Powering digital sovereignty in the Netherlands: Nextcloud expands Dutch ecosystem

Nextcloud expands its Dutch partner ecosystem. KPN, Centric, SURF, Lucidon, and Apura have entered or expanded their partnerships to provide businesses and public sector organizations access to sovereign technology.

The announcements were made at the customer and partner event, Enterprise Day The Hague. In addition, experts shared insights on current dependencies and migrations to sovereign solutions, including speakers from EuroStack, the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, and the Austrian Ministry of Economy, as well as the University of Amsterdam.

Nextcloud was also able to sign multiple partnership agreements to speed up the roll-out of Nextcloud in the Netherlands, offering an easy setup and effortless, secure access to sovereign IT solutions for Dutch companies and the public sector.

Digital sovereignty is a joint task. That’s why we want to create an ecosystem that is committed to this goal and works together to make organizations across the globe more independent and resilient. We’re proud to deepen our relationships and further expand our existing ecosystem to make better options to Big Tech available with local expertise to support and enable customers on their journey to digital sovereignty.

Frank Karlitschek

Nextcloud founder and CEO

KPN launches sovereign digital workplace

The leading telecommunications and IT service provider in the Netherlands KPN introduced a sovereign cloud working environment for Dutch organizations. The solution is hosted and managed entirely in the Netherlands in KPN’s data centers. This gives organizations more control over their data, ensures they comply with European laws and regulations, and makes them less dependent on international developments or parties.

Combining Nextcloud with KPN’s hosting, security, and services creates a modern workplace that complies with local legislation, is fully controllable, and does not depend on cloud providers outside the EU.

SURF: New pilot for employees at education and research institutions

IT cooperative of Dutch education and research institutions SURF will roll out the Nextcloud collaboration platform on a wider scale. After successful pilots, SURF members will soon be able to start working with Nextcloud. Dutch education and research institutions will be able to experiment with Nextcloud next year. Interested users can already sign up.

In February 2025, SURF initiated a project with Nextcloud to provide users with full control over their data, contribute to autonomy, and strengthen a healthier digital ecosystem. The IT cooperative is upscaling its pilot to the majority of Dutch universities.

Additional partnership agreements were signed with Lucidon and Apura.

Sovereign solutions for Dutch government organizations with Centric

Earlier this fall, Nextcloud joined forces with service provider Centric to collaborate on solutions for sovereign workplaces for Dutch government organizations. Together, the companies want to offer governments a future-proof alternative that revolves around control over data, infrastructure, and digital sovereignty.

Centric has traditionally focused on local government, but is going to broaden its gaze to the government as a whole.

We can’t do that alone, we’re going to shape this from a consortium of parties. The first steps have already been taken, as we recently signed a statement of intent for cooperation with Nextcloud. With them we are going to shape the offer of a sovereign workplace.

Maarten Hillenaar

Directeur Corporate Development at Centric

New collaborations to enhance the existing partner ecosystem

The new partnerships add to the existing Dutch Nextcloud ecosystem of The Good Cloud, Bechtle Netherlands, ProcoliX, Conduction, and Bossers & Cnossen.

We are seeing a huge momentum for digital sovereign solutions in the Netherlands. Thanks to deep market knowledge and their local digital infrastructure of our existing and new partners, we are able to meet Dutch customers’ demands for local hosting, regulatory compliance and exit options.

Frank Karlitschek

Nextcloud founder and CEO

Earlier in November, Nextcloud announced a plan to invest €250 million in digital sovereignty and launched the new Channel Partner Program to give businesses and public sector organizations access to sovereign technology.