payment building block which will be further adapted to GS. → 1st out of 2 on site training / BB Deep Dive planned for mid February.

Ongoing exchanges, nothing concrete yet, with GIZ projects / partners from Palestine, Syria, Mozambique

Ongoing Implementations

(Relevant new developments / milestones?)

Pia

Kenya: Collaboration with ECDPM (European Centre for Development Policy Management) will be kicked-off soon to continue the work on the DPI KE Roadmap.

Djibouti: Great development -> GS / IDGC in DJI will be continued via GIZ InS contracted by EUD DJI.

IDGC: Final IDGC report handed in by end of February.

Senegal: Daniel Homorodean as key consultant of GIZ Senegal’s team.

Envisioned GovStack implementation for 2026:

• DPI Strategy/Gouvernance (mentioning GovStack principles)

• Interoperability Framework (mentioning PAERA GovStack)

• CMS Typo 3 for institutional websites of government (Training will start in Feb)

• Identification & Development of 3 services based on the govstack approach (using GovStack technology e.g. workflow Liquio) (e.g. Business Registration - but TBD)

Mauritania:

Arch: Vision and Principles have been developed (currently under review by gov), Analysis of As-Is, envisioned training in March/April for presenting all developed materials to broader gov

UXUI: Finalising last deliverables: Guiding on internal trainings for the future of the design system, planning support mechanisms long-term support for UXUI designers (e.g. set up of help desk etc.)

Smart Africa: Exchanges on potential use case development going on GIZ internally

Key Challenges / Learnings

Pia

• GIZ internal system switch is slowing many operations (contracting etc.)

Country Engagement Calendar

(Planned workshops, trainings, or events)

Pia

Indonesia, Tunisia

New Opportunities

(Any new country interests or exchanges since the last JF)

Dominican Republic: Special project document is being developed that considers the implementation of all the building blocks through a model similar to a Full Stack Center. It will be discussed next week with the Minister of Public Administration.

Miguel Alcaine from ITU Honduras is leading this project.

Ongoing Implementations

(Relevant new developments / milestones?)

Guinea: The cooperation agreement between Guinea’s Digital Transformation Agency and the ITU has been signed, and the first intervention is scheduled for the week of February 23. The priority format will be a 3-day workshop, along with 1:1 meetings with the lead authorities. The full project includes four on-site interventions.

The experts participating are Aare Laponin, Ramkumar Permachahalli, Alexander Reitsakas, and Rounak Nayak. The building blocks being considered are digital identity, the information mediator and the PAERA methodology.

Serge Yebel is the ITU Program Manager in charge of this project.

Guinea-Bissau: The cooperation agreement between Guinea-Bissau’s Digital Transformation Agency and the ITU has been signed, and the first intervention is scheduled for the week of February 9. The priority format will be also a 3-day workshop, along with 1:1 meetings with the lead authorities. The full project includes four on-site interventions.

The experts participating are Aare Laponin, Jaume Dubois, Ramkumar Permachahalli, Alexander Reitsakas, and Rounak Nayak. The building blocks being considered are digital identity, the information mediator and the PAERA methodology.

Serge Yebel is the ITU Program Manager in charge of this project.

Key Challenges / Learnings

Country Engagement Calendar

(Planned workshops, trainings, or events)

New Opportunities

(Any new country interests or exchanges since the last JF)

Ongoing Implementations

(Relevant new developments / milestones?)

Key Challenges / Learnings

Country Engagement Calendar

(Planned workshops, trainings, or events)

Countries requiring additional coordination or alignment?

Risks of parallel country engagement?

Need for bilateral follow-up conversations?

Communication coordination

• January-February GovSpecs releases

New Format - Request for Feedback

Pia

New format was presented and approved by the colleagues.

Feebdack from CE to Spec Development / WG

Ali / Marika

There is a need to improve the flow of information between the CE team and the working groups. The CE team agrees / shares this observation.

This affects various needs/levels:

• Feedback and information requirements on the part of the WG regarding CE implementations (e.g. which specs are used where/how?) -> future documentation with dashboard if necessary.

• Better briefing of the consultants who are active for us in the different partner countries – i.e. the need to inform them about the latest developments and efforts within the WGs in order to avoid duplication of work).

• Active involvement of selected consultants/WG members in the playbook feedback.

In addition, Nico has already developed a workflow how to gather feedback from implementations (10/25) → Feedback Gathering from Country Engagements - GovStack - GovStack Wiki

NEXT STEPS:

• Marika proposes to pilot the checklist.

• Marika will send an email with the next steps. The next check-in (5 February 2026) will be used for this purpose.

To-Dos: Tasks until the next meeting

Marika

• Marika proposes to pilot Nico’s “feedback gathering checklist”.

• Marika will send an email with the next steps.

• The next check-in (5 February 2026) will be used for this purpose.

Moderator for next JF

Marika