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

To avoid long meeting 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.

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0. Celebrate

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2nd Networking Session of Women in Govtech Challenge	Building Govtech Ecosystems	Financing mechanisms for Start ups, defining challenges, co-designing policy
Tender DIIA Engine published	https://www.linkedin.com/posts/govstack_digitaltransformation-govstack-innovation-activity-7154035257887891456-aSyl?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop leverist.de - Discover new business opportunities in emerging markets. \| leverist.de (EN)	Spread the word!
Kick off Country Engagements	HoA three countries deep dive Belize, Colombia, Central Asia, Bangladesh	All countries are working in different use cases

1. Roadmap

https://govstack-global.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/GH/pages/381616159

2. Priority Discussions

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Joining the Safeguards discussions	GovStack & DPI Safeguards.docx (sharepoint.com)
Meeting with CDPI	GovStack plans and priorities for 2024 (15 min) CDPI plans and priorities for 2024 (15 min) Identification of collaboration areas (max 3 for examples) based on presented priorities where synergies might exist (10 min) Splitting into 3 groups to discuss each collaboration area (15 min) Presenting 3 groups (5 min each) Agreeing on concrete collaboration activities and next steps (15 min) Conclusion and wrap up (5 min)	A working group on wallet is being kickstarted with participants from CDPI, GovStack and MOSIP We need to understand the scope of engagement with countries. We are looking for complementary solutions

Actions

We need to have a discussion on the question in how far GovStack keeps on being agnostic to solutions (open source and commercial) and which issues are coming up when working with commercial solutions (e.g. the need for NDAs).

3. Team Updates and Opportunities for Strategic Decisions

Every GC meeting one cohort is requested to share updates in written form in this table.

Every team has the opportunity to request direction/decision from the GC.

^{Cohort 1}

Team Name	Presenter	Update

Team Name	Presenter	Update
https://govstack-global.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/GH/pages/288948269	@Arielle Diamond	Editorial update: blog post coming on the Whitepaper on Gender Inclusion (GIZ) Upcoming launches: WSIS prize (pending approvals) and Compliance tool Longterm comms project: Website translation This will most likely be a grassroots effort - keeping most of the web development and translation in-house as much as possible. It will likely require some budget to install Wordpress plug-ins. Comms will present a proposal for consideration and approval. Prioritizing French and Spanish. 2024 Newsletter coming soon (March) Quarterly newsletter to our mailing list
https://govstack-global.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/GH/pages/320897025	@Sarah Fischer
	@Max Schumann
	@Nora Hauptmann
	@Max Schumann

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Cohort 2

Team Name	Presenter	Update

Team Name	Presenter	Update
	@Martinez, Yolanda	Country calls resumed for 2024, Colombia, HoA, Belize, Bangladesh, Regional Cooperation for Central Asia and C Countries
	@Nora Hauptmann
	@Martha Mundas
	Ingrid
	@Martinez, Yolanda

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Cohort 3

Team Name	Presenter	Update

Team Name	Presenter	Update
	Ramkumar?
	@Steve Conrad	Architecture and Technical committee teams are merging their meetings currently.
	@Wes Brown	Planning for the next publication: External review of GovStack Specifications New GovStack Component - Service Blocks. Common functions within and between use cases, including high-level implementation logic via BBs Extending the specifications based on feedback and, hopefully, new participants
	@Wes Brown	Initial planning for next publication: External review of GovStack Reference Use Cases Identifying high-value country use cases
	@Nico Lueck	Soldevelo and @Steve Conrad finished a version 1.0 of the Requirement Compliance Testing WebApp Link to Test Environment: GovStack testing Next weeks: Testing the WebApp for remaining issues and publish
	@Nico Lueck	Core development has finished From 2024 onwards Sandbox in maintenance mode Ongoing developments Finalize Mifos Integration Finalize iGrant Integration Improve DIY features for utilization by country teams Improve Documentation (Building Block Candidate pages on gitbook, Small BB Demo pages) Improve internal guidances, e.g. When should GC members use the Sandbox? Explain BB Approach and Showcase feasibility: Showcase implementation of specific Building Blocks Advertise the value proposition for country teams In general: 2 example learning tracks:

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4. Communications and Events

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5. AOB

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Retreat in Brussels on 19th of March @Hans Christian Ende		Nele would maybe need to attend the Summit For Democracy (South Korea) and therefore might not be able to attend the retreat partially. There is a possibility to organize a meeting in Seoul on the topic of GovStack. Deadline for the submission of a panel is until the end of this week (26.01)