Theme
How do we build technology and infrastructure that we own and govern ourselves?
Whoever runs your infrastructure has power over you. But technology should never rule over us. That is why we build free, open alternatives that we own together, and help people make the switch.
“A shift is under way. Slowly, we’re all realising: we need to get off those American platforms.”
Pieter van Boheemen, SVDJ, 21 May 2026
What we investigate
01
How does a cooperative cloud and infrastructure model work in practice?
02
How do you make switching appealing enough that people actually do it?
03
How do we use mesh networks for radically independent communication?
04
How do you avoid swapping one monopoly for another?
What we do
Initiative
Vrije Cloud
A cooperative cloud that we own and govern together.
Project
SVDJ incubator / MeshMedia
Journalism and communication without dependence on Big Tech.
Meet-ups
Post-Tyranny Tech meet-ups
Learning to work without Big Tech.