BlueHats 🧢 is a worldwide community of public servants (teachers, researchers and other government workers, etc.) who promote Free and Open Source software in, by and for the public sector.

• Govtech
• Open source
• Open Source Program Offices (OSPO)

Nous accompagnons les administrations pour renforcer leur utilisation de logiciels libres, soutenir leurs démarches de publication et de mutualisation de codes sources et créer des liens avec l'écosystème open source.

• France (national government)

• Govtech
• Procurement
• Open source

Repository of Open Source Solutions of Public Administrations

• Govtech
• Open source
• Marketplaces and clearinghouses

Fondée en 2002, l'ADULLACT a pour objectifs de soutenir et coordonner l'action des Administrations et Collectivités territoriales dans le but de promouvoir, développer et maintenir un patrimoine de logiciels libres utiles aux missions de service public.

• Sustainable cities and communities

• Open source
• Open Source Program Offices (OSPO)

Assisting government agencies in increasing their use of Free and Open Source software and supporting their efforts to publish source code .

• France (national government)

• Govtech
• Open source
• Open Source Program Offices (OSPO)

Katalog med öppna programvaror som används av offentliga organisationer. Ett stöd för att välja ett öppet alternativ.

• Govtech
• Open source
• Marketplaces and clearinghouses

A powerful, user-friendly, interoperable GIS used by thousands of users worldwide.

• Civic data
• Mapping
• Mapping tools

A qualitative survey on Policy and Practice, by Johan Linåker, Sachiko Muto

• reports

• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech
• Reports

Annual symposium celebrating Open Source Programme Offices (OSPOs)

• Govtech
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

Since 2010, the Open Source Hardware Association, a 501(c)(3) not for profit charity, has hosted the Open Hardware Summit- a comprehensive conference for the open hardware community and the ever changing open source hardware movement.

• Meet the others
• Emerging tech
• In-person meetings

Docs is the result of a joint effort lead by the French 🇫🇷🥖(DINUM) and German 🇩🇪🥨 governments (ZenDiS).

• France (national government)

• Govtech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Open source

LAPPIS is a Brazilian Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS) lab dedicated to promoting collaboration and engagement within free and open-source communities.

• women
• Gender Equality

• Civic apps outfits
• Open source
• Open source developer networks

So far, the NGI has funded more than 1000 innovators with inclusive and trust-based complementary technology building blocks. Discover their solutions.

• Civic tech catalogs
• Open source
• General purpose open source tools

Building great open source software for Sri Lanka (and beyond!)

• Build something
• Civic apps outfits
• Open source

FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate.

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Conferences

• Meet the others
• Journalism
• In-person meetings

O Software Público Brasileiro é um tipo específico de software livre que atende às necessidades de modernização da administração pública de qualquer dos Poderes da União, dos Estados, do Distrito Federal e dos Municípios e é compartilhado sem ônus no Portal do Software Público Brasileiro.

• Brazil (federal government)

• Govtech
• Civic tech catalogs
• Procurement

More secure, more flexible, and completely free video conferencing

• Open source
• General purpose open source tools
• Internal communication and coordination

The OSAID offers a standard by which community-led, open and public evaluations will be conducted to validate whether or not an AI system can be deemed Open Source AI. This first stable version of the OSAID is the result of multiple years of research and collaboration, an international roadshow of workshops, and a year-long co-design process led by the Open Source Initiative (OSI), globally recognized by individuals, companies and public institutions as the authority that defines Open Source.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Open source
• Open source AI

HedgeDoc (formerly known as CodiMD) is an open-source, web-based, self-hosted, collaborative markdown editor.

• Open source
• General purpose open source tools

Swiss law requiring government agencies disclose their source code when possible.

• Govtech
• Open source
• Civic tech legislation and policy

Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova (FLOSSK) is a non-governmental organization based in Prishtina established in 2009 in order to support, promote and develop free and open source software.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Open source

Spacetube is a group-to-group chat tool built on top of Matrix, a secure decentralised communication protocol.

• Open source
• Chat and messaging
• General purpose open source tools

As steward of the Open Source Definition, we set the foundation for the open source software ecosystem.

• Open source
• Predecessors

A long-standing and heavily-cited definition of what it means for a tech project to be "open source"

• Open source
• Predecessors

A definition and license for open source compatible licensing of neural network weights

• Artificial Intelligence
• Open source
• General purpose open source tools

Swimming with the tide of international trends on the "Public Code, Public Goods" and pursuing digital democracy, moda supports civic technology and empowers open source software development.

• Govtech
• Open source
• Open source supply chain

Non-profit fiscal host promoting a healthy and sustainable open source ecosystem.

• Get funding
• Nonprofit tech
• Fundraising tools

Open source chat and collaborative software like Slack and Teams

• Open source
• General purpose open source tools
• Internal communication and coordination

Bipartisan legislation that would require government agencies to share custom-developed source code with each other—thereby avoiding duplicative government contracts to build software.

• United States (federal government)

• Open source
• Policy
• Civic tech legislation and policy

Podlove is a group of Wordpress plugins and allows you to self-host your podcast.

• Wordpress

• Decentralization
• Open source
• General purpose open source tools

The OpenAIRE project, in the vanguard of the open access and open data movements in Europe was commissioned by the EC to support their nascent Open Data policy by providing a catch-all repository for European Commission funded research.

• Github

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals
• Open source

A decentralized toolkit for funding your critical software dependencies.

• Build something
• Fundraising tools
• Blockchain

Radicle is a sovereign peer-to-peer network for code collaboration, built on top of Git.

• Build something
• Decentralization
• Open source

Slack alternative - "The secure collaboration hub for technical teams"

• Slack

• Open source
• General purpose open source tools
• Internal communication and coordination

Shareable, no-login calendar

• Open source
• General purpose open source tools
• Organize events

Free tool that takes a Wikipedia URL and extracts data to CSV

• Wikipedia

• Civic data
• Open source
• General purpose open source tools

Enter a UK postcode and this tool returns the constituency it belongs to

• Civic data
• Mapping
• Mapping tools

A free, open source tool that displays open analytics for Wikipedia pages

• Wikipedia

• Media and social media analysis
• Open source
• General purpose open source tools

The “AI Cyber Challenge” (AIxCC) will challenge competitors across the United States, to identify and fix software vulnerabilities using AI.

• United States (federal government)

• Artificial Intelligence
• Open source
• Challenges

Odoo is a suite of open source business apps that cover all your company needs: CRM, eCommerce, accounting, inventory, point of sale, project management, etc.

• Open source
• General purpose open source tools
• CRM

Open source no-code database and Airtable alternative

• Open source
• General purpose open source tools

Reliable open source digital infrastructure!

• Open source
• General purpose open source tools
• Web hosting

The only FOSS-based service offering Matrix chat server hosting

• Matrix

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Open source
• Chat and messaging

Penpot is the Open-Source Design & Prototyping Tool for Product Teams (Figma alternative)

• Design
• Open source
• General purpose open source tools

We provide online meeting and conferencing tools, powered by renewable energy, running on cooperatively owned infrastructure.

• coop

• Open source
• Meeting tech
• General purpose open source tools

Strengthening Digital Infrastructure and Open Source Ecosystems in the Public Interest

• Get funding
• Build something
• Funders & donors

National Science Foundation program supporting the facilitation, creation and growth of open-source ecosystems for the creation of new technology solutions.

• United States (federal government)

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Open source

Social Media Scraper is a tool helping journalists and watchdogs to keep politicians accountable for the statements they make in social media.

• The Tech
• Media
• Advocacy tech