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
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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