OSOR has published an update to the Hungary Country Intelligence report, highlighting recent trends and developments in the use of open source software (OSS) in the country and following up on the 2020 report. You can find the report here and the factsheet here. 

This update report outlines the evolution in the use of OSS by the Hungarian public sector, at both the national and local levels, and how it relates to broader changes in the country's public administration structure. The report highlights a peak in OSS activities around 2015 - 2016 at a time when the Hungarian government was actively promoting open source including through 1236/2016 which covered measures to disseminate open standards and OSS to the public. This peak  was followed by a slight decrease in recent years that is seemingly linked to a change in the structure of the country’s public administration and the end of certaindigitalisation projects that had actively promoted the  use and development of OSS. 

OSS continues to be used by public administration in the country, including to facilitate the provision of public services at the local level. The city of Budapest, for instance, continues to be active on GitHub and has in recent years used OSS to develop a Covid-19 testing booking system and a tool for residents to organise and book meetings.