In this SURF community, we want to bring experts interested in advanced computing and networking together. This community aims to create a space to share experiences, proof of concepts, possible applications, and impact with topics like Quantum Technologies, Specialized Computing Architecture & Energy Efficiency, and Network innovation for future research & education challenges.
In 2025, over seven million people bought Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses. They look like ordinary eyewear. They record video and audio; it’s causing problems! The questions this raises are not hypothetical. Two Harvard students, and others, have demonstrated that footage from Meta Ray-Ban glasses could be linked to facial recognition systems to identify strangers in public. (Example 1, Example 2)
More recently, a joint investigation by two Swedish newspapers found that footage recorded by the glasses, including deeply private moments, is reviewed by human contractors in Kenya, with workers describing repeated exposure to bathroom visits, people undressing, and bank card details.
What makes these devices different is that the unwritten rules we rely on to navigate public space, eye contact, the phone on the table, the camera pointed at you, simply weren't written with this in mind. Moreover, the safety features put into the camera are being hacked and changed to be even more difficult to notice. So, what can we do? Article Cover Image from link
Samenwerken zonder afhankelijk te zijn van big tech? Dat kan met Nextcloud, een open source alternatief voor de bekende cloud-, samenwerkings- en officeplatformen. In deze blogreeks laten we zien hoe dit alternatief werkt. Elk blog bestaat uit twee delen. Eerst ‘Wat en Waarom?’ en daarna ‘Hoe doe je dat’, speciaal voor de degenen die er praktisch mee aan de slag willen. Aflevering drie: Nextcloud, mail en agenda.
Dit blog maakt deel uit van een serie met als doel het stimuleren, ontwikkelen en succesvol gebruik van digitale gemeenschapsgoederen, en wordt ondersteund door het SIDN-Fonds en het Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken.
Eerder verscheen in deze serie:
Alternatieven ondersteunen #1 - Nextcloud & AI
Alternatieven ondersteunen #2 - Nextcloud & Apps
The OpenAIRE Graph is an open access scholarly knowledge graph (SKG) resulting from the aggregation of research entity metadata records (properties and links) from scholarly communication data sources. Funders, organizations, researchers, research communities and publishers can use the OpenAIRE Graph to monitor, discover, and navigate the open science record as a whole.
eduID is a digital student identity, independent of any institution. Currently, eduID offers a way for educational institutions to grant guests - for example lecturers and researchers from other institutions and external advisors - access to internal systems. That, however is just the beginning for eduID. A possible future for eduID lies in the concept of Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI), a novel approach to digital identity which puts the user at the center. During the second half of 2021, on behalf of the eduID project team, I explored what eduID could look like as an SSI and what standards could be used to implement such an SSI system.
How complete, accurate and open is the research information we rely on every day? A new report from the PID-to-Portal project introduces the ORI Monitoring Framework, a use-case driven approach to understanding and improving the quality of Dutch open research information. Developed together with the Dutch Barcelona Declaration Network, the framework will help set priorities on what elements to monitor and improve, and why that is important by linking it to use cases that bring the value of using open research information. This framework is a crucial starting point to enable monitoring to identify metadata gaps, and how we can work together to close them. 📄 Read the report
Hoe kunnen we vanuit publieke waarden invulling geven aan technologie in het onderwijs, in plaats van dat de technologie (of beter gezegd: de bedrijven achter deze technologie) de waarden dicteren, waar het onderwijs dienstbaar aan is? Hoe blijft het onderwijs autonoom?
In een nieuwe podcast in samenwerking van SURF en Kennisnet gaan we in gesprek met filosoof Miriam Rasch over autonomie in het onderwijs.
