Tuesday: @GovTech Leaders conference. In its 4th year, great to see how this has scaled. Arūnė Matelytė Kamila and Rūta Ūsaitė have done an amazing job in building up #Lithuania’s reputation in #GovTech and now have a Vice-Minister for GovTech, the energetic Erika Kuročkina.
Hats off to the GovTech Lab Lithuania team for the logistics of convening international partners (and friends) in from #brazil
Guilherme D. F. Dominguez, US Kimberly Johns The World Bank Bank, South Australia Aron Hausler and NZ Jonnie Haddon, and PUBLIC Sofia Silva Carballido and Felipe González-Zapata OECD - OCDE as well as many more European colleagues. Thanks to Elijus Čivilis, Monika Merkytė and @Irene Zukauskaite for our panel on the ‘Public servant of the future’. As with last year, the whole day expertly compèred by Sarune Smalakyte .
Stand out presentation via live link from Valeriya Ionan, Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation from #ukraine on their roll out emergency digital services as part of their war effort. #civictech in action from reporting building damage, to emergency support payments, to enemy identification - all done through #Diia.
GovTech Leaders Gathering
Vilnius 9th-12th May 2023
Wednesday - Friday:
Workshopping #GovTech - 20 orgs from 14 countries - topics on Impact and evaluation, KPIs, toolkits, Programme funding, Business models, ecosystem development, business support and case studies. Top tips that we will be collating for the benefit of all.
Really excited for the next stage of the The CivTech Alliance as we formalise structures and continue to progress from a knowledge network to collective capability.
This was a brilliant get together with mostly CivTech Alliance members but also others - World Bank, OECD, GovTech Sweden, StateUp , Ian Brotherston Innovate UK UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose . After c.150 video calls together, I finally get to meet Aron (AUS), Jonnie (NZ), Xenophon (GR) Laura Kirchner Sala (ES)! And great to see Eva Sonnenmoser and Katja (DE), Magne Hareide and Marlin (NO), Cat, Eva Duran Sánchez and Gulsen (@Civic Software Foundation US/EUR), Tanguy De Lestré (BE), Mikk Vainik (EE), Sylvia Romanelli (BR/UK)
And finally, thanks to British Ambassador Brian Olley for hosting a lively reception with support from his team Migle Masaityte and Marina Delegán
Meet ups make the difference. These teams are at the nexus of entrepreneurial ecosystem development and the access points to new markets beyond just #GovTech.