Every year, the ICAI OpenGov Lab has a cohort of graduation students who do "something exciting with the Woo" (the Dutch Open Government Act). Last Friday we hosted our annual Woorkshop, where a number of these students gave short presentations of their work.
The full program of the day.
This week we met at the Rijksorganisatie voor Informatiehuishouding (RvIHH) in The Hague for the ICAI OpenGov Lab Governing Board meeting. With GB members Marion Hermans-Koelemij (RvIHH) and Peter van der Donk (Universiteit van Amsterdam) we discussed progress, collaboration, and plans for the coming year.
We hosted colleagues from the AI Lab voor de Publieke Diensten (Utrecht University) at LAB42 UvA for a joint PhD meetup.
David Graus kicked off with an overview of the ICAI OpenGov Lab, followed by Maik Larooij and Lisa Winters, who presented their first projects and work packages. Iris Beerepoot, lab coordinator of the AI Lab voor de Publieke Diensten, then gave a helicopter overview of the Utrecht lab, their focus areas and stakeholders. Throughout the session, Guido Ongena (Hogeschool Utrecht) contributed thoughtful reflections from an information management perspective.
On Friday, October 31st, and Saterday, November 1st, the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations and the program Open Government (Programma Open Overheid) organised a hackaton to improve the internal process of responding to Woo-requests. David, Damiaan, Maik and Jos (PhD student @ Utrecht University) represented the OpenGov Lab as one of the ten teams that participated in the event!
The team, very focused, at work while the time was running out