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Institute for eGovernment

With the digitisation of the application process the interested lawyer or notary will apply directly to the appropriate department; therefore, entering data manually belongs to the past.

The cities are seeking to understand how new sustainable modes of travel can be developed in complementarity with existing public transport offers.

The Dutch cities of Amsterdam, Utrecht and Eindhoven have selected mobility data platform Vianova to help optimise the integration of shared mobility services.

Through this partnership, the European startup is helping the three cities improve their collaboration with mobility operators through data insights.

The Information Manager of Electronic Data Interchange of the Dutch Customs, Mr Lup van de Bunt said: "After overcoming a stage of fear on both our end and that of the companies involved, Logius' Digipoort was smoothly implemented. All parties now acknowledge that its use means lower costs and less administrative burdens for both government authorities and businesses."

The Dutch e-Citizen Charter provides the answer. It consists of 10 quality requirements for a new relationship between citizen and government. The workbook is available for download.

Part of the project included unifying a number of separate databases into a single system. According to the ministry, this proved successful. Use of the population register has tripled since 2010, to around 60 million messages per half year compared to almost 20 million.

The Dutch government's digital maturity has reached 75 percent, up 4 percent points from 2016, according to a briefing by the interior minister to parliament. The indicator rose 17 points from 2014, when the first measurement was conducted on only municipal, provincial and watershed authorities.

The digital maturity measures e-government services, such as online forms and the DigiD. The minister said the latest results show the level of digital services had reached a good level, in line with the government's targets.

The Dutch government has welcomed most of the European Commission's points in its Digital Single Market plans, according to a letter from the cabinet sent to parliament. While the Dutch government supports the general aim of strengthening the internal market, it noted that there is a lack of clarity still in some parts of the proposal.

On improving online access to goods and services, the cabinet welcomed plans to update copyright rules, strengthen the e-commerce sector and improve consumers' position. More research is needed though into how to achieve these goals, it said.

Minister De Graaf’s previous goal of 25 per cent of the services by the end of 2003 was met. In fact, some 40 per cent of all services, such as driving and buildinglicence applications, are already available online.

Public Administration and other entities in the Netherlands are required to exchange information with the Dutch Land Registry Office(Kadaster) for authorisation to carry out excavation works, or to build or maintain underground cable and pipe networks. This communication can now be performed electronically. The three above mentioned  provinces have recently started using the OpenWion web services after getting familiar with Flamingo, a set of open source tools enabling organisations to share their geo-information through interactive maps.

The Dutch government needs to do more to ensure citizens without strong digital skills can still access public services, according to a report from the national ombudsman over e-government.

Citizens have no choice - they've only one government to turn to - so the state needs to put users central, especially when it comes to digitisation of services, the report said. The focus should be on ensuring citizens have what they need to communicate with the public authorities. Citizens should not feel forced to use a digital channel if they don't want to or unable to.

Der niederländische Ministerrat hat die Rückkehr zu Stift und Papier bei Wahlen beschlossen. Der Einsatz von Wahlcomputern wird aus Sicherheitsgründen für die absehbare Zeit ausgeschlossen.

Das niederländische Innenministerium gab am Freitag den endgültigen Abschied von Wahlcomputern bekannt. In Zukunft werden die Bürger im Lande ihre Stimmen wieder mit Stift auf Papier abgeben. Der niederländische Ministerrat sah sich zu dieser Entscheidung veranlasst, nachdem im vergangenen Jahr massive Sicherheitsmängel der Wahlcomputer nachgewiesen worden waren. Der Chaos Computer Club (CCC) hatte Mitte 2007 demonstriert, wie sich der ROM-Speicher eines Nedap-Computers binnen 60 Sekunden gegen ein manipuliertes ROM austauschen lässt. Forscher und die Bürgerrechtsinitiative "Wij vertrouwen stemcomputers niet" ("Wir vertrauen Wahlcomputern nicht") hatten weitere Sicherheitslücken demonstriert.

Estonia's Minister of Foreign Trade and IT Kaimar Karu and the Netherlands' State Secretary for the Interior Raymond Knops, standing in for the interior minister of the Netherlands, have agreed about the next steps in digital cooperation between the two countries.

The Netherlands is increasingly interested in Estonia's experience with e-governance and digital solutions, first and foremost with ID-card applications and services based on the X-Road, spokespeople for the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications said.

André Rouvoet, the Dutch minister for youth and family, has said all institutions and bodies dealing with the healthcare of children must be using electronic patient files by the end of 2009.

The minister set out the requirement in a letter to the Dutch parliament last month. The new electronic patient files will contain information on the child, his or her family situation and circumstances.