...Stuti Saxena Purpose The paper aims to investigate the national open data portals of Japan, The Netherlands and Saudi Arabia to identify the role of cultural variations in terms of their open data initiatives. Design/methodology/approach Following a qualitative approach, Hofstede’s cultural...

... is inefficient and probably will be unsuccessful. When the Lisbon objectives were defined by the EU15 in 2000, The Netherlands instated an institution named “Innovatieplatform” (Innovation Platform or IP) to help realize them. In the platform, government, business, and academic leaders took a role. Goal...

... on. for instance, developing new policies or strategies). Forward planning Government policy Society Strategic planning Forecasting The Netherlands In 2007, the Dutch government agreed to improve the performance of the Dutch government organizations and to slim down government bureaucracy...

...) see the past as a source of information and knowledge that can serve the future. History is a fashionable subject in The Netherlands. Or, to use a more modern parlance: retro is hot. The Dutch media are filled with thoughts on how (good) things used to be and how important historical...

... the statistical predictions in the 1977 report seem correct, it was not until the mid‐1990s that societal ageing became part of the political agenda. At the same time, in The Netherlands, major cutbacks in health care systems and, more specifically, in the provision of specialized care for the elderly, resulted...

... in a stepwise manner. Their management involves sensitivity to existing dynamics and regular adjustment of goals to overcome the conflict between long‐term ambition and short‐term concerns. This article uses the example of a transition to a low emission energy supply in the Netherlands to argue that transition...