2023-09-11 Governance Committee Meeting

This page describes the GovStack Governance Committee meeting notes. We use this meeting page to both run the meeting and keep notes, actions, and decisions.

To avoid long meetings 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: @Martinez, Yolanda (Deactivated) @Shukla, Ayush @PSRAMKUMAR

GIZ: @Sarah Farooqi @Farina Owusu @Nico Lueck

DIAL: @Wes Brown @Rachel Lawson (Unlicensed) @Sarah Farooqi @Esther Ogunjimi

EE: @Margus Mägi

 

Celebrate

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Egypt Deep Dive

Kenya Roadshow

Tallinn Digital Summit

New Website Launch

Egypt Deep Dive recap by @PSRAMKUMAR

  • We presented 12 BB and got country presentations on their prioritised

  • We will have to reach them with key next steps on the basis of their priorities and use cases.

  • We might need to update the current specs to absorb our experience in the deep dive. Tech teams have taken a note of this.

  • The country showed interest in participating

  • The country has faced a lot of lessons, this is their 3rd attempt.

  • We can invite them to take part in developing specifications

  • next week we will discuss how to take this forward.

  • There was a discussion to create a focused team to work on their priorities

  • @Nico Lueck on Sandbox

    • Presentation was well received.

    • Questions from the country were advanced

    • There is a lot more demand for technical guidance than what we can offer.

    • We must set a mechanism to identify action items on what country shares with us.

  • @Rachel Lawson (Unlicensed) Can some of the folks from country can be further trained to become trainers themselves?

  • @Martinez, Yolanda (Deactivated) we wait for GIZ folk to come back to us with recordings etc.

  • Slack channel has been created with the Egyptian folk.

  • We will revamp GovStack Newsletter

Kenya Roadshow

 

 

@Wes Brown 3 days, pub, private and others took part

  • Discussions around Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) project in Kenya seem very interesting

  • Got good feedback on comliance process

  • For people interested in the SandBox, the simulation is a very effective tool to convey the message

  • Train the Trainers with the Somalia and Kenya team

  • AI Chatbot with Kenya in discussion

  • Train the Trainers with the Somalia and Kenya team

Tallinn Digital Summit

 

  • USAID made important reflections on DPI and DPGs

  • Women in GovTech Challenge applications closed.

New Website Launch

 

  • DIAL is to thank for the new website

  • ITU will prepare the news items for the above events and discuss them in the wednesdays comms huddle.

Green Datacenter Launched

 

  • Launched in Nairobi, Kenya

Priority Discussions

  • Selection process Women in GovTech Challenge 2023-24

  • Mapping Knowledge products structure

  • Technical Committee needs to understand what resources are available to them

    • Technical writer, Ainn to support consent BB deployment in Sandbox

    • Payments supervising the deployment of Payments Bb on Sandbox

    • Samita supporting ID BB deployment in Sandbox

  • Relationship of implementation strategies to other aspects of GovStack and how that is communicated to country teams and potential external parties

1. GovStack Roadmap

May2023JunJulAugSepOctNovDec2023Q3 Pub1.0 Pub
GovSpecs
GovTest
GovLearn
Country

Wave 3 Initial Publication

Wave 1 & 2 Updates

Wave 3 publication

Sandbox && BB Development (IM, Payment, ID, IM)

Consent

Research Strategy

GovStack LMS

Workshops/Deep Dives

Playbook, Website

DPG Open Calls for Const permit, e-Cab

Evaluation

Implementation

2. Priority Discussions

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Women in GovTech Challenge

Find the presentation on the challenge here

Refer slides 5-7 for the process to evaluate the applications

Mapping of Knowlege Structure

Find here the presentation

Otion 1: @Sarah Farooqi Voting members to appoint representatives to work on the FigJam board for GovStack products

Option 2: @Wes Brown Comms team can work on this

While this can involve Comms, this has strategic consiquences. Thus, we need to first evaluate this before we hand this to the comms team.

@Nico Lueck not only documents. I doesnt make sense from a user perspective to only organize documents. It should include all offerings - e.g. eLearning.

How does GovStack recognise and apreciate the contribution from technical experts

 

@PSRAMKUMAR @Wes Brown @Margus Mägi @Nico Lueck and @Rachel Lawson (Unlicensed) shared ideas on how this can be done.

Actions

Voting members to appoint representatives to evaluate the applicants for Women in GovTech Challenge 2023-24
@Sarah Fischer to manage the appointment of representatives to work on the FigJam board for GovStack products
Working Group leads to sharing the resources that are at their disposal (how many folks, how many hours, etc), with the Technical Committee on this Thursday

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3. GovSpecs

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The Technical Committee need to understand what resources are available to them (people / hours / for how long?) over the next few weeks and months so that they can properly plan work for the 23Q3 release.

 

 

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3. GovTest

Roadmap:

https://govstack-global.atlassian.net/jira/software/c/projects/SND/boards/29/timeline

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3. GovLearn

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3. GovExchange

Roadmap: Can be found on the Roadmap for Product Committee 2023 Roadmap . Please replace it with the correct roadmap, if any. The following roadmap needs to be updated.

 

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4. Communications

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  • Under care of ITU

 

New website!

 

 

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5. Community Building

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Meeting Notes

 

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6. Collaboration & Country Engagement

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8. AOB

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