Is WhatsApp Being Ditched for Signal in Dutch Higher Education?

In many kindergartens and schools, communication between parents is increasingly being processed digitally. On the parents' evening, the sentence: "Let's just use WhatsApp!" – but this is exactly where clear, understandable and well-founded arguments are needed as to why this is not a good idea. Especially in the educational field, where sensitive data from children and families are involved, we should ask ourselves: Is what is most convenient r…

WhatsApp is a "cheap, watered-down imitation", while Telegram is "the second most popular" chat app, CEO says

Days after Telegram CEO Pavel Durov was allowed to leave France for a while, he announced a major win for his app and took the time to attack WhatsApp, currently the most popular messaging app in the world.

Is WhatsApp Being Ditched for Signal in Dutch Higher Education?

For weeks Signal has been one of the three most-downloaded apps in the Netherlands, according to a local news site. And now "Higher education institutions in the Netherlands have been looking for an alternative," according to DUB (an independent news site for the Utrecht University community): Employees of the Utrecht University of Applied Sciences (HU) were recently advised to switch to Signal. Avans University of Applied Sciences has also been…