strategic innovation in europe

22 May 2023

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motivation

a few ideas to make ‘europe’ a ‘strong strategic player’

software

to get rid of the current software monoculture we need to introduce a open source based culture. the closed source culture keeps us dependent on the US.

there are already so many open source projects out there, we need to use them instead.

internet

security

  • make software reproducibility a first order principle (i.e. reproducible builds via Nix)
  • forbid microsoft AD usage in companies and public institutions and encourage open standards

provider

  • make ipv6 mandatory for dsl/fiber/mobile
    • with static prefix
    • ipv6
    • general SLA uptime guarantees for wired connections, no special contracts for businesses
  • maximum contract periods for mobile of 3 months
  • free choice of router
  • symmetric upload/download bandwidth
  • discourage the term ‘flatrate’, instead push the concept of ‘a free quota and on top reasonable fees for traffic’
  • encourage https://letsencrypt.org/ usage

roaming

  • we must get rid of EU roaming fees for mobiles (also includes swiss), also make mobile voip mandatory in terms of QoS

payment

  • invoice automation: sellers (online and offline) must be obliged to append a machine readable (json, xml) invoice for accounting during the payment process

europe needs a clone of:

hosting

in europe we must have an alternative to amazon aws, google cloud, microsoft azure, digitalocean, linode

packages and services

  • germany: shift away from home-delivery default to https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paketbox and https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packstation
  • create a ‘europe’ based alternative to amazon.com in form of a market place (i.e. google shopping)

conclusion

this is just a small list of ideas to ‘stay relevant’. IMHO the netherlands is currently in the lead with their https://nlnet.nl/ initiative.

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