Open Practices
summary
Italian government teams build open communities that publish code and design kits on GitHub, grow to over 20,000 members and run events with 1,000+ attendees, and maintain a catalog of 300+ free software projects. They deliver a design system (Bootstrap Italia, React kit, Figma UI kit), end‑to‑end templates for municipalities and schools, and require publicly funded development to be open source by law, improving transparency and reuse. developers Italia designers Italia
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Introduction and team background
- 1:12Public administration challenges
- 5:05Digital transformation goals
- 6:10Building the transformation team
- 7:34Open communities and collaboration
- 9:22Principles of open design
- 10:28Open practices in action
- 13:17Designer Italia’s role
- 15:48Design system examples
- 17:15Execution and digital sustainability
- 18:41Open source laws and benefits
- 19:25Developers Italia initiatives
- 21:31Open source as industrial strategy
- 22:34How to contribute
- 25:03Q&A: Community organization
- 27:58Q&A: Tech readiness and inclusivity
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