2024-10-14 Governance Committee Meeting Notes

GovStack pitch at the UN Interdepartmental Task Force on African Affairs (IDTFAA) – Director-level Meeting

As a follow-up to the DPI Summit in Cairo, GovStack team was invited to present GovStack as the the framework for African DPI Stack Blueprint at the 9 Oct meeting of the IDTFAA. During there call, there were several requests to share the slidedeck. It was the first time that GovStack was presented as Africa DPI Stack Blueprint. There’s a Principla level meeting to follow on 16 Oct in which ITU will introduce GovStack.

Deep Dive in Rwanda

Very active participation from the core government and alsoimplementing organsiations. Altogether 25 participants working on 5 use-cases.

Launch of the eCabinet in Djibouti in 3 sites with the possibility to expand to 27 ministries

Recap and follow-ups DPI Summit

Open Wallet Foundation - good discussions underway, all key stakeholders included, a call to be scheduled to better understand their position. ITU also launched the Open Wallet Forum. A quick brainstroming on our collaboration options. Hani will follow-up for the call. Kristo wants to be involved as well. Suggested Wed, 16 Oct 11.30 CET for Open Wallet touchbase. Priamary aim - find out about their core content and what their plans are.

Advisory Board meeting in November_suggestions for the date

Estonia chairing this time. Topics for discussion: frameworks (EU, African DPI Stack, etc.)? Also core outcomes from Proud Engineers work on the future legal home. 1st week of December, 2 slots: 3 and 5 Dec, 15.00 CET. Opening remarks to be prepared (from all 4 partners). Marika will send out the calendar invites.

Tallinn Digital Summit 19-20 Nov, incl GovStack panel on 19 Nov

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1X-eHxczB8s1r8lqsrce-M3ApDT3REltxbArwLZyaLfU/edit?usp=sharing

GovStack Strategy Workshop (In-Person)

Time: 18 November 2024 (Day 0 of Tallinn Digital Summit) 14.00-17.30 (up to 3.5 hrs)

Location: ESTDEV office with a possibility to join with Microsoft Teams

Validate and discuss the organisational model, risk plan and financial plan created by Proud Engineers and gather feedback.

Discuss with Participants the legal and other ramifications of the organisational model

Organisation model, risk plan and financial plan is validated with Participants and either a consensus is reached upon its feasibility or key input is provided for next steps

Participants: all of the interviewees + GovStack representatives + Laura / Peeter

Pre-reading materials will be distributed in a ppt format to Participants at least 5 business days prior to the workshop.

Online workshop focusing on the preliminary results of Proud Egineers contract + input/feedback for the Strategy Workshop on 18 Nov

Time: 28 Oct 2024 during the regular GovStack Governance Committee Meeting at 15.00 CET

Introduce preliminary results.

Validate the organisational model created by Proud Engineers and gather feedback.

Discuss with Participants the transparency mechanism supporting the organisational model proposed by Proud Engineers

Feeback gathered from key Participants regarding the organisational model and transparency mechanisms thereof which is to be used for input for the financial plan & risk assessment

Governance Committee Members + Laura / Peeter (legal experts)

Microsoft Teams online meeting

Pre-reading materials will be distributed in a ppt format to Participants at least 3 business days prior to the workshop

DPGA Annual Members meeting – GovStack session on DPGs and community building has been accepted (together with open IMIS and UNICEF).

To be discussed when Nora is back from holidays. Andrea will inform everyone accordingly. This is the latest information on the DPGA Annual Sessions. Farina took over the prep from Nora.  

Here is the information about the DPGA annual members meeting. It will take place in Singapore from November 13th to 15th. We submitted 3 sessions and were asked to merge them with other sessions. Open IMIs (Saurav) is in the lead for the session on the DPG Donor system and we are in the lead for the session on the community. We will merge them with a UNICEf session with GitHub. The demo session on Rapid Pro will be included in a general demo session. 

Question: we heard Neil (ITU) will participate. Would be great if he could take care of the session, in case GIZ will not be represented this year.

Updates on the standardization process

Hani - discussions started a few months ago. Today yet no entity to lead the process. Wallet as the poss item to be considered for standardisation in 6-9 months. DPI standards to be the item for discussion. GS specs for standardisation - the foundation to lead the way. To be added to the agenda of the foundation. The discussion to be cont’d in 2025. This will strengthen the uptake of GS further, as GS as the reference for DPI implementation. Proud will be informed on this item.

Egypt eLearning - Technical Reviewers needed!

Pia is the Point of Contact. No time left. 20 modules, 1 review takes 1-2 hours.

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