On March 4, 2025, the Dutch House of Representatives (De Tweede Kamer) adopted a number of motions in the field of the use of algorithms and data ethics, and emerging technologies. These motions should ensure more digital autonomy.
NEN has launched the public consultation for Trusted Data Transaction (TDT) Part 3: a standard for interoperability requirements. This means that Dutch stakeholders can review the draft and submit comments
Today, the Open Cloud Alliance (in Dutch: Open Cloud Alliantie, OCA) presented a manifesto for a sovereign government cloud to Michiel Boots, Director-General for Economy and Digitalisation at the Ministry
While standardisation is a critical foundation for Digital Product Passports, the adoption of the DPP ultimately will determine its impact in practice. To explore what is needed for and currently hinders DPP adoption, we spoke with Carolynn Bernier (CIRPASS-2 Consortium Coordinator & Senior Research Engineer at Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives, CEA) and Sjoerd Rongen (Digital Product Passports Lead at TNO and coordinator of the Centre of Excellence for Digital Product Passports).
With the Energy Act coming into force on 1 January, the Netherlands has taken an important step towards transparent, secure and sovereign energy data. A central role in this transition has been assigned to Het Normo, which has officially been designated as the Data Exchange Entity (in Dutch: gegevensuitwisselingsentiteit, GUE)
