2022.10.07
- Sherman Kong
Location | MS Teams | Time | Friday 10:00-11:00am CET |
Facilitator | Ingrid | Note Taker | Josephine |
Participants: Ingrid Pappel, Vikash Madduri, Margus Mägi, Sherman Kong, Nicholas Gates, Josephine Lusi, Lueck Nico,
Agenda Item | Who | Notes |
Call to Action | Ingrid | GovStack Research Strategy (still in update) |
ITU
| Ingrid, Vikash | Vikash: Submitted an abstract to the International Journal of Information Quality. Focus in on Progress made since 2019 in terms of: GovStack initiatives and its components, customized workflows and sandbox approach, experiences and lessons learnt. Paper deadline: 1 January 2023
Ingrid: AHFE Conference Last year event took place in New York, 2023 event takes place in San Fransisco 7-8 papers to be submitted Possibility to have 2 tracks dedicated to GovStack Deadline is 1st Nov |
DIAL | Sherman, Nicholas | Sherman: Talking with UN univ Have a dedicated area on research activities Where to anchor co-publications and research papers on Digital transformation Section editor to an affiliated Cambridge journal Possibility to create a special journal issue on GovStack How to weave together the research done by all organizations? Nicholas: Data for Policy will also have a conference presence in three locations in December for a day: https://dataforpolicy.org/data-for-policy-2022/ Regroup after Tallinn Digital Summit to discuss research strategy. What? How we do this? What to focus on? Research opportunities? What are the focus areas, research questions? Sherman: Create interest in communities Partnership with donors? How to quantify research? Nuances on infrastructure, data and consent management in various countries Burning questions? Funding options? Partnerships with private organizations I.e. PwC, Amazon, etc. |
GIZ | Nico | 1 uni interested on open-source research The expectation is for funded research Contacted German unis, more action to be taken once there is a research strategy |
| Discussion | Ingrid: Engage PhD students Think of GovStack scholarships, Estonia has industry scholarships Nico: Research topics can be divided into -Impact research on BB/whole gov approach -How open source communities work and how can it be sustainable -Developing communities Margus: -BB and overall governance structure, then come up with a holistic approach -work on a structural wireframe, taking into account the BB, PB, then see how the research comes together Nico- Each org decides on their focus areas Sherman: Have a decentralized approach to research Create a survey to narrow down on the research angle. Ingrid: Who will create the survey form for research domain mapping? Margus: We can do a Miro or something with blocks and then start to collect the ideas and see where it overlaps and what way it could go |
Action | Action Item | Feedback on the outcome of ICEGOV conference from Yolanda ITU to create a research questionnaire and share it by 17th Oct Margus to create a Miro Block and share the link with the team |