2026-06-29 Governance Committee Meeting
Jun 29, 2026
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: @Van Wyk, Jody @Marushka Chocobar
GIZ: @Merle Wangerin @Andrea Donath
DIAL: /
EE: @Arianna Jater @Kristo Vaher @Marika Popp
Moderator: @Van Wyk, Jody
Absence:
0. Celebrate
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Open Source Week - NY |
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1. Priority Discussions
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AB Meeting:
| Merle | Open Question on the presentation (Puja) Topic of AI ethics AB meeting on the 14th July Fundamental broader Question Option could be partners to share their work at the AB meeting at the end. ITU: Initial to have a view of the content and to ensure that it falls within the GovStack
Postpone the SC and have a GC meeting next Monday
| Request from Mei Lin: I would like to bring up the topic of AI ethics where I am leading a webinar for IEEE Ethics Week June 26, so it might be current to give a few minutes overview on what IEEE is doing that might be relevant to Govstack |
AI4Good + WISIS+20 | Ayush / Jody |
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Country Engagements | Jody | What is the plan going forward @Marika Popp More than alignment and co-ordination. Pia had a toolbox New roles to build the bridges between the country engagements and work ongoing. Knowledge sharing mechanism not in place - Feedback from Country engagement and to working groups. Kristo highlighting the need and the feedback into working group @Andrea Donath Establishing a new entity and more staff to help connecting the dots between the organization. Country implementation group representatives from each party. information digestion of the information and identified people to help with the transition and feedback mechanism. Feedback from OSW is that GovStack is not AI, however we do have | GIZ = Tim Sergio ESTDEV = |
New publication proposal | Marushka | Publication of the WIGTC, women in technology, however we do not have this in government sources. @Marushka Chocobar , presented a CN Approved | GIZ: Timely, 3rd Cohort. Support. Estdev: Supported - |
GIZ update | @Andrea Donath | Team members will be leaving. Andrea will be taking on a new role, last GC meeting.
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Actions
2. 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.
Put to the cohort which is requested to give updates in this GC meeting. One cohort per weekly GC meeting results in one update from all teams a month.
Cohort 1
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@Martha Mundas |
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@Merle Wangerin
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@Martha Mundas |
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Cohort 2
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@Martinez, Yolanda |
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@Nora Hauptmann |
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@Martha Mundas
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Ingrid Pappel |
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@Martinez, Yolanda |
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Cohort 3
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@PSRAMKUMAR |
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@Kristo Vaher |
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@Nico Lueck |
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@Nico Lueck |
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3. Communications and Events
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4. AOB
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