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Slovakia

EDRIX Score

5.60

Tier

Specialized Contender

EDRIX Pillar Scores (normalized 0–10)

Developer Ecosystem 0.62 / 10
Grassroots Adoption 5.41 / 10
Private sector resilience 9.72 / 10
Public sector resilience 6.67 / 10

Raw metrics

The underlying values before min-max normalization across the EU27.

GitHub developers (per-capita index) 1.80
Linux share on desktops and laptops 4.18%
Sovereign browser share (Firefox + Opera) 18.76%
Domain sovereignty rating — all (national TLD) 0.607
Domain sovereignty rating — public sector 0.667

See the surveyed domains and their hosting details →

Narrative updated for the September 2026 edition.

Slovakia moves up one place to 16th at 5.60 (June: 5.55). Its profile is extreme: the EU's second-best private-sector hosting (9.72; the .sk sample rates 0.61, with SWAN, VNET and WebSupport as leading domestic hosts) and the third-lowest developer density (1.80, pillar 0.62). Grassroots adoption is good (5.41, 6th) with an 18.76% sovereign browser share. Public-sector hosting is middling (6.67): www.prezident.sk and www.vlada.gov.sk are fully domestic (SWAN, NASES), but www.bratislava.sk has no EU component (Cloudflare for web and DNS, Microsoft for email).

Strengths

  • Private-sector hosting (9.72, 2nd). 62% of the 486 measured .sk domains are EU-hosted; 40% of email is non-EU, among the lowest shares.
  • Sovereign browser share of 18.76% (5th).

Weaknesses

  • Developer density (1.80, 25th).
  • Bratislava's website rates 0.0.

Outlook

One site, Bratislava's, costs Slovakia a third of its public pillar. The developer pillar is structural.

Historical context

2020 baseline

In 2020, Slovakia was a "laggard." It had legally binding OSS policies on paper but had failed to translate them into practice due to a lack of institutional leadership.

2024 progression

Slovakia is increasingly embracing OSS. The legal framework has shifted to mandate software reuse, and the 2021 National Concept of Informatisation advises the public sector to increase its use of open source software. Civic associations like Slovensko.Digital remain crucial.

Historical reference

OSOR Fact Sheet (PDF, 2024) — the country-level Open Source policy report used by the retired Public Policy pillar in EDRIX 1.0.