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Outward-facing organizations — with public contact channels — whose job is helping governments adopt open source, DPGs, and DPI.

UN System

UN Office for Digital and Emerging Technologies (ODET)

Stewards the Global Digital Compact follow-up; led by USG Amandeep Singh Gill, the UN’s top digital official.

How they helpConnecting city digital policy to UN processes and the GDC.

Public contact channel ↗

UN Open Source Week organizers (OICT)

The team behind the annual convening at UN Headquarters.

How they helpGetting NYC officials into the room every June — the single easiest first step.

Public contact channel ↗

Global Institutions

Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA)

The multi-stakeholder body that maintains the DPG Standard and registry.

How they helpCertifying NYC-built tools as DPGs; finding vetted open solutions to adopt.

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Centre for Digital Public Infrastructure (CDPI)

Advisory center (co-founded by India Stack architects) that runs a help desk for governments building DPI.

How they helpFree architectural guidance for any DPI effort NYC takes on.

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TODO Group

The global community of OSPO practitioners, hosted at the Linux Foundation.

How they helpPlaybooks, templates, and peer mentors for standing up an NYC OSPO.

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Open Forum Europe

Policy think tank on open technologies; among the sixteen endorsers of the UN Principles.

How they helpPolicy language and precedent from European open source legislation.

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Sovereign Tech Agency

Germany’s public investor in open source maintenance — and an endorser of the UN Principles.

How they helpThe blueprint for public funding of critical open infrastructure.

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New York City

NYC Office of Technology & Innovation (OTI)

The city’s central technology agency — the campaign’s primary addressee and the natural home of an NYC OSPO.

How they helpThe decision. Endorsing the Principles starts here.

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Mayor’s Office for International Affairs

NYC’s bridge to the UN and diplomatic community; ran the first-ever Voluntary Local Review.

How they helpThe city-to-UN channel — the office that makes an endorsement diplomatic reality.

Public contact channel ↗

WeGovNYC / Sarapis

The civic tech organizers behind this campaign.

How they helpBriefings, introductions, and the open letter itself — we’re the local convener.

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All channels listed are the organizations’ own public contact points.

Find an OSPO

Public-sector Open Source Program Offices already running elsewhere.

The diagram below maps how this actually works: city leadership (Management) stands up the OSPO and receives its reports, while the OSPO runs the concrete machinery of an open source program for the rest of the organization — compliance review, contribution approval, participation guidelines, and training — and measures the results. As the office matures, its relationship with the wider open source community deepens too: from simple communication, to funding the projects the city depends on, to actively contributing code and eventually leading initiatives within that community. That's the difference between endorsing open source as a value and running a program for it: a distinct office with the mandate to make agencies’ open source use consistent, secure, and reciprocal, instead of leaving it to whichever developer happens to be motivated.

Diagram of an OSPO's relationships: Management creates the OSPO and receives its reports; the OSPO delivers compliance, contribution, participation, and training to the Organization while measuring results; and, depending on the office's maturity, it communicates, funds, contributes to, and eventually leads within the Open Source Community
Diagram: TODO Group / Linux Foundation, OSPO Book (CC BY 4.0)

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United States

OSPO at Digital Service at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Guidance, policies, practices, and talent pipelines for working openly across CMS, HHS, and federal open source ecosystems.

International

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

UNDP Open Source Ecosystem Enablement.

Germany

Open Source Program Office City of Munich

Use – Improve – Publish: FOSS at the City of Munich.

Germany

Open Source Program Office of the State of Schleswig-Holstein

The state government’s coordination office for the strategic use of open source, aimed at digital sovereignty.

Denmark

OS2 – Public Digitalization Network

An organisation of public bodies in Denmark that together develop, mature, and maintain public code.

Greece

Open Technologies Centre at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Promotes open technologies — free for any user to use, analyze, modify, and redistribute.

France

Pôle Open Source et Communs Numériques de la DINUM

A mission dedicated to the use, development, and promotion of Free Software and digital commons in public administration.

France

ANSSI

The team handling open source topics at the French Cybersecurity Agency (ANSSI).

France

OSPO de France Travail

France Travail’s (the French employment agency) Open Source Programme Office.

France

OSPO de la Ville de Paris

Open Source Program Office for the City of Paris.

France

Pôle de compétences Logiciels Libres de l’Éducation nationale

Develops open source software for the French national education system.

France

Cellule Codes Données Grenoble Alpes

Supports the Grenoble area’s scientific communities on matters relating to research data and code.

France

Direction de la stratégie et de la culture numériques (DSCN), Échirolles

Responsible for digital technology and strategy for the city of Échirolles.

France

OSPO de l’IGN

The Open Source Programme Office of the French National Institute for Geographic and Forestry Information.

France

OSPO de la Ville et l’Eurométropole de Strasbourg

The "Free Software Strategy" unit of the city and Eurometropole of Strasbourg, promoting the use and development of Free Software within the territory.

Netherlands

OSPO National Government The Netherlands

The national OSPO of the Netherlands, currently housed at the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations (BZK).

Netherlands

Developer.overheid.nl

The developer portal of the Dutch government.