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Friend or Foe? (podcast)

Podcast series by Saar Slegers, journalist in residence at NIAS, 2023

How can open knowledge development and scientific collaboration be ensured, without benefiting regimes that can threaten national security accessing this page? Saar Slegers, investigative journalist in residence at the Netherlands Insititute of Advanced Studie in the Humanities and and Social Siences (NIAS) makes many podcast series in which she investigates the problems surrounding the theme of 'knowledge security'.

The introduction to the podcast series on NPO radio 1 is:

'Intelligence services warn for knowledge espionage at universities. The intention is not to let high-tech knowledge from Dutch soil fall into the wrong hands. But how do you protect knowledge in a place that is specifically intended for knowledge sharing? And how do you determine who can and cannot be trusted? In 'Vriend of Vrijand (Friend or Foe), science journalist Saar Slegers investigates the dilemmas behind Dutch knowledge security policy. And she wonders: whose safety is actually at stake here? Friend of Enemy is a podcast by Prospektor, Argos (HUMAN/VPRO) and NPO Radio 1 and was created with the support of the NPO Fund and the Special Fund Journalism projects.” 

Listen to the podcastseries here.

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