ICTboard
About ICTboard
Intelligence for European digital continuity.
ICTboard is external intelligence for European ICT leadership — a Personal radar for your stack, not a news feed.
Not a sovereignty calculator. ICTboard does not replace CSF, SEAL, CADA, or internal assessments. It is the external sensor when the field pressures your assurance and procurement assumptions — intelligence assist for board conversation, not a compliance rating or certification. EU frameworks in plain language →
ICTboard is a radar product — Board reads and living arcs, not a news feed.
Personal free (week + Pulse). Officer adds depth and material alerts; Executive adds Strategic Review. Plans →
Continuity & independence
Continuity is what boards fear losing: the ability to keep operating without a single vendor, jurisdiction, or stack change stopping the organisation. Independence is what CIOs build: choice on stack, data, identity, and AI.
90-day test
If your primary vendor changed terms tomorrow — what still works in 90 days?
ICTboard tracks five pillars under Digital Independence:
- Stack — open source, open standards, auditable supply chain
- Data — EU residency, portability, backup reversibility
- Identity — IdP, eIDAS, exit from a single identity plane
- AI & compute — inference boundaries, model portability
- Optionality — exit clauses, second source, in-house skills
Sovereignty theatre — what looks like independence but is not: an EU region without jurisdictional control; open core without export; multi-cloud without portable data; on-prem legacy without security patches.
Who we are
ICTboard is developed and operated by FRISSE BRONNEN (frissebronnen.nl), an independent publisher based in Deventer, Netherlands.
FRISSE BRONNEN
Deventer, Netherlands
VAT ID: NL002017809B35
CoC/KVK: 522 400 10
Bank: NL72 KNAB 0775 6548 41
The name reflects the job: a board radar — a reading on direction and pressure across four strategic goals, not only individual headlines.
Four goals
Every reading is tagged with one or more strategic goals — each maps to a typical executive owner:
Digital Independence
CIO · IT director · CEO
Tracking independence on stack, data, identity, and AI — so vendor lock-in does not threaten operational continuity.
Digital Privacy
CIO · DPO
Unhindered use of the internet — without unjustified monitoring or profiling.
Digital Security
CSO · CISO
Protecting the secrecy of digital confidential information, the integrity of data, and continuity of business.
Digital Productivity
COO · CDO
When AI and automation change tempo — and where that creates control, privacy, or exit pressure.
Intelligence, not surveillance
ICTboard covers surveillance law, digital identity, and state and market overreach — but we are not built on that model. We do not assemble dossiers on readers, predict behaviour, or sell data to third parties.
- No reader profiling — browse the dashboard without an account. We collect the minimum needed to run the service.
- AI on articles, not people — our model classifies public news stories. Subscriber and visitor data are not used to train rankings or score individuals.
- EU-hosted inference — summaries run on infrastructure in the EU, not on advertising platforms.
- No ad or social tracking — cookieless aggregate analytics only; no pixels that follow you across the web.
We watch the surveillance debate so executives can orient themselves — without turning our own product into a surveillance system. See our Privacy Policy for details.
Goal Board
After you choose a goal, the Goal Board shows a green / amber / red reading for the week — a temperature for the field.
Editorial review & report cadence
Strategic Review twice a year on Executive radar — each edition quality-checked by FRISSE BRONNEN before publication. The live site and weekly Pulse update continuously.
How we use AI
- Public articles are fetched from RSS and Atom feeds — publishers, policy outlets, and selected newsletters.
- Sources are checked on a 4-hour schedule. Quality over volume: relevance scoring, promo/commerce filtering, and human admin corrections where needed.
- A local AI model on EU hosting rewrites titles (European sentence case) and produces a three-sentence summary.
- Each item receives a goal, category, sentiment (🟢 opportunity · 🟠 mixed · 🔴 headwinds), and relevance score (65–95).
- Summaries are indicative — always read the original article. We do not use subscriber or visitor data to train ranking models.
- A separate operations report (AI-assisted) may be sent to the publisher for server health and quality — it does not change article rankings.
Sources & attribution
ICTboard does not republish full articles. Each card links to the original publisher. Source name and publication date are shown on every item. Feeds are processed automatically every four hours; editorial quality depends on source selection, relevance filtering, and AI classification.
Alerts & email
Weekly Radar Pulse on Personal. Material alerts (max 2/week) on Officer. Strategic Review on Executive. Plans → Double opt-in is required; see our Privacy Policy.
Contact
Newsletter: newsletter@ictboard.eu
Privacy & data requests: privacy@ictboard.eu
General enquiries via frissebronnen.nl.