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.

Participants -

ITU:

GIZ:

DIAL:

EE:

0. Celebrate

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Mission Kick Off in Lesotho		Building Block Deep Dive happening this week
Regional Offices Kick Off for Country Engagements		Joint session with ITU and GIZ Regional Teams around the World
Week 6 of WGTC with Payments BB		Interactive session with Payments BB Leads and Ramkumar PS
GovLearn Section available in Confluence		https://govstack-global.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/GH/pages/442007557

1. Roadmap

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

2. Priority Discussions

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GovStack Tech Future

Action items to lay ground for community and country engagement work

See E-Mail by @Nico Lueck

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
	@Sarah Fischer	The current Branding Concept lies with BMZ and we are waiting for their feedback. GovStack_Branding Concept_2023.pptx (sharepoint.com) On the website it will read as follows:
	@Sarah Fischer @Hans Christian Ende	The current Concept lies here: GovStack Sustainability and Business Plan Current State of the Process: After assessing ~30 options, the GovStack initiatives core partners focus has converged on the option of establishing a foundation in Estonia This options is currently been worked out by EstDev in cooperation with GIZ to create transparency around the implications of this organisation and ist working mode, as well as the process of establishing it A legal counsel to accompany and support this assesssment is currently being contracted An initial concept will be elaborated on until mid of February. Subsequently, feedback will be gathered and a detailed concept note finalized until mid of March After 6-8 weeks of deliberations among and within the core partners, a final decision is expected until beginning of May Feel free to add to the sceleton of the presentation starting p. 20: Sustainability of GovStack offers
	@Nora Hauptmann	Partnerships in the process of consolidation: CDPI: (ITU in the lead), focus:compliance test, sandbox, specs - both orgs contributing to the DPI resoruce pool Smart Africa, focus: health use case European Union, focus: funding, european QA in specs Co-Develop, focus currently on organizing a joint DPI event (long term: funding for country adoption) other updates in partnership tracker
	@Max Schumann

Decision Need

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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
	@Wes Brown
	@Wes Brown
	@Nico Lueck
	@Nico Lueck

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4. Communications and Events

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Decisions

5. AOB

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Chair of next month GC meeting (Dial?)