The dutch / european government can free itself from proprietary licensed software supplied by vendors and is actually able to take control over data and code.
Ownership & Privacy
Common Ground software puts public organisations into a position of power and full ownership over their software and the data of their users. This greatly increases transparency and data privacy for end-users that usually don’t have any say in the software.
Upgradeability
By strictly splitting up data from processes, front-end applications are much more versatile and can be upgraded according to user needs without having to completely replace the backend and data storage.
Collaboration & Co-learning
By separating different layers of software applications, we can effectively collaborate with multiple vendors, each focusing on the layer they are most proficient at. This greatly increases the pool of vendors being able to work for public projects and facilitates healthy and fair competition.