To enhance the transparency, accountability and efficiency of the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security, the ministry has set up an open data program to proactively stimulate sharing its (public-funded) data sets with the public or with other organi-sations. Disclosure of personal data is considered …

Due to the many potential applications of Big Data, the expectations are high. However, there are some fundamental objections on the straightforward use of Big Data outcomes. In this paper, we take a philosophical view on the Big Data approach and discuss these objections. Formally, Big Data induces …

This paper presents a framework to provide a unified view towards the visions of smart and open justice. The framework, coined as Legal Logistics, aims at unifying and embodying different data-centric services that exploit available and relevant data for supporting and enhancing the legitimacy and efficiency …

In this paper we present a data-driven profiling approach that we have adopted and implemented for a municipality. Our aim was to make profiles transparent and meaningful for citizens, policymakers and authorities so that they can validate, scrutinize and challenge the profiles. Our approach relies on …

Om te bepalen of er bij het openen van data ‘onthullingsrisico’s’ spelen, doet een aantal partijen binnen het JenV-domein onderzoek naar softwaretools die uitsluitsel kunnen geven. Bij complexe datasets blijft de inhoudsdeskundige meekijken.

The Internet of Things (IoT) is rapidly growing, and offers many economical and societal potentials and benefits. Nevertheless, the IoT also introduces new threats to our Security, Privacy and Safety (SPS). The existing work on mitigating these SPS threats often fails to address the fundamental challenges …

Data quality management is a great challenge in today’s world due to increasing proliferation of abundant and heterogeneous datasets. All organizations that realize and maintain data intensive advanced applications should deal with data quality related problems on a daily basis. In these organization …

Het Internet of Things (IoT) is een netwerk van ‘slimme’ apparaten, sensoren en andere objecten die met elkaar en met het internet verbonden zijn. Nu al worden verschillende IoT-toepassingen veelvuldig gebruikt in onze samenleving en in de toekomst zal de adoptie van het IoT alleen nog maar verder toenemen. …

The collection and analysis of relevant data for evaluating public policies is not a straightforward task. An important type of such studies is the so-called ex-post evaluation. The main objective of ex-post evaluations is to determine to what extent a realized intervention is successful in tackling …

This paper proposes an innovative designerly model called the Transitional Action Design Research to address the class of wicked problems in the judicial settings such as preserving privacy while disseminating information for transparency purposes.