[all] GovStack community seeking for infrastructure expertise
Do you believe in the potential of digital public goods for positive impact? Ever wished for more digitally-enabled government services?
GovStack [1] is a community-driven initiative on a mission to accelerate the digital transformation of government services in order to better serve citizens - and we want you to join us!
We create and maintain an openly licenced blueprint for a modular architecture based on reusable building blocks [2]. Our various working groups work to define the (non-)functional and API specifications for building blocks, leveraging existing standards such as OpenStack. These specifications are then used for implementations in our partner countries across the world, to facilitate the delivery of foundational, life-enhancing services.
Learn more about the call for contributions here [3]. We are specifically looking for experts with experience in infrastructure and security.
The initiative is founded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Estonia, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the Digital Impact Alliance.
Thank you to the team of the Open Infrastructure Foundation for their support.
Also, thank you to the whole community and please feel free to directly contact us. Nico (Lueck) nico.lueck@giz.de
[1] https://www.govstack.global/ [2] https://govstack.gitbook.io/ [3] https://www.govstack.global/call-for-expression-of-interest/
________________________________ Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH; Sitz der Gesellschaft Bonn und Eschborn/Registered offices Bonn and Eschborn, Germany; Registergericht/Registered at Amtsgericht Bonn, Germany; Eintragungs-Nr./Registration no. HRB 18384 und/and Amtsgericht Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Eintragungs-Nr./Registration no. HRB 12394; USt-IdNr./VAT ID no. DE 113891176; Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats/Chairman of the Supervisory Board: Jochen Flasbarth; Vorstand/Management Board: Tanja Goenner (Vorstandssprecherin/Chair of the Management Board), Ingrid-Gabriela Hoven, Thorsten Schaefer-Guembel
Hi Nico,
Sounds like a great initiative.
I believe there is a significant overlap between our Sovereign Cloud Stack (SCS) [1] initiative and what you are trying to achieve. There was some contact between GIZ and us at some point although this may not have reached you, unfortuantely.
Let's ensure we work together and join forces where it makes sense.
Interesting .. appreciate the initiative..
Is this a Cloud Native Stack concept to build a Govstack, So the potential users/customers can come and develop the applications using the cloud native app development framework/stack ?..
Is there any reference documents to make a Cloud Native Stack using/leveraging existing standards of Openstack OR [ Containers(Docker/Kubernetes or LXCs) etc ] . We are a non-profit government organization working with the Government in an Asian country and would like to know the design/ architecture principles and use cases of developing a Cloud Native- GovStack.
Any documentation / reference most appreciated.
Thank you, Krish.
On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 5:22 PM Kurt Garloff kurt@garloff.de wrote:
Hi Nico,
Sounds like a great initiative.
I believe there is a significant overlap between our Sovereign Cloud Stack (SCS) [1] initiative and what you are trying to achieve. There was some contact between GIZ and us at some point although this may not have reached you, unfortuantely.
Let's ensure we work together and join forces where it makes sense.
-- Kurt Garloff kurt@garloff.de Cologne, Germany
On 16.08.22 10:41, Lueck, Nico GIZ wrote:
Do you believe in the potential of digital public goods for positive
impact? Ever wished for more digitally-enabled government services?
GovStack [1] is a community-driven initiative on a mission to accelerate
the digital transformation of government services in order to better serve citizens - and we want you to join us!
We create and maintain an openly licenced blueprint for a modular
architecture based on reusable building blocks [2]. Our various working groups work to define the (non-)functional and API specifications for building blocks, leveraging existing standards such as OpenStack. These specifications are then used for implementations in our partner countries across the world, to facilitate the delivery of foundational, life-enhancing services.
Learn more about the call for contributions here [3]. We are
specifically looking for experts with experience in infrastructure and security.
The initiative is founded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic
Cooperation and Development, Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Estonia, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the Digital Impact Alliance.
Thank you to the team of the Open Infrastructure Foundation for their
support.
Also, thank you to the whole community and please feel free to directly
contact us.
Nico (Lueck) nico.lueck@giz.de
[1] https://www.govstack.global/ [2] https://govstack.gitbook.io/ [3] https://www.govstack.global/call-for-expression-of-interest/
Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH; Sitz der Gesellschaft Bonn und Eschborn/Registered offices Bonn and
Eschborn, Germany;
Registergericht/Registered at Amtsgericht Bonn, Germany;
Eintragungs-Nr./Registration no. HRB 18384 und/and Amtsgericht Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Eintragungs-Nr./Registration no. HRB 12394;
USt-IdNr./VAT ID no. DE 113891176; Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats/Chairman of the Supervisory Board: Jochen
Flasbarth;
Vorstand/Management Board: Tanja Goenner (Vorstandssprecherin/Chair of
the Management Board), Ingrid-Gabriela Hoven, Thorsten Schaefer-Guembel
participants (3)
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KK CHN
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Kurt Garloff
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Lueck, Nico GIZ