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Government apps
Sites, apps, and tools built by governments across the world to make government work better, together. Read more at government.github.com.
Government, online and in the open
Governments around the world are building the next generation of citizen services, often right out in the open. Whether it's building a voting system, an agency website hosting platform, or an entire agile acquisition process, digital services are more relevant than ever before.
Want to know if your government is on GitHub? The answer is likely yes, and you can check the list on government.github.com.
Government development resources
Discover code made available via the US Federal Source Code Policy on code.gov.
United States General Services Administration (GSA) Open Source Portal includes details on their Open Source Policy, as well as details on their implementation.
Curious how successful US Government agencies have been able to do this? Check out how NASA has become prolific in code sharing.
Coding while Governmental
18F has published their development guide for all to use.
A set of guidelines and best practices for an awesome engineering team
DigitalGov webinar on using GitHub:
CFPB's Open Source Checklist includes some good suggestions on how to get from closed to open sourced code.
check internal repos against open source checklist requirements
Have some resources or guides that you think would be helpful to other government users throughout the world? Reach out and let us know at [email protected].
Noteworthy Government Projects
Publishes government content on GOV.UK
A web based mission control framework.
A web application that allows citizens to "adopt" civic infrastructure, such as fire hydrants that need to be shoveled out after it snows.
A guide for the Agile Delivery Services BPA
Open Data Policy — Managing Information as an Asset
Madison is a platform for lawmakers to share legislation with their citizens, allowing the community to add comments and suggest improvements.
Data.gov source code and issue tracker
Django web application to collect geospatial features and manage feature collection among groups of users
Web Experience Toolkit (WET): Open source code library for building innovative websites that are accessible, usable, interoperable, mobile-friendly and multilingual. This collaborative open source …
Proposed Data Specification for Flu Shot Locations
OpenLegislation is a web service that delivers legislative information from the New York State Senate and Assembly to the public in near-real time. It is used internally to serve up legislative dat…
qu is a data platform created to serve public data sets. This is a public domain work of the US Government.
Substance use treatment locator for Lexington, KY
Developer-friendly tools for using US Census Bureau data, including simple integrations to facilitate mash-ups with other open datasets.
An open source API management platform for exposing web service APIs. The basic goal of API Umbrella is to make life easier for both API creators and API consumers.
Open source API management platform
The United States Digital Services (USDS) Playbook identifies a series of “plays” drawn from successful best practices from the private sector and government that, if followed together, will help government build effective digital services.
The Digital Services Playbook
An opensource, publicly owned evoting system. It is the result of the collaboration between the Geneva, Switzerland State Chancellery and the Geneva IT Department.
Electronic vote system, version 1.0.