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National cyber shelter keeps DDoS attacks outside the door
Recent DDoS attacks in the Netherlands, targeting banks, the airline KLM and the governmental identity management platform DigiD – each causing substantial financial losses – go to show how much society has come to depend on the internet, and how vulnerable vital websites and services are to this kind of attack, which, technologically speaking, could…
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France24
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qz-AN5oqgs Netherlands in crisis: the end of the Dutch model?, France 24, 3/4/2013 Editor in chief: Caroline de Camaret Producer: Julie Dungelhoeff Reporters: Valérie Labonne, Julie Dungelhoeff
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Danny Mekić’s week: entrepreneur, teacher, lecturer and technology expert (interview ‘Backstage’)
It’s not a matter of if but of when education will be digitalised. Young, successful entrepreneur and teacher Danny Mekić (26) warns us for the ‘Google school’. “It’ll be much more fun than regular school, but it’ll be sponsored by commercial companies. But the expertise is in the schools.” Monday Technology and the internet –…
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Out of touch
I’ve had my first five years of being a management consultant. When I started doing this, I expected to end up in a different place in society — in board rooms — where I could work on grappling with the big issues that politics has been going on about all my life. But strangely enough,…
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Unemployment or job shortage?
It might seem obvious to take on a job that doesn’t suit you all that well if you’re unemployed, but in that situation there will often be discouraging practical issues, or we could be dealing with a legal economist calculating to so-and-so-many decimals that working a job for four days a week is less lucrative…
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“The better you understand the world, the more you can be at peace”
He was only fifteen years old when he started his very first company. Two years later he quit school and now, a decade later, he can call himself one of the most prominent entrepreneurs and the internet expert of our country. How does a 25 year old Amsterdam guy with no diploma manage to become…