Public IT services. Open Source Solutions

Open Source for Government

Many local, regional, and national governments are engaged with open source software and communities. Below are only a few resources that may help departments and agencies understand the value of open source software and development communities within the public sector, as well as how public institutions can engage with, and implement similar initiatives to realize the greatest returns for their citizens and governments.

Also see
1) Digital transformation strategy of the Republic of Moldova for the years 2023-2030
2) Strategy for the development of the IT industry and the ecosystem for digital innovation for 2018-2023.
3) Activity Plan of “Electronic Governance Agency” for 2023 year.
4) UNDP Moldova: project Accelerating Digital Transformation in Public Sector in the Republic of Moldova.
5) Open Source for Government

Recommendations
If any of the solutions interests you, or you think that it has a good perspective for development, or you can adapt the software to the needs of citizens, authorities, businesses or NGO-s in Moldova, then you can:

submit suggested improvements as Pull Requests (GitHub), or
publish the modification as your own Fork (Github) for users with similar preferences.

1. International Solutions

#	Open Source Solution	Web	Licence
1	statisticssweden / PxWeb Web application for disseminating statistical tables. This is the official source code repository for PxWeb. PxWeb is a nice web application for dissemination of statistical tables please read more about it at the official web page on Statistics Sweden web site.	scb.se/pxweb	Apache-2.0
2	uswds / uswds The U.S. Web Design System helps the federal government build fast, accessible, mobile-friendly websites.	designsystem.digital.gov	View licence
3	uswds / uswds-site U.S. Web Design System documentation This repo includes code and documentation for the U.S. Web Design System website. For information on the USWDS components and codebase, please visit our uswds Github repo.	designsystem.digital.gov	View licence
4	uswds / uswds-for-designers USWDS visual design and UX assets. This repository hosts editable, open source United States Web Design System design files for government designers or anyone wishing to make use of the USWDS components or visual styles. With the release of USWDS 2.0, we’ve made some major changes to the way our assets are structured. For now, these assets are only available as Sketch files for the Macintosh and as an Adobe XD file for other platforms These files have been tested with Sketch 95.1 and Adobe XD 56.0.12.6.	designsystem.digital.gov	View licence
5	ckan / ckan CKAN is an open-source DMS (data management system) for powering data hubs and data portals. CKAN makes it easy to publish, share and use data. It powers catalog.data.gov, open.canada.ca/data, data.humdata.org among many other sites.	ckan.org	View licence

2. Archived solutions

An open source solutions that is archived by the developer and no further updates are planned, but may potentially be of interest to End Users.
We don’t make any recommendations to use or not to use the solutions listed below. Your decision is fully up to you.

#	Open Source Solution	Web	Licence
1	GSA / datagov-wptheme Data.gov WordPress Theme (obsolete). Data.gov is an open data website created by the U.S. General Services Administration that is based on two robust open source projects: CKAN and WordPress. The data catalog at catalog.data.gov is powered by CKAN, while the content seen at Data.gov is powered by WordPress. This repository provides the issue tracker for all code, bugs, and feature requests related to Data.gov. Currently the repository is only used for source version control on the code for the WordPress template, but you will also find pointers to the relevant CKAN code and additional resources documented below.	data.gov	View licence