Working together on digital autonomy
The DAWO community is an open community in which government, industry and society jointly build a digitally autonomous workplace for the Dutch government.
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What DAWO stands for
DAWO brings public values and technology together. The community pursues five primary goals.
Digital autonomy
Strengthening the digital autonomy of the Netherlands.
Collaboration
Improving collaboration and knowledge sharing between governments and society.
Security
Safeguarding security and data protection.
Innovation
Encouraging innovation and more efficient ways of working.
Verifiability
Making government IT systems easier to inspect and verify.
An open workplace is made of replaceable building blocks
Not one single product, but separate building blocks that work together. Every part can be inspected and replaced.
AI (opens in a new tab)
Open and verifiable AI building blocks for the digital workplace.
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Operating system (opens in a new tab)
DAWO-NixOS and installation building blocks for a reproducible workplace.
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Cloud (opens in a new tab)
Building blocks for autonomous and verifiable cloud infrastructure.
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Collaboration (opens in a new tab)
Open solutions for communication, documents and working together.
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Events, news and taking part
The calendar, the latest news, the blog and the forum are on the member portal. Everything is public, and that is also where you sign up.
Events
See the calendar and register for meetups and workshops.
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News
Releases, developments and DAWO in the media.
Read the news
Blog
Stories and reports from the community.
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Forum
Ask questions and join the discussion. Anyone can read; posting requires an account.
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Not for the community. With the community.
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.
