Open data Netherlands less than we thought
Compared to the United Kingdom and the United States, the Netherlands lags far behind on open data. The government open data portal which was launched two … Read more
Category: Events/ Research
Open data app survey
Open data in Nederland neemt nog altijd niet de vlucht die we in andere landen zien. Hoewel overheden mondjesmaat steeds meer open data sets vrijgeven, blijft … Read more
Masterclass Netpolitiek
ACTA, PRISM, open data, copyright & privacy: internetpolitiek staat steeds vaker centraal in het publiek debat. Een stevige kennis van de belangrijkste thema’s op dit gebied … Read more
App-developers in business lounge Amsterdam
Over the past years many local, regional and national app competitions in Europe have been organized and stimulated developers and companies to build new applications with … Read more
‘Hackers oust mayor of Amsterdam’
On Saturday 29 June 2013, Open State will present the Hack de Overheid Hackathon `Apps for Europe’ ` a day of coding, hacking and creative software … Read more
Vacancies: Multiple Internships open
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 … Read more
Openspending launching in the Netherlands
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 … Read more
Arjan El Fassed new CEO Open State Foundation
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 … Read more
Open Data at the Moscow Urban Forum
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 … Read more
Dutch laws checked into github
As written up over at Hack de Overheid, we just committed all Dutch law data into github because we think that is the most interesting way … Read more
Politwoops update by the Sunlight Foundation
Our friends over at the Sunlight Foundation have updated and released the source code for Politwoops. It was always our intention to release the source code … Read more
Merged organization githubs
As a part of our merger we finally merged the github organizations of both Hack de Overheid and het Nieuwe Stemmen into one over at Open … Read more
Electoral choice tool for Dutch elections featured in daily
Our venerable electoral choice tool `Wie kies jij?’ (`Who do you pick?’) had been recently relaunched for the upcoming Dutch elections and has been featured on … Read more