Time to ditch US tech for homegrown options, says Dutch parliament
“The motions were submitted and all passed yesterday during a discussion in the Netherlands' House of Representatives on concerns about government data being shipped overseas. While varied, they all center on the theme of calling on the government to replace software and hardware made by US tech companies, acquire new contracts with Dutch companies who offer similar services, and generally safeguard the country's digital sovereignty.”
“With each IT service our government moves to American tech giants, we become dumber and weaker,” Dutch MP Barbara Kathmann, author of four of the motions, told The Register.
The BRICS countries actually made this decision a few years ago, for the same reasons. Not all BRICS countries followed through on this, for example South Africa. But Russia, Brazil, China, and India had made quite a few strides towards even implementing their own desktop OS.
But apart from digital sovereignty, the second issue is just as important regarding dumbing down of your own skills. This is something I have also blogged about with regard to outsourcing of services to any cloud provider. An organisation not only loses its ability to provide its own services, but finds it more difficult over time to even technically evaluate any IT offerings, as there are no longer any staff with real technical skills left.
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