Amsterdam Wants to Be Independent of American Tech Companies by 2035

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The City of Amsterdam aims to be independent of technology companies from outside the European Union by 2035. The municipality has outlined its plans for this and intends to achieve this in phases. Many Dutch municipal and government digital systems are supported by a small number of American tech companies, such as Microsoft and Amazon. Starting this year, Amsterdam plans to conduct an initial pilot with a work environment running on software d…

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The municipality aims to be largely independent of technology companies from outside the European Union by 2035. Alderman Scholtes (ICT) presented a multi-year strategy today to achieve this. "Just as we want to maintain control over the tracks our trains run on, we must also maintain control over our digital systems and data," says Scholtes. "Collaboration with market players remains important, but for the city's most important services, we mus…