DOGE Belgium
Building GOV OS.
The open-source operating system for Belgian government. Built by a team of young builders with the moral ambition to fix what's broken — instead of extracting from it.
Open source. Decentralised. Sovereign. We take ownership, investigate the biggest failures, build the replacements, and ship them to 11 million citizens.
The Roadmap
From team to mandate to operating system
Build the Team
NowRecruit builders and investigators. Investigate the biggest government failures. Build prototypes that prove a small team can out-deliver consulting firms.
Get the Mandate
Build public support. Show what's possible. Get the political mandate to build government software — not outsource it.
Build GOV OS
The endgame: a sovereign, open-source operating system for all Belgian government. Identity, payments, documents, communication.
Core Values
Open Source
Every line of code is public. No vendor lock-in. No black boxes. Citizens pay for it — citizens own it.
Decentralised
No single point of failure. Small, independent modules. Each agency owns its data. Peer-to-peer exchange.
Sovereign
Belgian data on European infrastructure. No foreign tech monopoly dependencies. Digital sovereignty is non-negotiable.
The Cost of Failure
Tracking wasted taxpayer money across Belgian government IT projects
€95.8M
Across 3 failed government IT projects in Belgium alone
That's €438 per Flemish household
3
6%
5
Procurement System, Persona, iPolice, and more
Persona Project: €16M Wasted
Five years and €16 million later, the Flemish education administration's modernization project delivered only 8-10% of promised functionality. Our investigation reveals a systemic governance failure.
€16M
8-10%
5 Years
Halted
Tools We've Built
Open-source solutions shipping today — no tender required
GovChallenge
Launching soonChallenge-based procurement platform. Governments define problems, teams build working prototypes in 12 weeks, winners get paid for results. No 47-page tenders. Just working software.
Brussels Coalition Builder
Interactive tool to explore coalition combinations for the Brussels regional government.
Try it nowIT Project Cost Calculator
Calculate the real cost of failed IT projects and compare alternatives.
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Join the DOGE Team
You're 25. You can build. You want your work to matter.
Option A: Join a consulting firm. Bill hours. Make slides. Watch your “deliverables” collect dust on a SharePoint nobody opens.
Option B: Join DOGE. Investigate a €75M failure. Build GOV OS. Ship it to 11 million people.