After months of waiting, shifts and legislative changes, the Ministry of Digital Affairs yet gave a circumstantial date.
According to the Ministry's Communications Office in consequence to Cyber Defence24 questions, the mCitizen's origin code will be made public on December 29, 2025.
Safety first
Originally, the bill assumed the publication of the code much earlier, due to the fact that within a year from the entry into force of the regulations (i.e. until July 2024). However, this word has been removed, subject to affirmative feedback from the 3 key consequence Teams on Computer safety Incidents (CSIRT): ABW, NASK and MON.
Deputy Prime Minister Gawkowski's ministry ensures that the work is being completed. The code will be made available in the Public Information Bulletin (BIP) to the degree that ‘does not endanger the safety of the application and its users’. This means that delicate passages will be excluded from the publication, which could service hackers to attack state infrastructure.
Step towards transparency
The decision to print the code implements the request of transparency of publically funded software. Poland follows the traces of Ukraine, whose application Diia (which is mostly an inspiration for mcicietel) has its code available on the GitHub platform, allowing the community to submit amendments and audit security.
The date of 29 December means that the Ministry of Digitisation will meet the promise made, among others, in consequence to the parliamentary interpelling, in which the closing of the subject "still before the end of 2025" was declared.
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