Arbetsförmedlingen's experiences with JobTech and open source: Sharing 400 repos
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Public employment service publishes code and data widely: 400 repositories on GitLab with ~40 active contributors, ~1,000 organizations and ~400–500 daily API users. Teams build a job index/taxbank and an API→open-data converter, score 99.995% availability on the taxbank, and reuse components in other agencies; a remote-work search prototype goes from idea to live in two days to deploy. Licensing starts permissive but shifts toward protective reuse, issue tracker shows ~800 open items and public issues replace many support emails.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:22Public Service mission and challenges
- 7:09Open data and APIs at Arbetsförmedlingen
- 13:31Open data to open source
- 16:45Open source in government
- 21:46Transparency in software and AI
- 24:15GitLab, 400 repos, and public code
- 27:03Building community and collaboration
- 30:15Security and licensing
- 32:23Metrics and open APIs
- 34:13Engaging citizens and employers
- 36:49Open source reuse examples
- 41:10Design systems for services
- 43:06Q&A
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