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On 18 June 2026, the Polish Council of Ministers announced a new Resolution for a Strategy on the Digitalisation of the State. The document includes a fully-fledged chapter on open source software use in the national public administration.

As Ryszard Łuczyn, Deputy Director of the Minister's Office of the Ministry of Digital Affairs highlights; “this is the first ever government document that actually supports the use and promotion of open source in the public administration".

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The team behind the push for inclusion of open source in the Digitalisation of State Strategy also is a newly set-up initiative, which followed an order of the Minister for Digital Affairs earlier in April. The Team for the development, dissemination and support of the implementation of open source solutions in the public sector gathers around 20 people and is mainly tasked with supporting the development of open source solutions in Poland, as well as the national ecosystem of public and private organisations and individuals engaged in this area.

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As the newly released Strategy and the creation of the Team for dissemination of open source solutions demonstrate, Poland has a strong ambition to accelerate its open source uptake.

Ryszard Łuczyn says that it all came from “an intuition, a belief that for sure, there [were] people in the local administration using open source, but that no one knew about it”. So a survey was launched earlier this year, asking over 600 units of the Polish administration about their use of open source. The set-up of the Team and the inclusion of the open source chapter in the Strategy then followed. Poland has also joined the Digital Commons EDIC (DC EDIC) as soon as it was created as one of the seven observers. This status lets the country attend Assembly meetings and take part in working groups.

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