Woohoo! Paper accepted to Findings at @ecir2026.eu! 🎉 We use LLMs for axial coding of political debates, work led by Angelina Parfenova (TU Munich), who I met at last year's ECIR in Lucca 🇮🇹 Love it when conference chats turn into papers! #ECIR2026 @opengov.nl

Last month, the OpenGov Lab welcomed the AI Lab voor de Publieke Diensten (@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social), with contributions from @graus.nu, @irisbeerepoot.bsky.social, @maiklarooij.nl! Read more about our PhD meetup here: opengov.nl/blog/2025/11...

Congrats to Barbora Wenzlova for receiving the Victorine van Schaick Prize 2025 for her master thesis “Beyond Disclosure: Evaluating Algorithmic Transparency in the Dutch Algorithm Register”, supervised by @jkamps.bsky.social at the @opengov.nl lab: www.opengov.nl/blog/2025/11...

We joined the “Terminal Woo” hackathon at the Fokker Terminal with @opengov.nl; pitching an IR-inspired fix for a real problem in Dutch FOIA (Woo) search.

We attended the @uva.nl thesis fairs! Read @maiklarooij.nl's writeup on @opengov.nl: opengov.nl/blog/2025/10...

Students @uva.nl in #AI, #datascience, and computer science: come meet us at the (AI) Thesis Fairs this Friday, October 17th and talk about our #OpenGov MSc thesis projects! opengov.nl/events/2025/...

Deze week namen Damiaan en @maiklarooij.nl van @opengov.nl mee aan de Democracy Accelerator ideathon van @openstate.eu en het Social Technology Lab. 🏆 "Quote of Context" gepitcht door @maiklarooij.nl en Arjan Haring werd democratisch verkozen tot het winnend idee: www.linkedin.com/posts/opengo...

Congrats to Floris Bos (not pictured), who won the Best Short Paper Award at #TPDL2025 (Tampere 🇫🇮) for his @opengov.nl MSc thesis “Linking References to Documents in Parliamentary Debates.” Paper co-authored with Marc van Opijnen & Maarten Marx (who received the award). #OpenGov

Lab Swag!

Damiaan Reijnaers, PhD student in the @opengov.nl lab, presented his poster on neuro-symbolic legal document representations at @clin35-2025.bsky.social this morning! #OpenGov #CLIN35

Welcome @maiklarooij.nl to the @opengov.nl lab! www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Are you a final year master student in AI/Data Science in the greater Amsterdam area? Join us at the ICAI OpenGov Lab for your master thesis. Data and ideas abound! See a preliminary list of projects below or reach out with your own 👇🏻

Vrijdag bezochten @groenlinks-pvda.bsky.social TK-leden @barbarakathmann.bsky.social en @lucstultiens.bsky.social, en Amsterdams gemeenteraadslid @elisabethijmker.bsky.social, ons bij LAB42 (UvA). Damiaan Reijnaers en ik mochten ons ICAI @opengov.nl Lab presenteren: graus.nu/blog/opengov...

Volgende week vrijdag organiseren we onze jaarlijkse @opengov.nl Woorkshop. Waar een ~20-tal #AI, #DataScience, en Informatiekunde studenten die “wat spannends doen met de Woo” hun scripties presenteren! 13-17 uur, LAB42 in Amsterdam. Iedereen is welkom! wooverheid.nl/2025/06/18/u...

News @uva.nl: “Many of the advances in IR and NLP can be directly applied to improving access and use of open government data,” says lab manager @graus.nu. “I believe these technologies can truly help create a more transparent government and a better-informed society.” www.uva.nl/en/shared-co...

Morgen presenteren we het ICAI @opengov.nl Lab in Den Haag bij het Nationaal Archief. Leuk als je komt! www.informatiehuishouding.nl/actueel/acti...

Op donderdag 15 mei presenteren @graus.nu, @jkamps.bsky.social, en Maarten Marx het ICAI OpenGov Lab op Demo Donderdag in het Nationaal Archief in Den Haag! Start 16:00 uur. Aansluitend is er de open donderdag netwerkborrel. Meer info+ aanmelden: www.informatiehuishouding.nl/actueel/acti...

Op donderdag 15 mei presenteren @graus.nu, @jkamps.bsky.social, en Maarten Marx het ICAI OpenGov Lab op Demo Donderdag in het Nationaal Archief in Den Haag! Start 16:00 uur. Aansluitend is er de open donderdag netwerkborrel. Meer info+ aanmelden: www.informatiehuishouding.nl/actueel/acti...

Super excited about getting started! Follow @opengov.nl to stay tuned for our first papers and more. #OpenGov

The ICAI OpenGov Lab is live! We kicked off yesterday at LAB42 (UvA, Amsterdam). Our PhD candidates shared exciting research plans on AI, archives & disinfo, with valuable input from our partners at informatiehuishouding + ipartnerschap. More soon, follow us for updates! #opengov #AI #NLP

Happy birthday Woo (Wet Open Overheid - Dutch Open Government Act), since May 1st, 2022. 🕯️🕯️🕯️

Today, @anneschuth.nl (Rijks ICT Gilde) visited the @opengov.nl lab before his talk at @irlab-amsterdam.bsky.social (www.meetup.com/sea-search-e...), to explore collaboration with our PhD students Damiaan and Lisa, and catch up with @graus.nu and @jkamps.bsky.social. Great having you around, Anne!

🚨 Q1 results from the ICAI OpenGov Lab (@opengov.nl) are out! See a few highlights in the 🧵 below. For all details, see the blo post on wooverheid (🇳🇱): wooverheid.nl/2025/04/21/2...

🚨 Q1 results from the ICAI OpenGov Lab (@opengov.nl) are out! See a few highlights in the 🧵 below. For all details, see the blo post on wooverheid (🇳🇱): wooverheid.nl/2025/04/21/2...

Wij waren op #ECIR2025 met @opengov.nl: korte reportage van onze razende reporter op afstand Maarten Marx! wooverheid.nl/2025/04/10/o...

Damiaan, PhD student at the @opengov.nl Lab presented his pitch at the 2nd Search Futures Workshop (searchfutures.github.io) at #ECIR2025 on document representation using legal contextual information, flanked by He who sacrificed Himself for our sins. Great workshop so far!

The ACOI recently commissioned a report with Utrecht University on what meaningful government transparency should look like: active disclosure that actually meets the information needs of citizens. 👉 www.acoi.nl/actueel/nieu... 1/5 🧵

Our scientific co-director Maarten Marx co-authored an analysis of FOI request handling in the Netherlands in 2024, w/ @openstate.eu and Instituut Maatschappelijke Innovatie (IMI). Download the report (Dutch, PDF) here: openstate.eu/wp-content/u... Some points of interest in the thread below 🧵 1/3

Our scientific co-director Maarten Marx co-authored an analysis of FOI request handling in the Netherlands in 2024, w/ @openstate.eu and Instituut Maatschappelijke Innovatie (IMI). Download the report (Dutch, PDF) here: openstate.eu/wp-content/u... Some points of interest in the thread below 🧵 1/3

The best way to celebrate #SunshineWeek on National Freedom of Information Day is to learn how to use the Freedom of Information Act & then use the FOIA to request info from our government: FOIA.gov FOIA Comic by @washingtonpost.com @foianate.bsky.social via @sunshineweek.bsky.social #opengov

Our @opengov.nl lab is on Bluesky!

Hello world! We are the ICAI OpenGov Lab, an Innovation Center for Artificial Intelligence set up between the Dutch government (Rijksoverheid) and @uva.nl 👋🏻