iBestuur on a digital emergency package in case of crises.
- [ ] return wrt what it actually proposes
iBestuur on a digital emergency package in case of crises.
[[Bob Coret p]] documents his transition away from US bigtech, for his open genealogy data platform.
Comitis Capital GmbH (based in Frankfurt am Main) is buying Threema AG (based in CH). Threema has a pretty big footprint in security services, that's driving this more than its use as private messenger app for individual people.
We need scrapers and headless browsers to accomplish the adversarial interoperability that will guarantee ongoing connectivity to institutions that are still hosted on US cloud-based services, because US companies are not going to facilitate the mass exodus of international customers from their platform.
this is a good point. Bigtech will not stand by as customers move out. So you will likely must have circumvention tooling, ... which is illegal.
Today, "sovereignty-washing" represents a more sophisticated version of the same tactic: coopting the language of autonomy to entrench dependency.
Again, autonomy and sovereignty are not the same thing. Make that clear and the 'washing' is more difficult too.
The scale of Europe's technological deficit makes migrations like Austria’s daunting for most organisations.
non sequitur. You just had multiple paragraphs saying it was easy for Austria. Most organisations in Europe are small, making migration easier.
grappling with its technological autonomy
autonomy used as synonym for sovereignty. Not at all the same thing though.
Visie Digitale Autonomie en Soevereiniteit voor de Overheid aanvaard in Ministerraad van #2025/12/12 ingediend door Stas Eddie van Marum (MinBZK)
Het document zelf ontbreekt! Gevonden via TK site: Visie Digitale Autonomie en Soevereiniteit Overheid in Zotero
NVIDIA lost ~$593bn in market cap as investors panicked that AI maybe wasn’t an American monopoly after all.
yup. key phrase, much of the AI bubble is the presumption of US monopoly. Watching other, sometimes less visible efforts is important wrt autonomy, sovereignty
Daarin gaat het nadrukkelijk over autonomie en keuzevrijheid, niet over soevereiniteit, want iedereen weet dat volledige ontkoppeling een illusie is en niemand wil de regering Trump onnodig tegen de haren instrijken.
n:: Odd sentence, 'sovereignty' doesn't mean fully disconnect either. Public sector needs sovereignty as sine-qua-non bc if someone else holds the off-switch that you don't control, you are the colony that Caffarra mentioned at top. Only autonomy is sovereignty washing itself
Johannes Link and Jakob Schnell made this overview of ethical considerations around generative AI.
We are entering a time when the ability to create software is no longer a specialized skill. It is becoming a basic form of digital literacy, like writing a document or making a spreadsheet. Not everyone will do it. But everyone could, if they wanted to.
yes, agency does increase, where people realise this works locally.
City of Amsterdam, 'aiming for digital autonomy', March 2025. Amsterdam Digitale Autonomie in Zotero
Het hernieuwde convenant geldt voor de periode 2024-2027. Er zijn in totaal acht Kennis- en innovatieagenda’s (KIA’s) binnen de KIC opgesteld, waaronder de KIA Digitalisering. Digital Holland is coördinator van de KIA Digitalisering.
Binnen het innovatieconvenant van Rijk et al, 2024-2027, zijn er 8 Kennis Innovatie Agenda's KIA. Digitalisering is er 1, en DigitalHolland is er coord van. Dwz: Vu deze KIA is de SIDN call te bezien.
Bijvoorbeeld omdat ze zijn uitgegeven onder een opensource-licentie, gebruik maken van open standaarden, van dataspaces Link opent in een nieuwe browsertab-technologie (gericht op het delen van data in een beschermde op publieke waarden gebaseerde context) of gebaseerd zijn op decentrale, federatieve modellen.
Links to data spaces on Wikipedia: note that that link talks about data spaces as tech only, not in the sense of the EU single market for data, which is a much more meaningful context when it comes to (design)values.
We zoeken daarom onderzoeksprojecten waarin bestaande (Europese, dan wel Nederlandse) alternatieven getest en onderzocht worden en/of doorontwikkeld in een specifieke context.
research into alternatives: testing / development
SIDN new call on digital autonomy. Icw a knowledge institute. Max size 200k. Deadline #2026/02/23
Spanish cloud service provider a la Nextcloud and Proton. I hate it when website don't actually contain any info about legal entities running the show. Their LinkedIn profile says they're in Valencia, but the site doesn't mention where they are located.
EU based cloud providers association, member list. Came across them as part of the #jtc25 work. Their pres is part of the NEN national commission wrt cloud I'm in.
-[ ] check welke leden relevant zijn en of ze in DS projecten opduiken. #geonovumtb #jtc25 #60mins
[[Heinz Wittenbrink]] about this year's re:publica conf in Berlin. (E and I visited in 2014 didn't go back)<br /> Discusses if there's a proper connection between the digerati of old (see my Reboot at 20yrs post) and climate aware circles, wrt getting to action.
Only Office is created/owned by a Russian outfit. What does our Nextcloud use?