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UK and Australian Governments manage to do this, at least to a certain extent:

https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/technology/making-source-c...

https://www.dta.gov.au/help-and-advice/digital-service-stand...

The vast majority of code written the for Australian government is, and I think will remain, closed, though there's certainly support for contributing to or publishing open source. But the reality is, most government software isn't particularly interesting, and what is would most likely not be approved to be open sourced.

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