2026-07-27 Governance Committee Meeting
Jul 27, 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 Sarah Jungwirth
DIAL:
EE: @Kristo Vaher Ali Gonzalez
Moderator: @Arianna Jater
Absence: @Nico Lueck @Marika Popp
0. Celebrate
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Nico is back! |
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1. Priority Discussions
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Confirm Priorities defined last week | Merle | Last week meeting with comms team in response to growing concerns and feedback from past conferences.
Elephant in the room: insecurity on continuation in the WGs.
| One focal point per organization to participate regularly in comms meetings. Ali will present current status of WGs and how community is engaged on 10 August. | Comm policy and make proposals. Last week it was agreed that insecurity will be adressed with WG members and partners. (Nico will ask for update) Regularly and consistently communicate impact, great examples and the way we work (feedback mechanism) R(Tim to invite: Marushka, Marika, Ali.)einstall meeting on country engagement |
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Progress of WiGTC publication | Marushka |
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Reconfirm Focal points | Merle | Jody created list of focal points per organization. Currently noone from ITU in tech team. Comms team should include focus on internal communication. Internal communication only in Slack. Currently tech on Slack, country engagement on email. Channels should be restructured - GovStack operations, country implementation (including organizations). | Each organization to present the list of operational POCs (overall lead, comms, country engagement, tech/working group). Clearer and less siloed communication channels needed, to be discussed on 10 August. | 10 August Governance Committe meeting agenda point: internal and external communication channels. Sarah will present progress on comms (channels, brand usage, etc) |
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Transition |
| BMZ POC wrote concept note to department lead Meyer?. Jody promised to also reach out to BMZ. |
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GovStack implementation map |
| Ask ITU for input on GovStack implementation across the globe. Nico currently has Excel with overview of countries where engagement has been done, follow up with Maroushka. |
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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
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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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@Kristo Vaher |
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https://govstack-global.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/GH/pages/306053126 | Inactive |
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https://govstack-global.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/GH/pages/306053166 | Inactive |
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https://govstack-global.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/GH/pages/277413889 | @Nico Lueck |
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https://govstack-global.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/GH/pages/177897507 | @Nico Lueck |
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3. Communications and Events
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4. AOB
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