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and their vendors to collaborate in developing open, shared digital products and services that can
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can support large-scale ongoing software production projects with governance and financial models,
technical steering, and process orchestration. We call these open digital products, the </span
><span class="span13-KfqRcy mulish-bold-black-16px">collaborative process of governing</span
><span class="span14-KfqRcy mulish-normal-black-16px"> and stewarding them, and the </span
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helped many public administrations prepare to participate in this type of ecosystem and prepare their
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