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What you need to know about... Nextcloud
In the quest for greater digital sovereignty, the name Nextcloud is increasingly dropping as an alternative to big-tech providers such as Microsoft. What is Nextcloud? What makes this alternative interesting? And why are we not switching en masse (yet)? Claudia van Kruistum, Nextcloud project leader and first-time user, tells you all about it in this new episode.
Want to know more about Nextcloud? Then check out SURF.nl or follow Claudia's tips:
- Read Bert Hubert's article: Mailing and communicating without Musk & Trump
- Time for a thought experiment: what would we miss if there were no foreign countries? Rob Wijnberg takes you through This is what would be left of us if there were no foreign countries
- NRC background article (behind paywall) by Marloes de Koning: Researchers choose alternative cloud
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