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Campus & Culture 6 December 2021

‘I understand how frustrating and demoralising it is for everyone’

LONGREAD – Executive Board member Marcel Nollen has really had his work cut out for him as a result of the IT crisis at VU Amsterdam. The situation has not left him unmoved. ‘Come and see me; my door is…
Campus & Culture 11 November 2021

‘Build your own mail server, it’s really not rocket science’

Honorary doctor Marleen Stikker thinks we are putting our fates too easily into the hands of parties which don’t necessarily have our best interests in mind. ‘AI should not be developed with the purpose of contributing to The Netherlands Inc.’
Campus & Culture 21 September 2021

‘Frankly, we did not foresee such a setback’

LONGREAD – VU Amsterdam finds itself in deep water after a failed effort to replace several IT systems. An outright drama, some staff are calling it. But not Marcel Nollen. The Executive Board member is confident things will work out.
Campus & Culture 17 June 2021

Protect your students and employees against Big Tech, scientists warn

In an open letter published last Friday, a group of professors from various Dutch universities urge their institutions to stop using American cloud services in order to protect their students and staff.