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
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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
This article is only available in Dutch.
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
(video in Dutch)
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
This vacancy is only available in Dutch.
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
EU will force Chamber of Commerce to release more open data
The revision of the new European Public Sector Information (PSI) Directive, on re-use of public sector information, will force European member states to make more data … Read more
Open mobility meet-up
Come join us on the 30th of January to chat about all things transportation and open data. This informal event is to discuss, network, complain, praise … Read more
Wilma Haan new CEO Open State Foundation
Wilma Haan (Amsterdam, 1982) has been appointed as CEO of Open State Foundation. She will succeed Arjan El Fassed, who managed the organization from 2013. President … Read more
New FOIA bill important step for transparency
A revised version of the Bill on Open Government (Wet open overheid in Dutch) has been published by the initiators of GreenLeft and Democrats 66. The … Read more
Vacancy: program manager
This vacancy is only available in Dutch.
Polling stations available via “waar is mijn stemlokaal?”-platform
Voters can easily find their nearest voting station for the upcoming Provincial Council, Water Board and European elections in 2019! The Dutch Interior Ministry, Association of Netherlands … Read more
Open Multilaterals data at Paris Peace Forum Hackathon
Open State Foundation attended the first edition of the Paris Peace Forum (11-13 November). Governments, multilateral organisations, NGOs, companies, journalists and more gathered during the event … Read more
Ton Zijlstra new chairman of Open State Foundation
Ton Zijlstra will be the new chairman of the board of Open State Foundation. Ton Zijlstra has been connected with Open State from 2008 when he organized … Read more
App ‘Before it was news’ wins Open Provinces App Challenge
The app ‘Before it was news’ of Oberon has won the first prize of the Open Provinces app challenge that was organized by the provinces of … Read more
Join the Open FOIA commitment!
As part of the new Dutch National Action Plan on Open Government the Province North-Holland, Open State Foundation, Association of Netherlands Municipalities and several public institutions … Read more
Invitation: Open Provinces App Challenge Pitch Event
You’re invited to the Open Provinces app challenge pitch event. These last two months app developers have been hard at work to submit an app idea … Read more
NGOs urge European Parliament to vote for free access to company and UBO registers
On Monday the 3rd of December the European Parliament talks about the revision of the Public Sector Information (PSI) Directive. This Directive promotes the release of … Read more
App ‘Archeologica’ makes archeology more accessible
On Tuesday the 22nd of November the app ‘Archeologica’ was launched as a result of the app challenge Digging for Data which Open State Foundation organized for … Read more
Column: ‘Who feels responsible for transparency?’
In a column for the online platform iBestuur Tom Kunzler wrote about the lack of governance for transparency in the Netherlands. We need an organization that feels … Read more
Recap: Strengthen the Petition Data-Challenge
On the 12th of October the data-challenge Strengthen the Petition took place in Enschede. The goal of the challenge was to help strenghten the influence of … Read more
Open Provinces App-Challenge
App-developers can win a prize of 30.000 euros for the best app-idea that will help citizens, journalists and other interested people to follow the decision-making of … Read more
Young Mavericks use PoliFLW data
On Friday the 21st of September Young Mavericks organized a Junior Hackathon on the Marine Terrain in Amsterdam. During this hackathon interested people got the chance to work … Read more
3.000 Dutch websites still use old Symantec-certificates
Certain old Symantec SSL-certificates will not be supported by webbrowsers. Google Chrome will stop supporting these certificates with version 70, which will be released on Tuesday … Read more
Almost 400.000 contracts of NATO, UN and World Bank are now available
For the first time insight can be gained as to which countries profit the most from multilateral organizations like the United Nations, NATO and the World … Read more
Hack de Overheid community on Slack
You might know that Open State Foundation has its roots in Hack de Overheid, a community that organized hackathons to open up the government since 2008, … Read more