strategic innovation in europe

22 may 2023

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motivation

ideas of mine 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 3 months contracts
  • free choice of router
  • symmetric upload/download bandwidth
  • discourage the term ‘flat rate’, instead just have reasonable prices
  • 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, accounting

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 independent 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 white paper only outlines a few low-hanging fruits. in regards to many topics discussed above, the netherlands is currently in the lead. they even got cool things as the https://nlnet.nl/ initiative.

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