Greece

Narrative updated for the September 2026 edition.

Greece stays 25th at 3.52 (June: 3.62). Developer density is the EU's second-lowest (1.75, pillar 0.50) and private-sector hosting third-lowest (3.81): 62% of the 485 measured .gr domains are hosted outside the EU, 42% on Cloudflare, and the leading EU host is Hetzner, a German provider, ahead of GRNET and OTEnet. Grassroots adoption is mid-table (4.20, 15th) with a 17.08% sovereign browser share (11th). Public-sector hosting is middling (5.56): all three official sites are served through US CDNs (Cloudflare for Athens, Akamai for the presidency and the prime minister's office), while their email and DNS mostly stay in Greece.

Strengths

• Sovereign browser share of 17.08% (11th).
• Official email and DNS mostly domestic (Municipality of Athens, Information Society S.A.).

Weaknesses

• Developer density (1.75, 26th).
• Private-sector hosting (3.81, 25th).
• Official websites behind US front ends. Athens and the presidency rate 0.67, the prime minister's office 0.33.
• Drift. Greece is among the four countries where the most high-traffic sites moved to non-EU providers since June.

Outlook

Greece's official sites keep their email and DNS at home; only the web front ends are outsourced. Bringing those three back would lift the public pillar from 5.56 to nearly 9.

Historical context

2020 baseline

In 2020, Greece was a "laggard," hampered by low digitalization. It had a nascent capacity for OSS through an e-governance law and a partnership with its national OSS foundation.

2024 progression

OSS promotion has grown, driven by the Ministry of Digital Governance's "Bible of Digital Transformation 2020-2025." The Open Technologies Alliance (GFOSS) remains a key strategic player, and a new agreement with the University of Athens aims to boost OSS education.

Historischer Verweis

OSOR-Datenblatt (PDF, 2024) — der länderbezogene Open-Source-Politikbericht, der in der zurückgezogenen Säule „Öffentliche Politik“ von EDRIX 1.0 verwendet wurde.