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.

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 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

Email us!

contact@publiccode.net

Connect with us

2025 Foundation for Public Code

Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal, unless otherwise noted

Foundation for Public Code is a chapter-based network of nonprofit organizations, with the parent organized as an association (vereeniging) of the constituent chapters registered under chamber of commerce (KvK) registration 74996452, and with identification number (RSIN) 860102294.

We're recognized as a public benefit organization (ANBI) by the Dutch Tax and Customs Administration. Our first chapter, the Foundation for Public Code North America, is organized as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with identification number (EIN) 92-2324481.

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.

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 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

Email us!

contact@publiccode.net

Connect with us

2025 Foundation for Public Code

Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal, unless otherwise noted

Foundation for Public Code is a chapter-based network of nonprofit organizations, with the parent organized as an association (vereeniging) of the constituent chapters registered under chamber of commerce (KvK) registration 74996452, and with identification number (RSIN) 860102294.

We're recognized as a public benefit organization (ANBI) by the Dutch Tax and Customs Administration. Our first chapter, the Foundation for Public Code North America, is organized as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with identification number (EIN) 92-2324481.

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.

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 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