IfG.CC -
Institute for eGovernment

Noch können deutsche Privatkunden und Soho-Anwender von einem Glasfaser-Anschluss in der Regel nur Träumen. Von einigen regionalen Anwendern wie Mnet einmal abgesehen, gibt es keinen bundesweiten Masterplan, um Deutschland auch in Sachen Infrastruktur in das Zeitalter der Informationsgesellschaft zu katapultieren. Statt konkrete Pläne für den Glasfaserausbau zu entwickeln, treten Telekom, Arcor, O2 und Co lieber auf die Bremse und sehen unter Hinweis auf ungeklärte Regulierungsfragen jeweils den Konkurrenten in der Pflicht, den ersten Schritt zu tun.

In the largest four cities of the Netherlands, digitization has hardly been discussed during the run-up to the municipal elections, industry group Nederland ICT said. The group analysed the election platforms of all the parties in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht with three seats on the city council, namely seven national and three local parties.

Most programmes do mention digitization, but do not give any more information. "You can’t really get away with that, as a political party in 2018," says Lotte de Bruijn, director of the Nederland ICT.

Following major changes in March, 2003, Overhieid.nl - an initiative of the Dutch interior ministry - now offers some 2,500 e-government services to the public and private sectors, and a search engine that covers 1,200-odd government websites in the Netherlands.

The GAC calculated that of a 2.1 billion euro budget for ICT within central government, only 88 million euros was spent on licences and 170 million euros on software maintenance costs. As this was a relatively small part of the overall budget, the officials concluded that savings from switching to open standards and open source software would also be small. The report also said that there was no hard evidence that the benefits of open standards would become tangible.

Studielink allows students to independently arrange their enrolment or re-enrolment at institutions of higher education online. The service is accessible through the websites of universities and colleges.

Since February 2010, students have had to log into Studielink with their DigID to enrol in higher education institutions. Wouter de Haan, Studielink Director said: "Students with a Dutch residential address can only use Studielink with a DigID. They have increasingly embraced this default access tool to public services in the Netherlands, faster than we expected."

During this period, the e-government portal was accessed some 3.8m (versus 2.5m in the previous period) times, reports ICTU, an agency founded by the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Affairs to oversee information and communication technology in the public sector.

Cell broadcast, an existing functionality of the GSM technology, makes it possible to provide instructions to citizens in a specific location, for example providing instructions to people to stay inside and close their windows because there is a gas leak.

Thanks to a secure connection with an SMS code, patients can view and better understand their medical reports, medication, X-ray images and lab test results. Likewise, the patients decide who gets access to their medical data. In a separate subsection the patients can moreover post their personal comments and documents. All the dates of receipt of the various data forming the medical file are clearly displayed.

More precisely, the website aims to provide a platform where information about PSD-activities and contact persons can easily be found. The information is made accessible per country, per sector, per type of activity as well as per PSD-provider.

This shows that the website meets the need of sharing patient experiences and the demand for a central and clear overview of care facilities and providers. Site visitors will be able to seek, find and assess over 85.000 physicians, institutions and organisations. Likewise, they can know of the opinion of others.

OSOSS (Open Standaarden en Open Source Software) ist ein Programm der niederländischen Regierung zur Verbreitung offener Standards und Software. An der diesjährigen Veranstaltung nahmen ungefähr 500 Personen teil, die dem fünfzügigen Programm beiwohnten. Das Kernthema des Zusammentreffens stellte die Offenheit von Standards und Software in der Praxis dar, wonach auch der Sieger des verliehenen Preises ausgewählt wurde.