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Digitaal zoet en zuur in het coalitieakkoord
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/digitaal-zoet-zuur-coalitie-akkoord/
Published: February 2, 2026 11:00
Het coalitieakkoord heeft een boel woorden die raken aan digitalisering, digitale autonomie en cybersecurity.
Veel van de plannen komen niet uit de lucht vallen, en zijn gebaseerd op bijeenkomsten, gesprekken en documenten van de afgelopen jaren. Het is…
Rondetafeloverleg Tweede Kamer over Solvinity: Position paper
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/overheid-operationele-afhankelijkheden/
Published: January 21, 2026 20:30
Dinsdag 27 januari om 18:30 is er in Den Haag in de Tweede Kamer een rondetafeloverleg over de consequenties van de (beoogde) overname van Solvinity voor DigiD. Er komen diverse sprekers, onder andere namens Bits of Freedom, de Dutch Cloud Community,…
Dashboard totale Amerikaanse afhankelijkheden
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/dashboard-amerikaanse-afhankelijkheden/
Published: January 17, 2026 18:23
Hier een lijst organisaties die voor hun primaire missie totaal afhankelijk zijn van Amerikaanse clouds, en waarbij de maatschappij ontwricht zou worden als ze hun werk niet meer konden doen, bijvoorbeeld door sancties over Groenland.
Dit omvat…
Europe's executives need to skill up to solve our total US cloud dependency
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/ft-on-european-cloud/
Published: January 10, 2026 10:08
Europe is experiencing a crisis of digital autonomy. Our dependence on US big tech has been growing for decades and is now nearly total, at a time when worries about our former ally are no longer theoretical. Might we, like the International Criminal Court…
AWS and Microsoft are selling much more than cloud services
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/aws-and-microsoft-are-selling-much-more-than-cloud/
Published: January 7, 2026 12:00
Ten, twenty years ago customers over at large corporations would often ask me what hardware they’d need to run my software. As software developers, we’d tend to be rather blasé about such questions: “whatever you have lying around!”. If pressed, we’d say…
Unsigned char std::basic_string<> in C++
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/unsigned-char-std-string-cpp/
Published: January 3, 2026 22:00
Brief post on a somewhat vexing and irritating C++ problem I ran into some time ago. I hope that this page will help other people deal with this problem more quickly than I did.
I’ve long used std::basic_string<uint8_t>, an unsigned char string, for…
The European Cloud Situation at the end of 2025
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/the-european-cloud-2025/
Published: December 23, 2025 10:20
As the year draws to an end now is a good time to review where we are with Europe’s cloud situation, and what has been achieved. One thing is certain, a lot has happened, and also quite a lot has become clearer.
tl;dr: Great strides have been made in 2025,…
Cloud Overview
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/cloud-overview/
Published: December 23, 2025 10:10
Over the past few years I’ve written a lot about the cloud, and what it means for Europe. Here I want to pull the various articles together into a coherent story. Note, nothing of what follows is in any way novel or original. While the facts presented in…
Nationaal Agentschap Baanbrekende Innovatie, in EU of niet?
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/nadi-nabi-in-europa-of-niet/
Published: December 19, 2025 10:00
Ik ben eigenlijk op vakantie, maar toch een korte blogpost. Het is (in)formatietijd, en er worden plannen gemaakt.
Eerder dit jaar kwam het ministerie van Economische Zaken met het idee een Nationaal Agentschap Disruptieve Innovatie op te richten, zoals…
Keynote opening Digital Commons EDIC: Moving beyond the Digital Uncommons
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/keynote-opening-digital-commons-edic-eu/
Published: December 14, 2025 10:00
Last Thursday, 11th of December, saw the launch of the new Digital Commons European Digital Infrastructure Consortium. In attendance were delegations from the launching member states (and the observers). Also present were the many forefathers (and mothers)…