To the session, thanks for waiting. I have a mistake on the hour. So Monica's here, but she's here. And I'm just only the moderator of this session, that it's called the Challenges in the Volunteer Committees.  So I went first to introduce Ana Torres Adel, who is the Executive Director of Wikimedia Argentina. Thank you. Next, Monica Bonilla, who is the Executive Director of Wikimedia Colombia. And Boch Bostria, who is the lead of this great conference. Great, great conference. They are members also of in the past and actually part of many volunteer committees. So yeah, this is a reflection about some situations that we are facing as volunteers, and in addition, as a person who are leading efforts, who are not exactly always in the route that we want, of course. But this is a dialogue. If you want to share feelings, concerns that you have, the MIG is open. But I will give first a round of questions to our panelists. And Monica will talk in Spanish, so I can translate you if you want. OK, the first question, Ana, if you want to start, is from your personal experience, what has it been like to serve in a volunteer committee? What's your experience serving in a committee? OK, I'm wearing two hats today because I'm also a paystaff in Wikimedia Argentina, but I've been lucky enough to also be part of different committees in the movement. I think that we are later, we are going to talk about the challenges. There are many, but on the good side of being part of committees, I think that for me, the biggest thing that has given to me being part of committees, volunteer committees in this movement is the connections. I mean, I think that when you belong to a committee, you connect with other peers beyond your country and beyond the region. And it allows you to understand what others are doing in different parts of the world, even though time zones sometimes are challenging. But yes, in my personal experience, the biggest experience that I had was with the strategy committees. I've been part of the strategy process or I was part of the strategy process for almost four years. And again, this idea of connecting with others, knowing others from around the movement, I think it's the best thing I... Yeah, it came out from the committees for me. I don't know, I pass it too. Sure. Always I see books at night when it's my morning, so that's very challenging, but... Yeah, really the challenge of the time zone because not just with the Wikimanias Steering Committee, also with the other committees that I have, I think I could not count the number of heads aware from movement strategy, regional grants committees, Wikimanias Steering Committee, core organizing team, ECAP team. So it's a hard balance because if you are really engaged with people, you have to make sure that you see their time zone, their commitments. If they are handling another commitment on their affiliate or within their volunteer roles, of course, their day jobs as well, family. So it's a complex process, but for instance, for ECAP alone, I think on the fifth or sixth meeting, we're able to perfect the time zone already because we have to balance the people from Myanmar with the people from New Zealand. So it's a large time zone, but if in case there's a panelist like Anna, who is in Argentina, so that added another complexity in the equation. And Monika, what can you share us about this? Well, yes, the volunteer committees are a challenge, I think, in any scenario. However, I think it's a space where we really as a movement give voice to many perspectives to be able to build together according to the needs, to the interests, according to the same goals that the events have. The most recent experience we have since Colombia in relation to the volunteer committees was precisely the experience of Iberocon 2023, where we had, I don't know, four different committees with people. Difficult in relation to the issue of decision-making, but in the end, when we build together, it's much closer to what we really need and it doesn't go in a single direction, but it's multi-directional to the constructions we have there. What is it? Let me see if I can translate that. She said that, yeah, the committees might have some challenges, but they also, how to say they're good, like, yeah. I mean, what you can get from them are a good experience and the best experience or the last experience that they had was Iberocon 2023, where he worked for committees and some of the challenges are mainly around decision-making. When you have a committee with volunteers that they bring different perspectives, the decision-making processes might be challenging, but they also make the event stronger, right? So I think I summarise it well. Yeah, yeah, yeah. OK, yeah. I'm looking at the Spanish just speaking. I'm talking about the common force that are ensured by the composition of many persons of the movement. What do you think about the composition? We are granting equity in the composition of the bodies of the movement. Actually, what can you say about it? Oh, gosh. This is a very difficult question. I think that my answer is no. I mean, I'm not sure that we are getting there yet. I think that belonging to a committee depends on a lot of things. And as the societies are built today, women are still, I don't know, having two or three works, not many free time. Yeah, good. Yeah, it makes more sense. And no many free time. I mean, taking care of the kids, taking care of the house. I mean, we have seen it a lot in the pandemic. Yes, I don't, I mean, the pandemic, of course, has hit us, everybody, but not equally. I think that we have been hit more right. So I think that we still have a lot of work to do regarding rich inequality in committees. I think that at least this question is on the agenda. And maybe some years ago, it wasn't even on the agenda. So I'm happy to see that we are questioning and opening these kind of discussions. But we have to do things about it. I remember when we, some women of the movement asked for quotas that it was like unknown. I mean, I remember it was a huge pushback. No, no, quotas, no, because it goes against democracy. I remember that. There's a lot of experiences around the world where quotas, in fact, have, I don't know, half strength in the democracies, right? So I think that there's a lot of things that need to be addressed regarding this issue. And we are not yet there. So my answer is no. OK, so for the steering committee of Wikimedia, actually, I was only brought into the steering committee in the middle of the pandemic. Because they are looking for a person who is best, who would describe on the next toast. But unexpectedly, when it was moved from Bangkok to Singapore, the question of visas came into the picture. And the best person who could explain that are those who are struggling in applying for visas. So the only best person who could explain that is either me or Ivan. Sometimes even it's not present. Sorry. So that adds complexity, because the rest of the composition of the steering committee are technically are from the OECD countries, or those who are also in the global north. So we are already exploring that possibility to review the composition of the Wikimedia steering committee, to have voices from other communities, and also subject matter experts in their respected fields in decision making in the future of Wikimedia, which happened a few minutes ago. Another thing that I would like to also mention is why you now see there's original grant committees. Because what you see right now is, let's say, a grant application from Argentina cannot be reviewed a person from Indonesia. They don't know the context or how they operate. So that's why the composition of the ones giving grants is coming from global to original setup. So that's how we see right now. But for the other committees, so probably we could explore and collaborate with the other committees, like AFCOM and other committees, and how we could do that shape up. For ECAP, it's quite complex. We have a tense discussion already last Tuesday. But applying the... We are Asians, and we have in... And also from the Pacific, so we use logic and math on determining the composition of the diversity of the council that we're trying to do. Thank you. Well, I'm also going to talk about the Latin American and Caribbean program committee. And in relation to this, I think the composition should also integrate issues like gender equity, participation, and the decision making of resources. There's another topic that I think is very important and is to know the local conditions. So for the Colombian case, someone who evaluates the proposals or the requirements of Colombia should have a lot closer to what we do, to our identities. And well, I think the Latin American and Caribbean committee has been changing, and we've seen changes that are just a bit aligned with this. And another topic that I also think is very important in relation to how the processes should be improved is the issue of revisions. But for these revisions, I think it's important that there should be so many people who know and who are historical in the movement as new people as well. Well, for the same reason, as to be able to have various perspectives without leaving aside and without surpassing some of the two points. Monique is saying that in her experience, the committees in Latin America and the Caribbean area is now turning to join people that are not exactly from the region or that are not people who know the local context of the countries that are being evaluated by the committees. So she's suggesting that maybe the actual composition of the committees need to involve more people, better people and local people that can know the reality of the countries that will have grants deployed by the Wikimedia Foundation, I think. Okay, thank you for your experience. And I think in our movement, the composition of actual, actually the composition of the committees is our movement in general is characterized by a high standards of transparency and accountability. We are committed with that. Do you think that the current model or the current composition or the mechanism or the committee of the committees are ensuring accountability and transparency? You mean that committees like the regional committees, for example? Okay, I'm gonna focus on that because she already brought it here. No. I'm the Mrs. No today. No, I think that we are, I mean, I think that the strategy, the 30-20 strategy brought us a lot of information about which movement we want to see in the future, right? It was a strategy just to remember everybody who's here that might not be involved in the process. I think that was a strategy that involved a lot of communities around the movement that was done in a very collaborative way. Of course we missed voices and of course we could have done it better because all processes could be done better, right?  But at the end, I think that we had some recommendations that were agreed by a lot of people in the movement on ratify blah, blah, blah. And one of the principles that was on those recommendations was the decentralization principle, which we have heard a lot. But I think that we are confused, we are confused, I don't know what the word, but yeah, the idea of regionalization and decentralization is not the same, right? I think that what is happening today with these committees in particular is of course that we can be a foundation trying to apply these recommendations and I don't know, making sure that, yeah, that there are more people in our local context that know what, I mean, that evaluate our processes and evaluate our grants, but it's a top-down process. I mean, in the recommendation, I think it was very clear said that everything that affects the community should be asked to the communities. I think that maybe it could have take us longer to decide which kind of process we wanted to have in Latin America or in the rest of the world, because for me, not all solutions fit everybody, everywhere, but what we have now is a process that was set up by the Wikimedia Foundation that affect us directly to us with people volunteering committees which I respect a lot. I respect a lot the work that the volunteers do, but at least in Latin America, at some point has been a little bit challenging as well. How we connect with this committee, how can we know each other in those committees hasn't been easy. So for me was a little bit disappointed because I was a little bit disappointed because I think we had a very unique opportunity to really start doing things differently. Again, building from bottom up and my fear is that by regionalizing, we are thinking that we are really decentralizing. And for me are really different things. So that's my perspective. Um, the matter of reporting to the community versus keeping it for the community, it's a really complex process, especially if it involves legal constraints. For instance, if we throw out an announcement or particular information prematurely, and it will be more difficult to retract it if you found a possible legal repercussion or if there is a, the information is still need to be verified. So it's best that it is a calculated risk. If it is already ready, that the information is no longer at risk or it is already have sufficient information backed by data. And by all means we have to report it to the community. There's nothing for us to be, to be held such information within the committee level. Yeah, that's what I foresee for now. We are very open and transparent in giving reports, but just give us enough time when it will be released, if it is ready. Well, in relation to transparency, we have a tool in the movement, which is META, which allows us to know in detail the issue of resources, the decision making. I think it's not totally, or it's not completely transparent, the whole process, but many changes have been made and I think we should keep insisting on the exercise of being able to visualize what we are doing. So, again, I return to the case of Iberoconf. We, from Wikimedia Colombia, just as an exercise of telling other people and being transparent in how decisions were made regarding AVEC, or resources. And it's not just a message for the communities that we were there, but also for the foundation, because it's necessary and our movement is open, collaborative and transparent, and under transparency, it is built on basis. Now, I think we should also invest a lot in the issue of documentation of processes, of retroalimentation, of having spare parts of retroalimentation, and well, this of retroalimentation has not been given as a whole, because, well, it's time for resources to be remembered by people, but I also wanted to highlight that I was in the corridor and I heard that they were talking about having published the list of AVEC people that have been received for Wikimedia, for this Wikimedia, and also the arguments to give AVEC, and I think that's also an exercise of transparency, and we should continue to replicate this type of practice. Monica is saying that actually META has a lot of details about the processes that the grants are given, that you can find many details, but it's not sufficient about the processes actually. Secondly, she said that she was part of the organization or was the main organization of Iberocon, the Regional Conference of Iberocon Initiative, and in that sense, the report that she made and her team made was not for the communities involved in the process or the conference, was for the foundation, also for the movement, that is public, the report about how the scholarships was decided, how the resources was chosen, or the decision-making process of the conference, of the General Conference. And third, it was that she heard in the corridors people talking about the publication or the publishing of the full list of the persons who received the scholarship to attend Wikimedia this time, and also the criteria and the reasons why that person received a scholarship, and she insists that the practice need to be replicated and need to be repeated year by year, right? Okay, so yeah, we are in a tricky conversation when we talk about transparency because every country, every region have a different historical trajectory or a different understanding of transparency means, no? But talking about changes, I heard that it's not sufficient, the actual compositions of the volunteer committees. I don't know if I heard well, Anna, but maybe there's a sort of intervention of the Wikimedia Foundation in the mechanisms of the committees. That's a very hard, big word. No, what I would say is that, again, back to my words, I think that we had a unique opportunity to build, I mean, this is, I mean, it's happening, right? We have the Movement Charter Committee working, and probably we will know better what's the Global Council and how it works, and yes, and this Movement Charter Committee is a community committee, are volunteers, right? I think that what I feel is that when distributing the funds in the regions, I think that we missed an opportunity. That's my feeling today, like, I think that we had the chance to build something more bottom-up and finally has been more top-down. And I was a little bit disappointed by that, not because of the people who is on the committee and not because of the response or how they evaluated, not the processes. Of course, every region is different. I'm talking on behalf of my experience in the Latin American region, but because I feel that we missed this opportunity to, okay, sit down together and say, okay, how we want the movement to distribute the funds from now on? How, I mean, through what mechanisms, through what processes? I understand that we needed, once we had the recommendation, we need to implement those recommendations, but it took us four years to build the strategy. I think that we could have waited, I don't know, one more year or half a year to discuss this that was very important and is directly affecting the communities at the local level. I think that, again, bringing the recommendations and the values and the recommendation, this idea of subsidiarity, that is also a very strange word in a lot of languages, but it means taking into account the communities that are directly affected by a decision. I think that we missed the opportunity to build something involving more actively the communities. I know that the grants department have done a great job. They work a lot on, I mean, they created, like, design sessions where I was there, so the intention was there, but I think that we missed a little bit more, yeah, again, the opportunity to build something more bottom-up, and more, yeah, I don't know how to say that would address better the needs of the communities. That's my feeling, because what we have now is, again, it's great, but for those who have been around the movement for a long time, it reminds me a lot of the FDC. I mean, it's kind of, right? We replicated the same committee, but, of course, much better, because now I can speak Spanish, I can write it in Spanish, they evaluate me in Spanish, so that's amazing. That's something I couldn't do 10 years ago. It was impossible. It was an idea that it was not even on the table, right? So I think that we have advanced a lot, but, yes, I don't think we are yet there to, at least in that particular committee, I'm not talking to the rest of the committees in the movement, but for the regional committees, I think that we could have done it better. That's my perspective. Probably in the Wikimanias steering committees somewhat loose compared to that that I have experienced with the regional grant committees. So sometimes it's hard to toggle my mind from one committee to another. Yeah, the regional grant committees is somewhat complex, but what we do in ECEAP, we are trying to engage also with the other regional grant committees our best practices so that everything is synced together because we have regional grant committees. There's local context on everyone, but we need to make sure that we have a unified process. Like, for instance, we need a proper feedback mechanism so that we ensure that the grantee will be able to get a very good grant rather than we just do a binary selection disapprove in terms of while we are in the Wikimanias steering committee, they are actually allowed ECEAP to decide on the fate of Singapore because basically, for transparency reasons, this is the first time that I will tell publicly that the steering committee, when Bangkok backed out, we actually have directly consulted with the steering committee what will be the next step and they allowed us some freedom on what will be the determination. And we used the ECEAP virtual meeting and surveyed all our countries and they all agreed to host Wikimanias if in case it was decided in their country, except Hong Kong, because they were in a turmoil at that time. But what we did is we did like somewhat an Olympic bid already that we have two or three rounds of selection. We base it on hard data, like how many percent this particular group is at risk if it is in this country, how many percent at risk this country will do if it is in the visa process. So after that, it ends up with the final number. Okay, we got this country to select Wikimania and then it was forwarded to the steering committee. We just give, sorry, I'm toggling from ECEAP to steering committee, but from an ECEAP perspective, we want some formality from the steering committee if they accede to our decision and they have agreed to overwhelmingly to agree to get Singapore. So in future conferences, we try to apply that, but of course it depends on the local context. So we cannot force a certain region like Latin America to do the same process as ours. So it really depends on the local community or the local grouping if what will be the best suit on their side. Well, we talked about retroalimentation and also the issue of resources, but transparency and account retention are not the only ones, but we should also have, and in the case of committees, if they are working or not, if we have had many advances, the language, the documentation, when, I remember what we did from Wikimedia Colombia with the first Grants request, we didn't know who they were evaluating or what the parameters were and now we already know the group of people. I'm not sure we have the clarity of all the parameters that are taken into account for the evaluation of the requests and I think that is necessary. But we also have to talk about governance, how decisions are taken, what is the logic, if they are the interests of the communities or if we are aligned with the communities or not with the interests of the foundation and the issue of how resources are distributed. And I think there is a situation of distrust in the decision-making and then it would be very good to have space to be able to talk with the foundation and build and ask and receive feedback but also meet with the committees that evaluate the proposals we make. For the case, for example, of Wikimedia Colombia, we have also made programs to request grants where we have integrated the voices of the volunteers in the country. And this is very significant and today we talked a lot about the issue of indicators and I think that is also very important that building a community is much more difficult than creating articles in Wikimedia. And that should also be integrated and it is not very clear yet but I think we should have space to at least so that the committee works much better. Monica said that she recognizes all the things that has changed in the last years about language about the decision-making process that is more open maybe but it's not sufficient because we need to have more clarity about how the decision is taken inside the committees and the composition of the committees and be more clear about the decision-making process is not the same that transparency and accountability is not the same but we need also more... what did you say? Talk about governance, have a discussion about governance inside the volunteer committees. So we are approaching now to the lunch we have I think space for two questions of interventions because we have seven minutes so if you want to... the microphone is over there. My question is about governance my question is for everyone but especially for Monica what can we do to make it possible to speak your own language especially when you don't speak English in a volunteer committee of governance which are the good practices in English now so my question is for all but especially for Monica what we can do to ensure that you can speak your own language especially if you don't speak specifically English to participate in the committees for global governance of the movement what could be the good practices? Thank you. I can go first I think that is a very difficult question and we don't have an answer but I would say that you need political commitment for it it's a commitment as well and we need political commitment and resources when you have a political commitment it's like when you create a policy in a government you need to resource that policy to make it happen I think that is what we need in the movement I think that again I'm old enough in this movement to have gone through I don't know conference where English was the only language only speaking English and now we are advancing again reporting in your own language for me was a huge change for Wikimedia Argentina and also for me because nobody knew but I did three kinds of reports in Spanish then I had to translate it in English and then translate it to code because it was a matter so for me it was like one month reporting just to submit it but I think it's we need a political commitment we need a yeah I don't know who to ask in the foundation because of the board of trustees not even the executives in the foundation should be from the board of trustees to say okay from now onboarding ongoing I don't know at least the eight main languages or everybody could speak in their own languages and for that you need resources that's my feeling I mean I look at how the general assembly of the United Nations happens it's a you have like 100 translators behind the Congress woman and men translating what is said everybody is more intelligent in their own language and more intelligent in Spanish I can promise to all you I mean by far more smart in Spanish so I think it's again ask I mean volunteers and community keep asking I think again we have advanced a lot but as for this political commitment and resource that political commitment no sorry I'm always looking at the time I also have to apply my hat as lead organizer I also already see Roxy there so a quick answer we send a bill of materials or requirements to the foundation we need this we need that we need a translator we need not just a translator to live translate we also need a translator to translate documents we don't want it to a burden to a purely volunteer and then that's it and then Anna already said it well I think we're to speak in Spanish in my case it's a political decision also and then I think we also need understand that it will take us much more time resources and efforts because also the issue of communication is an inclusion and then because we continue having spaces of discussion in English but then we are also here present speaking Spanish and being as we are a multilingual movement and we also need to reflect a little more about this Monica said that the willing of talking Spanish is a political decision by her and using your own language is also a political decision and we have actually more needs about inclusion because talking your own language is a sort of inclusion that it's very important to consider and we need to work in that so thank you so much for your time thank you for your opinions thanks everyone for being here the conversation continues in the lunch of course especially thanks to botch that is in the middle of a storm he is talking here with us thank you so much Anna Monica botch thank you


Hi folks, I'm Mike and I hope you're well. A couple of weeks ago I let you know about a new free piano library from Heavyocity. That's the Foundations Piano. Now if you liked that, and I know many of you did, then you're in for a treat because Heavyocity have also just released a free strings library. That's the Foundations Staccato Strings. As I say it's free and it works with the free version of Contacts though. Everyone's a winner. Now I've only had this actually for a couple of hours and I've thrown together a quick demo using the new Staccato Strings and also the piano as well. Let's have a quick listen to that now. Now if I'm honest with you and always try to be, that demo was a pretty generic composition if I may call it that. But the sound itself is not generic at all. In fact with this demo I really wasn't doing it justice and showing you what it's really all about because if you remember with Foundations Piano it was all about the sound of the texture. Now the texture is the sound which is coming after the main note is played and it's really here in the decay. You'll see two big knobs on the user interface here. One for the volume of the strings themselves and one for the volume of the texture. So if I just push that up a little bit I'm just going to play a single note okay and have a listen to the decay. Get all of that lovely rich stuff happening there on the decay of the notes. And of course if you just want to use it just as a string sound you can definitely turn the texture all the way down and you do get a really nice sounding staccato string. One of the things I actually really like about this or a couple of things I like about the strings just by themselves is first of all they've just got a really nice feel in terms of velocity so you get that it just feels good to play. And the other thing the stereo spread is quite nice if we have a listen at the top end it comes sort of out of one ear much much more so and then down at the lower end you sort of really hear that stereo spread which is rather nice. But there is much more to this instrument than just the combination of the strings and the texture. So let's go through some of the other pages that we can see from these tabs here. So the first one here we have an ADSR envelope control so ADSR for those of you not familiar it stands for attack decay sustain release. We've got some control of that there and actually I'd say you know the attack especially can really change the sound of this instrument. So here's how it sounds at the moment. I'll just turn that attack all the way up actually and it becomes much more gentle because you're getting that sort of fade in you. So that's one of the great ways that you can change the sound here. We also have an arpeggiator. I'll get back to that in a moment because I just want to quickly tell you there is an effects tab you've got some good stuff there like delay and reverb etc. But let's go back to that arpeggiator. So we can actually arpeggiate both the strings and the texture and we can either use it as an arpeggiator in terms of it's playing many notes. So I'll just switch on for the strings here you know that's sequencing the notes. Just notice I'm just playing one note and holding it down there have a look. Yeah so you can use it for arpeggiating notes you can also use it to arpeggiate texture the texture side of things and you can also use it to arpeggiate a gate. This is best demonstrated not with my clumsy sort of representation of it there but by going to some of the presets. So I'm just going to flick through and go to this one first of all hateful eights okay and I'm just going to hold down let's try just a D minor chord. Yeah so you can really really quickly get some nice sort of rhythmic things going on there just by sustaining a chord and letting the plug in do the rest of it. Let's just go to another one which I really rather like I have to say where was it this one muted ice drops again we'll just try that that D minor chord. Just just get inspired to use this right way and I think that's so important with any library like when you open up and you start to use it do you just want to make music with it. I do with this and it's probably what I'm going to do now to be honest with you so I just wanted to quickly show you this absolutely brand new free library as I say it works with the free version of contact I'll put a link for both of those in the description down below. Now if you want to find out about more free libraries and effects that you can use in your music production check out my playlist for that I've got absolutely a gazillion of them which I've shown you about over the last few years so check it out and binge watch it.


talk about this performance right now with Kevin Durant Kevin you guys shot nearly 60 percent from the floor better than 60 percent from three point range and the only miss one free throw in the 30 attempts how would you sum up this collective performance tonight well I think defensively after that first little barrage in the first quarter we know we locked in physical with physicality and you know we were under actions and contesting shots and you know they end up shooting 30 to 42 percent throughout the whole game you know they made some shots late you know just desperate shots getting them up from the three-point line but majority of the game we held them under 42% shooting and if we're gonna score that eventually I think that's just a you know it's an easy way for us to win the game coming off of that game three performance or the conversations like among teammates what were you guys locked in on in terms of the task at hand in terms of what you wanted to do in this game for well just then locked in on the game plan I think we relaxed just a tiny bit there game three especially being up 19 or four and you know that turned the game once they got back into it in game three with just our lack of physicality I think tonight we just stay consistent with it you guys you talked about you know the big 15 but just in terms of the big three James Harden's called it scary hours you have 42 Kyra Irving with 39 and James Harden almost had a 20-20 game when you guys are on target like that how difficult to you to contend with I mean we're in a we're pretty difficult if we all in a good groove we've taken efficient shots and not turn the ball over so we're in the game with nine nine turnovers and 29 assists James had six of those turnovers and a couple of those came late so we kept the ball in our hands and then you know Kyra and myself just tried to get efficient baskets every time down and our teammates did a great job of being available for us Bruce Joe Landry Tyler you know Nick Claxton I think everybody came in and gave us good minutes last thing for you real quick full capacity crowd at TD Garden what do you expect in game five back at Barclays well the same type of intensity it was there for the first two games we looking forward to trying to close this thing out at home and our fans are gonna be you know they're early and cheering loud so I can't wait thanks as always KD


Hey everybody this is Brett with Summit Auto and today I'm excited to show you our very first 2021 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon 4xE the electric hybrid from Jeep. It's our very first one that we received it's in billet silver and we're gonna do a walk around go inside outside underneath uncheck everything out and then we're gonna do some real world driving and take it on the highway see how it accelerates see how it handles and just what kind of fuel economy we're gonna get with it and we're excited to show you that and let's go check it out.


In Nigeria, an estimated 14,000 women are diagnosed with cervical cancer and over 7,900 women die from the disease every year. To reduce the mortality rate of women in Nassarawa states, the federal government of Nigeria have commenced a vaccination exercise of young girls between the ages of 9 and 14 years against the human papillomavirus which is responsible for cervical cancer in women. Speaking at a one-day stake order's engagement for the introduction of the HPV vaccine in Latvia on Thursday, the Executive Secretary of the Nassarawa State Primary Health Care Development Agency Dr. Mohamed Usman said the aim of the exercise was to completely eradicate cervical cancer in the state. Also in his speech, a representative of the World Health Organization as a one-day Christoffer explained that the vaccination exercise was important owing to the fact that cervical cancer killed many young females in the country. Our man, yes the son of the soil, is part of the affair at regional level. I'm talking about Dr. Faisal. So I think other states face a cervical phase but Nassarawa is among the 16 states that will be implementing the vaccine. So the age bracket is 9 to 14 years. The 9 to 14 years is going to be in compare. We are going to track all these age brackets within one week after which is going to be routinized. It's more of catch up compare. Catch up in the sense that from 9 years to 14 years we will try, please try to track them wherever they are with vasneten. After that is going to be routinized. We are going to use it as a routine. It's going to be at the vasneten level whereby the age bracket 9 is going to be only 9 years.


So it's kind of, there's two sides to this answer. Fundamentally, I don't believe you should tell managers how to manage their team. I just think that as a concept, you know, if they want to deploy, if they want to carry a guy for one major, very important and bad in the seventh inning, that's their prerogative. Selfishly, I love the rule because it takes a long time to get ready every day.  The game starts at seven, but our preparation starts after the previous night's game ends. So it takes a lot to get ready to play that day. And to get in there and just face one guy for me wasn't quite as enjoyable as being able to face, you know, a string of three or four hitters and really being able to feel like you're contributing to the win of the team. So selfishly, I'm happy for the rule. Did you figure anything out against lefties? The figure out is too strong a word, but you've worked well against lefties last year in the small sample. Yeah. Did you make any adjustments there? So, you know, I never thought I would have as much success against lefties in the big league. This has been going back 15 years. I always thought I'd be a match-up guy, right? Along the way, I learned a four-seamer that allows me to pitch up in the zone to lefties and kind of presents a look they've never seen before. So I've been able to manage myself against lefties most of my career. You know, you might not put me in against three consecutive lefties, although I've done that before, too. So I don't mind facing lefties. I have ways to get them out, and I've always enjoyed facing them.


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We are talking about the handshake tour that we have seen in the recent days and to help us to understand whether this handshake tour will be helpful to Kenyans. I have with me on my right, I have Daniel Oroga, political analyst on my left. I have Abubakar Rendama, he is a political analyst as well. So the question is, with the handshake tour help Kenyans to realize the development we die and need and to put things in perspective. We now move to our discussion tonight. I want to begin with you, Daniel. What do you make of the handshake tour? Thanks for having me Hilary, my good friend Abubakar. I think, let us know that the origin of the handshake is, people call it handshake, people call it various things. But what we really need to understand is that it came out out of something. We had very, very, what we call very hard times after the election. And we have to remember that it took two leaders to tangle, to reassure us that as a country, we really need to forge ahead. Forget about really what really differentiates us as ethnic communities and reunite. It's not like we forgot what happened. It has also remembered that the handshake initiative set forth what is called the building bridges initiative or the building bridges task force that I have got a very nine point agenda to pursue through. So let's not only always think about what we saw was two people shaking hands. What we really need to think is, is it sustainable throughout, is it or is it that when we are headed we're just about to go on an election. And we forget that we have a handshake and go back to an election. But before really I see that in some quarters it's been seen as a problem to assertion politics or like blocking a certain candidate, a potential candidate to ascend to power.  Alright, we'll be getting to that to see whether it was political sabotage or not. Now Abu Bakar, what do you make of the handshake tour? Because we saw them in Kisumu and everything they did, even the visitation. What do you make of that? Thank you very much Hilary for also having me here with my good friend Daniel. I'm very much grateful. I think March 9 was the most historic day Kenya has ever had. In terms of cohesion and integration. Because it's the day that two national leaders came outside the Harambe house and shook hands. An indication that there will be no more unnecessary fights. We hope and by then we knew very much, very well that moving forward we will have some good things coming towards because of that. Although sometimes I have some other reservations. Not all things that are done, they have the meaning that we are seeing. Some might be having different hidden interests in the genders. For me I really appreciated that it was a very, very, very good move. But again I have some questions as a young person to pursue and ask so that these two leaders, two national leaders can come into the limelight and tell us the way forward. Just shaking hands alone. It's good, yes, but they need to tell us what is it in this handshake. What was the details? Daniel you mentioned some quotas feel like something was not good. Do you think the handshake now was a political sabotage especially to this day at the houses now? Well much of it, I think this is what I just began to say that you see in Kenya our political history and what has been happening, our political platform is that any move would always have political connotation in it. And that is how the Kenyan voter, that is how the Kenyan citizen has really been treated to political happenings throughout. And it's an issue we don't blame the massage. But coming into this, I am one of the proponents of the BBI initiative because I didn't just like it because it was two people shaking hands. I took my time and read through what the nine point agenda was all about. And you realize that one of the things was what the president and Honorable Right Prime Minister trying to do is to unite the country, ensure that there is inclusivity, ensure that there is rights as well as responsibility, ensure that corruption is dealt with, and ensure that there is an end of political violence. So you see in all these, the agenda that we talked about, it's people can be mysterious about what is all about. It's simply because the persona of the former prime minister begs a question where he is still energetic enough to have another run, another chance for 2022. We all know that right now the president or the jubilee side has not been coming forth to reassure the deputy president that our 2013 agreement is still impact. Even though we know it's still impact because agreements until the election, until that happens. But of course I agree with what my friend Abubakari is saying that the readers from both Kenya and the side of the deputy president has to question. Now that you're bringing the former prime minister in question, could you reassure our followers that you're still going to support even with the coming of handshake? But again Hilary, handshake needs to be devolved.  Today we are just reading what is happening in Narok. If we are asking the leaders in the border to devolve handshake that could not have happened, kisumu nandi border. If we are asking the two governors to reach out to one another, member of parliament to shake hands. So it's an issue that Kenyans really needs to take and run away with and ensure that it's going on throughout. Very well. You said it's good for them to tell us what the handshake was all about. Now we saw the jamhuridei being celebrated in kisumu. Do you feel like the unity that was shown? Actually for the first time after a long time we saw the opposition leaders together with the government in the same platform. Now do you think the people from the lake region benefited as much? I started by admitting that handshake was something very good for the sake of the unity and cohesion of this country. That one is a fact. However we have the key players, especially the young people. They are talking about these nine pillars. There is one pillar that talks about the ending and immocity and violences during elections. Who are these people that are involved in these election practices? For example in terms of violence itself, it's the young people. As we speak, that committee that is being headed by Yusuf Hajji and Paul Mwangi plus Amuswako. Those are just three of the members that have mentioned that are sitting in that committee. Mind you, they are not youths. And the most people that are being subjected or the ones that are being always subjected to violences are the young people. So we are talking about the handshake, this handshake that is being cohesioned. With this cohesion, who is the key player? Who is playing the biggest role in it? So as for me, I would be very much comfortable when I see some of our young people sitting in that committee so that they can recommend the issues of young people within Kenya. If I could ask... Secondly, we have been told about ending corruption within the same pillar. This is just a few pillars I am talking about. This ninth match, the handshake happened after the budget. It was already out. So I am wondering and I managed to ask where are the funds coming from to fund this initiative. It is a very good initiative. Yes, we have been refused. But where are we getting the funds to fund this initiative? That means there are some resources somewhere from a certain department that is being channeled again toward this initiative and services in that sector, they are not being rendered. So again, we are talking about ending corruption and we are not being told where as this money coming from the one that is behind this initiative. It is a very nice initiative. But we need to be told these things so that we can now be very comfortable with all these things. Lastly, about the political part of it. The deputy president even came and said he is supporting the handshake. It is only a fool who cannot support that because it has brought our economy back on course. I am not saying any quarter that it should be worried about this thing. But again, there are some people that are using this initiative to scope political agendas. So again, we also need to be told in terms of setting political agendas how is it that this initiative is correlated with it. We want, if anything to go by, we need to deter this thing completely away from politics because at the end of the day these are two political leaders that they have decided to share their ambition and come together. So if there is something to go by, they are supposed to be very independent as leaders and not as politicians. So the matter of one quarter thinking that the handshake is going to maybe to bring a bad image on their side, it is not supposed to be that. And also the initiators of this handshake itself, they need to come out very clear. Someone should not come out and say that this initiative will spearhead referendum and you know when you talk about referendum, some quarters will hear.  So need to be very clear on these issues. All right, I see, Rogo, you have something you want to say, but before you respond to that, because actually we are running out of time, why do you think the youths are more prone to be used in terms of elections and why do you think they are most used when it comes to causing trouble? The youth have lost hope in this country. A lot of appointments are not given to them. We are only being used during campaigns and we have been reduced to that state that Taimiya campaign. Some of the leaders say that we are ignorant, they really are ignorant, of which I don't subscribe to that because we are the most adworking people we've ever had. An employment is the key thing that is making us being used each and every time. So once even these initiatives like this one come and young people are given opportunities to get employment in these initiatives, it will be at least we will be better off than where we were during the last time. So generally it's the politicians or the leaders of this country that has reduced the young people to be beggars and jobless so that they can be using them during the campaigns. So basically our systems are failing us. Our systems are failing us and when we start talking about these things, somebody will start calling us names. Like the other time the youth of this country, they were called the thieves.  And that's where the position was given to someone older. It was very much, it was very much unfortunate. Okay, we're running out of time. I want you to respond to his sentiments as we finish. Well, I agree with most of the issues that have been brought by Bubakar. First forward, young people should not sit, cry foul and wait. This is one thing we really need to tell ourselves always and always. The opportunities that we see being grabbed away by the old God are equal opportunities that we can fight for and get. And I think the only way we miss this is simply because there is no level playing ground for us as young people. And I think we also, and I said this sometimes ago, we don't just have to wait that we'll be given. Young people are so innovative and we have tyrant of numbers. We have so many in this country. The question then begs is, when are we going to change? When are we going to decide that to change? But the thing is, do we appreciate content? 1969, there were young people. Who are they? Moikibaki, Tom Boyer and the rest. But look at what they did. We are still using their session on paper number 10 until now. So it means that the young people of that generation had good content to do. But as we are building bridges initiative, and I really agree, that is the only component I am critical about BBI. The fact that young people were not given an equal appointment to that committee means that issues are affecting young people and they are always at the center of political violence, either as perpetrator or as victims. So I think it's important moving forward. Instead of the third way alliance filing a petition to do away with BBI on the component that is not constitutional, in the component that is not really a decision by two people, I think I would have comfortably joined that petition when they said young people were not included in the platform. Then we would ask young people, we would be very critical about BBI. But let us also forget that. You see, the initiators of handshake were two people. Abu Bakar, they were two people. That was the current president and the former prime minister. So they have already come out and say we are popularizing the handshake initiative by having a tour and I would like also to really criticize the proponents who are always throwing tantrums at the deputy president. I think that is not in good vein because we need the deputy president as well to unite the country. But if we are seeing this as a way of trying to chuck us up politically and say you are 2022 is on a dream, I think that is not in good faith. Now I want us to finish by answering this question. Do you think Abu Bakar, the tour, will help Kenya realize its development? I don't think so because of the structures that are in place. As we speak in Kisumu the other day, they just went, launched a school, then they came back. How did the Kisumu residents at Alaj benefited from it when they are going to Kajadu? What are they doing for the economic empowerment? Because what we need now, in Kenya we have always had peace. We have peace even now. So there is no way you can tell me now it has any development achievement so far. Almost ten months down the line it has not achieved anything. I want to challenge whoever sits in that committee that let them think of something that will be of economic beneficial to the person down there at the grass road. As we speak now, most of the people don't even know that committee exists. It's only a few youth leaders who know the BBI and everything. But most of the people when you go down there they only know the handshake and that's it. So they don't know the inequalities, the insides of the handshake. So it hasn't. All right. Orogazi finished. Do you think we will see the achievement or the development that we need? We have sort of seen the achievement. And one of the achievements that we have seen is that there is this tranquility in the country which is much needed for economical development like Abubakar has just mentioned. I played with Kenyans. I always played with Kenyans that you see for the first time can we give this committee a room? It has a spelt work for it to do that it should be handing a report by May 2013. So that means that a lot needs to be done. And the only sceptical, and please the leaders that are in this initiative really, the only sceptics I have is sustainability. But if it is rolled through it is important that we give it a chance and it will probably see things like universal health care could have been launched in Nairobi in KICC. But as we launch it in Isiolo, there is much to come with the initiative. Very well. Many thanks gentlemen for coming and sharing your sentiments in regards to our topic of discussion tonight. They have been my guest Daniel Orogo, political analyst and Abubakar Andama, a political analyst. Coming up next is Wai Mashariki I see DJ TSK is very much ready. DJ TSK kaniaje. Habari alew. Alew kona nani? Lew kаяs. I kona ask him to be the next day. Okay. Si jali, si imbayokunakunakona at home at times? Yeah nanezo iza kidekera. What do you expect from the show tonight? We know Kalma Kareba also like. I'm expecting to run it. Wari niye rebbis ukim pata Many thanks for keeping us company back home My name is Dereva Hilevi See you on Friday Enjoy your evening


The online advertising ecosystem and Google, winner of the Big Brother was 2021. And Reina Tangens is the speaker. Reina is a co-founder of Digital Courage, a data protection or privacy activist, and a co-founder of the Hexen, the one in German group. And they are still finding new winners for the Big Brother Brother Awards in Germany, which is kind of surprising. And who is the winner of the 2021 award and the new category, which is called What Really Makes Me Angry? That is what Reina is going to talk about. Enjoy. Yeah, thank you. Thank you. I'm happy to be here in Congress and talk about the Big Brother Awards again. The Big Brother Awards are a joint project and among the organizers is the Chaos Computer Club. I'm now going to say something about my organization, Digital Courage, was founded in 1987, when people didn't quite know what they should do with these computers and they were very expensive to. And we started a regular event called Public Domain, which has been the grassroots group from. And the CCC was involved in that too. Digital Courage had been working with only volunteers until 2006 and since then we're happy to be able to pay a few people so that not just people whose parents are rich or who have a lot of money themselves can join us. And we're very happy to have been able to have some effect. And part of our work every year goes into the Organizing the German Big Brother Awards. These are, this is an international project. The Big Brother Awards as such, they were started in the UK. And by Privacy International, Big Brother Awards, of course, referred to the George Orwell novel, 1984, where the Big Brother is watching everyone. And at the time we were wondering whether the name should actually be taken on from the other countries too, because Big Brother, the image of Big Brother evokes totalitarian states surveilling everyone. And Orwell in those days looked towards stalinism as a role model. And we thought that's actually not far reaching enough because of the manifold options for surveillance these days. It's not just states that monitor us, but the commercial sector is very busy in monitoring. And it was clear that this would become an extraordinary thing as well. So we wondered for a while whether to call it Huxley Award. The Brave New World novel has a lot more about this consumer attitude, people that are happy if they're supposedly their needs are fulfilled and wishes. And they do all these things happily. But we decided against the name change because it is an international project. And we wanted to be part of that. And not as many people know Huxley, and this was not going to be a literary award, although we do like to organize readings against surveillance. The Big Brother Awards have been bestowed since 2000 by us in the city of Bielefeld. And we have a range of activists, civil rights experts, previously law experts. The KS Computer Club is one of them in personified by Frank Rosengard, Tilo Weicher, the former potato protection commissioner from the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, now a member of the Netzwerk Datenschutz-Expektise, data network privacy expertise, Peter Wede, a very renowned industrial law expert from Frankfurt, as well as these other jury members. And the Big Brother Awards are given out in various categories. And it takes the shape of a big gala every year. The winners are not that enthusiastic, normally, about winning. And they avoid appearing at the gala to accept the award, although it's actually a very nice sculpture that they are given. But there are exceptions. And noteworthy and praiseworthy exceptions are Microsoft and Deutsche Telekom. And some time ago, Zeit Online, the news website, and the last award that I mentioned actually touches on what I'm going to talk about today. What else are we doing? Sometimes the publicity that we try to create through the Big Brother Awards isn't enough, so we need to apply some more pressure. So we organize the Freiheitsstaat Angst or English Freedom Not Fear rallies. And every now and then, we have to go to the German Federal Constitutional Court, for example, against data retention, against unemployment wages register. OK, Big Brother Awards. In fact, the title of the talk has already given it away. Google has a role to play here.  In 2013, they had one as well. You can all read up on this at bigbrotherawards.de. And it's all in German and English, including all the award speeches. And this interpreter has translated some of those. And the award speech in 2013 had a lot of original sources that I researched, and some of the quotes from the Google founders and the CEO at the time were noted. And I would like to give those to you first to just get you into the mood, as it were. And this is what Paralloun is going to do. Right. Now, original quote from Eric Schmidt. I'm just seeking out the original, if there is, I can't. So Eric Schmidt's understanding of privacy on the net for then CEO was if you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place. The second quote, I actually think most people don't want Google to answer their questions. They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next. And we have the founder, Sergey Brin. We want Google to be the third half of your brain. And to make it a bit more concrete, Larry Page, it will be included in people's brains. Eventually, you will have the implant, where if you think about a fact, it will just tell you the answer. Now, we can imagine that in a very concrete way. If I read a news item on the internet about the conservative politician recently died who was conspicuous for corruption connected with the state of Azerbaijan. And if you consider, what is this Azerbaijan anyway? And you wonder, and you could then use Google Glass maybe and immediately find the Wikipedia entry about the state. You might think that that is a very practical thing. But I'd say that this is hugely dangerous, because Google tries to stop you from thinking and win you off thinking. And this kind of power is something that Google really likes. And Google really tries to make things as comfortable and pleasurable as possible to us and pretends to be doing what we want and wish for. And that's what gets me to the recent topic. And that is something that we invented a new category for, which was what really makes me really angry. And I think you know this. All of you remember the feeling you go to a website. And what do you see? A cookie banner. And about that, I'm now going to read to you from the award speech. Cookie banners. They're such a pest. You know this. You enter a website. And bam, immediately this box pops up, terribly designed, and covering what you actually wanted to see. And now you need to decide, do you just want to get to this web page? Pick quickly. Then just click the large, colored OK button. But if you take your rights thing seriously, it gets complicated. I squint it.  And that is quite a lot. The 470 trackers, for example, at the German broadsheet Süddeutsche Zeitung, I don't want any of this, is not even an option. And if you do the arduous work of manually deselecting each and every tracker, be very careful because the next friendly and colorful button says, except all, and not save selection. That button is gray. But careful. Again, you shouldn't even click on that one, because first, you need to find the well-hidden category called legitimate interest. In there, everything is set to active still. And again, you need to deactivate everything. Did you know that? And meanwhile, I heard that from the legal point of view, you can actually ignore this and just save selection, because you should have to explicitly give your consent. But which of these company would actually keep to those rules? Now, these cookie dialogues are, of course, designed according to the latest findings on human perception, psychology, and web design for ergonomically pleasing websites. But the principle is to do the exact opposite. So important choices are hidden in the text flow, while the OK option is displayed as a big button. These choices are written in illegible colors and font sizes. The except all button is at the bottom right, where we would normally expect to find the button to confirm our choices. Often, the left-right alignment of options is swapped. If I click where I previously clicked to deactivate trackers, there now is a central switch that will activate everything again. Super. And then there are linguistic monsters, complex wordings, and multiple negations to maximize our confusion. This kind of trickery in design is called dark patterns. So dark patterns, they could also rightly be called deceit, unethical, or manipulation by design. If we are in a good mood and not in a hurry, we could regard it all as an absurd game, a dark pattern adventure. Will I make it through the maze and decline all the trackers? What are they going to try next in order to trick me? And once I got through to the other side, can anyone remind me which article I wanted to read? Cookie banners are not a game. They are miserable and mean. They steal my lifetime. This is design made to tire me out and wear me down. The intention is to make me give up and eventually click OK. And now everyone take note. It is not data protection. That is to blame. No. That's often thought and claimed by interested parties. No, these unnerving queries are by no means mandated by law. On the contrary, a large part of these cookie banners are outright illegal. In May 2021, the privacy organization Neub.eu, that Mark Schrems, the Austrian activist initiated, sent more than 500 complaints to companies using illegal cookie banners on their websites. And there could be a lot more. Thank you for that. And thanks to the members of the European Parliament, the many people who joined in, Matias Ebel to the journalist wrote a tool that makes complaints easier. Use that. Use the options to actually make these companies work. Give them work so that these things stop. I would also like to thank the members of the European Parliament who started the initiative TrackingFreeAds.eu against tracking-based advertising. And cookie banners are only the most visible materialization of the ways we are spied upon on the internet. So there are many more spying methods. The Facebook Pixel, that's included invisibly on many media websites. And the trays are clicking behavior to Facebook. There is the browser fingerprint, which many of you will know. It uses information on things like the operating system. We use browser type plug-ins, installed fonts, in order to re-identify us without the need for any cookies at all. What really makes me really angry, you see this dissuading period that you often see when something is loading. Do you know what happens in the background when you enter a website? Your personal profile is now being offered on the online advertising market. An auction for your attention begins. You are the commodity. This is called real-time bidding. It happens in milliseconds. Various groups of online advertising providers identify and analyze and classify you using your online profile, which is kept by even different companies. Say you are male in your mid-40s and you have a taste for expensive watches, or the student who's just looked for a flat share online is now being baited with supposedly convenient credit offers. So you see this example. Not just things that are positive for us, but also that normally this is exactly where the foundations are laid to drive us in. Now with real-time bidding, our ecosystem is actually wagering in real-time bidding, trying to be the one to show you their adverts. The gigantic network of providers and other fishing carries, and those who actually make the web interesting, all those journalists, content providers, all of all kinds, they get only the smallest pieces of the cake. What makes me really angry that other people that shout, ah, but can content be made available for free without advertising, well, the greatest free is something different. Snooping and manipulation is going on. And the media that are producing that interesting content, I am currently getting a complete waffle from a mobile, thank you, fitting to the cake. I also want one at the door, at the next door, the cake, the ad cake, what companies, maybe in media companies have been selling advertising space for a long time. However, until the 1990s, they were actually able to keep the largest share of the taking for themselves. And from that, they could pay journalists, photographers, cartoonist, researchers, et cetera, a proper wage. Sinter 3000s, media revenue is in free fall. Because Mino I have 50% to 70% of the money spent by advertising customers that does not reach the publishers anymore, or the content creators. It is taken by the service providers and advertising platforms that have got in the way. And that's what you can see here. That's the development of the revenue from advertising in the US. And as you can see, more money is spent. But the publishers get much, much less. And Google and Facebook are getting more and more. And as you can see, there is a different change in power through money. And that's the money that doesn't reach the media anymore, which they don't like, but they still cooperate with Google. To summarize personalized advertising means the users are snooped upon and the media companies are starved out. What makes me really angry? Google now presents itself as a white knight and it announced Chrome, Google's own browser, will block third party goodies from 2022. Big cheers from the internet and media, Google will rescue us from cookie banners. But it's not that easy. But blocking third party cookies in no way means that this will stop tracking and spying on the net. No, Google simply wants to introduce a new flock, which doesn't actually mean flock, but FLOC, Federated Learning of CoreHards. And FLOC means the following. We will be based on our browsing behavior, what Chrome stores always. The browser puts us into a group in a CoreHard. And saves that on our local computer. And websites can then ask for that. So our browser behavior will be analyzed. There are a lot of people and we are one of those. And you might think that you can run in this group of 1,000 or 5,000 people, but that's a mistake. But many of those people are also logged in. For example, in the Google or the Facebook account, all both of them. And they can also be recognized by their browser fingerprint. So that information is then much more precise than before. The browser sees everything you do in the internet and it will be considered in the selection of the CoreHard. And that website can then recognize you, depending on that. Thanks. So FLOC improves the analyzational possibilities, but only for Google. And that graph is important for that. That's the part how many people have Chrome. And they have about 70%. And in Germany, it's a little bit less. In Germany, many people are using Firefox. And that's a good thing, even if you can critique Firefox. Who hope that Google protects us, that we can't be traced in the internet, who couldn't have seriously expected that. Because Google, as a company, finances itself to 99% from advertising. I wrote in Lodas, we rather trust that Piranhas are going to be vegan. Google will be doing everything against changes to that business. So we have to do something against that very clearly and hard. And a side effect to FLOC that is welcome to Google is that they are all staying competitors from the advertisement market. And here you can see the main winners. That's Google, Facebook, and recently also Amazon. And then maybe you have seen that there are ads on Amazon. And that's not often looked into. But it's also a big business. And Peter Thier, who financed Facebook and produced papers. And he wrote a book called Competition for Losers. These people don't want a free market, which is usually suggested. They want a monopoly. And that's what they are working for. So to another point, which makes me really angry, that's how the cooperation treat every one of us, how these regard people as a resource, which they can exploit and whose personal experience they can own. The disdain for people, the ruthlessness and the intention to deceive, the scorn for paying taxes and for state infrastructure, and the contempt for legal regulation. Shoshana Zuboff has found a word for that, surveillance capitalism. This book is something I want to recommend to you. This is the German version, the translation. But if you can read the English version, it's better. So it's not only a single data leech. It's a whole leaching ecosystem. It's this includes insurances that want to exclude every possible risk to themselves, the scarring companies that secretly rate us all, determining our opportunities in real life, the lobbyists, the think tanks, the PR agencies, the law firms that make this position possible, and the secret services that profit from all and like to fish and murky waters themselves. Then came the big question, who is going to receive the big brother award, if you're looking at this long list, to the cookie bakeries, to the online advertisement industry, to the big platform monopolists, to the psychological nudging experts, and the dark pattern designers, the profile paddlers, real-time bidding casino operators, the smart ones, unscrupulous ones, hangouts in the media. It was a tough choice, but then something happened. Because Google basically nominated themselves. We don't know if it's human errors, the real deed of a whistleblower or an AI that had been sampling a digital truth theory or maybe loaded an ethics module. What happened? The story goes like this. 10 US states led by Texas filed a lawsuit against Google in 2020. They complained that Google was abusing its market power to fix prices for online advertisement, forming a monopoly and manipulating auctions for advertisement space. Google was claimed to be abusing. Without restraint, its double role is an advertisement platform provider and as a provider of ads itself, as well as its access to user data. Kent Paxton, attorney general of Texas, explained the image with a baseball image. Google is acting as pitcher, catcher, batter, and umpire all at the same time. So Google filed documents at the US district court in Texas intending to prove the innocence. The file documents were excessively relevant to the case, but not in the way Google intended because the documents had not been redacted. So the really interesting passages had not been backed out. A few hours later, Google noticed the mistake and asked to refile its documents. But it was too late. Some farce court reporters from the legal parter, Amlex, they had read the unredacted versions and quickly realized the treasure that had fallen into their laps. These documents describe that since 2013, Google has an action and platform. Google as an action and platform had been using its knowledge of previous actions, options to predict which offers would be just high enough. That means Google can tell you the prices to buy an action and platform. With that, they were able to prove that the current action and platform has been used to predict which offers would be just high enough. So using their second role, they were able to, I'm sorry, have lost it was now in Google's own documents that they were abusing their double role. And they were not only gaining an advantage on their competitors, but also pressing down prices on advertising. So let me repeat, the users are snooped upon and media companies are starved out. So they were using its knowledge of previous options to predict what offers would be just high enough. And they were using that double role to win these options and drive prices. And Google, what makes me really angry, Google has internally named this process Project Bernanke after Bernanke, the former chair of the US Federal Reserve. This code name signifies nothing else, but Google's license to print money, the sheer arrogance. But there is more. In 2018, Google struck a secret deal with Facebook, number two in the advertising market. The internal code name is Jedi Blue. In this deal, Google assures Facebook its competitor that Facebook are going to win 10% of the auctions that they participate in on Google's platform. How could that be assured in a market with supposedly free competition? This is how Google delivers information to Facebook about internet users, which Facebook can use to uniquely identify 60% of desktop users and 80% of mobile users. This way, I'm coming to the end soon. This way, Facebook knows for which users it will be worth to invest for their ads. And Facebook used a procedure called header bidding that other companies prefer. And they assure in return that they will stop pursuing this rather technology. So if that is not anti-competitive behavior, then what is? But you are caught. And there are things that don't just make me angry, but also that make me hopeful others. And I put these on this slide. So the lawsuits and sanctions against big tech due to privacy and competition law violations are increasing. And we should still see that the valid law is enforced. In California, the state that is actually the state of the Silicon Valley has enacted a data protection law. And that was actually stricter than the European GDPR in New York Times decided that they should forgo trackers and personalists advertising. And they're actually increasing their revenue because they don't have to give money away to all these profile builders that sell users data. The British Daily, The Guardian, finished its 2019 year with, because they're making money from donations by the readers who cherish their content. The EU is preparing two important laws, the Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act. And they are actually at the trilog stage. Keep that in your focus, please. And it's interesting that there is a bipartisan movement that's actually starting to curtail the might of the corporations. And Lina Khan was nominated for the head of the, or was elected as the head of the Federal Trade Commission. That is really hopeful. And a quick call. We will be awarding Big Brother Awards again next year. So if you have interesting issues, please nominate them to us. You can do that in the RC3 world, actually. But also on our website, of course. And finally, I believe that this quote by Albus Dumbledore is really appropriate. And I think I'll just read that. Have your wafers are readied out. Your wafers are readied out. The time will come when you have to decide between what is right and what is comfortable. I don't know the original for that. Thank you for your attention. All right, and thank you to the speaker for this. And introducing all this.  Right. Now, on to the questions and answers. We collected a few. Now, let's dive right in. What is the state of things regarding the regulation of dark patterns? Are there any plans for that? Yes, there are ideas. And things are moving. Timo Wilken, the social democrat politician, wanted to actually ban all kinds of personalized advertising dark patterns as a ban on explicit, on circumventing explicit consent by fooling people. That is something that the EU has included in their draft laws. And Timo Wilken, to add, this is a member of the European parliament from this German social democrat. So we'll have to keep at it, and we'll have to make the German government apply the pressure and increase the pressure even because it's important, not just an issue that individuals are being inspired upon. It's the whole ecosystem where media deprived of their revenue and opinions can be manipulated. Micro-targeting is enabled, which increases divisions in society because people are influenced into different directions and radicalized each in their own direction. So there's a whole long tail behind this. And that's why it's important to tell the German government with emphasis that this is not a pro-economy measure if dark patterns are still allowed. Adding on a question from me personally, I think I remember that you can actually report cookie banners that don't have a deactivate all function. Is that correct? My memory. Yes, you can report this. You should complain to the individual company. And there is a tool called Traktor by Matthias Ebel, the journalist from Hofprosten.de, a blog. You can, of course, report to the data privacy commissioners, the authorities, and make sure that these people are given some pressure. We can report that this has been effective. There are now more cookie banners where you can actually decline all with one button, but some still haven't learned it. And we should make sure to give them some stress. Yeah. Thank you. Moving on with IRC questions, how about the measures that browser developers have put in against tracking? Safari has an anti-tracking feature by default. And so things you can use on mobile. There are various things. And what's the state of things there? Firefox has done a lot too, but that's good. I would discourage you from using Chrome. I only use that in exceptional cases. Chromium is slightly un-Google, but there are various variants, projects. Brave is another one. And with Brave, the thing is that the approach is, I think, somewhat controversial. I'm not decided on that one yet, whether I really like it. Brave grabs the advertising space that any medium will have on their web pages, and so clears that space and then puts its own advertising, if the advertising it organizes themselves in that same space. And they share the revenue between them and the users, they say, and the users then can decide where this should go. And you could say, OK, this is great. We can donate this to that fantastic blog, which they often read. But the medium that produces the content that I'm reading, where the Brave injects its advertising, these media do not receive anything. And that, I think, is a bit unfair. I believe we need to really think a lot more about the business models here. But that is exactly what we need creativity for, rather than for the further refining of anti-tracking measures. There is an idea from the IRC here that I'll just read out. Yes, please do. He was a booked travel, and he got a lot of ads for that. And that roommate thought that he saw the trend, and he was the first one of the trends. And to protect those people, we have to do something more. And I tried to explain my roommate something, but the roommate didn't believe me. So are there possibilities for not techies to explain it to them better? Of course, legally, but, well, I couldn't explain cookies to my grandma. I think it's best if you can show it how what happens if you put something, if you want to buy something somewhere and accept all the trackers, which you can do on another computer, which is clean, and how you can then see how the ads on other pages are starting to show up, because they are thinking, I would be interested in that. So I think showing that is always the best. I also had something happen to me like that. It's quite a while ago. We bought the German menu for PGP, and we looked again on Amazon on what ranking place it is. And I was on another people's computer who has an Amazon account to look into something else. And then I saw here, look, the German PGP handbook, which was shown by Amazon. But it wasn't generally shown to everyone, but it was only shown to that person, because that person looked into it multiple times but hadn't bought it yet. So it was shown at like this thing of the week, because Amazon didn't know who's at that computer. So you really think you know something, and that's a general thing. And I can really feel it, what the roommate thought. And now the question, like the tool from the cookie-bunners complaint. And we are posting the link to the ISC chat. I don't have it right now, but look to Rufposten.de, the blog from Matthias Eberl. I'm on Otherwise Look to the Cookettes blog, to a blog from Michael Cookettes, where Michael Eberl wrote also an article about identity management and what you can do. And there you will definitely find the link. Yeah, thank you. And another tip, a game, where you can try not to accept any cookies in that game. It's getting always more complicated, and it will be always harder. And if that's right, then that won't be right, and so on. And sometimes you can't see what you're clicking at. And I played it, and I didn't manage to decline every cookie. And I don't really know how it's called. It's something like termsandconditions.com. You can find it below the big brother-award-slow-decio from Google that's linked. Please play it, and show it to other people, and let other people try it. And they will become crazy. Thank you very much for the tip. Interpreters in markets called termsandconditions.game. Ah, they found it as well. And this interpreter has actually managed to decline everything, but only the second time, I guess. Sorry for interrupting. And directly below there is a really nice video linked in which two women are doing a play about the cookie banners. One of them asks the questions from the cookie banner, and the other just wants to bake cookies. And the other one wants to decline everything, but she doesn't manage. So it's a nice theater play. It's great. May I also give a tip? Another game is Data Dealer, which is a little bit older. So maybe younger people don't know it. So Data Dealer, you can find it. And there you can play some evil data leech and buy and sell data. And it's really fun, and you can get quite some insights. And I think everyone should have tried that. And you can also play it with your parents and family. It's from Boffi Christel from Austria. It's really great. You change the perspectives you get to be a data leech. You have to think, how do I get the birthday of a person? Well, I can just offer Horoscopes online for free. Right. Now I have a question. To the questions. I think that was everything. We have no more in the pad. OK. We are waiting a moment. I have to tell you, thank you very much from the community, from the people, from the ISE, from the chat. And it was really great. And there was also a call for Rena for a digital ministry. I think I stay with Digital Courage. There's enough to do. But we really like to help. You can call us, our phone number is in the internet. And who's interested in sources. I did a lot of work for the low data issue. There are a lot of footnotes with original sources and further links also below. So yeah, please look at the text. We have another question. Wouldn't be a solution to a developer browser who simulates a user which simulates a user which agrees to all the cookies. But the actual user then doesn't have a problem. And the content creator gets the money. There are plugins already. But I think that's not a good idea. We should start with the root of the problem. There are so many other influences to other things. So for us at DGOT, it's not only about just the single users we are in the internet, but also around the whole network. Other people who profit from it, those who wash the data in foreign countries. So it's legal. So insurance companies who talk something about the future, think how the future will be and then don't offer us some things. So we have to think about the big picture and not just trick the system. But hackers have fun with that. But we should look to the bigger thing. We should hack the ecosystem. That whole thing is the right thing. And we are currently looking into competition legalities which is not really complex and not our area of expertise. But there might be some people who could be at least for us because they want to have fair competition not only for the platforms. And there is a window open now where we can, we should be, many people say we can't do something in Europe because they would just do it somewhere else than in Europe. And we will have a problem with them. But many people and US citizens say, why are the Europeans treated better than us? We want this kind of data protection law as well. That's what's happening now. And it would be good to see that we actually have an effect in law and that companies that act globally are not going to use various individual terms and conditions in various countries because if they know that for European customers they have to adapt there to UNCs, we should fight for supervisory authorities to start with capable people, not just legal people but also tech savvy people. We should make sure that technology is shaped in a way that we have a choice. And that we can choose previously friendly solutions. And as has been announced, we need in the economic ministry, we need a place, we need support for open source. And we need an autonomous infrastructure that is not based on open source alone but also is a freedom preserving infrastructure that's not built on surveillance capitalism. That is what I would wish for, and that is what it's worth fighting for. Definitely, I can only agree to that. We have a bit of time left. Let's wait for a few more questions. One for me about the Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act, what does that mean? What is the time frame when the law is in this trilogue thingy? And that doesn't really mean anything to me, I have to say. Yeah, so the trilogue, you can imagine that you have the dialogue normally where two parties are involved and the trilogue involves three. The legal initiative at the EU level comes from the EU Commission, the European Commission. And the European Parliament then goes, they have committees who have debated on the issue. They made certain positions, formed positions, and gave their positions. And now it is also being debated with the Council of Ministers. And that's where the national governments come in because they send their ministers into the council. So that's why it's important to have a new government in place and put really put the pressure on them to go from what the right position is there because the problem was that the German government always used to say, yes, we want all this great European data protection. We want to make sure that it should be as good as the German data protection law used to be. That's what they kept claiming to the outside, but internally in the council and negotiations, which are held in confidence, there are no published notes from that. The German government actually always worked against privacy and tried to prevent the general data protection regulation from being passed. And I hope that this double-faced game is something we won't get anymore with the new government. But of course we'll have to look at what they're doing and fight that the documents about the negotiations within the Council of Ministers are no longer kept in secret. I think that is very wrong. And we have to keep up with that. And again, a huge thanks to Jan-Philippe Albrecht and his team with Ralph Bendrat and everyone, the parliamentarians who were responsible for formulating the GDPR and the position of the parliament. This is a miracle of democracy even though in many places we may be unhappy. But the fact that it just exists is fantastic. Thank you. Thank you to the insights there. And the timeframe. So in the first quarter of this new year, 2002, is when a lot of things will be decided. Let's see how much the negotiations will be going back and forth, but it will be worth to try to influence people at that stage. The commission here on government representatives and the council, but also the members of the European Parliament. And quite practically, we need support here. So people on the street maybe. Sometimes we call for small demonstrations. Small can be quite effective. And it would be great if people would support these calls and join us for these. We have a newsletter on our website that will keep people informed. And we have a form there where you can say that I would like to join a demonstration. Click on that and register your willingness to support us in that way. And that would help. Thank you. Thanks a lot. And as I said, a lot of positive feedback is in the chat. So again, from there, lots of praise and gratitude. And I think it's time to move over to the extended Q&A. I can't see any questions remaining from the pad, but let's wait and see who comes to the breakout room. And if you only have an idea later, I am not going to disappear. You can always write an email, call, tweet, use mastodon, toot. Or come to our assembly in the world. Yeah. And don't forget, if there's anything that unnerved you recently that you found conspicuous, something you noticed in your job that you just don't think is right at all, nominated for the Big Brother Awards. We are looking at each nomination. We're researching the details. The next award ceremony will be on the 29th of April, 2022. But we would like to have your nominations right now. So we have the time for in-depth research. Okay. Vielen, vielen Dank für die Aufmerksamkeit. And thank you for your attention very much. And the great presentation and the questions. Because that is not so easy, as I know from experience.