The City of Bratislava is currently building a whole new ecosystem of open source digital services under the leadership of its CIO Petra Dzurovčinová. These services will be tested in Slovakia's capital and then are planned to be expanded to other cities with a goal of limiting the existing vendor lock-in and improving public services for the residents. According to Petra, choosing open source solutions for the digital transformation of Bratislava, the largest city in the country, is based not only on the long-term economic incentive, but more importantly, on the quality of services to be…

VocBench is a web-based, multilingual, collaborative development platform for managing and sharing reference data and controlled lists of codes and terms used to organise information. With persistent URIs, managed concepts are correctly referenced in any domain. Developed in a context neutral way as an open-source project, it can be deployed or further developed for any sector wanting to have authentic reference data/codes made available for information systems and human users. Reference data, such as code lists and authority tables, means data that are used solely to characterise or relate to…

Red Flags is a project by the civil and expert association slovensko.digital. This project consists of ongoing evaluation processes of many state-funded IT projects. 50 criteria are the baseline of all projects and results made public with the intent to influence governmental decisions on software development. The association slovensko.digital has a project – Red Flags – where independent experts make quality control of governmental open source IT projects in collaboration with public administrations. Slovensko.digital emphasises on their website that the public sector ought to have expert…