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The State of Public Code

How are governments contributing to Open Source?

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240,922 Repositories with public sector contributions
82,438 Public sector contributors with at least 1 commit
114/195 Countries and territories with contributions to at least 10 repos

Source: Software Heritage archive snapshot, June 2026

Key findings

Heatmap of shared projects between the top 30 countries for cross-border collaboration (log scale). The darkest cells are France and United States, then United Kingdom and United States; a dense block links Indonesia, Mexico, Ecuador, Vietnam and Malaysia.
Cross-border collaboration happens even without formal agreements: France-US (709 shared projects), UK-US (347), Indonesia-Mexico (86).
Scatter plot of per-country government contributors (log scale) against the UN E-Government Development Index 2024, for 160 countries: the count rises with EGDI, Spearman rho = 0.53.
Open source contributions correlate most with a higher e-government index (ρ = 0.53), well ahead of GDP per capita (0.30).
Donut chart of hosting platforms for government-associated projects: github.com 90.8%, gitlab.com 2.6%, pypi.org 1.6%, gitlab.inria.fr 1.6%, bitbucket.org 1.4%, 62 other platforms 1.9%.
About nine projects in ten are hosted on a single commercial platform; Software Heritage preserves them independently of any platform.

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