Social challenges
The use of data by the government can offer numerous opportunities, but it can also create distrust. To maintain trust, data must always be collected, stored, and processed in accordance with the law. With these safeguards, the targeted use of data can create extensive social value. This requires good agreements and cooperation between government bodies. Non-personal, open government data can also be useful for the activities of citizens, businesses and other organisations, including research activities. Data quality is key to this.
Results achieved by 2023
- Multiple central and decentralised government organisations actively publish open data or pursue other innovative initiatives related to data.
- Using the Common Ground initiative, municipalities are improving their data handling by storing it uniformly, separating storage from specific work processes and applications, and consulting data at the source using APIs (instead of copying and storing it in multiple locations).
- Discriminatory risk profiles inventoried (Implementation of Motie#21). All reports with outcome summaries have been delivered to the House.
- Rules for a single set of data ethics in the public sector have been introduced.
- An inter-administrative data strategy has been established.
Goals & indicators
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| 1. Secure, legal and values-driven storage and handling of data, creating trust among citizens. |
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| 2. High-quality data through appropriate policies and architecture enables better services to citizens and businesses and better policy choices. |
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| 3. Increase the findability and usability of reusable data. |
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| 4. Non-personal data of government bodies and public organisations are available as open data, where possible, to allow citizens, businesses and other organisations to use them for their activities. |
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What are our forthcoming actions?
To find out the goals we are setting for the upcoming year to improve data management for citizens and organisations, see priority 4.2 actions.
