Estonian state trialing IT system free from US tech giants

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• eleitl@lemmy.zip ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You first start with building a domestic cloud infrastructure. And mandating by law use of it for critical services.

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• pastermil@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I wonder if that open up job opportunities…

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  • stellargmite@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It surely would. And free up alot of budget to invest instead in local

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• Mora@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Don’t let good be the enemy of perfect here. Most systems wont be replaced in a year but even with tiny steps you can reach a milestone. It is extremely important to reduce dependence on other states for the own state to function, especially if it is led by a nazi orange.

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• Buelldozer@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Good!

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• Tayb@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I ran the back of the napkin math on this for my org (US local government). Not really possible unless you’re just doing office work. Microsoft is so deeply ingrained in govtech that you can’t even shrink your footprint. That’s not even counting the political and cultural buy-in before you start the lift.

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• axh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Very expensive but possible… in 20 to 50 years… If most of the EU cooperates… So… No.

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  • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Nah. Most of the software is free, and there’s mature free open options for everything, now.

    The expenses are in training and taking the time to talk through simpler processes, and political in making folks give up their favorite sacred cows.

    Critical stuff should be moved pretty quick.

    Sometimes a hard conversation has to happen about what is really “critical”, of course.

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  • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It would cost an amount of money, but it wouldn’t really be a hugely expensive undertaking more would it take longer than 5 years tops if done with any level of competency.

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