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
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
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
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
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
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
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CEO of Open State Foundation, Wilma Haan, guest in podcast about ‘open’. (in Dutch)
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
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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
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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
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
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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 (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
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
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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 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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