{"guid":"2b2d59bc-5dc5-5529-8019-179f4bd8349d","title":"Democracy: Eventually Digitally Transparent?","subtitle":null,"slug":"mch2022-203-democracy-eventually-digitally-transparent-","link":"https://program.mch2022.org/mch2022/talk/LFVBN3/","description":"Governments should be radically more transparent. While calls for more open data and initiatives like the Open Government Partnership have existed for more than a decade, there is still much to be desired. Where do we stand? And, fun to imagine, where could and should we go?\n\nIt is hard to have a perfect overview of the status of open government across the world. We at [Open State Foundation](https://openstate.eu/) focus mostly on accelerating digital transparency in the Netherlands. We will explain things like:\n\n- Why is the **Handelsregister** (company register) still only fully accessible for those with a lot of money? \n- Why are **Wob-verzoeken** (Freedom of Information requests) on average not answered within the legal deadline?\n- How transparent are the **external meetings of ministers** and who do they talk to?\n\nOn the other hand we show why the Netherlands is a great place if you want to know how your municipalities spend their money or want to access national statistics.\n\nStill there is much to learn from other countries:\n- **How does Norway manage their information so well** that they respond to Freedom of Information requests much faster?\n- What country has **a minister that deals in the most open way with lobbyists**? \n- Can governments produce **modern open source software**? \nThese examples can show us a future of a digitally transparent democracy.\n\nWe end the talk by opening up the floor to the audience and love to hear about positive 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