2026-07-13 Governance Committee Meeting

2026-07-13 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: @Marushka Chocobar

GIZ: @Merle Wangerin

DIAL: /

EE: @Arianna Jater @Kristo Vaher

 

Moderator: @Arianna Jater

Absence: @Van Wyk, Jody @Nico Lueck @Marika Popp

 

0. Celebrate

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Highlights from AI4Good + WISIS

 

  • Successful DPI session: high level of participation, reinforced GovStack’s value by high level speakers

  • Some worries about GovStack’s future. Prize winner of WIGTC - lack of information on the transition and next steps.

  • GC Meeting Next week: discuss Communication of current status of the transition. Need to maintain momentum and engagement of partners.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1. Priority Discussions

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Intro Kathleen Ziemann

 

Kathleen is Co-Lead of GIZ Programme for Digital Transformation, GovStack falls under her responsibility from now on.

 

 

Sarah joined GovStack Team for Comms support

Merle

Sarah will join GC meeting next week to introduce herself and participate in the discussion on transition communication.

Marushka will speak to Jody about ITU representation in the Comms Huddle.

Transition

Arianna

  • Additional follow-up meetings between EST Ambassador and Sts Annen took place last week.

Arianna will try to obtain information on results of the meeting.

Merle will cancel transition meeting on Wednesday

WiGTC publication

Marushka

The publication is advancing.

 

Marika will present the publication next week.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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

Team Name

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Communication Team CanvasArchived

@Martha Mundas

 

Sustainability Team CanvasArchived

@Merle Wangerin

 

 

Partnership Team CanvasArchived

@Merle Wangerin

 

Private Sector Team CanvasArchived

@Martha Mundas

 

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Cohort 2

Team Name

Presenter

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Presenter

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Country Engagement TeamArchived

@Martinez, Yolanda

 

Capacity Development Team CanvasArchived

@Nora Hauptmann

 

 

Community Management Team Canvas (archived)

@Martha Mundas

 

 

 

Research Team (Pending)Archived

Ingrid Pappel

 

Implementation Playbook Team CanvasArchived

@Martinez, Yolanda

 

 

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Cohort 3

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TC Facilitator Team CanvasArchived

@PSRAMKUMAR

 

Architecture Team Page

@Kristo Vaher

 

PC Facilitator Team CanvasArchived

Inactive

 

Reference Use Case Team CanvasArchived

Inactive

 

Compliance Team CanvasArchived

@Nico Lueck

 

Sandbox TeamArchived

@Nico Lueck

 

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3. Communications and Events

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4. AOB

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