Read the frameworks, browse the registries, join the communities.
Our long-form briefing for city technology leadership — the programs, events and frameworks NYC can join, and what to do first.
The annual convening at UN HQ — agenda, recordings, and community.
The eight principles and the launch announcement.
The member-state framework naming DPGs and DPI as shared priorities.
Interactive world map of the digital ID, payment, and data-exchange systems in use across 210 countries.
The vetted registry of digital public goods, filterable by SDG and searchable by deployment.
The rights-by-design framework for public digital infrastructure.
Building-block specifications for government digital services.
The open source data exchange layer run by 20+ countries.
The practitioner community for running an OSPO — guides and templates.
European-rooted alliance with an OSPO onboarding handbook.
Case studies and news on public-sector open source across Europe.
The US civic tech network — the domestic ally ecosystem.
Germany’s public fund for maintaining critical open source infrastructure.
Pathways to fund, certify, and scale DPGs.
The open source ID platform — a study in sustainably governed DPI.
Outward-facing organizations — with public contact channels — whose job is helping governments adopt open source, DPGs, and DPI.
Stewards the Global Digital Compact follow-up; led by USG Amandeep Singh Gill, the UN’s top digital official.
How they helpConnecting city digital policy to UN processes and the GDC.
Public contact channel ↗The team behind the annual convening at UN Headquarters.
How they helpGetting NYC officials into the room every June — the single easiest first step.
Public contact channel ↗The multi-stakeholder body that maintains the DPG Standard and registry.
How they helpCertifying NYC-built tools as DPGs; finding vetted open solutions to adopt.
Public contact channel ↗Advisory center (co-founded by India Stack architects) that runs a help desk for governments building DPI.
How they helpFree architectural guidance for any DPI effort NYC takes on.
Public contact channel ↗The global community of OSPO practitioners, hosted at the Linux Foundation.
How they helpPlaybooks, templates, and peer mentors for standing up an NYC OSPO.
Public contact channel ↗Policy think tank on open technologies; among the sixteen endorsers of the UN Principles.
How they helpPolicy language and precedent from European open source legislation.
Public contact channel ↗Germany’s public investor in open source maintenance — and an endorser of the UN Principles.
How they helpThe blueprint for public funding of critical open infrastructure.
Public contact channel ↗The city’s central technology agency — the campaign’s primary addressee and the natural home of an NYC OSPO.
How they helpThe decision. Endorsing the Principles starts here.
Public contact channel ↗NYC’s bridge to the UN and diplomatic community; ran the first-ever Voluntary Local Review.
How they helpThe city-to-UN channel — the office that makes an endorsement diplomatic reality.
Public contact channel ↗The civic tech organizers behind this campaign.
How they helpBriefings, introductions, and the open letter itself — we’re the local convener.
Get in touch →All channels listed are the organizations’ own public contact points.
Public-sector Open Source Program Offices already running elsewhere.
What actually goes inside one is not a matter of opinion — it has been studied. Researchers interviewed representatives of sixteen public-sector OSPOs across the EU, Norway, Liechtenstein and Iceland and sorted them into six archetypes. The diagram below is their summary of what those offices are made of and what they do. On the left, the structural choices every one of them had to make: who sponsors it, which entities support it, how it is budgeted, where it sits in the organization, and how it is staffed. On the right, the work itself — setting open source strategy, overseeing compliance, writing the policies, driving contributions upstream, collaborating with outside projects, tracking whether any of it is working, practising inner source between agencies, growing and keeping people with these skills, advising colleagues, and running the open source infrastructure the organization already depends on. That list is the difference between endorsing open source as a value and running a program for it.
Full, regularly-updated list maintained by the FLOSS PSO Network ↗
Guidance, policies, practices, and talent pipelines for working openly across CMS, HHS, and federal open source ecosystems.
UNDP Open Source Ecosystem Enablement.
Use – Improve – Publish: FOSS at the City of Munich.
The state government’s coordination office for the strategic use of open source, aimed at digital sovereignty.
An organisation of public bodies in Denmark that together develop, mature, and maintain public code.
Promotes open technologies — free for any user to use, analyze, modify, and redistribute.
A mission dedicated to the use, development, and promotion of Free Software and digital commons in public administration.
The team handling open source topics at the French Cybersecurity Agency (ANSSI).
France Travail’s (the French employment agency) Open Source Programme Office.
Open Source Program Office for the City of Paris.
Develops open source software for the French national education system.
Supports the Grenoble area’s scientific communities on matters relating to research data and code.
Responsible for digital technology and strategy for the city of Échirolles.
The Open Source Programme Office of the French National Institute for Geographic and Forestry Information.
A Public Interest Group providing shared IT services to French schools.
The "Free Software Strategy" unit of the city and Eurometropole of Strasbourg, promoting the use and development of Free Software within the territory.
The national OSPO of the Netherlands, currently housed at the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations (BZK).
The developer portal of the Dutch government.
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