The Netherlands Midterm Review 2023-2027

The Netherlands substantially revised its fifth action planAction plans are at the core of a government’s participation in OGP. They are the product of a co-creation process in which government and civil society jointly develop commitments to open governmen..., raising its ambitionAccording to OGP’s Articles of Governance, OGP commitments should “stretch government practice beyond its current baseline with respect to key areas of open government.” Ambition captures the po.... It introduced seven new commitments, revised eight ongoing commitments, and removed nine commitments that were finished by the end of 2025. During the first two years of implementation, commitments enhanced government transparencyAccording to OGP’s Articles of Governance, transparency occurs when “government-held information (including on activities and decisions) is open, comprehensive, timely, freely available to the pub... More by supporting implementation of the Open Government Act, open dataBy opening up data and making it sharable and reusable, governments can enable informed debate, better decision making, and the development of innovative new services. Technical specifications: Polici..., information management, and meaningful disclosure of information. The refresh process, led by the Talking About Information Coalition, introduced new thematic areas like open algorithms. It strengthened government and civil society collaboration and ownership of OGP commitments. More commitments now have modest or substantial potential for results (60%), compared to the original action plan (41%). Several of the new commitments are in exploratory phases, so their results will depend on the scalability of the efforts and government uptake.