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.
A sustainable way
to create shared
Digital Public Products
Public code is an approach to open, collaborative development enabling an ecosystem of public and private actors to share specifications, development, and maintenance of digital public infrastructure products.
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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’re helping build public product organizations around a broad spectrum of software products.
Learn more about these examples on the Public Product Organizations page.
DIIA
The groundbreaking mobile application that connects 19 million Ukrainians with more than 120 government services.
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Space Craft
Space Craft 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.
Resources
Tools to help you build public code, public capacity and public product organizations
The Standard
We maintain the Standard for Public Code, a model for organizations 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, that 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.
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.
Email 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 a trailblazing organization in the space of international public software collaboration. The European Ministers will want to know how to scale these types of solutions up.
Luukas Ilves
CIO, Government of Estonia
