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Utrecht University and SURF managed to get Microsoft to make a fundamental change to BitLocker's disk encryption. But what does this mean in the long term for the autonomy of the education and research sector?

You cannot escape it: sooner or later you will be attacked by hackers. What can you do as an institution, and as an administrator, to prepare for such an emergency?

It's a conundrum. To reap the benefits of an innovation like AI, you have to give space to initiatives. But also make choices at the right time. How do you do that?

"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 .

What does the future of the library look like? What opportunities and threats are there? We discuss with Hilde van Wijngaarden, president of the UKB consortium, and Tecla ten Berge, president of SHB.

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.

Open source is not just another technology. It is an essential tool to safeguard public values such as autonomy, transparency and collaboration. Highlights during the Open Source Leadership Summit.

For the first time, a negative procurement opinion has been issued against a publisher of scientific publications. Not because of the price of the licence, but because the publisher does not have its privacy rules in order. The chairs of the licensing working groups of UKB and SHB explain how they arrived at the opinion.