Enter the Sandbox

The GovStack Sandbox is a demonstration environment for digital teams from governments and service providers to learn and test how the GovStack approach can be implemented.

Early Warning Tech Demo

Demonstrating GovStack architecture and a-sync data exchange

Social Cash Transfer Tech Demo

Demonstrating the GovStack architecture and all stack layers

Construction Permit UX Demo

Demonstrating service design, UX/UI BB usage and mobile first approach

Do It Yourself

Protoype your own use case with different supporting assets

Technical Stack

Learn about our implementations on all architecture layers

Design Methodology

Learn about best practices on UX and Frontend design

What you will find here

• Live e-service demos to see the GovStack’s architecture and methodology in action

• Technical documentation of the e-service demos

• Do-It-Yourself packages to learn and test specific aspects of GovStack

GovStack Sandbox is a demonstration and learning tool designed to showcase and explore how digital government services can be built using modular, reusable building blocks.

What you won't find here

• Technical building block specifications of GovStack (find them on GovSpecs)

• Ready-made software solutions you can integrate into your government infrastructure (find a list of possible solutions on GovMarket)

GovStack Sandbox is not intended for building, deploying live systems. It is not a production-ready system.

Building Block Software currently deployed in the environment (no recommendation, see long list of possible software applications on GovMarket):

• X-Road (Information Mediator)

• Kafka (Information Mediator)

• MOSIP (Identity)

• iGrant.io/Redpill (Consent)

• Mifos Payment Hub (Payment)

• Baserow (Registry)

• OpenIMIS (Registry)

• Joget (Registration + Registry + Workflow)

• RapidPro (Messaging)

Sandbox Value Proposition

Learn about one possible implementation of the GovStack Specifications

In the Access Demo section, Explore Stack section and our GitHub repositories, you can dive step-by-step deeper into the technical implementation details.

• Access our demo implementations

  • Early Warning Use Case - a UX and technology demo showcasing a-synchronous data exchange and usage of Messaging Building Block
  • Social Cash Transfer Use Case - a technology demo showcasing Building Block architecture
  • Construction Permit Use Case - a UX demo showcasing the methodology from service design to frontend development
  • High School Certificate Use Case - a methodology demo showcasing the usage of service design templates
• Explore the Sandbox architecture and how the stack layers are build
• Read about the Digital Public Infrastructure & Goods (DPI/DPG) we procured and customized from the open market
• Examine our code repositories and developer documentation containing: cloud infrastructure configurations; Helm charts; RPC layer for rapid prototyping; Building Block Emulator examples and many more.

Prototype with reusable assets to create your own use cases

Re-usability as one of GovStack's core principles, let us to develop all assets under Open Source licence and as much as possible as a generic implementation to be re-used for new use case prototypes.

• Follow our service design best practice to implement according to the GovStack Playbook
• Use our ready-made figma templates for user journeys and service blueprints
• DIY-Package "Light" of Social Cash Transfer Use Case to deploy a prototype comprising the Building Block architecture with lightweight emulators (enables you to e.g. access admin panels of X-Road, change data or API calls)
• DIY-Instructions "Full Stack" of Social Cash Transfer Use Case
• More assets in development!

Customize to your own needs local context

A customized version of the sandbox can take various forms and typically involves a software developer team. Possible customization projects could be: (a) providing mainly infrastructure and DevOps components to standardize deployment and configuration of Building Block software from your local GovTech companies or (b) recreating the full stack with different use cases and Building Block software.

Contact us to explore all the possibilities together.

You might also enjoy our GovStack Simulation making the Building Block approach tangible for less tech-savvy users.

Table of Contents

GovStack General

GovStack Initiative Website	GovStack Specifications	GovStack GitHub

Sandbox High-Level Documentation (GitBook)

Early Warning Use Case Demo Social Cash Transfer Use Case Demo Construction Permit Use Case Demo High School Certification Use Case Demo	Learning Paths Do It Yourself Service Design Practice	Architecture Use Case Frontend Use Case Backend Building Blocks Infrastructure

Sandbox Developer Documentation and Code Repositories (GitHub)

Infrastructure Generic RPC Backend Generic BB Emulator	Social Cash Transfer (USCT) Use Case Frontend Social Cash Transfer (USCT) Use Case Backend	Construction Permit Use Case Frontend Construction Permit Use Case Backend	Early Warning Use Case Repositories

Acknowledgement

Special thanks to all the contributors to the project:

Gofore for implementing the concept of sandbox for Govstack and integrating BB. Especially: Diego Martin; Vuk Damjanovic; Jarkko Hyöty; Bert Viikmäe; Kimmo Hedemäki; Heidi Kuum; Martha Vasquez; Oleksii Danyliuk; Priit Puru; Vladislav Todorov; Tsvetomir Krumov; Akseli Karvinen; Artun Gurkan; Jonas Bergmeier; Valentin Filyov; Vasil Kolev; Meelis Zujev; Harri Mansikamäki.

Technoforte for customizing and supplying MOSIP (Identity BB).

Mifos Consortium for customizing and supplying Mifos Payment Hub (Payment BB).

Nortal for customizing and supplying X-Road (Information Mediator BB).