The eSociety Institute conducts conceptual, exploratory research projects and innovation trajectories to develop a strategy for a national digital society using an integral approach to equip digital citizens. The institute partners with various government organizations, research platforms, and educational institutions. Key research areas include e-government, e-health, open data, and citizen information management to support an active, participatory digital society.

1. eSociety Institute of The Hague University of Applied Sciences
Bert Mulder – professor Information, Technology and Society
Martijn Hartog – coordinating researcher
Strategy for a National Digital Society
Integral approach equipping digital citizens

2. eSociety Institute
structural innovation partner
conceptual, explorative research projects
innovation trajects
practice & higher educationnal courses/programmes
themes
e-government, e-democracy, e-health
transparency, open government, open spending, Linked (Open) Data
Citizen Information Management
new theme in government information
Citizen Vocabularies Health and Public Administration
equipping citizens for a participatory society
eHealth Academy
100.000 citizens own control and responsibility
eSociety Institute is a knowledge partner of The eSociety Platform & The Open Data Institute

3. research and development
(multi-annual) programs ‘Government of the Future’ & ‘Future Care’
Muncipality of The Hague (2009-2018)
Province of South-Holland (2013-2017)
Quality Institute Dutch Municipalities, VNG/KING (2016-2017)
National Land Registry, Kadaster (2016-2017)
Information & Automation Professionals of Dutch Municipalities, VIAG (2016-2017)
we work with research platforms, educational managers, (senior) lecturers and researchers,
and student researchers (interns, student-assistants and graduate students) from the faculties:
Business, Finance & Marketing
IT & Design
Public Management, Law & Safety
Social Work & Education
Technology, Innovation & Society

4. digital citizens
active digital citizens
equal partners of governmental organizations
influence and change of
dynamics
role
responsibilities
stakeholders
policy process
convergence of services on the individual household
quality
complexity
scale

5. challenge – quality
people speak their own language
professionals need precise terminology
communicating consistently and interoperable?

6. challenge – complexity
growing diversity requires integration
citizens work and live in networks
technical challenges, data inconsistencies and information overload
interoperability of public and health products and services

7. challenge – scale
societal networks require effective solutions
support on a different scale than merely on an individual level
digital solutions at the level of
groups
neighborhoods
towns
cities
regions
society

8. integral information management
a coherent digital society information architecture
supporting citizens and collaboration with professionals
infrastructure
technology
information
(open) data
services
users

9. eSociety Institute of The Hague University of Applied Sciences
Bert Mulder – professor Information, Technology and Society
Martijn Hartog – coordinating researcher – m.w.hartog@hhs.nl | @martijnhartog
Strategy for a National Digital Society
Integral approach equipping digital citizens