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An open declaration calling for the establishment of a European social web with decentralized, open platforms to reduce reliance on foreign monopolistic platforms and promote digital autonomy.
An opinion piece arguing that US big tech companies should not be invited to discussions about European digital autonomy, as their interests conflict with reducing dependence on them.
Bert Hubert argues that EU digital autonomy discussions are stagnating and calls for civil society to engage with procurement, government IT, and vendors to achieve real progress on digital sovereignty.
The EU's tech sovereignty plan prioritizes semiconductors, cloud, AI, and data centers while underfunding open source and decentralized social media, revealing a misunderstanding of social infrastructure as core infrastructure.
Bert Hubert advises organizations on concrete steps to regain digital autonomy, such as halting migrations to US big tech, removing American trackers from websites, and questioning the necessity of SaaS dependencies.
Het rapport onderzoekt de digitale afhankelijkheid van de energie-intensieve industrie in Nederland van niet-Europese clouddiensten en concludeert dat de meest cruciale systemen nog grotendeels autonoom zijn, maar de ondersteunende laag en logistiek sterk afhankelijk zijn van meerdere buitenlandse clouds, wat risico's oplevert bij verstoringen.
Bert Hubert deelt zijn persoonlijke stemadvies voor de gemeenteraadsverkiezingen van 2026, met nadruk op kandidaten die zich inzetten voor digitale autonomie en openbare technologie.
Bert Hubert deelt persoonlijk nieuws: hij is lijstduwer voor de lokale politiek, ontving de Felipe Rodriquez Award van Bits of Freedom, en was te gast bij BNR en NRC podcasts over digitale autonomie en privacy.
Bert Hubert argues that Europe's total dependence on US cloud providers is a crisis of digital autonomy, caused by non-technical executives who overlook viable local alternatives. He urges leadership to skill up and recognize that European IT systems can run on local infrastructure, challenging the premise that only US giants are viable.