2023-09-13 - Product Committee

5 min

@Sainabou Jallow

 15 min

• Market Linkage Use Case review: https://app.gitbook.com/o/pxmRWOPoaU8fUAbbcrus/s/YLLEfCKTnmzAMDSDzJJH/readme/agr-1-market-linkage

• Content is taken from a use case on the Digital Impact Exchange

• It is set in the agricultural sector and links buyers and farmers to ease the access of information, products

Discussion

• Q by Margus: What is the value for central government? This kind of platform is similar to a procurement platform. The Ministry of Agriculture could also be the beneficiary of such a use case. Is it planned to broaden the scope and include other procurement areas?

• A by Sainabou: The platform is supposed to include information of weather forecasts, pesticide use, etc.

  • In reality market linkage is often bundled with other services, e.g. rural advisory and financial services for farmers. It can be understood as a gateway use case.

• Margus: It would be valuable to broaden it to a more general procurement platform.

• Taylor: Market linkage and a procurement platform (similar to the UK platform) should be considered as two separate projects.

• Sarah: The challenges in procurement differ across sectors. Market linkage is one of the important topics within digital agriculture. Proposes to take this up again and include Wes on the conversation.

• Margus: Procurement use case would be practical and is a request from many countries, the need is there. Transparent procurement and good governance are connected. Proposes to include a public procurement use case that is cross sectoral

• Meelis: Supports Margus idea, would advise to start with a small scale procurement platform, focused on one sector.

Next meeting:

• Discuss the idea of a procurement platform use case

Discussion on use case steps:

• Margus: user profile account might not be necessary if the data can be pulled during the registration process with digiID

• For following use cases a disclaimer should be included that data for login can be pulled and linked with national login schemes

• Section 6 - on platform communication

  • From @Margus Mägi , how does this relate to e-marketplace?

  • From @Taylor Downs , agreed - insofar as eMarketplace continues to exist as an appropriately scoped govstack BB, it will likely be one of the BBs that’s used to deliver a Market Linkages solution.

• Section 9 - @Taylor Downs notes that all payment stuff is “out of scope” for eMarketplace. Delivery of goods also?

At the hour mark now… Additional Inputs?

@Sainabou Jallow

15 min

• Business taxation use case: https://app.gitbook.com/o/pxmRWOPoaU8fUAbbcrus/s/lZbvbVNoBXAmZwEOg3Yz/~/changes/57/finc-1-business-taxation

• Discuss the eMarketplace building block and how to include it in the Market Linkage use case

• Discuss working on a procurement platform reference use case

GIZ, Estonia, Dial, ITU (wasn’t in attendance - GIZ took notes)