Claes de Vreese ☑️

@claesdevreese
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Political Communication Prof and University Professor of AI & Society w special emphasis on media and democracy U Amsterdam

Co-Director @algosoc and AI, Media & Democracy Lab
Director of Digital Democracy Centre U Southern Denmark @DDC_SDU

#commodon #polcomm #journalism #media #tech #disinformation #AI #democracy
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Website U Amsterdam:https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/v/r/c.h.devreese/c.h.devreese.html?cb
Website DDC:https://www.sdu.dk/en/ddc
Website AI, Media & Democracy Labhttps://www.aim4dem.nl
Website Humane AIhttps://humane-ai.nl

Summer evening vibes 🌺

#sunset #photography #summer

Discussions about digital sovereignty are 🔥

Which countries lead the way?

@nextcloud created an Index ranking countries based on the relative presence of self-hosted tools across key application areas.

1. Finland 🇫🇮
2. Germany 🇩🇪
3. The Netherlands 🇳🇱

https://dsi.nextcloud.com/index.php

Inishmore, Ireland. Spectacular.
#ireland #photography 🇮🇪 ☁️

Ireland. As wet, green, beautiful, lovely as expected

#ireland #photography #summer 🇮🇪 🌧️ ⛰️💚

📣 Working on tech, journalism and politics. Making sense of the implications of tectonic changes?

Submit to our Digital Journalism special issue 🚀

Info: https://drive.google.com/file/d/182p3bCsC8w426bUfmvGPq5wYJbEPBDbL/view

🗓️ Abstracts: September 15

Great editorial team with Curd Knupfer, @Lenafrescamente, Marilia Gehrke and 🙋

#journalism #democracy #technology #technogarchy

Macron visits Greenland.

France will open consulate in Greenland.
“Vive la Greenland”. His words.

Alliances matter

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Action speaks louder than words.

Danish Minister of Digitalisation Caroline Stage wants to phase out Microsoft from the ministry to reduce the dependency on US tech.

This will be a long process. But actual action, not just talking points, is noteworthy!

H/t @pernillet for pointing to this.

#bigtech #platforms #independence

Returning from second visit as @Weizenbaum_Institut Fellow.

What a privilege to spend time with Jakob Ohme’s group and the inspiring and friendly WI community (including the Berlin ‘staffel run’) 🏃🏼‍♀️ 🇩🇪

Honoured to deliver the Weizenbaum conference #WIConf2025 keynote 🎙️

#AI #democracy #photography

Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ❤️ 🥃 ☀️ 🌧️ 👏🏼

#photography #scotland

Today is World Press Freedom Day.

Press freedom is essential for democracy. It is under (economic, political) threat in many places.

In fact press freedom is declining and only very few countries have high degrees of press freedom.

Source: RSF https://rsf.org/en

#WPFD #wpfd2025 #pressfreedom

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Reporters sans frontières assure la promotion et la défense de la liberté d'informer et d'être informé partout dans le monde. L'organisation, basée à Paris, compte des bureaux à l'international (Berlin, Bruxelles, Genève, Madrid, Stockholm, Tripoli, Tunis, Vienne et Washington DC) et plus de 150 correspondants répartis sur les cinq continents.

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Discussions about digital sovereignty are 🔥

Which countries lead the way?

@nextcloud created an Index ranking countries based on the relative presence of self-hosted tools across key application areas.

1. Finland 🇫🇮
2. Germany 🇩🇪
3. The Netherlands 🇳🇱

https://dsi.nextcloud.com/index.php

@claesdevreese @nextcloud

Join and support #EU_OS to help make Europe green again! (green=sovereign)

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https://eu-os.eu

(In particular we need help with #Foreman for #Linux fleet management.)

EU OS

Proof-of-Concept OS for the EU

EU OS Proof-of-Concept
@eu_os @claesdevreese @nextcloud For sovereignty, get rid of U.S. operating systems like Linux. Try OpenBSD!
@tux0r @eu_os @claesdevreese @nextcloud Would you mind to elaborate how Linux is a "U.S. operating system"?
@tux0r
>US OSes
>Linux
We just fucking ignoring the kernel is Finnish?
Also, what does the B in BSD stand for? That's right, BERKLEY! The same fucking Berkley as the one in Cali.
@eu_os @claesdevreese @nextcloud
@pat @eu_os @claesdevreese @nextcloud The Linux Foundation and Linus himself are U.S.-based. There’s nothing Finnish in that NSA stuff.
@tux0r
Lovely, but that neither changes that the kernel's FOSS, or that BSD is fundamentally from Cali. Now, let's stop these arguments, please, and have a tea, each, before it devolves into a flame war. I was wrong, you were wrong, oh well.
@eu_os @claesdevreese @nextcloud

@pat @eu_os @claesdevreese @nextcloud Linux is being led by a U.S. citizen, mostly developed by U.S companies, legally owned by a U.S-based foundation. OpenBSD is Canadian. There is no reason to start a war, the facts are obvious.

Enjoy your tea with your Trump OS. 😎

@claesdevreese @nextcloud How much do you think the data centre locations of major hosting companies contributed to this metric? 

@claesdevreese @nextcloud While interesting stat, I would definitely want more details about this.

Finland has a lot of servers, but most of the public service and other sectors uses Microsoft. Microsoft is 1/3 of the tech cost of public sector in Finland. Every company that I worked in used Microsoft for their email and for other services.

Finland has a lot of servers because we have a lot of renewable energy and companies have to pay less for use of electricity. For example TikTok is planning to create server in Finland and I would not call the "increase in digital sovereignty".

@claesdevreese @nextcloud nice! Are you guys at #why2025, taking place right now in the #3 country on your list?
@claesdevreese Kind of disappointing that the Netherlands could perform this poorly and stiil make the top 3.

@claesdevreese @nextcloud The reason Germany ranks high on that list is because it a non-digital country.

That’s another way to not be reliant on tech I guess 😅😉