Ministries are slower and slower to respond to requests to share information with, for example, citizens and journalists. In 2023, they had to wait an average of 172 days for documents they requested through the Open Government Act (Woo). That is five days longer than a year earlier and well above the legal 28-day timeframe, report researchers from the Institute of Social Innovation (IMI), the Open State Foundation, and the University of Amsterdam (UvA).
Disabled people can't go to every polling place to cast their vote for the Tweede Kamer on Wednesday, even though they should. About 1 in 22 polling stations is inaccessible, reports the Open State Foundation, which advocates for government transparency. The organization collected the data for the platform Where is my polling station?