The Standard for Public Code

The Standard helps public organizations prepare open source solutions for global collaboration, and includes guidance for policy makers, city administrators, developers and vendors.

The Standard

version 0.8.0

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Additional versions:

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After originating within the Foundation for Public Code, the Standard for Public Code is transitioning to be fully managed and maintained by the community. It may eventually become a public product organization.

The community’s great work continues to refine and build upon a time and technology-independent guide that establishes common terminology and methods. The Standard continues to support developers, designers, managers and policy makers in creating collaboratively maintained codebases that are reusable across contexts, with reduced technical debt, more granular control, improved vendor relationships, and a better economic model.

You can read more about it here.

Who’s using the Standard

Policy executives at the highest levels of global public administrations are enthusiastic about the Standard for Public Code.

Veronica Gaffey

Director General, DG for Infomatics (DIGIT), European Commission

Roberto Viola

Director General, DG CONNECT, European Commission

Robin Carnahan

Former Administrator of General Services, United States Government

Amandeep Singh Gill

Secretary-General's Envoy on Technology, United Nations

Roby Senderowitsch

Practice Manager for Public Administration, Governance Global Practice, World Bank

Collaboration strengthens democracies and truly makes us greater than the sum of our parts.

Audrey Tang

Digital Minister of Taiwan, on the Standard

The Standard for Public Code

The Standard helps public organizations prepare open source solutions for global collaboration, and includes guidance for policy makers, city administrators, developers and vendors.

The Standard

version 0.8.0

Download the PDF

View the web edition

Additional versions:

All releases Community translations

After originating within the Foundation for Public Code, the Standard for Public Code is transitioning to be fully managed and maintained by the community. It may eventually become a public product organization.

The community’s great work continues to refine and build upon a time and technology-independent guide that establishes common terminology and methods. The Standard continues to support developers, designers, managers and policy makers in creating collaboratively maintained codebases that are reusable across contexts, with reduced technical debt, more granular control, improved vendor relationships, and a better economic model.

You can read more about it here.

Who’s using the Standard

Policy executives at the highest levels of global public administrations are enthusiastic about the Standard for Public Code.

Veronica Gaffey

Director General, DG for Infomatics (DIGIT), European Commission

Roberto Viola

Director General, DG CONNECT, European Commission

Robin Carnahan

Former Administrator of General Services, United States Government

Amandeep Singh Gill

Secretary-General's Envoy on Technology, United Nations

Roby Senderowitsch

Practice Manager for Public Administration, Governance Global Practice, World Bank

Collaboration strengthens democracies and truly makes us greater than the sum of our parts.

Audrey Tang

Digital Minister of Taiwan, on the Standard

The Standard for Public Code

The Standard helps public organizations prepare open source solutions for global collaboration, and includes guidance for policy makers, city administrators, developers and vendors.

The Standard

version 0.8.0

Download the PDF

View the web edition

Additional versions:

All releases Community translations

After originating within the Foundation for Public Code, the Standard for Public Code is transitioning to be fully managed and maintained by the community. It may eventually become a public product organization.

The community’s great work continues to refine and build upon a time and technology-independent guide that establishes common terminology and methods. The Standard continues to support developers, designers, managers and policy makers in creating collaboratively maintained codebases that are reusable across contexts, with reduced technical debt, more granular control, improved vendor relationships, and a better economic model.

You can read more about it here.

Who’s using the Standard

Policy executives at the highest levels of global public administrations are enthusiastic about the Standard for Public Code.

Veronica Gaffey

Director General, DG for Infomatics (DIGIT), European Commission

Roberto Viola

Director General, DG CONNECT, European Commission

Robin Carnahan

Former Administrator of General Services, United States Government

Amandeep Singh Gill

Secretary-General's Envoy on Technology, United Nations

Roby Senderowitsch

Practice Manager for Public Administration, Governance Global Practice, World Bank

Collaboration strengthens democracies and truly makes us greater than the sum of our parts.

Audrey Tang

Digital Minister of Taiwan, on the Standard

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