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Status Dutch Digitalisation Strategy (NDS)

The current cabinet is acting in a caretaker capacity. What this means for the new Dutch Digitalisation Strategy remains unclear for now.

Digitalisation has profound implications for how we live, work, and play, particularly in a digitally advanced country like the Netherlands. Therefore, digitalisation is at the heart of the government’s ambitions. To achieve these ambitions, the government must utilise digital technology responsibly and deliver high-quality services to citizens and entrepreneurs.

This entails being proactive, taking initiative, and establishing priorities: how do digital advancements influence government and society? Which opportunities should we capitalise on, and in what areas should we act to reduce risks? What actions are urgent, and what can be postponed?

Dutch Digitalisation Strategy (NDS)

Building on this, the cabinet announces the new Dutch Digitalisation Strategy (NDS). The NDS aims to connect and prioritise existing digitalisation plans. It will soon offer a concise guide to what is needed to make digitalisation a joint success for citizens and entrepreneurs.

Citizens and entrepreneurs are entitled to comprehensible and accessible government services, and communicating with government bodies should be easy. The Minister for Digitalisation and Kingdom Relations emphasises that the government therefore aims to serve people as 1 government rather than as separate organisations.

“Most people don’t see separate government bodies, but simply The Government. They should be the starting point for all the digital technology we deploy as a government.”Minister for Digitalisation and Kingdom Relations, Zsolt Szabó.

Priorities

The strategy sets out several priorities.

The shared ambitions:

  • Good government services for citizens and entrepreneurs;
  • Strengthening the government’s digital resilience and digital autonomy.

Strengthening the organisation by:

  • Political and administrative governance, along with enhanced collaboration as 1 government;
  • Digital professionalism.

In particular, it examines these digital applications:

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI);
  • Data;
  • Cloud.

The development of the NDS

In the coming period, the Minister will discuss the Dutch Digitalisation Strategy with a wide range of parties, from academics and entrepreneurs to implementing organisations. This will include topics in which it is important to act as one digital government.

Initial work on the NDS has started, and the final version is expected to be presented to the Parliament in spring 2025. From September to November 2024, the work focuses on start-up and prioritisation (phase 1: the “what”). From December 2024, focus will be on detailing and formalising (phase 2: the “how”). This page contains all relevant information on the development of the NDS.

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