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SIBA: Ministry Digital Sovereignty 🇳🇱 Netherlands

5-Stage Migration from Vendor Lock-in to Digital Autonomy

Current State
12
DIGITALLY COLONIZED
Ministry of the Interior (BZK) — Migration Journey
Stage 1 of 5
Assessment
Sovereign Memory
Sovereign Teams
Sovereign AI
Digital Autonomy

Stage 1: Assessment

Current Dependencies

95%

Microsoft 365 lock-in

Annual Vendor Spend

€8.2M

To US cloud providers

Data Sovereignty

8%

On Dutch infrastructure

Stage 2: Sovereign Memory

Documents Migrated

2.4M

With IC preservation

Knowledge Graphs

847

Cross-department links

Data on NL Infra

45%

↑ from 8%

Stage 3: Sovereign Teams

Teams Migrated

127

Across 8 departments

Collaboration

100%

On sovereign platform

Vendor Dependency

52%

↓ from 95%

Stage 4: Sovereign AI

Local LLMs Deployed

12

On Dutch infrastructure

AI Decisions

89%

Made by sovereign AI

EU AI Act

100%

Compliant

Stage 5: Digital Autonomy Achieved

Sovereignty Score

92/100

↑ from 12/100

Annual Savings

€5.1M

vs. previous vendor spend

Dutch Capacity

45 FTE

Can maintain & evolve

Target State
92
DIGITALLY SOVEREIGN

Sovereignty Metrics

Data on Dutch Infrastructure 8%
AI Independence 2%
Vendor Lock-in 95%
Internal Capacity 5%

Financial Impact

Current Annual Spend €8.2M
Target Annual Spend €3.1M
Annual Savings €0
5-Year TCO Reduction €0

Capacity Building — Not Just Consuming, Building

👨‍💻
Dutch Engineers Trained
0
🔧
Can Maintain System
No
🚀
Can Evolve System
No
🔄
Can Exit Anytime
No

Why Genesis, Not Open Source?

Capability Microsoft 365 Open Source (Nextcloud) Genesis SIBA
Data Sovereignty ❌ US servers ✅ Self-hosted ✅ Dutch infra
No Vendor Lock-in ❌ Locked ❌ Community dependent ✅ Reversible
Capacity Building ❌ None ❌ Consume only ✅ Dutch teams build
IC Preservation ❌ None ❌ None ✅ Full provenance
EU AI Act Ready ❌ Unknown ❌ No AI governance ✅ Constitutional AI
Can Fork & Own ❌ Impossible ❌ Need 50+ engineers ✅ Included in license