The GovStack initiative aims to build a common understanding and technical practice on fundamental reusable and interoperable digital components, which we collectively refer to as Building Blocks. Our effort is expert-driven and community-based, and includes the participation of multiple stakeholders to bring together expertise for strengthening a government's cross-agency architecture view.

Our focus is to enable countries to kickstart their digital transformation journey by adopting, deploying, and scaling digital government services. Through the digital "building blocks" approach, governments can easily create or modify their digital platforms, services, and applications by also simplifying cost, time, and resource requirements.

Overall Highlights

The GovStack initiative is proud to announce the release of the 2025Q4-2026Q1 publication cycle!

New Releases

Updates

The GovStack community understands that there are a wide variety of people from different backgrounds that have valuable insight into the work GovStack is doing. Therefore, we provide multiple ways in which people from those different backgrounds can interact and give us their insight. Here are three:

1. Proposing changes by joining our working groups

Join the discussion of the working group preparing the next release. The process is as follows:

1. Submit the form on

2. You will be invited to an onboarding call covering all essentials of the GovStack Community

3. The respective working group of you interest will invite you to slack, GitBook and meetings

2. Proposing changes via a pull request

Some members of the community will have experience using git to directly interact with specification content and you may do so with the following process.

Note that the content in the GovStack specifications follows the Markdown standards applied by the tool.

1. Check our first to see if anyone else has already reported this issue.

2. Create a new issue and tell us about the problem that you see.

3. The maintainer of this section will be alerted and work with you to decide what changes should be made

Building blocks (BBs) are software modules that can be deployed and combined in a standardized manner. Each building block is capable of working independently, but they can be combined to do much more.

Building blocks are composable, interoperable software modules that can be used across a variety of use cases. They are standards-based, preferably open-source, and designed for scale.

Each building block exposes a set of services in the form of REST APIs that can be consumed by other building blocks or applications.

Please browse the building blocks that are specified in this release in the top bar menu or in the following list:

Overarching Specifications

Architecture and Cross-Functional Requirements

Building Blocks Specifications