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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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