Why OSPO.se Exists

OSPO.se was created from the belief that a sovereign, resilient digital society cannot be built on borrowed foundations.

While open source promises freedom and innovation, its potential too often remains out of reach for nonprofits, startups, and SMEs that lack the capacity to tame complexity, maintain infrastructure, or influence the direction of the tools they depend on.

OSPO.se exists to close that gap — to provide good defaults that lower barriers, defend the interests of smaller actors in global open-source ecosystems, and channel local experience upstream so improvements flow back to everyone.

By doing so, OSPO.se empowers communities and organizations in Sweden to own their technology, govern their data, and co-create an open future on equal terms.

Vision

A sovereign, resilient digital society where nonprofits, startups and SMEs can own their data, operate their tech, and co-create open source.

Mission

Support and upskill society digital capabilities to operate resilient open-source stacks, strategize on open standards, and channel feedback upstream to open-source communities.

1. OSPO.se — the Public Open Source Program Office for Sweden: https://ospo.se
2. Open source — broadly, software that grants users the freedoms to use, study, modify, and distribute. See https://opensource.org/
3. SMEs — micro-, small-, and medium-sized enterprises as commonly used in EU contexts.
4. Good defaults — opinionated setups that minimize cognitive load and operational risk while remaining open-standards based.
5. Upstream — contributing fixes, features, and documentation back to the original project so all downstream users benefit.