Live & work without Google, Meta, Apple or Microsoft? It can be done! by Björn Wijers

Most people in the Netherlands are well familiar with the software applications and services of Google, Meta, Apple, Microsoft and other big-tech companies, among others. You collaborate with your colleagues through Microsoft Teams. You app with Whatsapp from Meta via a Google Android phone or Apple’s iPhone with family & friends and you use Google Chrome, Apple Safari or Microsoft Edge to order something from a webshop. We have become hugely dependent on bigtech companies from countries outside Europe and that’s not okay. But it can be done differently! In this presentation, Björn Wijers discusses why bigtech is a problem and what options you already (still?) have to become less dependent on these companies.