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  • Crisis at national emergency site Crisis.nl

    Shut your doors and windows, switch off mechanical ventilation systems and turn on your radio or TV to the designated emergency channel. In the event of an emergency, our government has the important responsibility of informing and protecting its citizens. When a fire releases toxic substances into the atmosphere or the actions of malicious people…

  • The internet is a wonderful gift. To a controlling government.

    “The internet is the only place left where people can live in freedom. Not bothered by any limitations: no body scans, pre-emptive searching or security cameras (with or without audio). There’s none of that pre-emptive DNA fingerprinting chip-in-your-thumb personalised-chip-cards-for-everything road-pricing-by-the-kilometre I-don’t-have-anything-to-hide business we used to have around the beginning of this century. Information exchange on…

  • Thumbs up for a ‘dislike’ button on Facebook?

    On a Facebook post saying someone’s cat died, clicking the ‘like’ button doesn’t seem appropriate. But soon now, users will be able to show their sympathies without having to write a comment. Facebook users have been asking for an “I don’t like this” button for years, but until recently, the platform never wanted to indulge…

  • “For everything I do, I ask myself: what can I learn from this, what could other people learn from me?”

    Danny Mekić (1987) started his first company at the age of fifteen. Its rapid growth made it infeasible to keep up alongside high school, so he dropped out of school. Besides his company, he has completed a training as a mediator and studies jurisprudence at the University of Amsterdam. Furthermore, he often appears as a…

  • “To be able to innovate, you need to accept short term losses”

    Love is blind, and love for new developments in the area of technology is even more so. Danny Mekić – IT consultant, founder and owner of strategic consultancy firm NewTeam, internet expert, writer and much more – knows that better than anyone. An so, he tells SME entrepreneurs: “Don’t fall in love too quickly.” That…

  • “You’re allowed to have something to hide”

    Nothing is a coincidence. His father moved to the Netherlands before the third Balkan war, after meeting a woman from Amsterdam on a holiday. “Grandpa stayed behind, along with the rest of my relatives. My father is a radio communications enthusiast. He has a license to communicate using powerful radios. We lived in a tall…