A sustainable way to create shared digital public products
Public code is an open and collaborative approach to developing digital infrastructure—a public + private ecosystem of actors sharing responsibility for public systems.
Read more about public code
What are public product organizations?
We believe successful public software is created by organizations built upon six foundational pillars. The Foundation for Public Code is working to define and share best practices around each.
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Examples of public code
We help build public product organizations around a broad spectrum of software products.
DIIA
The groundbreaking mobile application that connects 19 million Ukrainians with more than 120 government services.
Notify
Text message service helping federal, state, local, tribal and territorial governments communicate more effectively with the people they serve.
Spacecraft
Spacecraft is working to create an open modular server architecture for creating, orchestrating, and sharing room-scale or multi-room interactive spatial applications.
Public Geospatial Server
A baseline open platform public administrations can use to make embeddable maps for internal and constituent-facing applications.
More about public product orgs
Resources
Tools to help you build public code, public capacity and public product organizations.
Process Codes
From software procurement to building a codebase stewardship team. See our step-by-step guidebooks for how to implement public code in your organization.
Find your guidebook
The Standard
We created the Standard for Public Code, a model for building open source solutions, to enable successful reuse by other public organizations.
Get your code up to code
Governance Game
A simple card game about codebase governance. It helps visualize key issues, existing models and beneficial changes.
Governance game
Collaboration strengthens democracies and truly makes us greater than the sum of our parts.
Audrey Tang
Digital Minister of Taiwan, on the Standard
Get involved
Public code is a movement, and you have an important role to play!
Support public code
Your contributions make it possible for us to support public administrations and public product organizations around the world.
Donate $ € ¥ £
Donate stock, crypto + more
Let us help you
Our team is here to help you join or build a public product organization. We’ll assess your needs and opportunities, then locate the right partner or vendor, find learning resources, or welcome you into the community.
contact@publiccode.net
About our team
Our globally distributed team has a diversity of skill sets, bringing years of experience to the mission.
Meet our team
The Foundation for Public Code is helping our collaboration of Dutch cities to increase our code quality and making codebases more accessible for others to use.
Luukas Ilves
CIO, Government of Estonia
A sustainable way to create shared digital public products
Public code is an open and collaborative approach to developing digital infrastructure—a public + private ecosystem of actors sharing responsibility for public systems.
Read more about public code
What are public product organizations?
We believe successful public software is created by organizations built upon six foundational pillars. The Foundation for Public Code is working to define and share best practices around each.
Read more
Examples of public code
We help build public product organizations around a broad spectrum of software products.
DIIA
The groundbreaking mobile application that connects 19 million Ukrainians with more than 120 government services.
Notify
Text message service helping federal, state, local, tribal and territorial governments communicate more effectively with the people they serve.
Spacecraft
Spacecraft is working to create an open modular server architecture for creating, orchestrating, and sharing room-scale or multi-room interactive spatial applications.
Public Geospatial Server
A baseline open platform public administrations can use to make embeddable maps for internal and constituent-facing applications.
More about public product orgs
Resources
Tools to help you build public code, public capacity and public product organizations.
Process Codes
From software procurement to building a codebase stewardship team. See our step-by-step guidebooks for how to implement public code in your organization.
Find your guidebook
The Standard
We created the Standard for Public Code, a model for building open source solutions, to enable successful reuse by other public organizations.
Get your code up to code
Governance Game
A simple card game about codebase governance. It helps visualize key issues, existing models and beneficial changes.
Governance game
Collaboration strengthens democracies and truly makes us greater than the sum of our parts.
Audrey Tang
Digital Minister of Taiwan, on the Standard
Get involved
Public code is a movement, and you have an important role to play!
Support public code
Your contributions make it possible for us to support public administrations and public product organizations around the world.
Donate $ € ¥ £
Donate stock, crypto + more
Let us help you
Our team is here to help you join or build a public product organization. We’ll assess your needs and opportunities, then locate the right partner or vendor, find learning resources, or welcome you into the community.
contact@publiccode.net
About our team
Our globally distributed team has a diversity of skill sets, bringing years of experience to the mission.
Meet our team
The Foundation for Public Code is helping our collaboration of Dutch cities to increase our code quality and making codebases more accessible for others to use.
Luukas Ilves
CIO, Government of Estonia
A sustainable way to create shared digital public products
Public code is an open and collaborative approach to developing digital infrastructure—a public + private ecosystem of actors sharing responsibility for public systems.
Read more about public code
What are public product organizations?
We believe successful public software is created by organizations built upon six foundational pillars. The Foundation for Public Code is working to define and share best practices around each.
Read more
Examples of public code
We help build public product organizations around a broad spectrum of software products.
Notify
Text message service helping federal, state, local, tribal and territorial governments communicate more effectively with the people they serve.
Spacecraft
Spacecraft is working to create an open modular server architecture for creating, orchestrating, and sharing room-scale or multi-room interactive spatial applications.
Public Geospatial Server
A baseline open platform public administrations can use to make embeddable maps for internal and constituent-facing applications.
More about public product orgs
Resources
Tools to help you build public code, public capacity and public product organizations.
Process Codes
From software procurement to building a codebase stewardship team. See our step-by-step guidebooks for how to implement public code in your organization.
Find your guidebook
The Standard
We created the Standard for Public Code, a model for building open source solutions, to enable successful reuse by other public organizations.
Get your code up to code
Governance Game
A simple card game about codebase governance. It helps visualize key issues, existing models and beneficial changes.
Governance game
Collaboration strengthens democracies and truly makes us greater than the sum of our parts.
Audrey Tang
Digital Minister of Taiwan, on the Standard
Get involved
Public code is a movement, and you have an important role to play!
Support public code
Your contributions make it possible for us to support public administrations and public product organizations around the world.
Donate $ € ¥ £
Donate stock, crypto + more
Let us help you
Our team is here to help you join or build a public product organization. We’ll assess your needs and opportunities, then locate the right partner or vendor, find learning resources, or welcome you into the community.
contact@publiccode.net
About our team
Our globally distributed team has a diversity of skill sets, bringing years of experience to the mission.
Meet our team
The Foundation for Public Code is helping our collaboration of Dutch cities to increase our code quality and making codebases more accessible for others to use.
Luukas Ilves
CIO, Government of Estonia