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Most practices in: Netherlands (26)
The Netherlands Court of Audit audited 9 government algorithms in 2022, finding only 3 met basic requirements, then made algorithm audits a …
The Netherlands piloted its Fundamental Rights and Algorithms Impact Assessment on 15 government algorithms in 2023-24, testing whether agencies can systematically check …
DNB's DFROG nowcasting model has tracked Dutch GDP growth in real time since 2024, publishing monthly estimates; a decade-long evaluation found it …
Woogle, built at the University of Amsterdam, uses OCR and document-classification models to index over 3 million Dutch FOIA dossiers (11M+ pages) …
Amsterdam and Helsinki launched the world's first public algorithm registers in 2020; Amsterdam's now lists ~60 systems, folded into a mandatory Dutch …
TNO's second annual census of generative-AI use across Dutch government found applications grew from 8 in 2024 to 81 in 2025 — …
Since 2018, the Port of Rotterdam Authority's Pronto platform has used AI-driven arrival predictions to coordinate port calls, cutting vessel waiting times …
The Dutch National Cyber Security Centre partnered with ML6 to deploy AI tools that write vulnerability advisories three times faster and answer …
Amsterdam spent about five years and roughly €535,000 building Smart Check, a welfare-fraud screening algorithm engineered to avoid discrimination. A live 2023 …
Rotterdam has published 31 municipal algorithms — from parking enforcement to benefit eligibility — on the Dutch algorithm register, after a 100+-interview …
The Netherlands' mandatory Algoritmeregister lists 609 government algorithms — one of Europe's largest public registers — but the national Court of Audit …
A December 2025 audit by the Utrecht Court of Audit examined five of the city's 45 algorithms and found guidelines unevenly followed, …
In October 2023 the Amsterdam Court of Audit tested the city's algorithm governance: its framework addressed 49 of 61 risks, but fairness …
Rijkswaterstaat instrumented the Hollandse Brug motorway bridge with 146 strain, vibration and temperature sensors during its 2016 reinforcement, turning it into a …
Ahead of the EU AI Act's August 2026 deadline, the Netherlands designed one multi-sector AI regulatory sandbox -- a single access point …
The Dutch government's SSC-ICT is rolling out vlam-chat, a secure generative-AI assistant using European open-source models hosted in a government data centre, …
After tightening its generative-AI rules in February 2025, Amsterdam piloted ChatAmsterdam with 800+ civil servants over six months (34,000+ prompts, 10,000+ chats), …
UWV has screened unemployment-benefit claims with a risk-scoring algorithm since 2022. The Netherlands Court of Audit's 2025 review found flagged cases yield …
Kadaster is using AI to reprocess ~5 million historical handwritten field sketches to rebuild the Netherlands' national cadastral boundary map, on a …
The Dutch national algorithm register is voluntary: 291 entries by Feb 2024, and a 2025 Bits of Freedom audit found only 4 …
DUO's rule-based risk score for student-grant residency checks, used 2012–2023, was found to discriminate indirectly against students with a non-European migration background; …
Dutch police used the Crime Anticipation System to predict 125x125m crime hotspots nationwide from 2017. A 2025 review found it correctly predicted …
Rotterdam scored ~30,000 welfare recipients for fraud risk with a 315-variable model built with Accenture; journalists found language and gender bias, and …
An independent second-year audit of 39 Dutch municipal chatbots found only 10% of citizen questions answered correctly, with 64% wrong and identical …
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