Hans Timmerman

The information balance between governments/organizations and their citizens/customers has become increasingly skewed over the past decades. Political motives and resulting…

Archiving billions of messages and data and preserving the relationships and context of that stream of events and occurrences sets higher standards for data management. It…

The 'Data at the Source' program that our government has been running for several years states: "Data at the source is an important principle for the digital transformation of the…

Nvidia's development seems unstoppable, and as a leading technical innovator, it is currently redefining both the computer industry and several paradigms. With the launch of the…

Cryptography revolves around sending messages that only the intended recipient can understand. In our internet era, cryptography plays an increasingly important role in securely…

In a previous blog, I talked about the 'weight of data'. Transporting data takes time and energy, and using Einstein's formula E=mc2, data has a calculable mass. In 2006, a…

This week, the European Parliament is discussing whether or not to introduce a digital Euro, the CBDC. Perhaps a digital currency that has been so restricted by the banking lobby…

My first book in 1982 was about robots. About the robots entering the factory. How they could take over heavy and monotonous work in the factory as flexible, mechanical machines.…

In 2019, the initiative 'Positive Money Europe' was launched. It is a non-profit organization aimed at repairing the 'broken' financial system in Europe and making the economy…

Content without context has little value. Information always has a source and a reason for its existence. Someone writes something down, a sensor measures a value, a compass…