The Netherlands Standardisation Forum contributes to e-government goals. Goals like further improvement of government services and reducing the administrative burden by automating the flow of information between the government and citizens and enterprises. This leads to lower expenditure, improved efficiency and better services for citizens, businesses and public service providers through smart ICT solutions. The use of open standards to support interoperabilitiy, (re) use of data and lower dependency on specific suppliers, is the leading Dutch policy.The Standardisation Forum supports the Dutch government in the development, use and establishment of open standards for electronic information exchange. In this way it promotes interoperability within the Dutch government system itself, but also in the relations between government agencies on one hand and citizens and enterprises on the other. The second goal of the Standardisation Forum is to prevent vendor lock-in and reduce costs in government spending on ICT.