Free Libre Open Source in Governments

UK

• https://www.gov.uk/guidance/be-open-and-use-open-source

Canada

• https://www.canada.ca/en/government/system/digital-government/government-canada-digital-operations-strategic-plans/digital-operations-strategic-plan-2021-2024.html
• https://pm.gc.ca/en/mandate-letters/2019/12/13/minister-digital-government-mandate-letter
• https://twitter.com/mmilinkov/status/1070398217232240640
• https://github.com/canada-ca/Open_First_Whitepaper
• https://digital.canada.ca/
• https://digital.canada.ca/2020/02/24/why-open-source-matters/
• https://open.canada.ca/en/blog/gc-open-source-story-so-far-0
• https://github.com/canada-ca/Open_First_Whitepaper/blob/master/README.md
  • https://canada-ca.github.io/Open_First_Whitepaper/en/3_Open_Source_Software_Use.html
• https://canada-ca.github.io/digital-playbook-guide-numerique/en/4-use-open-standards-solutions.html
• https://github.com/canada-ca/open-source-logiciel-libre/blob/master/README.md
• https://github.com/canada-ca/OS-Advisory_Conseil-SO/
• https://open.canada.ca/en/Open_Source_Software
• https://github.com/canada-ca
• https://github.com/esdc-edsc
• https://github.com/VilledeMontreal/politique-libre/blob/master/Directives/ContributionAProjetLibre.md#english-version
• https://open.canada.ca/en/blog

USA

Department of Defense

"(i) The continuous and broad peer-review enabled by publicly available source code supports software reliability and security efforts through the identification and elimination of defects that might otherwise go unrecognized by a more limited core development team. "
https://dodcio.defense.gov/Portals/0/Documents/FOSS/2009OSS.pdf

See also: Why Free Libre Open Source software