Dutch Journalism / Your starting point

Start with the platform, then explore your organization

You can use i12e.eu to discover and compare infrastructure. The journalism application brings that shared reference into the context of your own news organization.

The journalism experience builds on the same maintained provider information available through the core platform.

Dutch Journalism / Discovery and contact

Establish what your organization depends on

1. Discover

   Automated checks retrieve the dependencies that can be identified from publicly observable information about your organization.

2. Check together

   Direct contact with the project can help verify the findings, clarify gaps, and bring your circumstances into the picture.

3. Give feedback

   Your feedback helps establish which relationships and comparisons matter to your organization.

Public observations provide a starting point. They do not establish a complete picture of your internal technology stack; incomplete and unverified findings remain distinguishable.

Dutch Journalism / Your dependency map

Follow the story of your dependencies

Your personalized dependency visualization is presented through a guided story, revealing the relationships and explaining their significance as you progress.

Start with your organization

Recognize the services and platforms identified in your own infrastructure.

Follow the connections

Understand which providers sit behind those services, how ownership connects them, and where further dependencies appear.

Understand what the map tells you

Read the explanation alongside the visualization: what is established, why the relationships matter, and what remains uncertain.

The sequence should be understandable without requiring you to interpret a collection of graphs yourself.

Dutch Journalism / Your peers

See how your organization compares

Your own map becomes more useful when you can place it alongside the available information about other Dutch news organizations.

Peer comparisons provide context. An option still needs to meet your organization’s requirements.

Dutch Journalism / Your options

Explore alternatives that could work for you

Connect what you have learned about your organization and its peers to alternatives in the maintained infrastructure reference.

Practical fit

Compare the capabilities and characteristics relevant to the work your organization needs to do.

Potential financial benefit

Consider where an alternative could reduce costs, taking the work and expense of changing into account.

Sovereignty you can explain

Examine what would change in ownership, control, and dependencies—and what the available evidence would allow you to say about it.

These comparisons help identify possibilities. They do not promise savings or establish that every organization should change.

Dutch Journalism / Your decision

A change needs to be worth making

The guiding principle is that a recommended change should offer one of two outcomes.

These are conditions for a worthwhile recommendation, not promises of financial benefit or sovereignty.

This practical principle supports the wider strategy: reduce exposure to external leverage, sustain European jobs and innovation, and gain greater control over technological direction in line with European values.

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