Built on top of WooGLe, it shows how LLMs can assist government search, not replace it. Read the full recap by @maiklarooij.nl: opengov.nl/blog/2025/11...

About 58% of all Woo requests lead to objections, mostly because officials miss relevant docs in their search. We built a prototype to tackle exactly that.
Our tool “Zoek & Verrijk” uses an LLM for FOIA-focused query expansion and reference extraction, helping officials uncover missing material.

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/...

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

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...

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

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!

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.

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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

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