Extracting government subsidy data, not an easy endeavour
Data collected with subsidietrekker.nl has been explored with Silk, a tool that displays interactive charts, maps and web pages. How we got the data is a … Read more
News archive
Results of Openspending.nl in 2014, the story so far
Starting with the central borough of the city of Amsterdam, in 2013 Open State Foundation launched Openspending.nl. What has been done around openspending.nl in 2014. An … Read more
Government wide data inventory ready in spring 2015
The Dutch government has decided to do a government wide data inventory and publish its results in spring 2015. The coordinating minister for open data in … Read more
NZA still declines to disclose healthcare costs
The Netherlands Health Authority has declined a request by Open State Foundation over the disclosure of data on all declared healthcare costs per healthcare provider. Open … Read more
Winners Dutch Open Hackathon announced
The Dutch Open Hackathon announced the following winners after an event this weekend of over 30 hours and with 360 registered participants
Open data: Five recommendations for government and parliament
On the eve of the beginning of the parliamentary year in the Netherlands, Open State Foundation has five recommendations for the government.
Global Legislative Openess Week: Open parliamentary data by default
A group of 107 civil society organizations from around the world, including Open State Foundation, Sunlight Foundation, the Latin American Legislative Network, Open Knowledge and Access … Read more
Open State takes transparency dispute data health care to court
The Netherlands Health Authority has two weeks to take a decision over the disclosure of data on all declared healthcare costs per healthcare provider.
Change your computer in an art museum
By using the Open Culture Data API-RSS-Feed you can easily change your Windows-computer into an art museum.
2,5 billion regional subsidies added to subsidytracker
Some 6,777 grants with a total value of 2.5 billion euros from nine provinces in the Netherlands have been added to Subsidietrekker.nl.
Broken links and hardly any new data on Dutch government open data portal
The government of the Netherlands still lags behind in opening data to the public. The number of accessible datasets via the Dutch government open data portal … Read more
21,850 subsidies sortable and searchable
With Subsidietrekker.nl all 21,850 Dutch government grants awarded in 2013 by various ministries are made openly searchable.
Elections data in the Netherlands: do our votes count?
There are interesting things happening with election data around the world. In the Netherlands, however, this information is not accessible or restricted while it would open … Read more
Open spending data added from ten Dutch local governments
On the platform openspending.nl the financial details of ten new municipalities have been added as of today.
Groningen first regional government on openspending.nl
The province is Groningen is the first regional government in the Netherlands that has made its financial information publicly available as open data via openspending.nl. Every … Read more
BikeCityGuide and Nostalgeo announced as first winners Apps for Europe
BikeCityGuide and Nostalgeo which make use of open data to guide cyclists around cities and combine old postcards with contemporary street views have been announced as … Read more
Dutch Court of Audit opens its spending
Last week, the Court of Audit in the Netherlands published its revenue and expenditures as open data. The Court of Audit contributes with this to and … Read more
Local governments profit from open data
The turnout in the Dutch local council elections has achieved a new record low. Now local political parties are negotiating their next term. It is important … Read more
Open Data: stop making a mess of it
All across the world governments are releasing increasingly more open data. Developers still end up frustrated putting open data to proper use.
Open spending data Utrecht, The Hague and Enschede online
On the platform openspending.nl the financial details of Utrecht, The Hague and Enschede are available today.
10 finalists announced for business lounge at FutureEverything
At the International Business Lounge at FutureEverything in Manchester (31st March – 1st April 2014) ten finalists of Apps for Europe will showcase and pitch there open data based … Read more
Going Dutch with open government spending
Today, Open State has launched openspending.nl. With financial data of the City of Amsterdam, including all its boroughs, Open State has launched its openspending.nl platform allowing citizens to benchmark … Read more
Diplotwoops: What deleted diplomatic tweets say about the Ukraine
Recent diplomatic activity around the crisis in the Ukraine is not only headline news but deleted tweets of diplomats and embassies show another side of the … Read more
For kids sake, connecting parents to Dutch schools with open data
In the Netherlands it hasn’t been easy to find the right school for your children. The education system is confusing for many although the Dutch education … Read more
Voting records regional councils untracable
Voting behavior of regional council members in the Netherlands is hidden on most regional council websites. Even though regional councils publish basic democratic information such as … Read more
A major milestone: Open Culture Data Challengers are here
Finding interesting open culture datasets can be the most difficult part of producing new innovative apps. This year, however, we will embark upon a new strategy … Read more
Voting records local councils almost untraceable
Voting records of local councilors on many websites of Dutch municipalities are hard to find. In one out of four municipal council websites, voting records can … Read more
Apps for Europe online competition
Are you making an open data based app?Apps for Europe is running an online competition to find the best app developers across the continent.
Hackathon Public Broadcasting: 22 apps in one day
With 110 coding participants and an astounding list of 22 quality apps, Open State’s Hackathon Public Broadcasting was a great success. On 9 November 2013, Open … Read more
Hackathon Public Broadcasting
On November 9, Open State together with the Netherlands Public Broadcasting, STER and the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision organizes a hackathon at the mediapark in … Read more
Open data in the Netherlands needs more ambition
Het beleid rond open data in Nederland moet ambitieuzer. Open State stuurde een open data briefing naar het parlement.
Links in datasets government portal are broken
Een groot aantal datasets op het open dataportaal van de Nederlandse overheid verwijst naar gebroken links. Onderzoek van Open State toont aan dat links die verwijzen … Read more
The benefit of hindsight: I remove this tweet
Politici hebben graag grip op hun imago. Politwoops ziet daardoor vaak dat politici hun verleden proberen te censureren. Nu het parlementaire jaar begint, zetten wij de … Read more
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
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