Slovakia

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.

Référence historique

Fiche OSOR (PDF, 2024) — le rapport de politique Open Source par pays, utilisé dans le pilier Politiques publiques retiré d'EDRIX 1.0.

Développeurs GitHub (indice par habitant)	1.80
Part de Linux sur les ordinateurs de bureau et portables	4.18%
Part des navigateurs souverains (Firefox + Opera)	18.76%
Note de souveraineté des domaines — tous (TLD national)	0.607
Note de souveraineté des domaines — secteur public	0.667

Scores des piliers EDRIX (normalisés 0–10)

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