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Empowering societies to �chart their digital futures

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Objectives of the course

  • Fully understand GovStack specs and rationale behind them
  • Explore GovStack Building Blocks whole of a Government approaches
  • Key concepts of DPGs/DPIs
  • Expected benefits
  • GovStack Toolbox
  • Countries examples

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Structure of the course

Introduction

Purpose

What is it?

How does it work?

Examples of countries engagement

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GovStack: Who we are

GovStack is a multistakeholder, community-driven initiative, focused on accelerating national digital transformation worldwide, and drawing on expertise from contributors across the private sector, civil society, and governments all over the world.

The initiative was founded by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Estonia, Germany, and the Digital Impact Alliance at the United Nations Foundation in 2020.

govstack.global/partnership

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GovStack: Mission + Vision

Mission: We empower public and private organizations to make the most of the digital world by providing them with the tools and knowledge needed to successfully scale the digitalization of public services.  

Vision: Everyone can access government services using trusted digital technologies that fit their lives and needs. 

Value proposition: We provide governments with the tools, knowledge, and best practices needed to build digital public services at scale. This helps ensure that their digital infrastructure is cost-effective, efficient, and high-quality. So people everywhere can access the services they need - from health records to identity documents - easily and safely. 

govstack.global/partnership

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GovStack Advisory Board

Cosmas Zavazava Director of the Telecommunication, Development Bureau of the International Telecommunication Unit, the Secretariat of ITU-D

Vyjayanti T. Desai �Programme Lead, World Bank ID4D

Robert OppChief Digital Officer, United Nations Development Programmer

Abhishek SinghPresident and CEO, National eGovernance Division India

Priya Vora �Managing Director, Digital Impact Alliance

Nele LeoskAmbassador at Large for Digital Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Estonia

Alessandra Lustrati�Head of Digital Development, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office of the United Kingdom

Max CuvellierHead of Mobile for Development, GSMA

Thao HongProgram Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Lacina KonéDirector General, Smart Africa

Piet KleffmannHead of Department, KfW

Mei Lin Fung 2020 Chair and Co-founder, People Centered Internet; Cofounder ImpactX; Chair IEEE SSIT Sustainability Tech Cttee

Liv Marte Nordhaug�Co-Lead Secretariat, Digital Public Goods Alliance

Tim Wood�Senior Advisor, Co-Develop Initiative

Noémie Bürkl (tbc)�Head of Unit Digitalisation German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development – BMZ

Emilie Hertzberg�Programme Manager INTEM/GLOBEC, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency

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WHY?

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GovStack: Why we exist

In 2015, world leaders agreed to 17 Global Goals for Sustainable Development to achieve a better world by 2030. 

Many of these goals rely on our ability to deliver services to people, and we know that digital technology can facilitate broader access.

GovStack aims to break down the barriers to building sustainable digital public infrastructure and help governments create human-centered digital services that empower individuals and improve well-being.

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Countries struggle with the digitization of their public services for several reasons

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COORDINATION

Challenges in procuring and implementing affordable IT solutions persist, as do challenges in creating the necessary capital to invest in ICT infrastructure projects.

RETURN ON INVESTMENT

Huge challenges exist in adapting and investing in projects at scale, particularly around the rollout of physical ICT infrastructure, the deployment and use of common data platforms.

SCALING

Siloed investments and duplicative efforts by development partners promote fragmented digital governance and silos in partner countries. 

Problems in coordination commonly occur in aligning ICT ministry work with that of other agencies. 

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Quiz

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Question 1

Question 2

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WHAT?�

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Maternity Support in Department A

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Objective: Pregnant mothers to receive benefit transfers until child is 5 yrs old

Requirements

Auto Trigger Registration based on Birth Event reporting

Pay into her Mobile Money Wallet for accessibility

Auto Trigger Regular Monthly Transfers

Verify Mother’s ID

Allow her to view & manage her benefits on a third party app

Source: G2P workshop, III_B, 2023

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Emergency Farmer Relief in Dept B

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Objective: One time emergency benefit to farmers impacted by natural disaster

Requirements

Fetch Enrollment details based on a National ID

Fetch additional data to evaluate criteria of income, household, etc

Trigger a one time Payment into Farmer’s Bank Account

Enable cash withdrawal in a remote disaster-affected area

Allow creation of a reusable ‘Emergency Relief Beneficiary’ credential

Source: G2P workshop, III_B, 2023

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Designing e-government services with generic Building Blocks

What are Building Blocks?

Generically-defined software components that in combination provide key functionalities to facilitate generic workflows common across multiple sectors.

What are their characteristics?

      • Reusable software components​
      • Open-source, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS), or freely available with open access to data​
      • Facilitate one or more generic workflows​
      • Applicable to use cases across multiple sectors​
      • Interoperable with other Building Blocks

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[refer to: Building Blocks section of Govstack.global]

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The building block approach can be applied across many sectors to support high-impact use cases

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PRIORITY

SECTORS

HIGH-IMPACT

USE CASES

WORKFLOWS

ICT BUILDING BLOCKS

Agriculture

Health

Education

Finance, Humanitarian Aid…

Market Linkage

Rural Advisory

Service

Prenatal Care

Postnatal Care

Teacher Pathway

Remote Education & Training

Additional use cases will result in new workflows, some of which are generic. Generic workflows result in new ICT components, some of which are generic ICT building blocks.

Authentication & ID Service

Source: SDG Digital Investment FW, 2019

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Designing e-government services

with generic Building Blocks

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[refer to: Building Blocks section of Govstack.global]

Source: SDG Digital Investment FW, 2019

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Identity Building Block

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The Identity Building Block creates, manages, and uses a digital foundational identity (functional identity is not in the scope of this document).

As a part of the overall identity system, it can be interfaced with other Building Blocks in order to realize the complete set of requirements necessary for delivering identification services and managing lifecycle of Foundational Identities.

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Identity BB purpose

The Identity Building Block creates, manages, and uses a foundational digital identity to be used in GovStack.

As a part of the overall identity system, it can be interfaced with other Building Blocks in order to realize the complete set of requirements necessary for delivering identification services and managing lifecycle of Foundational Identities

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Real World

Digital World

Real Person

Identity

Building

Block

Digital Identity

Digital Services

Digital Capabilities

TRUSTED LINK

Authenticate

Digital Sign

Share Data

Pay

Transact

ENABLE

Social Protection

Tax declaration

Driving Licence

University Registration

INTERACT

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Identity Building Block

brings a User centric perspective�

As Identity building block is creating and managing the digital users of GovStack, it is the enabler for offering super-digital-powers at once to the end user after its on-boarding in GovStack.

It also is in the ideal perspective to watch user experience by taking care of a smooth integration services offered by the different building blocks, overall

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GovStack Digital User

Identifying

Interacting

Participating

Applying

Transacting

Managing

Learning

On-boarding

Authenticating

Signing

Sending/Receiving messages

Voting

Sharing Feedbacks

Personal data

Digital Attestations

Personal Preferences

Paying

Approving

Managing Learning Certificates

Register and access to Courses

Receive support

Access to right

Achieve legal duties

Sharing personal information

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A personal UI for the end user would be required in many contexts

USE OF SERVICE

DEVICE

MOBILE

WALL- MOUNTED

COUNTER/GATE

ATTENDED

KIOSKS

SELF-SERVICE

OFFICE

OFFICE

COUNTER/GATE

MOBILE

PERSONAL

COMPUTER

PERSONAL MOBILE DEVICE

COMPUTER

& PHONE

USE OF PERSONAL DEVICE

PUBLIC ATTENTION CONTEXTS

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Consent Building Block

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The Consent Building Block enables services for individuals to approve the use of their personal data by defining the principles, functions, and architecture of an information system.

For organisations that process personal data​,​ it provides the ability to know the ​individual's will and legitimately process such personal data.

The Consent Building Block is a process-oriented GovStack Building Block facilitating auditable bilateral agreements within a multi-agent environment that integrates with most other Building Blocks.

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Messaging Building Block

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The Messaging Building Block provides a standardized, secure communication channel between GovStack service providers and end customers (in most cases citizens).

By using GovStack Messaging Building Block, service providers rely on the building block's central functionalities, logging, back upping, security features, etc. without the need to reproduce and maintain them by themselves.

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Information Mediator Building Block

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The Information Mediator Building Block provides a gateway for exchange of data and services among GovStack Building Blocks through open-API rest-based interfaces to ensure interoperability and implementation of standards.

The Information Mediator provides mechanisms for applications/Building Blocks to publish and consume services and event notifications among other GovStack Building Blocks.

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Digital Registry Building Block

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The Digital Registries Building Block provides services to other Building Blocks and to external systems, to store and manage data/claims on any entity (persons, places, and things) in forms of uniquely identifiable records in a database. The Building Block provides the capability to capture, store, search, distribute, and present data with zero or minimal need for software development.

It also maintains and reports logs of all operations taking place on database schemas and data.

It contains various functional components, and data resources to abstract away all the details and complexity, and to expose capabilities as service-APIs to external Building Blocks/applications.

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Payment Building Block

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The Payments Building Block enables digital financial payments to be tracked, evaluated, initiated, validated, processed, logged, compared and verified against budget.

This Building Block also provides interoperability with connections to the various external applications that need payment services in order to trigger transitions in their own workflow.

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Registration Building Block

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The Registration Building Block is a software platform that enables online registration services, their creation, and administration. Registration is a process through which an applicant gets information recorded in a registry and receives a credential as proof of registration, in exchange for providing information, with or without money.

The information provided by the applicant consists of data and/or credentials issued by public or private entities. Money is provided to pay for one or more registration fees/costs.

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Workflow Building Block

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The Workflow Building Block helps to drive efficiency within GovStack by providing automation and orchestration capabilities for specified business processes within and across Building Blocks.

The Workflow Building Block provides design-time mapping & modeling of business processes based on mature open standards like Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) and facilitates the run-time execution of deployed workflows in order to orchestrate process flows from initiation to completion.

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Scheduler Building Block

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The Scheduler Building Block enables aggregated coordination of time-driven activities within and across Building Blocks by sending appropriate "alert" messages to appropriate Building Blocks according to a predefined schedule.

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From silo ICT investments to reusable software components to digitize governments services at scale

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Sing On

Payments

Tax

Data

Sing On

Payments

Education

Data

Dep

App

DB

Sing On

Payments

Health

Data

Silo investments, duplication of functionalities

Source: David Eves, UCL 2023

Infrastructure

Buy property

Pay taxes

Find a job

Authentication

Payments

Data registritries

Unique id

Vehicle registry

GIS data

Health record

Exchange / IM

Digital gov services

Reusable components/Building blocks

(GovStack)

Data

Other shared services

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GovStack's Whole-of-Government approach

There is growing evidence that a whole-of-government approach to digital infrastructure investment can deliver reusable digital services at scale with a greater return on investment.

Instead of creating unique and disparate solutions, use a common reusable stack of Building Blocks to form the core platform engine and contextualize various e-government services on top.

The approach takes advantage of economies of scale that are not available when taking a piece-meal approach.

Hosting ICT Infrastructure

Adaptive Citizen-centric �e-Government Services facilitated by a service-oriented architecture

Common Applications/solutions Blocks

e-Learning, e-Marketplace, BI/analytics, workflow, procurement, messaging, etc.

Foundational Blocks**Identity/authentication, security, consent, payment, registration, registries, e-signature, etc.

**Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) considered part of this foundational layer

Mediation Middleware

secure data exchange

A “platform of platforms” that can be used by any government agency, department across different sectors to build new government digital services without having to design, test and operate the underlying systems and infrastructure themselves

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What are Digital Public Goods ?

Digital Public Goods are solutions which are developed in open way so that they can be reused by others.

There can be open source, but also open standard, specifications, practices, principles, … anything shared without restrictions.

One famous example of Digital Public Good is MOSIP, the Modular Open Source Identity Platform developed by India and now deployed at different stages within about 10 countries.

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What are some Digital Public Goods?

Other examples of well known DPGs are X-Road (information mediation), MojaLoop (Payment), OpenCRVS (Civil Registration), OpenSPP (Social Protection), DHS2 (Health), ..

Those open sources generally emerge from a solution gap (openSPP, openCRVS) or from a success story in a country (MOSIP > India, X-Road > Estonia)

Following the model of MOSIP, and supported by investments from international donors (UN, foundations, countries), more and the open source portfolio is growing filling little by little the gaps to a full digital public infrastructure.

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DPIs to build interoperability between DPGs

DPG market place is composed of more than 200 open sources (examples of super’-marketplaces: DIAL, DPG Alliance, ..)

It’s difficult to know which one to use and even more difficult to make them work together, they are often not compatible between each others, many of them have overlaps.

The principles of common digital public goods should not go with a competition in between solution..

So initiatives are growing in a tentative to couple them together in pre-integrated Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI is same as Government stacks)

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Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI)

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Source: https://digitalpublicgoods.net/blog/unpacking-concepts-definitions-digital-public-infrastructure-building-blocks-and-their-relation-to-digital-public-goods/

What is it:

  • Refers to solutions and systems that enable the effective provision of essential society-wide functions and services in the public and private sectors. 

  • This includes but is not limited to digital forms of ID and verification and complementary trust services such as e-signature and Verifiable Credentials; registries and registration; payment (digital transactions and money transfers); data exchange; and consent (Foundational Building Blocks of GovStack)

  • It is set of building blocks and not bespoke solutions: a solution builder versus an infrastructure builder mindsets

  • Allow others to build and innovate on top of it

Source: Monetary Authority of Singapore, Foundational Infrastructure for inclusive digital economies

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Approaches of DPIs

Integrate existing DPGs into an interoperable Stack (ie G2P Connect initiative in which DPGs join their efforts to build a common stack on a specific use case G2P)

REUSE

BUILDING BLOCKS

STANDARDIZE BUILDING BLOCKS

EXPORT A COUNTRY STACK

Defines what should be the building blocks, what should they do and how they should interact (ie GovStack, best experts from different horizons define what the GovStack should be and make it happen)

Replicate a successful stack from other countries (ie India, Estonian) or reuse NGOs stacks (UN, WHO, WFP,...)

Please provide source of information

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Pros & cons of each approach

Approach

Opportunities

Risks

Reuse Building Blocks

Can happen fast

Can sort out specific objectives

Field proven components

Good business knowledge

Imposed DPGs (you like it or you don’t like it)

Limited functions to what DPGs have to offer

Interoperability only for limited cases

Inconsistencies in between components on architecture, technologies, duplicate functions, inconsistent transversal functions, ..

Standardize Building Blocks

Lead to best approaches and technologies choices

Leverage best practices around the world

Anticipate future needs

Build a solid Foundation for future

Can take time to happen, slow delivery, important investments for long term ROI

Communities leads to debates on approaches which leads to consensual designs

Can be detached from functional realities, notably in term of UX and business rules.

Export a country stack

Move fast on implementation

Save money and time

Ease political buy in

Outcome vary in between counties, can lead to failure

- Different realities from one countries to others

- Different ICT levels (infra., networks, smartphones, ..)

- Different cultures (literacy, religions, history, ..)

- Different political env. (political regime, liberties, ..)

Please provide source of information

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Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI)

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Source: https://digitalpublicgoods.net/blog/unpacking-concepts-definitions-digital-public-infrastructure-building-blocks-and-their-relation-to-digital-public-goods/

Why it is important

  • Deliver services with lower cost, higher trust, and more efficient
  • Legal obligations can be embedded directly into the architecture of the infrastructure, ensuring that participants comply with the law through the mere act of participation.
  • Privacy features are coded into the system.
  • Empowering users to take greater control over their data ensuring that they can decide when, how, and with whom their data is shared.
  • Obligations between participants can be established automatically

How to build it

  • Consider many large use cases and ask what is the common underlying problem that can be solved with 1 or few infrastructure building block(s)
  • Choose initial “killer” use case to build your DPI/GovStack by establishing your first building blocks where high trust, low cost and high volume are required
  • Must have very clear understanding about use cases

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Together, Digital Public Goods and Building Blocks enable Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI)

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Source: https://digitalpublicgoods.net/blog/unpacking-concepts-definitions-digital-public-infrastructure-building-blocks-and-their-relation-to-digital-public-goods/

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Example: Trade License use case

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Source: National Urban Innovation Stack India,

national_urban_innovation_stack_web_version.pdf (niua.org)

  1. Core Data Information

Registration

Users, Employees, Properties, Certifications, Services etc

Enabling process or documents: RFP templates and vendor certification process.

2. Core services

Authentication, authorisation, entity management (Users, employees, vendors.), workflow management, search, localisation service and payments

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The building block approach can be applied across many sectors to support high-impact use cases

Source:GovStack Ecosystem Reference Architecture (GERA): A Guide for Policymakers, Public Administration Leaders, and Strategic Stakeholders

Sector: Health

SDG 3: Good Health and Wellbeing

Health Sector

SDG

SDG Targets

  • 3.1: By 2030, reduce maternal mortality rate to less than 100,00 births
  • 3.2: By 2030, end preventable death of newborns and children under the age of 5 with reduction in neonatal mortality to less than 12 per 1,000 live-births and under 5 mortalities to less than 25 per 1,000 live-births

High-Impact Service

Government to Citizen (G2C) Services: Care services for mother and child spanning the prenatal and postnatal period resulting in a healthy mother and child

Use-Case steps

Linkage with a Community Health Worker

Seema an ASHA worker, meets Geeta and her family

Enrolment in mother and child tracking program

Seema registers Geeta into MCTS.

Arranging the first visit to the pediatric clinic

Seema arranges for Geeta’s first visit to the pediatric clinic

Healthcare professional (Pediatrician) visits

Geeta visits the pediatrician's clinic with her baby

Procurement of medication & nutrition items

Seema helps Geeta in getting medicines & nutrition supplies

Getting Therapy from the therapist per instructions

Seema takes Geeta for therapy.

Recognition & Incentive for Participation

Seema & Geeta are provided with incentive for participation.

Common workflows / business processes

  • Speed awareness
  • Enrolment in community health program
  • Content for awareness and promotion
  • Generate identification
  • enable permissions and privileges
  • Create and activate EHR
  • Make appointment
  • Work planning and coordination
  • Track attendance
  • Manage cases
  • provide diagnosis
  • Discussion with patient
  • Referral notes and prescription
  • Send e-prescription to pharmacy
  • Confirm patient identity
  • Hand medicines as per prescription
  • Receive EHR for mother and child
  • Interact with child
  • Perform exercise
  • Provide advice
  • Record visit and participation
  • Receive compensation for completion of intervention

Reusable Building Blocks

  • Scheduler
  • eLearning
  • Registration
  • Authentification
  • Registration
  • Shared Data Repository
  • Workflow
  • Digital Identity
  • Shared Data Repositories
  • Messaging
  • Scheduler
  • eLearning
  • Digital Identity
  • Shared Data Repositories
  • Messaging
  • Scheduler
  • eLearning
  • Digital Registries
  • eMarketplace
  • Workflow
  • Payment
  • Digital Identity
  • Workflow
  • Scheduler
  • Data collection
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Collaboration Management
  • Workflow
  • Payment
  • Feedback

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Benefits of GovStack Whole-of-Government approach

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Expectable benefits

The GovStack approach can help stakeholders accelerate their digital transformation, improve operational efficiency, decision-making, transparency, accountability, security, service quality and reduce costs.

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Largest digital user database for services providers

Unique digital identification coupled with the public digital platform creates an infrastructure for interaction with all individuals.

By leveraging GovStack platform service provider have immediately access to a nationwide database of digital user all with fully fledged digital capabilities.

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Improve operational efficiency of public services

Implementing whole-of-a-government approach builds interoperability in between organisations, creating bridges in between siloed administrations.

It will make sure data are up to date in a defined place and accessible in a uniform way by all systems.

It can improve organizations' operational efficiency by streamlining processes, optimizing resource utilization and automating tasks.

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Taking informed decisions

Whole-of-a-government approach help to access and consolidate data wherever they are in the government systems.

It then can provide more accurate, real-time data to help policy-makers make better, faster decisions.

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Increased transparency and trust

Digitalisation of administrative processes generate data for audit and inquiries, by making them accessible transparently GovStack can help increase transparency and trust by enabling better monitoring and control of digital activities.

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Enhanced safety and risk management

Whole-of-a-government approach comes with common rules and governance on security, data protection and cybersecurity.

As security of the ecosystem depends of its weakest component, applying common rule helps overall to strengthen security and risk management by establishing standards and policies to protect sensitive data.

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Improve user satisfaction

GovStack will allow to build faster, more convenient and more personalized online service helping on improving the user experience.

It can help improving user satisfaction and also quality of public services.

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Ease Interoperability in between systems

GovStack ensures system interoperability by establishing common norms, technical specifications and APIs.

Different IT systems interact smoothly and efficiently, regardless of their technical or organizational specificities.

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Costs optimization

Whole-of-a-government approach digitalize processes allowing to automate them in a second steps.

It can cut costs of staff and offices by reducing manual processes.

It can automating repetitive tasks leaving time for staff to focus on exotic cases, saving money on the overall applications.

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Building Block value proposition summary

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Source:GovStack Ecosystem Reference Architecture (GERA): A Guide for Policymakers, Public Administration Leaders, and Strategic Stakeholders

Respond to people's’ life events

From cradle to grave​

GovStack

Building Block

Proven Practice

Opportunities

for local

ecosystem to innovate

Interoperability

(Internal and external)

Open Source

Align ecosystem

Governance & Compliance

Reduce complexity

Reduce Sustainment & Cost

Facilitate

Procurement & Availability

Faster Time to Realisation

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Cost-efficiency

Improves procurement efficiency and provides common capabilities cross-departments / -agencies which avoids duplication of efforts, reduces cost to develop new e-gov. services,.

ONE government

Enables service delivery that links and invokes different parts of government, providing a connected, consistent and seamless user experience.

Integration + exchange

Enables integrated transactions and exchange of information across other equivalent stacks and systems through standards and open APIs.

Minimized vendor lock-in

Minimizes product ‘lock-in’ and allows independent services to run where modular Building Blocks could be replaced without impacting overall experience.

Speed

Increases speed of delivery by facilitating reuse of core service elements and redirecting resources towards improving citizen outcomes.

Real economic return

Provides socioeconomic ROI by enabling faster and closer connections from government to addressing needs of citizens and businesses.

Agility + Responsiveness

Enable governments to design and deliver new services quickly to respond to needs and unexpected circumstances (e.g. global pandemic and disasters).

Harmonized policies

Opens possibilities for aggregation of big data for richer insights that would help develop better non conflicting policies and monitor operations.

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[Ref. on other documented rationalization w. AsiaPac. countries examples: GSMA Report "Advancing digital societies in Asia Pacific: a whole-of-government approach"]

The GovStack approach has wide-ranging benefits

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In summary, GovStack is about:

  • Citizen-centricity: serving the citizens and not only the government (G2C, G2B, G2G)​
  • Outcome focus: based on clear measurable results (high-impact use cases)​
  • Whole-of-government: public agencies achieve together a shared goal and deliver an integrated response to a particular issue working across government departments.
  • Community and Ecosystem driven
  • Allow countries to take full ownership of their digital futures and scale technology in ways that maintain national digital sovereignty
  • Unbundling: complex challenges into micro services to then be re-bundled for specific context
  • Reusability: maximizing return on investments (invest once but use for all)​
  • Integration & Interoperability: seamless exchange of information across agency-silos and delivered through different channels. Services should be “integrated by design” (API-fication)​
  • Open Standards and Open Source Digital Public Goods (DPGs) to build safe, inclusive, and trusted Digital Public Services Infrastructure
  • Data sharing: Data is shared across government based on rights and privileges​
  • Privacy by design
  • Government as Service Enabler/platform: moving from development of applications to making available public digital infrastructure/platforms where multiple applications can be developed​ on top of it

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Digital Government Transformation

& GovStack as enabler

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Source: https://digitalpublicgoods.net/blog/unpacking-concepts-definitions-digital-public-infrastructure-building-blocks-and-their-relation-to-digital-public-goods/

“Digital transformation is a continuous process of adoption of digital technologies that fundamentally change the way government and private sector services are ideated, planned, designed, deployed and operated and, to create new services that were not possible before by being personalized, paperless, cashless, presenceless, frictionless, and consent-based” - a new generation of transformational citizen-centric digital services.

Source: ITU, 2019, Digital transformation and the role of enterprise architecture

GovStack approach:

  • Powers governments with Digital Service Infrastructure that is foundational and where digital services can be built on top of it
  • Establishes a Trust and Interoperability Framework that is the basis for green digital economy
  • GovStack is thus the “Engine” of Sustainable Digital Transformation

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Quiz

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Question 1

Question 2

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HOW?�

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GovStack offerings  

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Building Blocks build the basis for scalable, interoperable digital services

Functional specifications for       �foundational building�blocks

A digital testing environment to learnexperiment, and prototype services

Sandbox for building �blocks and create prototypes for eGovernment �services

Supporting countries in using building blocks through the GovStack Implementation Playbook, workshops and Communities of Practices.

A platform to explore and compare products, view use cases, post or find RFPs.

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GovStack offerings accelerate the digitization of governments services

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Countries build their services based on Building Block specifications

Countries may contribute to their development in working groups.

Countries identify and prioritize use cases which can then be demonstrated, tested and explored in sandboxes.

Countries benefit from capacity building (e-learning, implementation playbook, workshops) and exchange knowledge through Communities of Practice.

Country Engagement

GovLearn

GovExchange

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GovSpecs

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GovStack Building Blocks are released in waves

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2nd WAVE (Complete)

3rd WAVE

(in progress)

1st WAVE (Complete)

Sandbox

GIS

eMarketplace

Cloud Hosting

User Interface

eSignature

Consent

Management

Messaging

Scheduling

Workflow

Identification &

Authentication

Digital

Registries

Information

Mediator

Registration

Payments

Security

A

X

/

U

I

Current specifications available at https://govstack.gitbook.io/specification/

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Technical specifications accelerate software development and API integration among BBs

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GovTest

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GovTest: The GovStack Sandbox to experiment, learn and prototype

      • First GovStack reference implementation acts as best practice
      • Experience the citizen’s user journey of reference use cases
      • Test the interchangeability of Building Blocks with a variety of use cases
      • Assess the deployment, configuration and interoperability of Building Blocks

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The Challenge

GovStack‘s Solution

      • Lack of comprehensive pre-procurement testing
      • Limited transparency of existing best practice systems
      • Reinventing the development, deployment and operating life cycle

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GovTest: The GovStack sandbox is being developed

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Sandbox Features

  • makes the GovStack approach tangible
  • is an isolated, safe environment simulating a small governmental e-service system (reference implementation)
  • encapsulates the business logic and data necessary to represent multiple GovStack (APIs, BB, use cases and workflows)
  • follows the GovStack architectural approach centered around APIs and microservices to help unlock monolithic legacy systems to increase the speed of IT project delivery, leading to more effective and cost-efficient digital governments

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Test harness facilitates APIs compliance process

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Current specifications available at https://govstack.gitbook.io/specification/

The Testing Webapp, a part of the Test Harness system, serves as a window into software compliance, providing a simple yet insightful overview of how different applications measure up against BB standards.

Application: https://testing.govstack.global/

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GovLearn

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GovLearn: capacity building through eLearning, workshops, implantation playbook & communities of practice

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In-person trainings 

Communities of Practice & other exchange formats

E-learning modules �around GovStack implementation and & the building blocks

GovStack Playbook

Resources, guidelines and step-by-step instructions

Available for everyone, may be used for independent guidance as well as a step-by-step guide understanding and implementing GovStack

Hosted on atingi, complementing the Playbook; a-synchronous short courses

Initiated by founding partners on technical aspects, gender & inclusion or  regional exchange

Specific trainings based on needs assessment in focus-countries 

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GovStack Implementation Playbook: a step-by-step guide to digital service design using the Building Block approach

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Each step within the journey describes of:

    • Activities/Resources
    • Digital teams roles & responsibilities
    • Deliverables

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GovStack implementation framework strengthens institutional mandate, service design and delivery using a BB approach

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Make it editable to make changes and provide the source

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GovStack implementation framework strengthens institutional mandate, service design and delivery using a BB approach

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The Challenge brings together the women in the global GovTech community in applying the BB approach in their fields

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About the applicants:

  • 29 mentors
  • 129 participants
  • Regions covered: Europe, South Asia, South east Asia, Africa and Latin America.
  • 13 thematic areas covered (Service delivery, Security, agriculture, Waste Management etc)

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CIO Digital Leaders Forum

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  • 10 best practices featured
    • Peru
    • Estonia
    • India
    • Rwanda
    • Egypt
    • Ukraine
    • UAE
    • Saudi Arabia
    • Argentina
    • Senegal
    • Sierra Leone

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WSIS Special Prize in Digital Service Design 2023 Edition

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50 applicants from all over the world and 10 finalist selected:

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Green GovStack ICT procurement guidelines

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https://www.itu.int/hub/publication/d-hdb-guidelines-04-2023/

https://academy.itu.int/training-courses/full-catalogue/circular-and-sustainable-public-procurement-icts

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GovStack research focus areas pre-identified so far:

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À produire et à externaliser via les formats suivants :

  • Blogs
  • Articles de recherche
  • Études de cas par pays
  • Livres blancs (6 produits)
  • Commandés auprès d'experts externes
  • Positionnement à l'ordre du jour lors d'événements existants
  • Recherche de partenariats dans les forums de recherche

People-centric whole-of-government approach to DPI

DPI

 (characteristics)

    • Fundamentals: Consent, Identity, Payment
    • Interoperability
    • Safeguards
    • Readiness

Echange de données

    • Governance models
    • Value and benefits
    • Privacy design / approach
    • Trust in data sharing

Open Source

    • Role of DPGs
    • Regulatory and institutionalization approaches

Nexus w. dev. agendas

    • AI enable services
    • Climate
    • Gender and inclusion

People-centric whole-of-government approach to DPI

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 GovExchange

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GovExchange provides access to use cases, software products, market opportunities to implement them, & more

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Become a part of the GovStack Initiative

Tech & Product�Contribution

Organizations or Countries contributing to the Working groups various GovStack technical assets in operationalizing the BB approach

Knowledge Contribution

Partners who share knowledge, best practices with GovStack 

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Funding �Partner

Partners funding the GovStack initiative or GovStack roll out in countries

Design & Demonstrate

Countries piloting or supporting the GovStack approach. GovStack support mechanisms include

Working group contributions

Technical review committee

Direct pathways via Jira, Confluence

Strategy support

Service design & prototyping

Capacity development

BB compliant Products

Be part of the Advisory Board

Feedback on Tools & Products

Research outputs

BB compliant Product funding

Advocacy 

CIO Forum, COPs

Country & regional COPs

Core Funding

Country Implement-�ation

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Quiz

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Question 1

Question 2

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Exemplar digital government services built with reusable software components/BBs

India, Kazakhstan, Estonia, Moldova, Mexico

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India

Identity Layer

Aadhaar:

  • Provides identity to 1.38 billion residents
  • 97 Billion e-authentications completed.
  • Led to DBT disbursal of USD 372 B in govt. welfare schemes.
  • Saving to government exchequer: USD 33 Billion (as on July, 2023)

Payments Layer

UPI:

  • Simple and user-friendly onboarding of users and on-click secure payment from any bank account
  • 458 Banks live on UPI.
  • 190 Billion Transactions on UPI.
  • 4.1 Trillion USD worth of transactions.

User consent Data Layer

DigiLocker:

  • Secure and Private: Accessed by user consent, no unverified usage of records, secure platform
  • Anytime, anywhere usage: Shareable and accessible on the move using desktop or mobile
  • Environment friendly: Paperless process reducing cost to the environment
  • Facilitating 180 Million users and providing 6.2 Billion issued documents

https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2023/03/31/Stacking-up-the-Benefits-Lessons-from-Indias-Digital-Journey-531692

India Stack is a set of open APIs and digital public goods that provides digital identity, data, and payments at national scale

https://www.indiastack.global/statistics/

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India

India Stack is a set of open APIs and digital public goods that provides digital identity, data, and payments at national scale

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Kazakhstan

SMART BRIDGE

Optimization of the processes of organizing information interaction between the public and private sector by creating a single platform for all systems.

The platform allows institutions (both public and private) to seamlessly integrate with government information systems using readily available free software tools and unified (standardized) digital infrastructure for interacting with users.

  • simplified rollout and management of services;
  • improved transparency;
  • automated signing of 3 types of documents.

SINCE THE LAUNCH:

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Interoperability platform “Smart bridge” enables the integration process between public and private information systems to boost service efficiency

Economic effect

Simplified the integration process and reduction of paper workflow:

  • from 3 months to 1 month
  • from 8 approvals to 1 approval
  • from 8 letters to 0 letters
  • from t technical documents to 1 online forms

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Kazakhstan

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Interoperability platform “Smart bridge” enables the integration process between public and private information systems to boost service efficiency

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Kazakhstan

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Interoperability platform “Smart bridge” enables the integration process between public and private information systems to boost service efficiency

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Estonia�Integrated Governance with 100% of Government services that can be available online, are actually online

Citizen-Centric Vision

E-Identity Empowerment

Estonia's Approach: Trailblazing Digital Frontiers

Integrated System Harmony

X-Road

Pioneering Accessibility.

24/7 Anyware, anytime, from any device

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Estonia�Land registry in Estonia

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Moldova

National interoperability framework ensures consistent data systems, aligned with Moldova's commitment to efficient governance.

Seamless digital integration empower public service providers to collaborate efficiently as FOD aims to form an interconnected ecosystem that fuels innovation.�

Dynamic e-services development framework allows assembling user-centric solutions, reusable components & minimizing redundancy.�

User-friendly back office ensures uniform delivery by tightly integrating with platform services.�

Smart resource allocation optimizes investments, bolstering digital transformation.�

Moldova's Strategic Digital Evolution: A Unified Ecosystem & its Components

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Ukraine

Enabled most demanded services and official documents through Diia app

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2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

CMS- gob.mx alfa, beta

Entities websites & service catalogue

Specs, APIs, software

eSignature, payments, identity, service estandard

Specs, APIs, regulation

+900 standardized services a year

Mexico could have saved two years of building some of their core reusable software components/Mexican govStack

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

CMS- gob.mx alfa, beta

Entities websites & service catalogue

Customize the spec & APIs if need it

eSignature, payments, identity, service estandard

Specs, APIs, regulation

+900 estadarized services a year

Birth certificate

Education credentials

+5000 Gov Services Standardized

Birth certificate

Education credentials

Operating licences

Construction permits

Driver licenses

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Mexico

A digital service standard to unified the digital experience across all government services

CMS

299 Government entities

Service catalogue - Life events

5000 service information sheet

Standard web form instead of 32 different websites

Standard electronic document instead of 32 different official print paper

API definition to validate identity using the national population registry

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Mexico

Birth certificate online

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Institutional set up

Regulatory framework

Governance structure to defined standards

India

Kazakhstan

Estonia

Mexico

Moldova

Sustainable digital transformation comes with the highest political support, strong governance structure, and a team to deliver

https://indiastack.org/

President Office

National Digital Coordination Office

Moldova eGovernance Agency

Office of the CIO

Ministry of Economy

NITEC

Digital Agenda

Digital service standard

ICT Policy to align ICT investments to Digital Agenda

Interministerial commission for the development of e Government

  • Agreed on standards
  • Yearly digitization plan

Governance structure to defined standards

Shared service policy defines which BB are maintained by each gov entity with their own ICT budget

  • Ministry of interior eID
  • TAX Agency eSignature
  • Public Administration gob.mx

Funding mechanism to maintain the stack

https://www.egov.md/en

Methodology on public services re-engineering�A complex legal framework supporting gov. digital transformation available here

NIIS - Estonia, Iceland, Finland

X-Road

NITEC - State enterprise responsible for design delivery and maintenance of digital government services

National eGovernance Division

National Payments Corporation

National eGovernance Division

National Payments Corporation

https://www.nitec.kz/

Single requirements in the field of ICT approved by the Decree of the Government of Dec. 20, 2016 No. 832.�

Only once principle is mandatory �

NITEC, Ministry of Digital Development, Innovation and Aerospace Industry

eGovernance Agency, State Chancellery, Ministry of Economic Development and DIgitalization�

Smart bridge provide services to public and private organization �

Office of the CIO

Ministry of Economy

National eGovernance Division

National Payments Corp.

Co Financing based on the government funding and resources of various development partners

Ukraine

XXX

XXX

  • XXX

XXXX

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    • Activities/Resources
    • Digital teams roles & responsibilities
    • Deliverables

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GovStack Country Engagement

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Current GovStack Partner Countries from…

GovStack Services: We collaborate with governments in the following areas: 

Piloting of �e-government use case

Strengthening local capacity

Contribution of local actors to the Building Block specifications

Participation of local actors in Communities of Practice

Assessing �e-government readiness and roadmap development

Algeria

Argentina

Djibouti

Egypt

Kenya

Maldives

Mauritania

Papua New Guinea

Peru

Rwanda

Sierra Leone

Somalia

Ukraine

Senegal

Togo

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GovStack Engagement in Horn of Africa (HoA) co-financed by the EU Commission

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

          Regional and Global GovStack Communities of Practice 

  GovStack and Change Management capacity development including Training-of-Trainers and on the job coaching 

Participation in Communities of Practice

Design and Prototyping of e-services 

Strengthening government capacity

 Djibouti     

Somalia

Kenya

 Design and development of priority e-services based on the GovStack approach (Djibouti: eCabinet & Construction Permits, Somalia: Service Catalog & High School Certificates, Kenya: Integrated Case Management Systems) 

an EU D4D cooperation together w. France, Spain – the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Digital Impact Alliance (at the UN Foundation) and Estonian Centre for International Development (EstDev)

Developing digital government strategies and roadmaps

   Development of Digital Readiness Studies and Implementation Roadmaps 

GIZ local project/ office​: GIZ Digital Transformation Center (DTC) Kenya

Duration: 01/2022 - 03/2025

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GovStack Engagement in Ukraine

 Ukraine     

Partner Ministry

Ministry of Digital Transformation(MDT)

GIZ local project/ office

GIZ Ukraine 

Duration: 06/22 – 08/25

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

     Ukrainian stakeholders participate in Communities of Practice, Digital Leaders forums etc. for knowledge and best practice exchange

  GIZ and MinDigital are assessing further needs of the Ukrainian eGovernment system and adapting the GovStack approach.

Participation in International Platforms

Making Ukrainian e-government platform GovStack compliant

Further development of Ukrainian Sytstem with GovStack

The Ukrainian UA.Platform will be converted into a GovStack compliant and added to the GovStack sandbox.

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GovStack Engagement in Egypt

 Egypt     

Partner Ministry

Ministry of Information and Technology (MCIT)

GIZ local project/ office

GIZ Project “Supporting e-Government and Innovation in the Public Administration (InnoPA)”

Duration: 02/22 – 08/25

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

Egyptian stakeholders participate in Communities of Practice, Digital Leaders Forums to exchange on best practices

  Deep Dive Workshops on the usage of GovStack in the country are held

Participation in International Platforms

Adaption of GovStack Building Blocks

Strengthening Ecosystem Capacity

 Usage of GovStack Building Blocks as addition to existing systems

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GovStack Engagement in Rwanda

 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

  GovStack related capacity development are developed and carried out

  Rwandan actors are participating in Building Block Working Groups and Technical Review Cycles​

Prototyping of e-government services

Strengthening government capacity

Contribution to building block specifications

 Rwanda     

  E-government use cases are piloted based on the GovStack approach using the building blocks

Partner Ministry

Ministry of ICT and Innovation (MINICT) - Rwanda Information Society Authority (RISA)

GIZ local project/ office

GIZ Digital Transformation Center (DTC) Rwanda

Duration: 07/22 – 08/25

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GovStack Engagement in Rwanda�Deep Dive

Government of Rwanda

  • Since 2017 the Ministry of ICT and Innovation is implementing ist digital strategies through RISA 
  • RISA has the mandate of planning and coordinating the implementation of national ICT for Development Agenda
  • All government services are to be provided digitally by 2024 – 2020: 40% 
  • Rwanda has developed IREMBO, the one stop shop for digital government services 

GIZ in Rwanda

  • GIZ´s Digital Transformation Center is located in Kigali and has thus far implemented 21 digital solutions and supported over 110 start-ups 
  • GovStack is attached to the DTC and collaborates closely with ITU´s regional office in Kigali 

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GovStack Engagement in Rwanda�Deep Dive

In cooperation with the Worldbank, the Government of Rwanda is developing the new Single Digital ID system.  

200 Government Websites have been developed supporting the Content Management BB

A tree plantation tracker, a platform to finance refugee services, a service registry and a training management system for civil servants are being developed

 A government business intelligence solution/reporting solution was rolled out

GovStack Content Management Building Block

GovStack Workflow Building Block

GovStack Enterprise Architecture

 Rwanda     

Use Cases

GovStack Consent Building Block

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GovStack Engagement in Rwanda�Deep Dive

200 Government Websites have been developed supporting the Content Management BB

GovStack Content Management Building Block

 Rwanda     

Content Management Building Block

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GovStack Engagement in Rwanda�Deep Dive

A tree plantation tracker, a platform to finance refugee services, a service registry and a training management system for civil servants are being developed

GovStack Workflow Building Block

 Rwanda     

Workflow Building Block

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GovStack Engagement in Rwanda�Deep Dive

A government business intelligence solution/reporting solution was rolled out

GovStack Reporting and Business Intelligence

 Rwanda     

Enterprise Architecture

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GovStack Engagement in Rwanda�Deep Dive

In cooperation with the Worldbank, the Government of Rwanda is developing the new Single Digital ID system.  

GovStack Consent Building Block

 Rwanda     

Consent Building Block

Consent Building Block is in planning to comply to the Rwandan Data Privacy Law

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GovStack Engagement in Rwanda�Deep Dive

Outlook

2024

Rwanda Implementation Roadmap

Today

  • Implementation of priority use cases 
  • Application for Co-Develop Funding

2025

  • Operationalization of  further building blocks
  • Train the Customers
  • Implement further use cases
  • Scale up 
  • Services deployed

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Question 1

Question 2