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69 The Netherlands’ most important sociologist is building the other DPI: the Dutch Public Internet

Reimagining the Internet

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The Dutch Model of the Very Small Online Platform and Why Do We Need It?

"We really need to rely all the time on global platform moderation if we just want to take that event locally or nationally," says Debyele. "The name pub hubs is short for public hubs and what we aim is we want to build a decentralized open-source nonprofit online community", he adds. The project will be funded by Bart Yacham, who won the Spinoza prize which is the highest scientific prize in the Netherlands. It's an incredible honor and well-deserved and comes with a substantial award which you're putting towards funding this project  on very small online platforms."

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