Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS

The DAWO community is an open community in which government, industry and society jointly build a digitally autonomous workplace for the Dutch government.

DAWO brings public values and technology together. The community pursues five primary goals.

Strengthening the digital autonomy of the Netherlands.

Improving collaboration and knowledge sharing between governments and society.

Safeguarding security and data protection.

Encouraging innovation and more efficient ways of working.

Making government IT systems easier to inspect and verify.

Not one single product, but separate building blocks that work together. Every part can be inspected and replaced.

Open and verifiable AI building blocks for the digital workplace.

DAWO-NixOS and installation building blocks for a reproducible workplace.

Building blocks for autonomous and verifiable cloud infrastructure.

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DAWO brings government, industry and open source together. Public and private build the same blueprint here. You can take part through conversations, code, documentation, pilots and events.