Resources

Related Resources

Where to read further, and who to call — primary sources from the UN and the City, the communities doing this work, and a directory of public sector open source programme offices.

Primary Sources

Read the frameworks, browse the registries, join the communities.

People to Call

Outward-facing organizations — with public contact channels — whose job is helping governments adopt open source, DPGs, and DPI.

Global Institutions

Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA) ↗The multi-stakeholder body that maintains the DPG Standard and registry.How they can helpCertifying NYC-built tools as DPGs; finding vetted open solutions to adopt.Centre for Digital Public Infrastructure (CDPI) ↗Advisory center (co-founded by India Stack architects) that runs a help desk for governments building DPI.How they can helpFree architectural guidance for any DPI effort NYC takes on.TODO Group ↗The global community of OSPO practitioners, hosted at the Linux Foundation.How they can helpPlaybooks, templates, and peer mentors for standing up an NYC OSPO.OpenForum Europe ↗Policy think tank on open technologies; among the sixteen endorsers of the UN Principles.How they can helpPolicy language and precedent from European open source legislation.Sovereign Tech Agency ↗Germany’s public investor in open source maintenance — and an endorser of the UN Principles.How they can helpThe blueprint for public funding of critical open infrastructure.

All channels listed are the organizations’ own public contact points.

Find an OSPO

Public-sector Open Source Program Offices already running elsewhere.

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.

Diagram of public-sector OSPO archetypes. Structure (RQ1) is fed by five choices — sponsor, supporting entities, budget, organization, and staffing. Responsibilities (RQ2) branch into ten activities: develop and execute OSS strategy, oversee OSS compliance, establish and improve OSS policies and processes, prioritize and drive OSS upstream development, collaborate with OSS organizations, track performance metrics, implement inner source practices, grow and retain OSS talent inside the organization, provide advice and support on OSS, and manage open source IT infrastructure
Diagram: Linåker, Nummelin Carlberg & O’Riordan, “Public sector open source program offices — Archetypes for how to grow (common) institutional capabilities”, Journal of Systems and Software 241 (2026) 112998 — CC BY 4.0

United States

OSPO at Digital Service at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ↗Woodlawn, MarylandEstablish and maintain guidance, policies, practices, and talent pipelines that advance equity, build trust, and amplify impact across CMS, HHS, and Federal Open Source Ecosystems by working and sharing openly.opensource@cms.hhs.govOpen source policy ↗

International

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) ↗New YorkUNDP Open Source Ecosystem Enablementopensource@undp.org

Germany

Open Source Program Office City of Munich ↗MunichUse - Improve - Publish - FOSS at the City of Munichopensource@muenchen.deOpen source policy ↗
Open Source Program Office of the State of Schleswig-Holstein ↗KielThe Open Source Program Office Schleswig-Holstein (OSPO SH) is the state government's central coordination office for the strategic use of open source software - with the aim of ensuring digital sovereigntyospo-sh@stk.landsh.deOpen source policy ↗

Denmark

OS2 – Public Digitalization Network ↗CopenhagenOS2 is an organisation of public bodies in Denmark where we - together - develop, mature, and maintain public code.os2@os2.euOpen source policy ↗

Greece

Open Technologies Centre at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki ↗ThessalonikiTo promote and harness the transformative potential of open technologies — technologies defined by their openness to free use, analysis, modification, and redistribution by any useropentech@auth.gr

France

ANSSI ↗ParisPeople handling open source topic at French Cybersecurity Agency (ANSSI)opensource@ssi.gouv.fr
Direction de la stratégie et de la culture numériques (DSCN) ↗ÉchirollesThe DSCN is responsible for digital technology in the city of Échirolles.nicolas.vivant@echirolles.frOpen source policy ↗
OSPO de France Travail ↗ParisFrance Travail's Open Source Programme Officeoss.00619@francetravail.fr
OSPO de l'IGN ↗Saint-MandéThe Open Source Programme Office of the French National Institute for Geographic and Forestry Informationopensource@ign.fr
OSPO de la Ville de Paris ↗ParisOpen Source Program Office for the City of Parisopensource@paris.fr
OSPO de la Ville et l'Eurométropole de Strasbourg ↗StrasbourgThe "Free Software Strategy" unit of the city and Eurometropole of Strasbourg aims to promote the use and development of Free Software within our territory.opensource@strasbourg.eu
Pôle de compétences Logiciels Libres de l'Éducation nationale ↗DijonThe Logiciels Libres center develops open source software for the French education systemeole@ac-dijon.fr
Pôle Open Source et Communs Numériques de la DINUM ↗ParisA mission dedicated to the use, development and promotion of Free Software and digital commons in public administrationfloss@numerique.gouv.frOpen source policy ↗
RECIA ↗OrléansRECIA Public Interest Groupcontact@recia.frOpen source policy ↗
Cellule Codes Données Grenoble Alpes ↗GrenobleThe Grenoble Alpes Data Codes Unit (CDGA) is an operational structure designed to support the Grenoble area's scientific communities in all matters relating to research data and codes.sos-codes-recherche@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr

Netherlands

Developer.overheid.nl ↗The HagueDeveloper portal of the Dutch governmentdeveloper.overheid@geonovum.nl
OSPO National Government The Netherlands ↗The HagueThis is the national OSPO of the Netherlands, currently housed at the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations (BZK)ospo@minbzk.nlOpen source policy ↗

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Organizations endorsing the UN Open Source PrinciplesNames and sectors of the organizations shown on the United Nations’ own endorsers page, transcribed by hand because that page publishes logos and no names.150 records · CC BY 4.0 · compiled by this campaignPublic sector open source programme officesGovernment and public-sector OSPOs with their own websites, contact addresses and open source policies, from the FLOSS-PSO Network’s list, with coordinates from GovOSS.18 records · CC0 1.0 · credit FLOSS-PSO NetworkGovernment-built open source programmes (Civic Tech Field Guide)The Civic Tech Field Guide’s open source projects tagged Government / public sector, as drawn on this site’s map, with the entries we excluded and why.73 records · CC BY 4.0 · credit Civic Tech Field GuideNational public code catalogues (GovOSS)How many open source projects each country’s own public code catalogues list, with a link to every catalogue.14 records · CC BY 4.0 · credit GovOSS

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