 So my name is Michielenas. I work for a foundation called NLNet. NLNet dates back to the early 80s when the internet was introduced in Europe In Amsterdam the first public connection to the internet was made and the people that did that actually Came from the UNIX user community. They set up a foundation underneath the foundation. They started the company Then they sold the company again and put all the money to a trust fund and basically that's still alive which is kind of miraculous and our goal is to basically Help the internet so the money was given to for the benefit of the internet and one of the things that we've been doing in in the recent years is to to get involved with public funding for R&D and this is a program called the next generation internet and it's been It's been bootstrapped for three years, but actually only last year in November things started and About four seconds from now We will have a cool nice reload And It's quite actually a serious matter. I mean if you look at it After Snowden, of course everybody realized that the internet was actually a Trojan People knew that it was broken and nonetheless Rolled it out to the world and people have been using it in good faith But meanwhile all the time people were actually spying on us So obviously that meant a huge responsibility and yet so little has changed and that is the sad thing So three years ago the European Commission Called me and some other folks and said we want to do a complete reboot of our ideas And then I went to the meeting and in that meeting the word Snowden was only mentioned by me There were no people from the technical community. No was no ITF leadership And Somehow we did manage to actually get the message across and so that's the the amazing thing is that we've been Let me unlock my hard disk While I what I thought Magic Is it picking up a screen you should see a wonderful plasma login screen it's real Nick sauce so Yeah, that's what you get for Doing that so And I mean, it's not just us that is saying that that we're in a shitty situation actually I don't know if people know who Tim Berners-Lee is but He had something to do with the web early on Okay, and he said this and this is he said that Goddamn Why don't we just unify outputs and then at least we'll We'll get to see something Basically, he's called the web Emergently anti-human he is actually compared it He says it's a dystopia to him by now And this is when he was given the most prestigious prize in IT the touring award and the image to illustrate that is is these two guys The guy on the left is Werner van Braun German guy responsible for the V1 rocket also put the man on the moon 50 years ago Was it actually went to the US was forgiven everything that he did The other guy is Robert Oppenheimer and he invented the atom bomb that was thrown on on On Japan that they were thrown on Japan, and I don't know who made the rubble in the middle but If you think about it, it really doesn't matter. We're in it. We're in a pretty scary situation and if you look at the internet You see why because it's such this is a vision an old visualization of the internet It's growing more complex arguably and If if even if you want to do anything you have to talk to many many different parties I mean, this is just a sample of the larger ecosystem that that that we got engaged With with this project But there's so many parts that you need to talk to and that's exactly the problem that this ossification is Causing you need to talk to everybody to make and there's no big bang where you can replace parts of the internet So pretty much we're stuck with what we got decades ago so Going to the moon was a big thing I mean the ten thousand people for a decade, but fixing the internet is actually even bigger Arguably because it's the biggest thing that we've ever created everything is tied to it Everybody's on it the biggest company on the planet are on it and actually they're on the other side in some cases so it's it's highly political because the Chinese and the Russians and the Americans and the Europeans tend to not agree on how Things should be going and then there's this whole chaos of not being able to organize people So there is no time to lose if we want to fix the internet Then Then a lot needs to happen. So we we did this the study together with Gardner And we wrote actually a vision for the for this next generation internet initiative and It the idea is that for a political goal and you can't be too Technical so you have to give high level goals And so we made three three one high-level goal is saying it has to include everybody and Everybody has to be able to to to to benefit from this So if you're not working for one of these big tech companies and you want to invent how Technology works you should be able to because well if you're not hired And want to fly to Silicon Valley, then then well you can do stuff the kind of stuff that you do at KDE And then we have three goals first the internet has to get better I mean it's you have these DDoS attacks things break and meanwhile we're putting this in our heart valves We're putting it in roads. We're putting it up in the sky and so The internet that we want for the next Thousand years and things are and we're already at 50 right if you go back to the earth are Things move really really fast and there we've never been in the worst position to change anything as we are now So if there's any chance of intervention that this is the moment And we need to make stuff better it can't break it can't the original IP protocols allow every Computer on the planet to see every other computer and send any amount of traffic to them we need to change this and This is something that we we need to increase we also needed to be more transparent and trustworthy because we know after snow Don't that many things are broken and that there's security models that are not working so if we want to guarantee how and for instance, I just recently just just now there was a presentation about a Governments putting their information on github so every citizen is now going there and every there's a US company seeing The the movements of every citizen inside the software that is being hosted there so there's a That is track if your Ministry of Defense in Italy is going there Would you have your soldiers log on to that website and be tracked across the internet? This is the kind of thing that you have to think about When you're moving ahead because there has been systematic abuse of global global trust And we wanted to be sustainably open Unfortunately, if you have a great new business model and you're building on top of Facebook and then Facebook decides to to take your Your wonderful feature or on top of Google search If they take your feature And put it in the main platform you're gone If and and so it's not sustainably open we need we need this technology to be Something that everybody can change all the time every kid in the slums of deli should be able to open up a Library computer and and and right the next technology that brings us forward and if not we're We're not inclusive So an effort like this tends to if you look at it from a policy point of view tends to be like a big box checking effort So lots of different things to to to address and we made this huge analysis But of course this is what happens when you when you order your ship to the moon And then you make the people that develop the motor and the people that develop the Cabins and the people that develop the fuel to have separate jars of money and not coordinate so That's where we we we try to to intervene this NGI zero is a subset of NGI and we try to sort of create the fabric for this These are the people that we that we involved with Lots of different organization you may recognize some of them I won't spell them out because we're slightly late But what we what we first and foremost wanted to do is to make sure that people that Do work on this on a voluntary basis that only you have a limited amount of time that That people are able to to work with this so that you don't need In many of these funding cycles that the Commission European Commission is working with you have to hire a consultant That's the first thing you say is be willing to spend 15 percent of your budget on somebody writing the proposal and Then getting the money for you and then you Get this we want people to to apply this as if they would apply to a friend in in in half an hour With what a half a page to two pages of application? and We use a stage approach because we understand that people don't have the oversight of everything We we tend to see a lot of things happening and so if people come to us and have an idea that is Really good, but in their proposal they include stuff that somebody else is doing really good Then it might make sense for for us to contact them say have you looked at this if you consider this could you rewrite your proposal? Maybe you want only to do half the half that you do but with double the money So we think about it, and we also guide them and support them because Essentially, you're just a person with an idea or a person with a a task and that task doesn't involve a Lot of the things that people have to deal with in the practical Internet So for instance accessibility I didn't see this mentioned in the previous But we make sure that every project that we fund is certified accessible to blind people We think this is a moral imperative This is not something that every developer would know about but If you have people that wake up Monday morning 7 30, let's make things accessible because they have a Back catalog of 12,000 blind people that they walk among then obviously that will be a tremendous Knowledge boost to any project because they can just come and say what if you do this if you do that then then then you're done Whilst if you would have to read up on everything and the same goes for localization for for software licenses For going to standards bodies, which can be usually complex and involve lots of politics If you're just sitting here and think I have a great idea. It doesn't mean that you're now The next thing you do is get you on your plane to Japan and sit in a standards meeting and win Because that's not how things go. So we have people At the level of the internet engineering steering group. We have standards people that willing to help some of you may use from the number He now works for an element There's but we also have people from the internet engineering community from the w3c We help people set up a responsible disclosure procedure. We help them do Documentation we help them to mentor even setting up a group because many people are just sitting behind their Computer and have a great idea, but they don't know how to grow a team around this We make things deployable. So we package everything in Nick sauce And and we have every bit of software done Receive a security scan of both the plan and the end result and these these are projects that maybe 5000 euro 5,000 euros of size could be bigger, but nonetheless we apply this whole chain to everything Though that's a battery. No The gods of OS are not friendly to me today It should just be in sleep mode. So are we still on? No, we're actually going to boot all over again Which doesn't make me really happy, I don't know why that happened I'll rush through this I'll rush through this so the basic gist of is is that we have Let me summarize Hopefully it picks up if not The basic gist of it is we have money for you. That's that that's the idea We're we're here plainly to recruit recruit. So we have a stack of money. We want good people to work on good projects It's really not wanting to So the the general process is there's two topics that we can fund We have something on privacy and trusting housing technologies and this includes This is this this is the key slide So we have two topics every two months you can you can you can send something in you can ask us for between 550k if you want less it's also okay, but then if you're asking for a thousand euros We we cannot also do a security audit on on on on projects of that size because it's just too too expensive If you need more you can do a follow-up and there's two topics search in discovery and And privacy and trust analysis technologies and I will quickly go into both of them Basically we think that confidentiality is the new know should be the new normal something that people don't have to like like like think about And it isn't it's really complex even even things like PGP are Using a VPN is just not doable for normal users So we should be able to to do this and and these are Just ideas we have a whole list of all these projects on our website So you can have a check-in to see what they're worth these but we we pretty much take anything So we go from end user applications to to middleware Operating system alternative operating system. So if you're into Sailfish or Merch or Mego or Mimo or whatever and you want to build a security application and want support for developing certain security application that other platforms have We have money for it New standards and protocols Formal verifications Open hardware projects are like the Nitro key and are the be trusted device And we can even do interesting Experimental things and these are all actual projects that you can find on our website and We started I don't know how many people were at FOSTA and we started the first batch in February So the first projects are actually getting Getting to be available. So for instance the awesome very spell project Where you can if you're working on security protocols So you can model your your protocol and check actually and then generate automated code to to make sure that you have yeah You have pass you have a passive and an active attacker and see if it checks out Such in discovery is the other thing is basically if we want to do anything as humans that we need to be able to Just be discoverable and to be able to discover people and to be able to search people. Yeah And it's everywhere Ethical search is a good example if you want to Make sure that people can find each other Then you also need to know how to put red flags on top of them So for instance, we have people that know how to save a website to host it with that is compensated against It's a carbon offset and we can actually flag that in the search results We can actually flag if a hundred thousand companies going to track you when you click on a certain link Before you do because now that's not the imperative of a search engine Unless you own the search engine and that's what the search project is doing Mail pile and the new appeal or other projects that you you may be aware of so The core gist of it is we have Today is is is the day to start to create the next version of the internet And we ask you to come and join and work for the internet. That's that's how we see it is you can work from home You can work part-time you can Bloody well do whatever you feel like as long as you help save future generations. That's all we care about and That's what we're here for we're searching In Milan Sunday morning to see if we can find people among you that want to do cool stuff So claim your spot in history I mean the next time we're looking for the next in Berners-Lee But we're also looking for that just the people that want to do the hard work and and make sure that that everybody is safe And never get famous but fix things nonetheless. So this is the yeah, that's it