EU regulations require government organizations to make data available as source holders. Together with various stakeholders, the VNG developed a uniform source access. With the allocation of the Digital Government Innovation Budget, assumptions from the first trial can now be worked out and tested more broadly.
Digital services to residents and businesses depend on the availability of reliable data. In practice, governments often ask for the same data. Think of information about birth, address and nationality or data about issued permits and exemptions. To prevent a different solution being implemented for each European obligation, the VNG, together with partners, has tested an approach for uniform source access.
During a so-called projecathon they experimented with the technical, organizational and legal preconditions for digital data exchange. The goal was to test an unambiguous, standardized connection of Dutch government data to the European infrastructure. The test was successful and the approach innovative. The proposed solution breaks right through all existing shells, because not one regulation, but the source serves as the starting point.
With the allocation of the Digital Government Innovation Budget from the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, the project team of BronConnect further scale up the trial. The intention is to deploy uniform source access for eIDAS purposes. After all, the same data can also be used in a European digital identity wallet. The trial can shape the system needed to use the wallet. An important point in the report of Adviescollege ICT toetsing on the implementation of eIDAS. The first results of the further testing are expected in early 2026.
