2026-07-20 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 Sarah Jungwirth
DIAL:
EE: @Kristo Vaher Ali Gonzalez
Moderator: @Merle Wangerin
Absence: @Nico Lueck @Marika Popp @Arianna Jater
0. Celebrate
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Feedback from DomRep | GIZ will share the info from DomRep. | Sometimes GovStack not mentioned in communication > need to align founders' communication. Experts should not issue GovStack posts individually as ITU cannot repost and loss of visibility for GovStack as an organization. |
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1. Priority Discussions
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Intro Sarah Jungwirth |
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Communication of current status of the transition. |
| We want to show strong and unified GovStack and improve quality and have coordinated language and be precise. Need to tackle:
Elephant in the room: insecurity on continuation in the WGs. | Comm policy and make proposals. |
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Progress of WiGTC publication | Marushka | It will be present next week
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Transition |
| Meeting between EST Ambassador and Sts Annen took place last week > encouraged continuation of discussions. Merle met with BMZ last week and reiterated importance of a high-level meeting as quickly as possibel. |
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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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https://govstack-global.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/GH/pages/288948269 | @Martha Mundas |
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https://govstack-global.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/GH/pages/343113729 | @Merle Wangerin
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https://govstack-global.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/GH/pages/306216971 | @Merle Wangerin |
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https://govstack-global.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/GH/pages/306053146 | @Martha Mundas |
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Cohort 2
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https://govstack-global.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/GH/pages/220626972 | @Martinez, Yolanda |
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https://govstack-global.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/GH/pages/287178780 | @Nora Hauptmann |
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@Martha Mundas
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https://govstack-global.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/GH/pages/218824720 | Ingrid Pappel |
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https://govstack-global.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/GH/pages/306053156 | @Martinez, Yolanda |
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Cohort 3
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https://govstack-global.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/GH/pages/306216961 | @PSRAMKUMAR |
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https://govstack-global.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/GH/pages/306053126 | Inactive |
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@Nico Lueck |
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3. Communications and Events
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4. AOB
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