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Dutch Standardisation Forum - "Comply or explain"-standards
The goal of the Dutch government policy on open standards is to promote interoperability of the Dutch public and semi-public sectors, while at the same time ensuring provider independence…
COLLECTIONCreated: 17/02/2014
Check the new release of Vocbench, a platfom for managing and sharing reference data and controlled lists of codes and terms used to organise information
VocBench is a web-based, multilingual, collaborative development platform for managing and sharing reference data and controlled lists of codes and terms used to organise information. With persistent…
NEWSCreated: 30/09/2021
Free and open source softwareFree and open source software in Public AdministrationsICT standardisation in eGovernment+3 topics
The Netherlands investigates steps for better engagement with open source communities
To increase the competence in the usage of new technologies, a Digital Government Directorate under the Ministry of the Interior is being formed in Netherlands. At the same time, the Dutch government…
NEWSCreated: 15/04/2021
Free and open source softwareCollaborationFree and open source software in Public Administrations+3 topics
The Netherlands is advancing the digitalisation of the government by turning open source theory into practice.
As part of its Digitisation Strategy, the Dutch government launched its new open source toolbox, which includes useful information for civil servants to switch to open source, as well as a…
NEWSCreated: 15/04/2021
Free and open source softwareICT standardisationFree and open source software in Public Administrations+3 topics
Open enables public sector digital transformation in the Netherlands
Citizens expect well-functioning digital services from their government. Until recently, municipalities in the Netherlands were held back in providing these services by fragmented systems that would…
NEWSCreated: 07/04/2021
Dutch government to evaluate software development process following success of Corona app
The success of the open source software development process for the Dutch Covid-19 track and trace app is prompting the government to consider the same procedure for other projects, State Secretary…
NEWSCreated: 16/10/2020
Launch of the Digital Government Transformation MOOC!
Get a 5 Online Continuing Education Units certificate on Digital Government Transformation in one month!
NEWSCreated: 03/09/2020
The Dutch government releases a guide on local practices of digital participation
Netwerk Democratie, the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relation’s programme for “Democracy in Action”, and the Interreg Like! project of the European Regional Development Fund partnered to…
NEWSCreated: 11/05/2020
Dutch government encourages public services to share their software source code
The Dutch government wants the country’s public services to share as open source any software solutions that are written for or by them. “My appeal to public services is to release the source code…
NEWSCreated: 20/04/2020
Open source tools adopted by seven European cities to fight construction and organic waste
Launched in 2019, the EU-funded CityLoops project aims to tackle the issue of excessive construction and organic waste, which are two of the most significant urban material flows. Using the principles…
NEWSCreated: 19/02/2020
European TSO's go open source in building the smart electricity grid
RTE and TenneT, the two largest European electricity transmission system operators (TSOs), will discuss their digitalisation and open source strategies in a webinar on 8 August 2019. Both operators…
NEWSCreated: 01/08/2019
Cutting local copies cost with open standardisation under EUPL
The printing, sending and delivery of local copies represents important costs for municipalities. Five important Dutch cities known as the “G5” (Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Utrecht and Eindhoven)…
NEWSCreated: 27/02/2019