User:Salgo60/sandbox/Öppna Skolplattformen

A Swedish citizen initiative to build an app for accessing the data from the City of Stockholm’s official school system. The background is that City of Stockholm has developed an official school system. The result is a very expensive system (more than $117 million ) and an user application that parents has complained about the complexity. As a result of this some parents has build an open source version of the application using the API of the school platform that now is available on Iphone and Android. On February 12, 2021 the app was released and all of its code is published under an open source license on GitHub.

The reaction from the city has not been positive and they have both warned parents to use the app Öppna Skolplattformen and tried to sue the developers plus also redesigned the API to force the developers to redesign the app Öppna Skolplattformen.

Status today is that this "war" still continues and also the costs for the official school system continues to increase.