The Third Annual Open Government Awards winners were announced today at the Open Government Partnership (OGP) Global Summit in Paris, France. Open State Foundation received one … Read more
Numerous Dutch government websites still use no secure HTTPS connection. Of the 1,816 investigated domains less than half ensures that the site traffic is encrypted. Open … Read more
Visitors of the Dutch government’s website rijksoverheid.nl are searching the most for the term “doing business with”. Between 2011 and 2016 this term was used in … Read more
Open State Foundation calls in the context of the parliamentary debate on the budget of the Ministry of Economic Affairs in the field of agriculture and … Read more
Open Council Data is a project to release city council data as open data. In 2015 the Open State Foundation, the Interior Ministry and five municipalities worked … Read more
The Netherlands must uphold digital leadership in the coming years. This call for the next coalition government was presented by a broad coalition of organisations, companies, … Read more
The Dutch Ministry of Defence has a world to win when it comes to open data and transparency. The Ministry of Defence is one of the … Read more
This Tuesday at 10 o’clock is the start of an appeal at the Council of Stat against the refusal of the Dutch Health Authority (NZA) to … Read more
Today the Dutch Ministry of Culture, Education and Science has launched an API containing educational data. The data is released as open data under the license … Read more
Dutch governments are making ever more data available as open data. Although the health minister last year proclaimed as the ‘Year of Transparency’, still a lot … Read more
Today, the Dutch parliament will discuss the budget of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. This department has been active on open data for some … Read more
With the refusal of the Dutch Healthcare Authority (NZa) to make hospital tariffs public, the NZa ignores consumers’ stake at the hospital prices that they pay. … Read more
Today, Dutch parliament will discuss the budget of the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment. Although, this ministry has a long history with developing policies and … Read more
If you want to close the gap between government and citizens, they would need the same information A group of mayors, aldermen and city councilors called … Read more
Despite the recommendation of the Committee on the Future Government Communication in 2001 to publish FOIA decisions online, only few governments in the Netherlands structurally do … Read more
On the 9th of September the first edition of Accountability Hack was held at the Dutch Court of Audit in the Hague. In total 20 teams … Read more
How does the future of re-use of government and archive information look like? On the 6th of October the results of a survey were presented at … Read more
Today Open State Foundation launches a new version of Subsidietracker, a tool that makes 162,179 subsidies provided by 206 Dutch government organisations to 58,432 recipients searchable. … Read more
Together with the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment and the Province of South Holland, Open State Foundation is organising the second edition of Hacking for … Read more
Internet of things, encryption, open data, e-democracy, copyright online, digital social innovation, internet governance. Are these topics you want to learn more about? Do you encounter … Read more
Last week the General Budget Debate took place in the Dutch parliament. During these two days, every year, political leaders of the political parties represented in … Read more
Open State Foundation appealed today the decision of the Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) to reject a request to resuse inspection results. The … Read more
To enable voters to make an informed choice, the government and parliament must make data available for anyone to hold government to account. This is essential … Read more
The relationship between privacy and transparency is complex. Privacy is often wrongly used by governments to prevent transparency. This is a problem because without access to … Read more
How does the future for the reuse of government information and archives look like? On October 6, 2016, during an inspiration session, Open State Foundation and … Read more
English translation follows soon. Een app waarmee mensen hun kennis over geldstromen van de overheid kunnen testen is als beste uit de bus gekomen tijdens de … Read more
Since there is an inadequate response from healths insurers, hospitals and the Netherlands Healthcare Authority (NZa) on previous calls by the Dutch Consumers’ Association and Open … Read more
As part of the Tandem project Open State Foundation and Italian based Virtutim are exploring the possibilities for Open 3D Culture. For our background research we … Read more
Less than a tenth of all government agencies reports open datasets via the Dutch government’s central open data portal data.overheid.nl. Out of 1,069 government organisations only … Read more
Italy is on the verge of opening up their cultural data. However current laws create many challenges. As part of our Tandem-project the Open State Foundation … Read more
Seven months after a request by Open State Foundation for the reuse of inspection results of lunchrooms, today the Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority … Read more
From today the Dutch Data Protection Authority started to publish its Notification Registry as open data. On June 9, Open State Foundation did a request for … Read more
NZa can do more for transparency than it actual does The Dutch Healthcare Authority (NZa) has enough room to enforce transparency of healthcare costs but has … Read more
After TenderNed started in March 2016 with publishing Dutch open contracting data the data didn’t include the names of companies awarded and the amounts. As of … Read more
Minister Kamp of Economic Affairs wants the Chamber of Commerce to publish a subset of the Dutch company register as open data. The minister of Economic … Read more
This map shows the risk profiles of child care locations in Amsterdam. In the window you can jump to inspection reports by the public health agency … Read more
On the eve of Prince’s Day (Budget Day), for the first time in the Netherlands, Accountability Hack will take place. During this hackathon government spending and … Read more
Open State Foundation joined nearly 70 organizations from five continents in launching the #KeepitOn campaign to fight internet shutdowns worldwide. The full list of organizations is available … Read more
This week’s TransparencyCamp Europe is set to welcome nearly 400 open government supporters in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. This ‘unconference’ brings together government officials, developers and technologists, … Read more
In 2015, ministries have provided nearly one billion euro fewer subsidies than in 2014. The number of grants has almost halved compared to 2014 and below … Read more
Politwoops, an archive of public tweets, deleted by politicians has been launched in several additional countries in Latin America. From today, deleted tweets by politicians in … Read more
Next week, the Dutch parliament will consider a proposal to expunge a penalty on governments when they fail to take decisions on FOIA and re-use of … Read more
Internal emails from the Dutch Chamber of Commerce show that the Chamber of Commerce itself has been specifically asked to do research on the publication of … Read more
Today, Dutch parliament voted in favor of the new transparency bill (the Law on Open Government). This law, which paves the way for active transparency and … Read more
The costs the Dutch Chamber of Commerce makes to maintain and develop the Dutch company register are only half of the total expenses the Chamber of … Read more
A broad coalition of civic organizations and journalists call upon the Dutch Second Chamber of Parliament to support the Open Government Bill. In an open letter, … Read more
With a FOIA request Open State Foundation has asked the Dutch Chamber of Commerce full access to financial information on the costs and benefits of the … Read more
This week we mark the midterm of the municipal elections of 2014. Consider this a good time to take stock. Open State Foundation has made all … Read more
As of March 16, 2016 TenderNed, the Dutch e-procurement agency publishes tenders and public procurement as open data. TenderNed just published a first dataset with announcement … Read more
Today the detailed income and expenditure of Dutch cities Dordrecht, Heerlen, Lelystad, Oirschot and Utrecht are published online. Detailed information from upkeep and maintenance costs of bicycle … Read more