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GovStack – Sustainable Digital Infrastructure

The vision of GovStack is to “Accelerate the digital transformation of government services,
empowering governments to take ownership of their digital futures by building more
effective and cost-efficient digital government services”. The GovStack initiative was
launched in 2021, under the leadership of four partner organizations – the International
Telecommunications Union (ITU), the Republic of Estonia, Deutsche Gesellschaft fur
Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), and the Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL). For more
information, please access the website.

This initiative is an extension of the earlier effort established by the Digital Impact Alliance
(DIAL) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) on the development of a
normative logical framework called the SDG Digital Investment Framework. The SDG Digital
Investment Framework was published by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
and the Digital Impact Alliance in February 2019. The Framework seeks to address core
issues that prevent actors from effectively deploying technology platforms to address the
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The framework is an empirical abstraction that
demonstrates the common approach used by countries that are recognized as leading
examples in transforming government services through digitalization, by considering the
core, shared, and re-usable elements within a platform-based architecture. These leading
country examples include (but are not limited to):

• India (IndiaStack)

• Estonia (e-Estonia)

• Singapore (Singapore Government Tech Stack or SGTS)
• Australia (Digital Services Platform)

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