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PROJECT: Politwoops

What started in the Netherlands has spread across Europe and now the World. See how we have partnered with Sunlight Foundation and passionate supporters to help keep track of deleted tweets by politicians.

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Open Data Communities

A natural evolution from hosting hackathons has led us to focus on specialized data networks: Open Cultural Data, Open Aid Data, Open Education Data, Open Health Data and Open Spending. Our strengths lie in organizing and facilitating hackathons and nourishing the networks that come from them. These networks are necessary to scale releasing more data and creating more sustainable apps.

Vacancies: Multiple Internships open

28/04/2013Uncategorized

The Open State Foundation is opening multiple places for internships! We are looking for both technical people and the more organizational types. These internship positions are strongly related  connected to our new organizational growth and capacity building programme. Which means not only being an intern and learning stuff, but also responsibilities, professional training and becaming [...]

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Openspending launching in the Netherlands

28/04/2013Projects, Uncategorized
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The Open State Foundation has been lobbying for financial transparency in the Netherlands quite a while now. The first e-mails on this topic between Lex Slaghuis and James Burke on this topic are from may 2011. At last, we can announce that we have found a first launching partner, and will be releasing the data and launching the portal [...]

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Arjan El Fassed new CEO Open State Foundation

05/04/2013News, Uncategorized
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We have great news to announce. Arjan El Fassed (@arjanelfassed) has been appointed as CEO of the Open State Foundation by our board. Our organisation is growing rapidly and we look forward to put Open Data further on the agenda of governments and work with communities and society on realizing the benefits of this form [...]

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Open Data at the Moscow Urban Forum

18/12/2012Presentation
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The Moscow Urban Forum was a gathering to collect the thoughts of urban and digital practitioners at the Manege venue in Moscow. Alper Cugun represented Open State in the open data panel. As everywhere there remains such an absurd among of work to be done. We are glad though that this issue has the attention [...]

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  • Announcements

    Apps for Democracy

    We recently held the Apps for Democracy event in Dutch parliament where people from technology, politics and journalism came together for the first time to open up data and discuss the future of democracy.

    EU Political Transparency Meetup

    Date: 5 April, 2013
    Info: We are hosting a Google Hangout online meeting for all people involved with opening up politics!

    Join