The case for a Dutch ANBS foundation
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Jeroen Baten advocates for the establishment of a Dutch ANBS (Algemeen Nut Beogende Software) foundation to create public benefit software that addresses societal needs without commercial incentives. He highlights the historical context of publicly funded infrastructure and the current limitations of the commercial software market. Baten argues for the necessity of software that serves the public good, particularly in areas lacking commercial interest.
The case for a Dutch ANBS foundation
- 1. The case for a Dutch ANBSThe case for a Dutch ANBS foundationfoundation
- 2. Who am I? ● Jeroen Baten ● Lifetime innovator ● Job title : IT Solutionist
- 3. Who am I ? (in pics)
- 4. Why? ● Because I believe we need an ANBS
- 5. A what? ● ANBS ● Play on ANBI ● Dutch: Algemeen Nut Beogende Instelling ● English: Public Beneft rganisation ● ANBS: Algemeen Nut Beogende Software ● Public Beneft Software
- 6. Some examples from history ● The need for high volume trafc ● The need for resilient data connections
- 7. High volume trafc ● 1911 US: Long Island Motor Parkway Long Island Motor Parkway ● 1921 US: Federal Aid Highway Act ● “We the people… need highways” :-) ● 1932 Bonn-Keulen highway ● 1930: NL: We don’t need no highways! ● 1937: NL: Den Haag – Zoetermeer ready ● Bottomline: publicly funded infrastructure
- 8. Resilient Data Connections ● 1957: Spoetnik → US: Damn, we need a network! → DARPA → start research ● 1968: We have a plan! → Tender ● 29 oktober 1969: First data packet trafc ● 1990 US: end of DARPA funding ● 1991 US: Start of public funding ● Foundation: Everybody pays their part
- 9. Where are we now? ● Internet connected software is running the world. ● Internet infrastructure code is open source ● But what about the next layer?
- 10. Current software market ● Primarily commercial market ● Government is neo-liberal: ● The market shall handle it ● The market is the most efcient solution ● The market makes everything cheaper and better ● Is there nothing else….?
- 11. Nothing else mattered…. ● Educational research funding ● NLNet foundation: “ It funds those with ideas to fx the internet” ● Well, if it ain’t broken….. ● NW : “NW funds scientifc research...” ● Start-ups? Aka “the market”
- 12. What do we need? ● We need a way to create software for public beneft. ● Software in the heart of society ● Software for which there is no commercial incentive ● There is no market (yet) ● Like: ● Blockchain+GPG (see my other talk) ● Archiving software for digital assets ● Converting international software to multi-language ● Medical big data analysis for rare diseases
- 13. Why do we need it? ● How do you feel about being dependent on a commercial company and its focus?
- 14. When do we need it? ● Pretty soon
- 15. Questions for me?: jeroen@jeroenbaten.nl