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Working together on a digitally autonomous workplace for the Dutch government

A DAWO working session: someone presenting beside a screen and a flip chart, with fourteen participants seated at tables around them.

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.

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.

Operating system (opens in a new tab)

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

Cloud (opens in a new tab)

Building blocks for autonomous and verifiable cloud infrastructure.

Collaboration (opens in a new tab)

Open solutions for communication, documents and working together.

See the full blueprint

DAWO in motion

Releases, community stories and developments around the autonomous digital workplace.

Upcoming event

DAWO Community Experience Event, VNG ยท Den Haag, 30 september 2026.

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Latest news about DAWO
DateSubjectType
DAWO-NixOS v0.1.2 stable release is nu beschikbaar (opens in a new tab)Release
De menselijke kant van digitale autonomieCommunity
DAWO-NixOS v0.1.1 stable release uitgerold bij gemeenten (opens in a new tab)Release
DAWO-NixOS v0.1.0 stable release is liveRelease
Open source codeplatform voor de overheid (opens in a new tab)Overheid

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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.