Digital Cooperation and Diplomacy �GovStack @ WSIS

GovStack is a joint initiative to bring the Building Block approach to a broader reality.

What is it?

GovStack initiative is an expert community-driven multistakeholder effort aimed at creating a common framework and technical practice for developing reusable and interoperable digital components – so-called “digital building blocks” – needed for the digital transformation of governments.

What does it aim to achieve?

GovStack aims to enable countries to kickstart their digital transformation journey by adopting, deploying, and scaling digital government services and in doing so improve services for social well-being.

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First GovStack CIO Forum at WSIS�

CIO - Digital Leaders Forum​�knowledge-sharing program with workshops among CIOs. Each episode of the forum hosts a Government CIO to share his/her country's experience in digitization of government services using a building block approach.  

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• Announced the GovStack Special WSIS 2023 Prize for best digital public service design
• Launch event of CIO Leaders Forum with CIOs from Ukraine, Egypt, India, Rwanda, Estonia and Peru

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GovStack Engagement in Ukraine

 Ukraine     

Partner Ministry​

Ministry of Digital Transformation​

GIZ local project/ office​

GIZ Ukraine 

Duration: 06/22 – 11/25

Budget: 0,5 Mio. EUR

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 HoA e-government use cases will be piloted on the sandbox environment based on the GovStack approach

 HoA e-government use cases will be piloted on the sandbox environment based on the GovStack approach

Ukrainian stakeholders will participate in Communities of Practice for the maintenance and use of the specified Building Blocks

  GovStack related capacity development activities will be developed and carried out

  Ukrainian actors will participate in Building Block Working Groups and Technical Review Cycles

Participation in Communities of Practice

Prototyping of e-government services

Strengthening government capacity

Contribution to building block specifications

    E-government use case will be piloted based on the �GovStack approach using building blocks

Release of Building Block Specifications

Continous work and publishing

1st wave: first release completed, refinement

2nd wave: first release under review, to be released

3rd wave: working groups are being formed

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Outlook

Specifications will be available for individual contributions on github/gitbook

Working groups will adapt specifications based on country use cases

A concept to assess compliance of software products will be developed