GovTech Online Break – openCode in Administration – insights into potentials, Practice & OpenCode Platform with the Centre for Digital Sovereignty of Public Administration (ZenDiS)
The digital infrastructure of the public administration is systemically important. Geopolitical tensions, cyber-attacks and technological dependencies clearly show: Digital sovereignty is no longer an option but a prerequisite for a state capable of action. Open source plays a key role, in particular through projects such as: openCode, by ZenDiS developed.
With openCode builds a central building block for secure software supply chains: transparent, comprehensible and adaptable to official requirements. At the same time, the platform opens new avenues for collaboration, quality assurance and re-use of audited components.
In this compact online break, discover what Open Source and the Platform openCode open to the administration – with a practical impulse of Janou Feikens the Centre for Digital Sovereignty (ZenDiS).
What you expect
- Why Open Source is more than just “free code”
- How Open Source contributes to digital sovereignty
- Insights into the platform openCode
- Opportunities for use in the administration
- Practical Q & A with Janou Feikens
Sequence
- Welcome & Short Intro of our GovTech Networks Saarland ‘GovLab Ten’
- Open Source in Administration: Opportunities & Principles
- Insight into the opencode platform with a practical example from the municipality
- Q & A & open exchanges
audience
- People working in the IT and digitalisation departments of the public administration (Land, municipality)
- GovTech Interested and IT Developers
- Anyone who wants to learn more about digital sovereignty, open source development and opencode in the administration
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