Dutch universities call for reduced dependence on Big Tech | Computer Weekly
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Dutch universities are calling for greater digital autonomy as more research and educational data is stored in American clouds, posing risks to academic freedom, privacy and accessibility.
  • atro_city@fedia.io
    24·
    10 months ago

    Lead the way. Do it yourselves. You can’t demand others do it without doing it yourself.

  • cocolowlander@feddit.nlEnglish
    11·
    10 months ago

    The article talks about how French and German Universities have more sovereign tech stacks while the Netherlands has been offloading more to US tech giants like Microsoft. I’m assuming this is due to cost and economy of scale.

    Maybe the Netherlands should join Germany or French tech stack for cost saving measures?

    • jlow (he / him)English
      5·
      10 months ago

      Yeah, I think https://opencloud.eu/en is the new hot stuff that’s supposed to scale good on a lot of users and a lot of data (they’re not using databases but can the filesystem directly or something?)