We are actively looking for experts to strengthen our community! Come join us. Currently the plan is to increase participation in several existing building block working groups. Please visit the Building Blocks section for detailed description of each.

Individual experts representing diverse professional and industry experience across different thematic areas are most welcome. The expected contribution may include (a) expert inputs and observation (b) active participation in working groups to support development of requirement specification for individual building block areas (c) or supporting design and development of an underlying architectural blueprint.

Individuals should meet the following criteria:

• Must have extensive experience in software development (or a blend of implementation and product ownership)
• Demonstrable experience, or strong understanding and engagement with Open Source Software
• Experience as technical expert in designing and/ or implementing digital government strategy at-large or other sectoral/ministerial services
• Expertise in specific building block area and related design and issues (see “Building Blocks”)
• Experience formulating technical requirements and specifications for the designated area or digital component
• Ability to articulate, draft and formulate technical requirements and referencing best practices and design approach from different countries and solution contexts that could be reapplied in resource-constrained environment​
• Expert knowledge of applicable standards and best practices and how they relate or are applied for the designated building block topic to ensure interoperability, security by design, data privacy, etc.
• General knowledge in enterprise/whole-of-government architectural approaches, design methodologies, and frameworks and how those could be implemented at country level​
• Active experts must be able to commit their time on a voluntary basis
• Must have high degree of neutrality
• (optional) Experience in leading and managing a working group

We especially encourage women and/or non-binary individuals, BIPOC, and individuals working at partner governments in low-resource settings to participate.

A word on managing potential conflict of interest

All GovStack activities are aligned with the GovStack Principles. Some mechanisms to ensure unbiased participation by all parties and circumvent possible influence by special unilateral interests that will directly or indirect produce gain to the individual or their represented corporation:

• Technical Advisory Group comprised of neutral stakeholders independent of commercial ties or representations of special interests to act as a final decision body to review and rectify all technical outputs.
• Individuals representing or associated with any product, design model, technological offering, membership organization, etc. shall declare all such ties.
• Individuals representing private companies cannot serve as leads in working groups.
• As much as possible, experts would be contractually recruited at an individual level rather than as a service from a private entity.
• In the event corporate sponsorship is involved, declaration will be made in the group and publicly.
• Open by default as way of release all project outputs.

Submission

1. Individual expression of interest with relevant documentations can be provided below or to our email at info@govstack.global.
2. Each candidate should state briefly in an accompanying message with their submission their experience and expertise domains in relation to individual building blocks. (Refer to the “Building Blocks”).
3. Submit a CV along with other background references (public profiles, links to publications, etc.).

Acknowledgement

The project shall acknowledge all the contributions made by individuals, organizations or countries both in-kind and financially to realize the objectives of the project.