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Top 23 Government Open-Source Projects
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uswds
The U.S. Web Design System helps the federal government build fast, accessible, mobile-friendly websites.
Project mention: Open-UI: Maintain an open standard for UI and promote its adherence and adoption | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-09I like the focus on accessibility. Standards & Accessibility go hand in hand, the splintering of approaches means accessibility is always playing catchup.
It's not in the business of pushing for RFCs, but the U.S. Web Design System (USWDS) has done some really cool work here: https://designsystem.digital.gov.
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decidim
The participatory democracy framework. A generator and multiple gems made with Ruby on Rails
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Project mention: Zarf: DevSecOps for Air Gap and Limited-Connection Systems | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-02-23
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factbook.json
World Factbook Country Profiles in JSON - Free Open Public Domain Data - No API Key Required ;-)
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courtlistener
A fully-searchable and accessible archive of court data including growing repositories of opinions, oral arguments, judges, judicial financial records, and federal filings.
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SaaSHub
SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives
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govuk-design-system
One place for service teams to find styles, components and patterns for designing government services.
Project mention: Why Gov.uk's Exit this Page component doesn't use the Escape key | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-10-09There's some examples (and a pretty sad graph on _when_ users are looking at these resources) on the user research summary: https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-design-system/discussions/...
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design-system
Open source design and front-end development resources for creating Section 508 compliant, responsive, and consistent websites. (by CMSgov)
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Project mention: Show HN: Gov.uk Vue, a Vue Component Library for the Gov.uk Design System | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-09-02
Very interesting. France government is providing a design system as well https://www.systeme-de-design.gouv.fr/
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datasets-for-good
List of datasets to apply stats/machine learning/technology to the world of social good.
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citizenlab
Go Vocal is a digital democracy platform that facilitates community participation and co-creation. Participants can post ideas, contribute to discussions, or choose to vote and prioritize community projects.
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uswds-site
The U.S. Web Design System documentation website, a design system for the federal government.
Under Executive Order 14151 "Ending Radical And Wasteful Government DEI Programs And Preferencing" many links/pages were already removed from the design system https://github.com/uswds/uswds-site/pull/3078
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design-ui-kit
UI Kit Italia è la risorsa del design system .italia per costruire e prototipare siti internet e servizi digitali della Pubblica Amministrazione
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civiform
CiviForm simplifies the application process for government benefits programs by re-using applicant data for multiple benefits applications. It's being developed by Google.org and Exygy, in collaboration with the City of Seattle and community contributors.
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open-source-logiciel-libre
Open Source Software Requirements and Guidance (Draft) - Exigences et guides liés aux logiciels libres (Ébauche)
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accessibility
CivicActions Accessibility Site: A collection of resources about digital accessibility and how it aligns with open source, CivicTech and Digital Transformation. (by CivicActions)
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NYSenate.gov-D7
Designed to increase public participation in the legislative process, this web application serves as the central digital presence of the New York State Senate.
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gov_can-GEDSMACHINE
Uses open data from the Government of Canada Open Data portal to draw an org chart for any federal department.
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SaaSHub
SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
Government discussion
Government related posts
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Zarf: DevSecOps for Air Gap and Limited-Connection Systems
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Digital Services Playbook
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Scroll-Driven Animations
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Removed content related to the January 20, 2025 "Woke Removal" Executive Order
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Firefox on the brink?
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AI.gov
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GitHub – GSA/code-gov: An informative repo for all Code.gov repos
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A note from our sponsor - InfluxDB
www.influxdata.com | 23 Jun 2025
Index
What are some of the best open-source Government projects? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | uswds | 6,954 |
| 2 | decidim | 1,574 |
| 3 | zarf | 1,581 |
| 4 | factbook.json | 1,030 |
| 5 | openstates-scrapers | 867 |
| 6 | covid-policy-tracker | 771 |
| 7 | courtlistener | 695 |
| 8 | govuk-design-system | 560 |
| 9 | design-system | 327 |
| 10 | dsfr | 285 |
| 11 | code-gov | 279 |
| 12 | datasets-for-good | 245 |
| 13 | citizenlab | 219 |
| 14 | uswds-site | 214 |
| 15 | design-ui-kit | 175 |
| 16 | shc-extractor | 160 |
| 17 | civiform | 108 |
| 18 | awesome-gov-datasets | 108 |
| 19 | open-source-logiciel-libre | 38 |
| 20 | Riksdagskollen | 31 |
| 21 | accessibility | 30 |
| 22 | NYSenate.gov-D7 | 28 |
| 23 | gov_can-GEDSMACHINE | 8 |
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