Nathalie Van Raemdonck

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  • Balkan Roadtrip: Slovenia, Bosnia, Croatia

    As usual when I write about my travels, my posts are riddled with anekdotes of the trip as well as observations and insights on the countries and cultures I visit. I’ve been wanting to visit former Yugoslavia for a while since it’s such unknown territory, so I gained a lot of insights. It made me…

  • The Great 2015 Reddit revolt

    Reddit’s foundations are crumbling. Disturbances are happening within the headquarters and the leadership. The frontpage of the internet is in anarchy. (Addendum: 2,5 years after I wrote this post, I came back on a lot of the opinions expressed in this post. The world had changed and I had been too naive to notice. I…

  • How the Sony hacks made the US go into a cyber war frenzy

    How the Sony hacks made the US go into a cyber war frenzy Is this really how we’ll deal with cyberattacks in the future?  (this article was previously published in Dutch on Datanews) Whether the Interview is a good movie or not is debatable, but we can all agree that it has caused a lot…

  • There are no girls on the internet.

    Vrouw zijn op zich is geen sinecure. Maar vrouw zijn op het internet is een zeer zware identiteit om te dragen. Het is best mogelijk dat de volgende feministische golf zich online zal voordoen. En dan heb ik het niet over propaganda verspreiden via het medium ‘internet’ in plaats van met borden de straat op…

  • NetMundial and Marco Civil: Brazil’s attempt at protecting Privacy and Human Rights on the Internet

    Following the revelation of Edward Snowden of the global mass surveillance by the NSA, Brazil is the first to undertake great measures to govern their citizens’ rights on the Internet. NET Mundial, The two-day  conference on global Internet governance has just taken place in Sao Paulo Brazil. It opened with the historic signing of the…

  • how tipping in the US makes me feel a little like a ruthless God

    When I go to a restaurant (on the rare occasions that I do) I get very upset about the tipping system. Every. Time. Even after 2 months of being in the United States. In the beginning it mostly upset me because I felt fooled, since the price I originally thought I was going to pay…

  • UN Internships: a splash of cynicism with a dollop of disillusion

    (This piece appeared previously in Student magazine De Moeial in Dutch) As a former Political Science student at the VUB, I had the opportunity to intern at the United Nations headquarters in New York between January-July 2014. It would be the pinnacle of the internship experience and the wet dream of many political scientists with…