 So awesome of you guys to to come sit here. Well, there's so many interesting things to to see here at the campus. So This is this is why we're here this is because today we can actually move stuff for the future and and We we have there's lots of things you can you can say about what the internet is today In fact, you can say stuff like this. I guess people have know the name Tim Berners-Lee And this is from an interview we gave last year Where he said that basically we have demonstrated that the web has failed instead of served humanity He called it a large-scale emergent phenomenon, which is anti-human. I mean for a positive guy like Tim Berners-Lee that is It's saddened to to to have words like that But it it's kind of true. So this year we celebrate the 50th anniversary of going to the moon a 50th anniversary of the ARPANET and well Just as an interesting historical parallel The guy on the right or the guy on the left that he caused this this breakage in the middle So the one guy is the guy who made the US go to space But he also designed the V1 and V2 rocket Werner von Braun the other guy designed the atomic bomb that that basically went on Hiroshima and Nagasaki And I really don't know Which one is actually I forgot who it was and it doesn't really matter because if you create technology Then for sure, yeah, it can go either way But it is something that we have to really take care of now This brings us to the next generation internet initiative and I mean that is going to the moon and then some it's it's it's huge If you compare going to the moon 10,000 people for 10 years It's nothing to what fixing the internet will will mean because we're It's the largest and biggest thing that we've ever made as humans and we have all these people on board And they're making so much money off of it some people and it's it's it's this this is the biggest thing that we've ever Even come across so you must be sort of an insane madman to to want to address that But it needs to be done because otherwise we stuck with it for a thousand years and and that's not a hyperbole I mean crap sticks on for a long long time So we we started this this this effort because well the European Commission had They they have this responsibility and they have a way of doing stuff traditionally this involves asking somebody to To line out the problem and look for what the solutions would be and by sheer coincidence the foundation that I work for a small foundation called an Elnett which is a We were the back in the day we were the Colonel of the first internet in Europe in the 80s We we ran into this call and we got involved who actually were we were asked to to do the study and so we did a huge effort But the big thing about this is is this is what you would normally come up with like a problem analysis lots of boxes That need to be ticked and the problem is that we we saw this this isn't going to work you if you have all these separate topics and Each of them gets a little pile of money that solves it If you want to fly to the moon and you create you have a thousand people creating rockets And you have a thousand people working on fuel and if the two people never talk or see each other's Requirements because they are operating independently and have not a single unified goal. It's got all collapse and This is actually the ecosystem that we we we aimed them towards saying this is the operation on technical and ethical Community around the internet so the research networks the ISP Associations the digital rights communities the moral guardians of the of the internet The open free and open source software people the web standards people these are the people you should be considering as the target not Some fluffy idea of what Mobile data analytics via the blockchain would be but something that actually Can run on the on the real internet? Now After a long long time we came up with this this beautiful one-page document called the NGI vision I'm sure you've read visions before this one is particularly beautiful But it's more because it actually gives you a clear direction of where what we want to do if we want to say that the internet should be Something that everybody can benefit from and anybody can innovate on Then that gives you a lot of parameters that are different from today's internet because today you have to work for one of these big companies in Silicon Valley if you want to change certain things or if you want to enable people to do certain things because well the system is doesn't Actually get all the human talent out there and it doesn't actually follow the human values that we have sometimes just Extractive or exploitive so I encourage to read that NGI that you slash vision and this is interesting so I don't know how many people of you ever read the European Commission's websites, but Saying stuff like we want open source software. We want open hardware design. We want access to data We want standardization We want access to testing and operational infrastructure and we want IPR that insures less thing impact meaning open And we want really use ability of results. So you don't want to fund big companies that do something internally or Some that patent stuff and then and then and go from there But you want this to be in a tech commons And that is of course really really interesting to to see that language from the from from such an important actor now last year I was here as well in the Janssund and we gave a lightning talk together with somebody from the European Parliament somebody from the European Commission and This was sort of a First approximation This is this is when we launched the vision and sort of beta tested in front of you now We fast-forward and and well, what have we done in a year? Now in that year actually a lot of stuff has shifted in the background And it's it's it's hard hard to note sit where you're sitting over there But this is really important because what we've done now is there's actually Money out there that people can that people can apply for that has the words open source open standards open hardware on it I myself work Run the the two top The green Hexagons the other what two projects are run by other organizations, but it's actually money You can ask for right now. You can go to to to a website Fill out one page or of idea that you have I give us some some context of what you're trying to do and Eight weeks from now you could be Well, we just missed the deadline because the deadline was on Friday So now you have to wait until April 1st for for this to commit But it's actually tangibly real for opportunities for people to to Do stuff so like I said we run these these these two topics April 1st is the deadline and and what we're doing is If you're sitting your attic and you have this wonderful idea Of how to be you want to be the next Tim Berners-Lee and you have a great idea. You could be You're still alone. You don't have a mega company and you don't have a funding scheme And you don't have a tech support and HR behind you So that's what we're trying to to emulate so we give in addition to money We will actually help you with accessibility. So making sure that every web every tool that is made is is also Usable by people with a visual disability or other disability. We make sure that the licensing is is okay so that when When when your software is finished It doesn't sort of a but these license are incompatible or why on earth did you choose the wrong governance model? We help people with security scans so we scan their plans And we have real hard security people looking at it at the very beginning before you start and at the very end when you've done stuff and obviously Packaging is something that no ordinary person likes to well not to offend People that package I package myself a lot, but it's hard work. And if you're focused on the contents of your project then packaging is just a Something that that that takes your mind off of things So we package everything for the whole program for all the efforts in exactly the same way So that there's a simple way for everybody to look at these projects and and interact with them We make sure that there's diversity management so people don't have An environment that is hostile to That this community member of that community because we want stuff to be inclusive We help people with localization with community building with We have people from the internet architecture board and the internet engineering steering group to help people solve Standardization issues that they may have so all in all this All these things are aimed at at supporting people that do project and if you look at funding schemes historical It's here's your money. We'll see you in two years Thanks, and if it fails don't worry We don't care because the the traditional it's whenever there's something that comes out of it It's that the money has been spent in time and and obviously this is not what we're trying to reach We are all intrinsically motivated to actually get this next generation internet And that's why we're aimed at supporting the projects and the people behind them So it's a very simple way of doing this just a Between half a page and two pages of application will can do in principle and And and it is a stage approach so you don't have to be perfect You can just shoot in a crappy idea and if it flies through Yay, if it doesn't fly through you get some some tips on how to do it the next time or to cut out some bits And even during the process we can actually amend stuff We are making sure that people are consistent because we found out that People are always good at seeing and solving their own problems and their own itches, but they're not really good at solving other people's itches So traditionally with accessibility for instance, you have a lot of people with visual impairments or blind people or elderly people and Then they would have a little jar of money at the site saying well all the projects I want to deal with these people should go there And by the way then the other 99.9 percent of the funding goes to people don't really look at it And for us this is something that we do consistently the same with localization with security No security claim should be done without at least somebody some third-party looking at it and All these other things like reproducible bills automated testing all these things are not a given when you're just a small project When you're asking for five thousand euros from somebody or and and you get time to do something cool You don't automatically get this stuff But when you when people help you because they've done it before they give you a big boost But there's two topics privacy and trust enhancing technologies The first one kind of speaks for itself Everything that improves the privacy or trust of users can ask for money So you can ask for five thousand euros and moonlight you can just quit your job and and and and and and focus on getting a new processor architecture out there or Fixing TLS or solving the DNS creating an alternative to DNS but Because we believe that this is a a key topic And the other alternative is how do you find information on the internet if you're not going to ask? Some Known party if you're not going to ask and the well-known search engine or you're asking uber or air bnb or booking calm How can we reach the information? How can people in federated or in peer-to-peer networks or on the normal internet find each other? How can they discover how can we improve discoverability so that the information that people have is actually? Visible and and openly accessible or closed accessible entrusted communities We're pretty open to that Because if we're not able to get out of the deadlock of asking the same person always and the same Persons are getting more powerful and powerful and bigger and bigger all of a sudden our brain will if you see the internet as a brain Then we have a large problem of routing. It's all routed through the same Neurons and those neurons are pumping up and getting bigger and bigger And if you want technology to be more democratic than solving searching discovery is basically it so How does it work? You ask us for money. We give it to you every first of every even month So again, this is not just paperwork anymore. You can actually go to to to an Elna dot on L Slash P T or an Elna dot on L slash discovery and and look for those two calls We try to walk the talk. There's also these other calls that are out there. They're done with by different groups They have different ways of dealing with things So make sure that you go to ngi.eu and you can find the list of all the open calls there and Well, this is basically our job advertisement you can come and work for the open internet and You can work from home. You can work your own hours you get paid just as well as you would with a normal company But instead you're claiming your spot in human history. So that's it I guess and I still have 30 seconds So I can still show this wonderful slide and ask one question. Is there somebody with a question? No, there isn't Abundantly clear wonderful. So in that case, thank you very much and good luck with the next speaker