 So good morning, thank you all for inviting me and thanks a lot for the organization for all the people of you Who are involved in organizing this conference from inviting speakers to making sure that all the logistics your work? Thank you very much So when walking here this morning to the conference, I have seen thousands of computers They are everywhere. So there are desktop computers laptops mobile phones tablets But often also other devices which might not be recognized as computers at the beginning like cars with hundreds of computers planes washing machines TVs elevators lot of those devices around us whose software decides what we can and what we cannot do with them in a lot of cases and Sometimes it's not just devices around us. It's also devices which are attached to our body like pacemakers or hearing aids and it's not just devices which are all around us and which are controlled by software and Determining what we can and what we cannot do By the people who program to the software on them. It's also more and more processes around us which decide On our lives. So for example in France, there's a software which decides who will get to which University Now this was not transparent for a long time It was just decided by the software who can go to which University and who not and that was a big Decision about people's future careers if you can go to one of the high ranking universities or if you might not get at University at all You cannot have a discussion in society if the rules How this software makes the decisions are fair and are good for our society or not If you don't have the source code and if you cannot understand what exactly the software is doing So in France luckily the government was forced to publish this and then you could have discussion about this You can discuss is that a fair procedure of Distributing University seats might the developers have not considered some outcomes and thereby thereby having consequences on people's life, which were not intended by them in In the US and the UK around 60% of job applications are filtered by software before from a handful of companies and They decide then what will be seen by humans Which is then around 30% of people might not even be seen by any human at all So you apply for a job and you will never be invited because some software decides about that and Even when there were court cases about this When people suit because they didn't get a job or were never invited The companies claim that this is nothing. They will make transparent how the decisions are made So a few companies decide who will get a job and who might never be invited to a job interview We cannot have a discussion about that if that is fair if that's good for our society or not if we don't have access to this and can discuss if we would like to change those procedures and in a lot of federal states in the US there is even a software which is predicting the likelihood of criminals to Get to to make a Criminal offense again So they will check like their likelihood that you will do something bad again is 60% and In some cases that's even considered for the length of the sentence you will get so think about there are There is a decision about your life or some relatives of you which is based on a computer program Where even the lawyers involved in the court cases don't know under what? rules those points and those percentages will be calculated and The developers of the software will have a huge influence on people's lives if they want to or not So to get that back one step If you look there you see there's a traffic sign 100 kilometers an hour or miles per hour if I would promise you That there is no police around nobody will ever know that you would throw faster. There are no living Animals no no humans around and you have a good car. Who of you would try faster than 100 kilometers an hour so You can do that you can try faster here It's it's also, I mean if you try faster there needs to be police or someone who sees you driving faster It needs to go to a judge afterwards or to someone who punish you for this and for example if Even if you are a law-abiding citizen and you try it very hard But next to you in your car There is your partner or your child with a serious injury and you would like to go to the hospital as soon as possible You can do so even if the police Finds out you might be able to argue about that later towards the judge and they might most likely understand Why you did that in this situation? Now who of you would like to try faster than 100 miles per hour or kilometers an hour here? No, some people with some risky So even if there is no sign at all that and you're allowed to try faster You will not be able to do so here So if you do so you don't need to know about this traffic sign Even if you haven't seen that you are not allowed to try faster than 100 miles an hour you will be punished and It's not about anyone police. It's you will be punished by physical laws and Even if you were not didn't pay any attention in school about The this physical laws they will punish you so There's a huge difference about Laws and regulation on one side and here physical laws or architecture on the other side Software is more like the architecture. You don't need to know about how exactly it works You are not able to do something or you will directly be punished so If I take this class And I open my hand I'm quite sure that most of you will be able to predict what will happen Now on the other hand if we are not here in this world, but if it's a virtual reality some digital space We don't know what will happen It can happen that the glass goes up to the ceiling It can happen that you all vanish or I vanish or we are all in jail. I don't know You cannot notice how what will exactly happen if you don't know what the software implemented is what is implemented in the software by the programmers so That's a very challenging thing If you don't know what's in the software We cannot have a discussion if this is right or wrong if we would like to change it or not now This is a French person called Montesquieu he is He's famous for introducing the concept of the distribution of power So the idea is that in a in a state you try to separate powers and distribute them So you have some people who decide about what laws Will be a set then you have others who are implementing those executing those and you have others who take decisions based on this Often in democracies you also have some other layers like regions so like what's our know has a lot of competency then towards the Italian government and The idea is there that you make sure that there is not too much power concentrated in one point and That there is a checks and balances between those different powers now you can think a little bit about it as Cesar stone and paper this game it's not fun if The stone always wins Now in a state It's not about fun When you don't have a good distribution of power Your family or friends they might end up in jail or even get injured or threatened So it's a completely different level now in Theory when people think about distribution of power you often think about K the elected representatives and you might say here the elected representatives has control over or the the weapons in this in this country in Practice it might turn out That it's the person who controls infrastructure or designed infrastructure and you don't know what will happen when you push this red button The engineer knows So free software is an important piece in this distribution of power and To use this we need to make sure to To achieve some goals in the next 10 years So one is we need to make sure that people the majority of people understand that free software or open source Software is software which you can use for any purpose. So there is no discrimination about Who can use the software? You are able to study the software So you are able to see which rules are implemented there and you can have a discussion about it in our society You are able to share that with others the software and you can improve or change things So you can experiment with it But in general also make sure that you don't have to adopt to How software wants you to do something as an individual as a company as a public administration or another Organization you don't want to change yourself your processes the way someone else decides for you You want to be able to change and adopt it to your own needs So it's important that people understand this that this is something which is possible with free software We also have to make sure that people whenever they want to use or develop Software that they use free software for that it should always be their preferred choice and for this it's also important like Patrick Mason said before that people are not cheated into like this is free software Also, it isn't so we have to make sure that people are Really recognized if something is free software or not from the from the first part Now another important part is that political decision makers understand how free software contributes to to freedom in the society to other rights in our society to Transparency self-determination and also economic well-being and that they not just understand this but that they also act up on this Furthermore we have to continue to move barriers for free software adoption So we need to make sure that people are encouraged to learn and understand how software works and that they are not punished By government when they try when they do research about a software how that works and bring Bring this into a discussion in our society We should have more people trying to understand how things work and debate of have a debate about that not punishing people Who bring things to the public how software works? and Another important part is that we provide resource information to others to further Have discussions about free software so I'm not just talking about providing resources like leaflets or information to Software organizations, but I'm also talking about those other examples like Environmental organizations who have to deal with cheating software The student association or pupil association who is facing the problem that software is deciding who can go to which University? about lawyers or human rights organizations who have to deal with a Percentage which is the output of a software and then decides how long someone will go to jail So those are all or unions who have to deal with the problem that the software decides Who will be invited to a job interview and who will never get a job So that's that's something which is very important, which we have to care about and Before I finish I want to quickly raise two Concrete activities of the FSFE one is the reuse project which we launched so the The goal there is that we provide best practice for copyright and license information To make it easier for people to reuse free software So when you're interested in this in at four o'clock in room three, there will be a presentation about this there is We are working on the you will copyright reform trying to make sure that free software development is not hampered by the decisions on this level and That's discussion which is at the moment very Pressing so if you're interested in this we have the EU policy workshop at four o'clock in room four Where this will be one of the case at the case study for Explaining how does EU policy work works to enable you to also bring your topics on a political level if you're interested in this And the last point is our public money public code campaign So our goal is that software which is financed with public money can be pop will be published under free software license and If you're interested in this you can come to our booth It's just out of the door to the right side and discuss that with us or go on the website Watch the video distribute it. It's available in many languages. So if you have anything any comments about that, please Please get in contact with us now to finish the my presentation There are still many people around the world who do not benefit from fundamental rights Like freedom of the press freedom of speech freedom of assembly they have to fight for them every day and We often take them for granted When you once reach them you cannot stop there you have to lift them and to defend them all the time and In a digital area We also in support of those art of rights have to continuously fight for and defend software freedom The right to control our technology We have to democratize software. So thank you very much