OSOR's list of repositories is a source of information for European public administrations looking to adopt open source solutions.
The repositories listed in this page have been ordered alphabetically. The list is not exhaustive and if you have any information on repositories that could be featured in this page, please contact the OSOR team by email.
List of OSS repositories
Administrative Modernisation Agency (AMA)
Owner: Administrative Modernisation Agency (AMA)
Language: Portuguese
Geographical coverage: Portugal
This list of open source software aims at providing Portuguese public administrations with information on alternatives toproprietary software. The repository contains the following features:
- description of solutions;
- filtered search;
- regular updates.
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Owner: Finnish Centre for Open Systems and Solutions (COSS) Avoinkoodi brings together software used in Finnish state administration, the education sector and the municipal sector, the source code of which has been published openly. The repository contains the following features:
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Owner: Fonds de Dotation du Libre The repository aims to provide a list of European free and open source software publishers, their solutions, and success stories. Awesome Free Software wants to provide information to both private and public sector actors. The repository contains the following features:
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Centro de Transferencia de Tecnología (CTT) Owner: Ministry of Territorial Policy and Public Function The Technology Transfer Center (CTT) aims to promote the reuse of solutions by all Spanish public administrations. All the solutions available in the CTT collect informative and usage information, and different download and collaboration options are offered. The repository contains the following features:
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Owner: Adullact
Language: French
Geographical coverage: France
Developed by the French non-profit association Adullact, the repository is listing free and open source software that is useful for public services. It contains both publishers and service providers, along with testimonies and rankings of software solutions. The repository contains the following features:
- search engine;
- search by software;
- description of solutions;
- description of use cases;
- information on service providers;
- rating system;
- user feedback available;
- regular updates.
Owner: Agenzia per l'Italia Digitale
Language: Italian
Geographical coverage: Italy
Developed by the Italian central administration, Developers Italia is a public service software catalogue of platforms, re-usable 3rd party APIs, and open source software potentially of interest to public services. The repository contains the following features:
- search engine;
- search by software;
- description of solutions;
- multiple languages;
- information on other users;
- regular updates.
Owner: Etalab
Language: French
Geographical coverage: France
Developed by Etalab, the repository aggregates open source code published by French government institutions on their platform and helps administrations learn how to correctly implement and reuse it. The repository contains the following features:
- search engine;
- search by public organisations;
- regular updates.
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Owner: Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities The RedIRIS open source software repository is a service whose main objective is to promote the development of knowledge in software matters, within the academic-scientific environment. The repository contains the following features:
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Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) repository Owner: GCHQ The Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) has created a repository on Github and released some of its open source solutions. The repository contains the following features:
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Owner: Helsinborg City The city of Helsingborg maintains an active GitHub account with various repositories of web and app projects. Citizens can help maintain and contribute to the account in order to keep it up to date. The repository contains the following features:
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Owner: Belgian social security institutions The members of the ICT ReUse initiative aim to promote the reuse of existing software components and encourage the development of new reusable components. The catalogue offers an overview of existing reusable components. The repository contains the following features:
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Owner: iMio iMio (La mutualisation informatique au service des pouvoirs locaux,) is an IT sharing body offering services to local authorities in the Walloon region of Belgium. One of its main activities is the production of OSS solutions to meet the needs of these local authorities. The repository contains the following features:
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Owner: European Commission
Language: English
Geographical coverage: Worldwide
Joinup is the European Commission's platform promoting interoperability solutions for e-Governments and a collaborative working environment for the development of interoperability. The content consists mainly of Solutions and thematic Collections. The repository of solutions contains the following features:
- search engine;
- open contribution;
- regular updates.
Owner: German Federal Ministry of the Interior
Language: English, German
Geographical coverage: Germany
Open CoDE is the joint platform of Germany's public administration for the exchange of open source software. The central repository of open source code is intended to promote reuse and collaborative work on public administration software solutions between administration, industry and society.
Owner: Diginet Pro
Language: English, Romanian, Russian
Geographical coverage: Moldova
Open Code Moldova is a project supported by the UNDP to provide and stimulate open source use in Moldova. There, users can find various solutions among multiple categories of needs. The OpenCode.md project is a Registry of Open Source products that meet the requirements of “Digital Public Goods“.
Their goals are:
- Support the creation of Digital Public Goods
- Implementation and promotion of Civic Tech
- Contribute to the harmonious development of 2 segments of IT infrastructure in Moldova: Gov Tech and Civic Tech.
Owner: OS2 - Public Digitalisation Network
Language: Danish, English
Geographical coverage: Denmark
OS2 is a network of public bodies that works with open source software to ensure local anchoring and shared development of software. In OS2, the public entities in the network, rather than the supplier, own the software. OS2 continuously develops new ideas, projects and products that are based on the OS2 governance model. The repository contains the following features:
- description of solutions;
- search engine;
- information on other users;
- regular updates;
- rating system;
- description of use cases.
Owner: OW2
Language: English
Geographical coverage: Worldwide
OW2 is a non-for-profit association promoting and hosting more than 50 open source projects.
OW2 projects covered different types of software including application framework, authentication solution, libraries, communication tools, etc. The repository contains the following features:
- search engine;
- search by software;
- description of solutions;
- description of use cases;
- rating system;
- regular updates.
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Owner: OpenUK The repository is a recent OpenUK's initiative providing a Directory of software projects, websites, and policies related to open source usage in public administrations around the world. The repository contains the following features:
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State Agency for Electronic Government's developers portal
Owner: State Agency for Electronic Government
Language: Bulgarian, English
Geographical coverage: Bulgaria
The Developers portal is a an online gathering information on open source software used by Bulgarian public administrations. The portal contains a link to Bulgaria's State Agency for Electronic Government's GitHub account. The repository contains the following features:
- description of solutions;
- open contribution;
- search engine;
- filtered search;
- regular updates.
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The Knowledge Sharing Network around Open Data: Catalogue of open source software in the public sector Owner: Community The Wiki lists open software projects used in the public sector in Sweden. The ambition of the community is to enable public authorities to evaluate existing open source software projects when procuring new software. The Wiki lists open source software and projects with direct links, by category, and information on which authority uses the project. The repository contains the following features:
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