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Hide and seek in The Hague: parliamentarians are hard to reach
Dutch parliamentarians are often hard to reach. It is complicated to use the limited information online to actually get into contact with a member of parliament. … Read more
Ministerie van Defensie unnecessarily closed despite promises of transparency
A lot of Dutch ministries, provinces, municipalities and important institutions comply to the transparency and openness that is expected from the Dutch government. Research done by … Read more
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‘Give society access to the Dutch UBO-register’
On the 12th of August an op-ed written by Arnold Merkies (Tax Justice NL), Lotte Rooijendijk (Transparency International Netherlands) and Tom Kunzler (Open State Foundation) appeared … Read more
Government, stop using PDF-files
In Dutch you can find a column of Lisette Kalshoven and Tom Kunzler of Open State Foundation encouraging governments in the Netherlands to stop using PDF … Read more
Research: ‘Dutch open data strategy is insufficient’
Anne Dijkstra of the University of Utrecht has conducted a comparative research on open data governance in the Netherlands, United Kingdom and France. She shows that … Read more
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Call upon the ministry for an ambitious implementation of the PSI and Open Data Directive
We offer our expertise in the implementation period, and share three main points that the ministry should take into account when implementing the directive to Dutch … Read more
Public consultation for Open FOIA standard
(Nederlands) Iedereen kan een informatieverzoek op basis van de Wet openbaarheid van bestuur (Wob) indienen bij Nederlandse bestuursorganen. Voor publicatie gaat het om documenten met daarin de verzoeken, besluiten en geopenbaarde bijlagen.
Provincial accords (almost) complete
We have collected the coalition agreements of the Dutch provinces. The last provincial elections took place on Marc 20 2019. You can find the agreements below, … Read more
Organizations: ‘Dutch parliament should spend more on staff’
A petition, backed by 30 NGOs, companies, public affairs organisations and scientists is calling on the Dutch House of Representatives to invest more in its staff. The … Read more
Open State urges governments to publish GDPR registers
Due to the GDPR governments and other organizations have to make a register of processing activities. In these registers governments should list how and why they … Read more
(Dutch) Veel meer gemeenten publiceren nu verkiezingsuitslagen als open data
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Official Government Almanac holds faulty data
The government almanac – the official register of Dutch government organizations, politicians and public officials – is filled with outdated or faulty information. This is the … Read more
Event: Energy Hack on June 14th in The Hague
On June 14th the Ministry of Interior Affairs and Kingdom Relations will organise a hackathon on the energy transition together with partners. There are six research … Read more
Assist the House of Representatives with these two policy challenges
The third edition of Accountability Hack, organised by the House of Representatives and Open State Foundation, will focus on education and healthcare. Accountability Hack will be … Read more
Dutch UBO-register proposal inadequate
On Wednesday the 22nd of May a round-table is organized in the Dutch House of Representatives on the topic of the UBO-register. A register that will … Read more
Look up your polling station for the EP2019 elections on the platform ‘Waar is mijn Stemlokaal’
Voters can now look up their nearest polling station and check whether the location is accessible for individuals with a disability on the platform ‘Waar is … Read more
Video: Hearing on data-society and democracy
The Dutch Labour and Green parties have initiated a round-table in the Dutch House of Representatives on data-society and democracy. Tom Kunzler of Open State Foundation … Read more
Hearing on data-society and democracy
The Dutch Labour and Green parties have initiated a round-table in the Dutch House of Representatives on data-society and democracy. Tom Kunzler of Open State Foundation … Read more
All European election manifestos
Looking for the election manifestos of the Dutch political parties that participate in the European elections? Look no further. We collected them all. Only party DENK … Read more
(Nederlands) Ollongren: verkiezingsuitslagen publiceren als open data
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Podcast about open government and education
CEO of Open State Foundation, Wilma Haan, guest in podcast about ‘open’. (in Dutch)
Members of Parliament ask for more World Bank transparency
Last week the World Bank Global Conference took place in Washtington D.C. Before this conference Dutch members of parliament asked for more financial transparency of the … Read more
Only 25 percent of municipalities share elections results as open data
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These 85 municipalities did share their election results as open data
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How PoliFLW can be used to analyze political discourse
Max Dijkstra (student at the University of Leiden) has published researched on how political parties talk about migration in relation to security. He used the database … Read more
Video: OSF’s Tom Kunzler about the Dutch business register
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Big growth in the use of CBS open data – great news and new steps to take
Good news from the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). They report an explosive growth of open data use over the past four years. In Januari 2019 … Read more
Towards an Open Company Register
On Thursday April 11 the Dutch House of Representatives will host a round-table on the new Company Register Law. On behalf of Open State Foundation, Tom … Read more
Get notified on political news
Want to stay up to date on news that Dutch political parties publish on their websites and Facebook-pages? Start using mail notifications on PoliFLW. Via these websites … Read more
Elections and open data meet-up
Do you want to review the last and preview the upcoming elections? Want to chat about the role of open data in elections? Then come to … Read more
Vacancy: program manager
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Advice for the newly elected provincial officials: make transparency a priority
More and more governments. including provinces, share government data as open data. That is public information that is reusable for new purposes such as analysis, … Read more
Mandatory after call to action from Open State Foundation: important municipality data to CBS from now on
Last October we pointed out that Dutch municipalities were not sharing the data they should on important policy factors such as the amount of money … Read more
10% of political candidates are on lists of two elections
Text by: Priscilla Tienkamp (LocalFocus), data-analysis by Jesse Hablé (Open State Foundation) More than ten percent of the political candidates that take part in the elections … Read more
Pilot for future exchange of financial data
Statistics Netherlands (CBS) and Open State Foundation started a pilot to exchange financial data of local governments in a new way. Currently, local governments send Excel-files … Read more
Look up your polling station on the platform ‘Waar is mijn Stemlokaal’!
For the third year in a row Open State Foundation mapped out the polling stations of 358 Dutch municipalities ahead of the 2019 Dutch provincial and … Read more
All provincial manifestos
Interested in the plans of the political parties for the Dutch provincial elections of Marc 20 2019? Together with LocalFocus and NOS we collected all the … Read more
This happened before you read it on the news
App gives insight into the political origin of a news report See at a glance which political documents exist about a local or regional news item? … Read more
Research: provincial representatives complain about one-sided information
Members of the Provincial Estates find that the information they use to do their work is one-sided. This is the result of a survey with 86 … Read more
Labour Games Playtest in the Netherlands
By Anne Dijkstra On Wednesday the 27th of February the first playtest of Labour Games took place. Labour Games is a project where a few games … Read more
One in three healthcare, education and government websites are not secure
One in three websites from public organisations are still not secure. Sensitive data such as social security numbers, or even medical and psychological complaints can become … Read more
List of candidates for the water board elections available
LocalFocus and Open State Foundation gathered the candidate lists for the Dutch water board elections of March 20 2019. The open datasets have been published by … Read more
List of candidates for the provincial elections available
NOS, LocalFocus and Open State Foundation gathered the candidate lists for the Dutch provincial elections of March 20 2019. The open datasets have been published by … Read more
Join the launch of the winning app of Open Stateninformatie
On the 11th of March during Open Gov Week the winning app of the Open Stateninformatie App-Challenge will be launched. Everyone is welcome to join. See … Read more
Prices of almost one million hospital treatments available
Despite a 2016 promise of the the former Dutch Health Care minister prices of hospital treatments are still not transparant. This is the reason that the … Read more
Follow political news with PoliFLW
With PoliFLW more than 600.000 news articles that Dutch political parties publish on their websites and Facebook-pages can be found. The website makes it possible to follow … Read more
Political parties, register the gender identity of your candidates
Stem op een Vrouw (Vote for a Woman) and Open State Foundation call on political parties to register the gender identity of their candidates when submitting their … Read more