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<h1 class="title-DQPxeJ mulish-bold-black-24px">Digital Public Products need sustainable vehicles</h1>
<p class="any-open-software-de-DQPxeJ mulish-normal-black-16px">
<span class="span0-7crIPM mulish-normal-black-16px"
>Any open software developed by a government or their vendor needs a </span
><span class="span1-7crIPM mulish-bold-black-16px">Public Product Organization</span
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What is a Public Product Organization?
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>A Public Product Organization is a non-profit entity, established as a hub for open collaboration, and
can be a cooperative comprised of public organizations. They steward and scale public software in
perpetuity, by providing reliable maintenance and responsive development.<br
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<span class="span1-qJgbTY mulish-bold-black-16px">They can:</span>
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<div class="build-sustainable-fi mulish-normal-black-16px">Create governance structures</div>
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Build sustainable financial models to allow for reliable, continuous delivery
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Grow and support communities of practice, involving stakeholders and developers from public
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Generate awareness of the product as an offering to public organizations who are looking to implement
such a solution
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The Six Pillars of Successful Public Product Organizations
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<div class="x1-governance-LccVnI mulish-bold-black-20px">1. Governance</div>
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>Crucial to sustainable collaborative development is a community-endorsed model for how decisions
are made about the core product and its future.<br
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<span class="span1-YGAbke mulish-normal-black-16px"
>Good governance allows participating public entities to trust that their invested resources and
policy commitments in a specific public product will continue to serve their constituents.</span
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>A dynamic ecosystem of implementers, developers, and stakeholders that sustains a public product
needs active tending and orchestration.<br
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>A public product organization must provide contexts for communication, scheduling, and knowledge
sharing resources to help the community thrive.</span
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<div class="x3-codebase-stewardship-o0EQhH mulish-bold-black-20px">3. Codebase Stewardship</div>
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>The beating heart of a dynamic public product is its codebase. A clear process for open technical
collaboration through continuous integration enables the entire community to power the engine that
moves the product forward.<br
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<span class="span1-Kt10dy mulish-normal-black-16px">Codebase stewards should look to the </span
><a href="https://standard.publiccode.net" target="_blank"
><span class="span2-Kt10dy mulish-semi-bold-azure-radiance-16px">Standard for Public Code</span></a
><span class="span3-Kt10dy mulish-normal-black-16px"> for guidance on best practices.</span>
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>Perhaps the most common reason public product organizations fail is due to the lack of a
sustainable financial model.<br
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<span class="span1-H4zdi3 mulish-normal-black-16px"
>Public funding, philanthropic grants, membership dues, vendor certification, and service contracts
enable public product organizations to fund their activities and product development.</span
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5. Awareness & Communications
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As the growth of a public product community distributes the costs and responsibilities of development
and maintenance across a larger set of contributors, increasing awareness of the product’s availability,
adaptability, and successful deployment is key to the ecosystem’s success.
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<div class="x6-organizational-structure-C3a1vB mulish-bold-black-20px">6. Organizational Structure</div>
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Public product organizations can take many forms, and will have different vehicles in different
jurisdictions, but a well defined organizational structure that spells out the different processes,
roles and how they relate to each other is critical for successful long-term collaboration.
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>Thousands of public administrations, software developers, and open source collaboratives around the
world are building digital public products that provide significant value to administrations and their
constituencies. The Foundation for Public Code works with these groups to establish Public Product
Organizations, which develop and maintain digital public products so that they are reliable,
high-quality, and centered on public purpose.<br
/></span>
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<span class="span1-kxoMZa mulish-normal-black-16px"
>More broadly, the Foundation supports communities of open practice, providing guidance on governance,
codebase stewardship, financial modeling, technical and product steering processes, community growth and
broader awareness. We also work with public administrations to understand how to implement and
participate in public products, and with development communities on how to connect, grow, and
sustain.<br
/></span>
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<span class="span2-DSjRBx mulish-bold-black-16px"
>Our goal is a healthy ecosystem of stable digital infrastructural organizations with modern product
offerings and development practices.</span
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<div class="diia-u0hadx mulish-bold-black-24px">DIIA</div>
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<span class="span0-xilRc3 mulish-normal-black-16px"
>Groundbreaking mobile application that connects 19 million Ukrainians with more than 120
government services. One of the most modern “e-state” platforms in the world.<br
/></span>
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<div class="text1-445828901-OnaSqN mulish-normal-black-16px">
<span class="span1-VjFnq3 mulish-normal-black-16px"
>The Foundation worked with the Ukrainian DIIA team on the process of replicating the codebase to
Estonia, and supported the decision to open the codebase from the very beginning.<br
/></span>
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<div class="text2-445828901-OnaSqN mulish-normal-black-16px">
<span class="span2-RCxYz8 mulish-normal-black-16px"
>Now, we are helping other public administrations understand how to implement and participate in
DIIA.</span
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<div class="creator mulish-bold-black-14px">Creator</div>
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Ukraine Ministry of Digital Transformation
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National and State Governments
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<h1 class="title-Legy3u mulish-bold-black-32px">Digital Public Products need sustainable vehicles</h1>
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>Any open software developed by a government or their vendor needs a </span
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What is a Public Product Organization?
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>A Public Product Organization is a non-profit entity, established as a hub for open collaboration,
and can be a cooperative comprised of public organizations. They steward and scale public software in
perpetuity, by providing reliable maintenance and responsive development.<br
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<span class="span1-ThMmUG mulish-bold-black-20px">They can:</span>
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Build sustainable financial models to allow for reliable, continuous delivery
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Grow and support communities of practice, involving stakeholders and developers from public
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Generate awareness of the product as an offering to public organizations who are looking to
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The Six Pillars of Successful Public Product Organizations
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>Crucial to sustainable collaborative development is a community-endorsed model for how decisions
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policy commitments in a specific public product will continue to serve their constituents.</span
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>A dynamic ecosystem of implementers, developers, and stakeholders that sustains a public product
needs active tending and orchestration.<br
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>A public product organization must provide contexts for communication, scheduling, and knowledge
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>The beating heart of a dynamic public product is its codebase. A clear process for open technical
collaboration through continuous integration enables the entire community to power the engine that
moves the product forward.<br
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<span class="span1-LGcqMF mulish-normal-black-16px">Codebase stewards should look to the </span
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><span class="span2-LGcqMF mulish-semi-bold-azure-radiance-16px">Standard for Public Code</span></a
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>Perhaps the most common reason public product organizations fail is due to the lack of a
sustainable financial model.<br
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<span class="span1-7Hpksi mulish-normal-black-16px"
>Public funding, philanthropic grants, membership dues, vendor certification, and service contracts
enable public product organizations to fund their activities and product development.</span
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5. Awareness & Communications
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As the growth of a public product community distributes the costs and responsibilities of development
and maintenance across a larger set of contributors, increasing awareness of the product’s availability,
adaptability, and successful deployment is key to the ecosystem’s success.
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Public product organizations can take many forms, and will have different vehicles in different
jurisdictions, but a well defined organizational structure that spells out the different processes,
roles and how they relate to each other is critical for successful long-term collaboration.
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>Thousands of public administrations, software developers, and open source collaboratives around the
world are building digital public products that provide significant value to administrations and their
constituencies.<br
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<span class="span1-YTRbYG mulish-normal-black-16px"
>The Foundation for Public Code works with these groups to establish Public Product Organizations, which
develop and maintain digital public products so that they are reliable, high-quality, and centered on
public purpose.<br
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>More broadly, the Foundation supports communities of open practice, providing guidance on governance,
codebase stewardship, financial modeling, technical and product steering processes, community growth and
broader awareness. We also work with public administrations to understand how to implement and
participate in public products, and with development communities on how to connect, grow, and
sustain.<br
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<span class="span3-UPWJ00 mulish-bold-black-16px"
>Our goal is a healthy ecosystem of stable digital infrastructural organizations with modern product
offerings and development practices.</span
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<div class="diia-Mkig1t mulish-bold-black-24px">DIIA</div>
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<span class="span0-LteYu8 mulish-normal-black-16px"
>Groundbreaking mobile application that connects 19 million Ukrainians with more than 120
government services. One of the most modern “e-state” platforms in the world.<br
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<span class="span1-8LqhPs mulish-normal-black-16px"
>The Foundation worked with the Ukrainian DIIA team on the process of replicating the codebase to
Estonia, and supported the decision to open the codebase from the very beginning.<br
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<span class="span2-YV8JEo mulish-normal-black-16px"
>Now, we are helping other public administrations understand how to implement and participate in
DIIA.</span
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Ukraine Ministry of Digital Transformation
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National and State Governments
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State governments looking to implement e-state mobile platforms
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<div class="learn-more mulish-bold-black-14px">Learn more</div>
<a href="https://diia.gov.ua" target="_blank">
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<div class="text-Js4bgG text mulish-bold-azure-radiance-16px">Visit diia.gov.ua</div>
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>GOV.UK Notify makes it easy for public sector service teams to send emails, text messages and
letters.<br
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<span class="span1-s6isE4 mulish-normal-black-16px"
>This project is an important one to track, because it has been used widely across public
administrations, but not through an ideal process. Instead the codebase has been forked by the
downstream users, which diverges the development process and does not capture the benefits of
inter-administration collaboration.<br
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<span class="span2-Vgs7gU mulish-normal-black-16px"
>The Foundation for Public Code is working with the various implementers to convene a community of
practice and determine what collaborative efforts can still be effective.</span
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UK Government Digital Service
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Canadian Digital Service, United States Digital Service, etc
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<div class="who-should-get-involved mulish-bold-black-14px">Who should get involved?</div>
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City, state, and national governments in need of messaging solutions
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Join the community of practice
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Email us at join-notify@publiccode.net
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<span class="span0-nMaVJh mulish-normal-black-16px"
>Space Craft is working to create an open modular server architecture for creating, orchestrating,
and sharing room-scale or multi-room interactive spatial applications. <br
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<span class="span1-xPxZsf mulish-normal-black-16px"
>Use cases for public administrations and institutions include museum exhibition design, library
archive visualization and exploration, urban planning simulation, or dynamic environments for