2023-10-9 Governance Committee Meeting

Women in Tech mentors selection @Martinez, Yolanda (Deactivated)

• 250 participants and 145 mentors

• 18 interest areas and 22 teams

• Interviewed mentors, global representation across mentors and participants

• Acceptance letter to be sent this week

• Runs from November 13, 3 networking events and launch of gender white paper

• Material on Atingi.

• Onboarding: last week of October.

Declaration of Intent between ITU and Kazakhstan on GovStack @Martinez, Yolanda (Deactivated)

• Event in Kazakhstan, panel about GovStack there.

• Will be present in person during day 1, with a panel of 6 confirmed participants with the Estonian Ambassador.

• Launching regional cooperation.

• Objective of programme to facilitate knowledge sharing.

• Branding- ‘ITU led activity’ and can do a second brand of layering in GovStack Global page with ‘ITU lead’

Update on sustainability process @Max Schumann

As kick-off of the regular team updates from the new organisational structure Team Proposalarchived

• Overview of recommendations by the DIAL expert team.

• Need to be open to a staged approach with interim solutions in light of challenges.

• Two approaches: Insitutional attachment or network to network.

• One pager template: An overview of partner, the potential model and the pro’s and cons.

• Co-design options with all partners- adding scenarios, detailing these scenarios or adding to existent ones.

• Timeline: Another 6 weeks to shortlist options, or enrich the long list and then a shortlist. Another 6 weeks for deepdive. In beginning of 2024 . Fully operational realistically by end of next year.

• Recommend an analysis of legal options and implications of the options.

• Next steps: Reach out after the meeting, partners to appoint someone from team who can discuss a decision and put aside some time- working group and not a decision group, working via a collaborative document with 1 meeting in 3 weeks. End of November first leg ends. From there, we subcontract partners to look at the options, and then make final call before Christmas.

DPGA annual membership meeting - workshop on DPI Architecture @Nora Hauptmann

• Coming up in November on DPI architecture.

• GovStack asked if wanted to participate.

• GIZ will be there in-person.

• Interest in hosting a joint session present.

• GIZ takes the lead with DPGA.

Advisory Board meeting (Date & topics) @Nora Hauptmann

• Advisory Board meeting in last two weeks of November.

• Hosted and Chaired by GIZ/BMZ.

• Jointly collect topics to present to the advisory board, with discussion questions and prepared slides with each organisation.

• Topic suggestions/ discussions:

  • Ask advisory board to suggest topic for discussion

  • Is this the right fora to discuss as country representatives present, we have formats where countries can engage, should restart using those as well. eg. CIO Forum.

  • How we are following different feedback we have recieved

  • Feedback on spinout plans.

Ongoing procurements and status @Martinez, Yolanda (Deactivated)

• Running evalution on two open calls for Djibouti.

• In next two weeks deadline.

Shared comms model

• Link to proposal

• We are already operationalizing the model

• Guidance and templates for web, social, etc. being built : Communications

2023 - 2024 focus on promoting

1. Workshops, Deep Dives, Events

2. Women in GovTech

3. GovSpecs next release

4. WSIS Prize

• you can always catch up on Comms by joining the Wednesday Huddle or reviewing our meeting notes: Communications Meeting notes

• Working towards listed event overview.

Community Growth Team on pause until direction forward agreed at GC

 https://govstack-global.atlassian.net/l/cp/5M0az1zE

• Put on pause until know whats going on with regard to specification development.

• Need feedback and input until Thursday 12.10. 2023 and presentation on next Monday.

Collaboration USAid

2023_09_08 Onepager USAid.docx (sharepoint.com)

• Please give Input/ Comments directly in the Doc. Until Friday 13.10. 2023.

Deep Dives Q4 2023

Senegal 23-27 Oct

Nov 20 to 24 PNG

21-23 November: Lesotho

25-26 November: Botswana

28-30 Gambia

RTC Rwanda Nov 14 - 18

Kenya & Somalia Dec 4 - 8th

• Listed Country engagement discussed.