Public values

Within education and research, we work together to create a secure digital environment. How do we safeguard autonomy, justice and humanity in a world of increasing digitalisation and vendor dependence? Public values guide us and help us make the right decisions. In what way are these values intertwined with SURF's activities?

How do we keep control of our digital identity?

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Identity & access management, or IAM for short, is an area of expertise that is high on the agenda in education and research. There are more and more applications and platforms available to us, and most of them cannot use them without our digital identity.

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What you need to know about... Mastodon

Public Values Programme Manager at SURF Wladimir Mufty talks you through Mastodon in 15 minutes.

From good intentions to firm choices: public values in procurement

"It seemed a complicated step, but in retrospect it was darned simple," says Jan-Paul van Staalduinen, CIO of Utrecht University (UU). He is referring to how UU gave public values a central role in a procurement process. How do other institutions approach this? For SURF Magazine, we talked about it with three administrators .

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studenten zitten in een ruimte op rode stoelen

"Who do we want to be?" Nolda Tipping-Griffioen on the future of technology at the RUG

As the new CIO and ICT director, Nolda Tipping-Griffioen has ambitious plans for the University of Groningen's digital strategy. Read the interview.

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Nolda staat voor een raam met water op de achtergrond en kijkt in de verte

"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together"

As the Digital Transformation Manager at Graafschap College, Monique Mulders has a deeply rooted belief in collaboration. “Seeking each other out, strengthening one another, and moving forward together—that is my guiding principle,” she says. The sense of community that Eastern Netherlands is known for, the concept of naoberschap, seamlessly aligns with her vision: ‘Alone you go faster, but together you go further’.

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A new maturity model: Thinking about responsible use of AI

Treating AI responsibly starts with thinking about ethical issues. Although the use of AI in teaching and research is still in its infancy, there is already a model that helps institutions organise AI ethics.

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What you need to know about... PeerTube

The debate around social media and their powerful owners is heating up. It is time to take back control and look for decentralised alternatives. PeerTube is one such alternative for video content. Find out exactly how it works and what you can gain from it from Alexandra van Straaten, social media advisor and privacy coordinator at SURF.

SURF Short 11 minutes

podcastopname in de SURFstudio met Sanne Koenen en Alexandra van Straaten

SURFsounds special: between power and morality episode 4. Is there hope on the horizon?

In this fourth and final episode, we look for hope. It can be done differently! Jantien Borsboom, director of Public Spaces talks about how she does it and Rens van der Vorst who takes you through how he detaches himself and his students from ingrained ideas about what role technology should play for us.

SURF Sounds 31 minutes

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SURFsounds special: between power and morality episode 3. Who controls whom?

In previous episodes, the feeling that people think they are at the mercy of big technology companies came up several times. That was firmly debunked, but to what extent can we influence the course of technology in our lives? And how do we approach that?

SURF Sounds 31 minutes

Book publication (only in Dutch)

Publieke waarden zijn fundamentele aspecten bij een robuuste sociaal-technische onderwijsomgeving. Lees wat SURF hierover publiceerde in het boek "Multidisciplinaire aspecten van digital security" (februari 2022).

Artikel Onderwijsdigitalisering vereist bescherming van publieke waardenDutch, File extension: pdf (File size: 2 MB)

Publieke Waarden

Onderwijs- en onderzoeksinstellingen werken hard om studenten en medewerkers een goede en veilige digitale omgeving te bieden. Daarbij worden we geconfronteerd met dilemma’s: hoe borgen we waarden als rechtvaardigheid, autonomie en menselijkheid, terwijl aan de andere kant de afhankelijkheid van dominante commerciële partijen groeit? De community publieke waarden gaat over het samen verkennen van deze dilemma’s, het vormen van visie en het delen van praktische tools en hulpmiddelen.

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