 Before we start, I'm here for Monique today. Monique is ill and at home, and we all have to send best wishes to Monique to Germany that next year she could come to Fostem and hopefully present this talk by herself. But I think I could give you the same input today and we merged a little bit our presentation to have the same content and I think I could present and inspire you by the idea of the talk and the topic Exorcism Human Riot. Your name is not Monique. No. So my name is Philipp, but it will be the first slide and then I will give you a short overview about me. So when the door is closed, I think we... No, no, that's 30 more seconds. Oh. Oh. Strict time plan here. Yeah, we're a bit German. Oh, okay. I mean that in a good way of course. Yeah. But yesterday and Friday we joined the Bauer in the city there and I see that the beer is quite more heavy than German's beer and that was my first lecture to be first time here in Belgium. All right, you can start now. Yeah. Welcome everybody. Thanks for coming. The room was quite full. A few words about me. I'm a member of the board about Freifunk Rheinland. We are based in Germany. We are one of the organizations that support people building free wireless networks, especially in the Freifunk community. I'm based in Essen. It's nearby Düsseldorf, about 20 kilometers. I run my company with software and data center stuff and you can follow me on Twitter and Facebook. So on, a few sentences about the Freifunk Rheinland. We do some research with the community and power people to build free and open infrastructure. That is the main goal of Freifunk. We have some regional meetings, conferences at the Chaos Communication Congress. We have meetings here at the FOSSTEM. A lot of Freifunk guys are here. And especially we have Freifunk Rheinland providing our own autonomous system in a backbone network and we get some IPA transit to other Freifunk communities in Germany. To connect their wireless routers to the internet. And there is some special thing about the last two years. It becomes more and more a big thing in the community to give some access to the internet to socially disadvantaged people especially the refugee situation in Germany and then I think the other communities. I see some here from Spain, Italy and from Greece. They have the same situation and providing some internet access to socially disadvantaged people and especially the refugees. They are coming from different nations to us and then it is essential to have internet connectivity when you will be in another country. The topic of the talk is access to the human rights and we stand for this. We are in many situations. We see that it is not true. It is not the situation we have and we fight for this and we hope to get much more support and the interesting point is that we have some different views on this situation. We have the view from the European side. We have the view in Germany. We have the view from the national rights and there are some conflicts and I will give you a short overview. The Council says that without internet access the people can take part in the space of possibilities and I am with this. I think it is true and there is a second decision from the Parliamentary Assembly and it is near the same that the Convention of Human Rights says that it is essential to have access to the internet to participate. Then we have the German constitutional rights and there we have some other points. It is the freedom of information that is very important and then we have the general right of personality. There are some other points. It is not direct in connection with the access but it is when you participate on the internet then you have the general right of personality and it might be different from the European thing. There is some very interesting point the fundamental right on social integration and when you take a look of how the thing changed you get in social with other people it has moved we can say today totally to the internet no more postcards I think in postboxes it is not more today. Then we have a decision from the Bundesgerichtshof in Germany it is a legal court it is said that it is the huge all the people are using the internet for daily and so when the internet connection or they have no access it has a very big impact for them because you have it all days and you could not live without this so that is the end of the topic. There will be a human right in education to participate to get information to do research and to do other things that are connected with education and we think that this is for me it is an important point when you do some education it is necessary to have access and to have connection to the internet and there we have the convention of the rights which is in special with the status of refugees and the problem when there is no access and no connection for them at the end the United Nations reports at the same and said that disconnecting people from the internet is the human rights violation and against international law but when I go to the next chapter of the talk first a short introduction what is Freifunk but I think the most people know this project and I told you before that we are providing some free internet access for people and connect them and then when we go to the next slide we have some information what we mean with free for us it is not only that they have no costs the user so it is much more important that you have no restrictions on the network and no censorship and no other unfree things but it is not only to doesn't pay for the access there is no business model we are sure that nobody pays in the masses for internet access at free wifi that was the situation in Germany we have a lot of communities in the whole country there are a lot of access nodes 40,000 today approximately we have some statistics on the maps from the community where the nodes are in place you could provide GPS coordinates and then you could watch on the maps and the second thing is that we think at Freifern Community and we make some political decisions discussions that it is a governance task to connect the people and when you remember the slides before that the European Union say it very clear that it is a human right to give access to the pooper but it is different from the situation that we have I can only see the situation in Germany but I hear the same from other countries there are a few points to communicate to access to education and information in a foreign country when you will be there and it is better to use money for food and family and not to pay for prepaid internet so we see this and a lot of refugee camps in Germany that there are a lot of internet prepaid dialers and the people gave more of the money they had to get internet access to buy food and other stuff the problem is that there is no diesel or fiber or anything else in a refugee camp it is very hard to build internet in the wild and there is no business model I told you before so we need donations and there is a huge challenge to bring volunteers as in these conferences and other projects together with professionals providing an organization make an organization of the refugee camps there we had there are a lot of technical challenges with smash networks for the mass with swifers for the mass I am very proud of all the people in the Freifen community and the other wireless communities they say we accepting the challenge and we have to provide some internet for these people came to us and then the result is that we have most than 400 refugee and social projects connected over the 2 or 3 years but we do this Freifen community already before but I think the last 2 years had a big impact and then at the end we have built internet and access for many thousands of people I have here a few pictures how we connect these locations from high positions we installed some radio equipment and then in the refugee case by us in Germany it was so and also in this failure that we had a lot of sports parks that are not more in use and then they built some tents on it we on the lightning equipment there up and we installed some radio equipment to get some upling and these are the tents where the people live and you could imagine that it is not so easy to bring there some infrastructure power is a big problem you have your smart phone and the battery is I think the most problem to keep it full and you see these electronic power stations to charge your phone and it's not so easy when you would like to connect the wireless router on this and you have a cable plugged in so this is the reason why this one is plugged out and one day later they came to the family and put the smart phone in it plugged out the wireless router and the internet uplink is down and there is a lot of trouble then in the camp at the end I would invite you to join the community go to our internet site there are much more contact details and there are a lot of information about the local community I think summary in the end is that the European Union said very clear it is human right to connect the people to the internet but the situation in the country especially in Germany is not the same and it is not the reality we have we as community could do a lot of good stuff but it is not the we couldn't not solve the whole problem and connect all these people we could do only a little steps and with the power you have in the community project it is limited the resource is limited but I think we could do our best and help people to connect to the internet there were some special project that I would spend some words together with the butterfly in Berlin and refugees emancipation there built some internet uplinks and some internet cafes together with refugees and I think it is the best project we have and the Freifern community to engage the people and to empower the people that came to us to build same by self these infrastructure we are not a service provider for the people because it doesn't scale to do this as a community project so we have to empower the people to build by themselves the infrastructure they need to build some wireless equipment or mesh networks to connect the refugee camps or the other locations they have such as internet cafes so far thanks for listening and when you have questions I think we have some time we have 8 minutes 8 minutes for question here are some questions we have some what about Freifern and other countries we have some projects as Goofy Net, as Nine Orcs as Velan Slovenia and in different countries we have same projects to this idea to build mesh networks connect people it is not called Freifern and I think it is important to know that Freifern is much more than to build infrastructure it is to transfer know-how to build these to have these meetings to connect the people to spend some know-how and to transfer the know-how to the people they are interested but in a lot of countries we have the same idea and the same spirit to build such free Wi-Fi networks and we are in contact with them have meetings and met them some other talks are here from other free Wi-Fi projects and it is good to have them how we deal was lost for the uplink in this site at the coast the coasts in many situations we have some some private organizations or some family or some house or some company nearby a refugee camp and they spend the uplink so there we have nothing to pay for the uplink and for us it is important to have people that support this project not only was money so we spend some bandwidth from the fiber or DSR connection and in other situations there are quite good corporations with local cities and the infrastructure providers from the cities and they spend us some fiber or DSR but it is much different because the country is very big and you have some different organizations in the city you have corporations or you have no corporation and it is different but in the most cases we didn't pay for this how do you deal with the government law for responsibility for the connection you share? how we deal with the government law we as Fife on Rhineland are an ISP and providing the transit for the communities with our own IP addresses and so we could handle the abuse when there will be abuse by ourselves we are not in some problems with some other providers but in Germany the law was changed it is called Störerhaftung in German and it is so that when you provide an open WLAN access point you get the provider privilege that it is like an open access note it is not the same when it is your private Wi-Fi at home so the problem with the law is not so big anymore because we could really fix this with our own ISP and some other situations before this we had some VPN connections to Sweden or other countries whether we have not so these problems but it's changed today some other questions no ah there how do we now approach to establish the right to access the internet as a human right on a political level how we how we do to to get to bring our perspective from the right of access to the politicans and what which point we reached was the question at the moment I think that that in a lot of series in Germany there are quite good corporations the local help organizations other organizations they are dealing with these refugees camps or some other social social rooms or social clubs for people that could have internet access there but we didn't have a huge accepted accepted decision that the politicans said we have to build a standard an internet connection in such a location as such we will and shower or toilet though we are not at this point I think it is the goal to come to this point but it's not the situation we have reached yet it is a very long way to to be there I think it is on a good way but it takes much more time there are some questions last question bandwidth what about the bandwidth in our networks so I could only give you the information about the Rheinland backbone that we provide and there are a lot of these 40,000 approximately 40,000 nodes connected to this there we have an average in traffic about 5 gigabits per second and a lot of this traffic we are can bring out by P-rings and internet exchanges we have three different sites in Berlin Frankfurt and Düsseldorf where we connected to some other carriers and providers and get some sponsoring with IP transit so this is no problem and we didn't have to pay for traffic in the backbone because it saw that we have eyeball traffic the access traffic and you can get a free settlement P-ring with the content providers and not with the problem with the access providers that is no problem for us yeah, thanks a lot enjoy the rest of the conference