Open Source in Local Governments: Lessons from across the EU
summary
Five EU case studies show concrete outcomes: an international foundation revives and governs Consul Democracy after political turnover, Digitransit builds on OpenTripPlanner and scales across Finland and Estonia with clear onboarding and standards, and Golemio is open sourced by a Prague state-owned IT operator and improves cross-department data sharing but sees limited international reuse. The research maps three archetypes of collaboration, documents 19 interviews and 1,000+ projects mapped, and highlights supplier roles, funding models, and governance that do or do not sustain reuse.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction and research goals
- 3:37Open source archetypes in local governments
- 5:40Case study: Console Democracy
- 9:13Case study: OS2 Borger PCS
- 11:18Case study: Glaio in Prague
- 13:25Case study: Parlamentor
- 15:30Case study: Digi Transit
- 16:33Key archetypes and findings
- 21:05Recommendations for adoption
- 23:11Q&A session
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