With Kamervragentracker.nl you can follow questions asked by members of the Dutch House of Representatives. You can search for themes, people, locations, organizations, or questions based … Read more
With an appeal under the current Dutch Freedom of Information Act (Wob), Open State Foundation has requested all data that underpin an impact analysis of the … Read more
The Court of Audit of the Netherlands, Open State Foundation and the House of Representatives of the Netherlands join hands for the second edition of Accountability … Read more
Pulse measures whether Dutch government domains support the HTTPS protocol (https://), and the strength of that support. HTTPS provides a secure connection across the internet between … Read more
In today’s information society knowledge about internet politics is crucial in the coming years. That is why six leading Dutch digital civic organisations call on a … Read more
An analysis of deletes of Twitter messages by Dutch candidates during the election period in the Netherlands. Politwoops followed Dutch candidates for the elections. It archived … Read more
Although the number of Dutch government websites with HTTPS connection increased this quarter by 18%, half of all government websites do not support HTTPS. This shows … Read more
Just seven days before Dutch parliamentary elections and as a final attempt to block progress to open up the Dutch companies register, Minister Kamp (Economic Affairs) … Read more
On average, an MBO student who want to vote near his or her school, will have to walk 350 meters to the nearest polling station. Of … Read more
More than ever before politicians make use of social media during election campaigns. Facebook is popular but especially in debates on radio and TV, including Friday … Read more
At this moment, Open State Foundation has traced almost all polling stations for the general elections in the Netherlands. Only 7 municipalities publish this information as … Read more
Politicians sometimes regret what they tweeted. With Politwoops one can search and find tweets that politicians have deleted. Adding 768 candidates in the Dutch elections, today … Read more
On 15 March 2017 general elections will be held in the Netherlands. Today, Open State Foundation calls on the Minister of Interior of the Netherlands and … Read more
“Governments should look more to re-users when creating data” Most open data enthusiasts will emphasize that governments should release open data ‘as is’. Which means that … Read more
Open State Foundation will take to court a decision by the Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) in which it denies a request by … Read more
Over forty civil society organisations have endorsed a joint letter initiated by Access Info Europe and Oceana to urge Members of the European Parliament to vote … Read more
An overview of voting behaviour on open data, open government and re-use of government information of Dutch political parties in the Dutch parliament (20-09-2012 tot 17-01-2016). … Read more
The Dutch Minister of Home Affairs is satisfied with security on the Dutch government’s websites, he said in response to parliamentary questions. The questions followed the … Read more
The Dutch Health Authority does not have to make information on healthcare costs public on the basis of the Dutch freedom of information act. That is … Read more
After we launched a tool with which consumers collect hospital bills in September, today the Consumers’ Association publishes all known hospital prices. In the database, developed … Read more
Today a quickscan was published that was meant to give an impact analysis of the new transparency law that currently is being discussed in the Senate. … Read more
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