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The Netherlands in the international context

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The Netherlands in the international context

The Netherlands is primarily a trading nation, requiring technological innovation in security and privacy to support banking and commerce. In manufacturing, Philips is most concerned with technological innovation in security and privacy to support consumer electronics. Therefore SENTINELS focuses on two application areas that are directly linked to the main economic drivers. These are ``security and privacy for ambient intelligence'' and ``security and privacy for e-government and e-business'' (see section 3.2).

The Netherlands has a strong international position in a number of security and privacy research areas, including digital watermarking (Philips, TUD), cryptography (Philips, TU/e, TUD), electronic voting (TU/e), security protocol analysis (UT, TU/e, CWI), smart cards (Philips, KUN, TNO), biometrics (UT, CWI) and distributed systems security (VU). It is of crucial importance that the Netherlands should strengthen its position to keep playing its role as an equal partner and to avoid becoming dependent on other nations in areas that are essential for the Dutch economy. Even if we buy some security solutions from elsewhere, we should always be able to evaluate those solutions using local knowledge.

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