Openstack and CEPH implementation is an example to peers in government and industry The Dutch government’s data centre in Groningen (ODC-Noord) is setting a standard for government-hosted cloud…
NEWSCreated: 23/12/2016Updated Date: 23/12/2016
Last week, the Dutch society-driven political movement GeenPeil started its own political party, promising its members direct democracy through what it calls remotely controlled Members of Parliament…
NEWSCreated: 15/12/2016Updated Date: 15/12/2016
The Drecht cities (Drechtsteden), a collaboration of six municipalities in the delta region of the Netherlands, have published a first batch of open datasets. The data has been made available on…
NEWSCreated: 23/11/2016Updated Date: 23/11/2016
The Dutch government is not doing enough to further its transition to an open government. It should step up its ambition in this area and start working on implementation. This was the main message…
NEWSCreated: 13/10/2016Updated Date: 13/10/2016
Less than one in ten Dutch public agencies has registered any open data on the national open data portal. For municipalities, this falls to only one in twenty. These are the main results of an…
NEWSCreated: 14/09/2016Updated Date: 14/09/2016
The Dutch Ministry of Internal Affairs has published a new version of its 'Handleiding Wet hergebruik van overheidsinformatie' (WHO; Manual for the Law on the Re-use of Public Sector Information).…
NEWSCreated: 03/06/2016Updated Date: 03/06/2016
Starting today, people will be able to collaboratively write a new European Constitution. The People's Constitution project is an initiative of the Dutch Pirate Party and Amsterdam civil society. It…
NEWSCreated: 18/05/2016Updated Date: 18/05/2016
The publication of the so-called Panama Papers will only help to further the discussion on open government. Things like hidden company ownership and strict secrecy have fuelled questions on links…
NEWSCreated: 11/05/2016Updated Date: 11/05/2016
Citizens with a say — or even a vote — in their municipal budgets are part of a silent democratic revolution. Participatory budgeting started 25 years ago in Brazil and, since then, has been spreading…
NEWSCreated: 10/05/2016Updated Date: 10/05/2016
Dutch government organisations are generally unable to process requests under the new 'Law for re-use of government information' in a timely and correct manner. According to inventories made by the…
NEWSCreated: 03/05/2016Updated Date: 03/05/2016
Governments should listen to society in order to connect to and be part of an increasingly open world. Open data and citizen participation, rather than organisations and processes, are now the…
NEWSCreated: 14/04/2016Updated Date: 14/04/2016
Last week, the Dutch Minister of the Interior, Ronald Plasterk sent the government's National Open Data Agenda (NODA) in a letter to the Dutch parliament. The agenda aims to make as many high-value…
NEWSCreated: 07/12/2015Updated Date: 07/12/2015