This group includes senior civil servants at these levels:
- supranational (for example the European Union)
- national
- inter-regional
- membership bodies (for example associations of cities)
- provincial
- municipal
Positive reasons for why they might be interested in our work:
- distributing risk of development
- increasing sense of ownership, pride or craft
- enlarging communities of practice and share resources
- facilitating re-approachability/reusability/maintenance
- building trust and security in public services and underlying technology
- public code is a way to fulfill their Sustainable Development Goals commitments
Negative reasons for why they might be interested in our work:
- vendor lock-in leads to costly maintenance
- policy changes are impossible to implement in closed, constrained software
- software, contractor or genius employee can suddenly vanish
- there is lack of technological sovereignty (tech dependence)
- it is very hard to find tech talent in the public sector
Our value proposition for them
We enable:
- easier implementation of policy into technology
- higher quality public services
- more cost-effective implementation, maintenance and upgrading
- more agility for future growth paths