2022.09.23

Location 

MS Teams 

Time 

Friday 10:00-11:00am CET 

Facilitator 

Yolanda 

Note Taker 

Josephine 

 

Participants: 

  • Ingrid Pappel, Yolanda Martinez, Vikash Madduri, Margus Mägi, Sherman Kong, Nicholas Gates, Josephine Lusi 

 

Agenda Item 

Who 

Notes  

Call to Action 

Yolanda 

Introduction of team members 

GovStack and DIAL research 

Sherman and Nicholas 

  • 3 reasons for research: ensure gaps and trends are not overlooked within GovStack's activities, strengthen evidence based advocacy on GovStack's effort, Help position GovStack knowledge & thought leadership. 

  • India and Estonia leading digital governments. What are the differences, similarities? 

  • Research on user insights 

  • Yolanda: Build and encourage capacity research community- on the academia field.  

  • Margus: Encourage countries with cutting edge technologies to use GovStack BBs and technologies to show credibility. 

  • Ingrid: TalTech can Masters' students as part of the research strategy. We need to also think of creating a PhD colloquium for next gen researchers. 

 

What GovStack community already doing? 

  • Ingrid: Already established university networks. Need to circulate info about GovStack to the wider academia community. 

  • Concept note for ICEGOV 2022? Nele will give an overview of GovStack. 

GovStack Research Strategy 

Ingrid 

Word File: GovStack research Community 

  • The ecosystem consists of the academia, consultancy, researchers on digital  transformation 

 

The 2 PowerPoints should be merged so that Nele can use it for ICEGOV  

 

AOB 

 

Vikash 

When we say "evidence based", what sort of evidence is considered to measure the outcomes? 

The CE process of GovStack can be well utilized to gather "such" evidences aligned with our research goals.