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On August 8, a new batch of 60 free and open source projects was selected for the NGI Zero Commons Fund.
We want to thank these project teams for working on the digital commons and contributing to open, secure and trustworthy digital infrastructure for all.
This brings the total of grantees within the programme to 494 projects. There are still two more calls currently under evaluation for the program.
Meet the projects! https://nlnet.nl/news/2026/20260808-60-new-projects.html
Open Government
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- Written by: Adrian Offerman
- Category: Open Government
Ahead of the parliamentary elections in Greece last week, the Greek Free/Open Source Software Society (GFOSS) contacted all political parties to ask about their positions [in Greek] with regard to open software, open data, open hardware and open government. The four parties to respond all came out generally in favour of openness. Some of them were even able to present very detailed planning on how to improve the current institutional and legislative framework and outlined how openness could help reconstruct Greek productivity.
Read more: Political parties favour openness to reconstruct Greek productivity
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- Written by: Adrian Offerman
- Category: Open Government
The Open State Foundation has published the budgets and spending data of Dutch local governments for the years 2012-2013. Visitors to the openspending.nl portal can download the raw data, view the data of a specific local government, or compare the data of two governments.
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- Written by: Adrian Offerman
- Category: Open Government
Acronym: Port of Rotterdam
Website: http://www.portofrotterdam.com/nl/Over-de-haven/haven-rotterdam/Open-Data/Pages/open-data.aspx
Start Date: January, 2013
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Geographic coverage: NL
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The Rotterdam Haven Lab brings together open data, technology and cooperation in an economic context. There still are many inefficiencies left in the port's transport and logistics. The solution is to connect and share everything.
The Port of Rotterdam Authority is developing a vision on the role and importance of data in the port. The Authority wants to make as much data as possible freely available.
It is hard to develop a vision or strategy until you really understand what open data means to your industry. So we create as many apps and pilots as we can to find out where the value is and what the role of the Authority should be. There is a lot of opportunity in the port, so we expect big disruptors to enter our industry in these coming years.
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- Written by: Adrian Offerman
- Category: Open Government
The people from the UK Open Government Civil Society Network have scanned the party manifestos for policies relevant to open government. They recently published their findings. The first part listed items from the big three. In this article, the manifestos of four other parties are discussed: the Party of Wales (Plaid Cymru), the Scottish National Party (SNP), the Green Party, and UKIP.
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- Written by: Adrian Offerman
- Category: Open Government
The people from the UK Open Government Civil Society Network have scanned the party manifestos for policies relevant to open government. They recently published their findings. In this first part we list some items from the manifestos of the big three: the Conservative and Unionist Party, the Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats. In the second part, the manifestos of four other parties are discussed.