The first report about the NN-Open “Open-IT” congress last week is available on the website of NOiV (Nederland Open in Verbinding). Read it here in Dutch. Read it here translated to English.

Now this is something quite cool: http://www.watstemtmijnraad.nl It actually gives insight in whats going on in the city council, at least the topics they vote on and the results of each vote. Cool thing is that Groningen (where I live) is part of the pilot, so the topics are a bit closer to home. Besides [...]

In this article, they discuss paying by identification of your fingerprint. Albert Heijn, one of the biggest supermarkets in the Netherlands is giving it a test run and a supermarket chain in Germany (Edeka) already seems to use it. Do I watch too many movies or does this feel very fraud sensitive? Since your fingerprint [...]