WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:16.320 Thank you and I have to click the mic because I am Italian and so I need to move my hand 00:16.320 --> 00:31.320 to speak. Do you hear me? It's okay. Okay. So this is just for the mic. 00:31.320 --> 00:46.000 So hello, I am pleasure to be here and today I am discussing a very broad and 00:46.640 --> 00:56.000 challenging topic. I am talking about power, democracy, innovation and at the end of the day, 00:56.000 --> 01:04.000 our future. But stay tuned up to the end of the presentation because I want to share with you a 01:04.000 --> 01:14.000 couple of practical and effective proposal to solve maybe a little bit of these issues. I am 01:14.000 --> 01:22.000 going to say from Pam Paloni for first apologize for my bed English. I am the vice president of 01:22.000 --> 01:28.000 Rio's Italian network of open source companies and we are part of a pair. So I want to thank 01:28.000 --> 01:41.000 you Sebastian for his great job. So let me talk about a very big issue, big picture in the last 01:42.000 --> 01:51.000 year, just 10 to 15 years. We have witnessed the exponential growth of the power in the end of 01:51.000 --> 02:00.000 very, very few companies and especially tech companies. Today, the magnificance magnificance 02:01.000 --> 02:12.000 7, I don't know exactly what it means, magnificance, but there are the tech giants and 02:12.000 --> 02:23.000 as you can see in this chart, they represent over 30% just a few months ago, this report. 02:23.000 --> 02:33.000 Maybe in the last day a little less, but it's a huge amount of ever. The 30% of the market 02:33.000 --> 02:41.000 capitalization of the standard inputs, 500. So in other words, seven companies are 02:41.000 --> 02:51.000 more than the third of the other 500 companies combined. It's not just impressive for me, it's 02:51.000 --> 03:03.000 alarming. And well, in the last year is increasing the gap from the tech companies to the other 03:03.000 --> 03:14.000 companies. So the tech companies are becoming more and more powerful and they control not just a 03:14.000 --> 03:26.000 huge amount of money, but they control our data, the communication platform. So for me, the 03:26.000 --> 03:38.000 the issue is increasing, you know. Others say it's not just a problem related to the economy 03:39.000 --> 03:49.000 because data communication and even political decisions are influenced a lot, influenced by 03:49.000 --> 04:03.000 very few companies. And those companies are often actively resisting to our regulation to the 04:04.000 --> 04:11.000 regulation in general, but especially the European regulations. And they clear 04:11.000 --> 04:23.000 want to say outside the democratic control. And they are using a well-known excuse. We cannot 04:23.000 --> 04:35.000 slow down innovation. This is a real excuse. And well, we can discuss about if it's a real 04:35.000 --> 04:45.000 innovation because for many of their products for me, it's like weapons of mass destruction 04:45.000 --> 04:52.000 instead of a real innovation, but however, this is the argument they are arguments. 04:52.000 --> 05:08.000 So for me, but not just for me, it's a direct threat to our democratic systems. I need a 05:08.000 --> 05:32.000 water, but do we have some water? Just a minute. Sorry. So the power concentrated in a few 05:32.000 --> 05:41.000 times is dangerous. And just two days ago, Christina Kaffara, during the open source 05:41.000 --> 05:52.000 policy summit, says something very clear. We are as European citizens, we are a colony 05:53.000 --> 06:05.000 of United States. And for me, she is right, but the truth for me is even worse, because we 06:05.000 --> 06:18.000 are a colony, but we are happy to be one colony at the end, because we are not, okay, thank you. 06:18.000 --> 06:30.000 We do not resist and we even convince ourselves that that model is the one to follow. And 06:30.000 --> 06:42.000 well, even draggy seems to say something like that, because he says in his report, 06:42.000 --> 06:54.000 less regulation in Europe and we need to bet on a few champions, few big companies, that's 06:54.000 --> 07:06.000 exactly what they are doing in the US. Regarding the regulation to be fair, he is right 07:06.000 --> 07:16.000 saying that not just less regulation, but we need less fragmentation and better regulation. 07:16.000 --> 07:26.000 So not less, but better regulation. And so today, which is system that is leading us towards 07:27.000 --> 07:42.000 dangerous parts where we are ignoring ethics, privacy and, recently, event diversity. So, is there a solution? 07:42.000 --> 07:56.000 I think so, not a global solution, of course, not something we can solve all the problem 07:56.000 --> 08:06.000 with, but something can help us to understand how to do that. Because I'd like to think about 08:06.000 --> 08:13.000 some open source, not just from a technical perspective, because open source already one from a 08:13.000 --> 08:24.000 technical perspective and even from the, let me say business strategies, you know, but it's 08:24.000 --> 08:34.000 not enough. And we can use the example of open source that it works to think about a different 08:34.000 --> 08:48.000 model, a different way to, to let our lives, you know. So open source showed that innovation 08:48.000 --> 08:59.000 does not have to be monopolized and that the power can be shared between all of us. We already 08:59.000 --> 09:08.000 know that collaborative development and collective intelligence can lead us to a better 09:08.000 --> 09:18.000 way, at least this is my opinion. And yeah, we are at the crossroads of the history or one, 09:18.000 --> 09:31.000 another one of the history. And we need a cultural movement, a cultural shift where we stop 09:31.000 --> 09:41.000 following that model, stop admiring that people and start a different way to do things. The different way 09:41.000 --> 09:53.000 we already know here. And I'm asking you to think outside our technical bubble, because we experienced 09:53.000 --> 10:03.000 the benefit of open source together, but we are quite few. We are not enough to change effectively 10:03.000 --> 10:14.000 the history, let me say. So we need to involve different people despite their technical background. 10:14.000 --> 10:24.000 And I'd like to share the open ideas, even in arts, business, education and in every 10:24.000 --> 10:45.000 sectors. Who remember the name of this painting in English freedom, some quite familiar for us, 10:45.000 --> 11:01.000 so some call to action. Last year I attended this event at the United States and has been very, 11:01.000 --> 11:14.000 very impressive to me because we were close to the security room at the United Station. 11:14.000 --> 11:32.000 Together with people coming from all over the world, from South America, Asia, Africa. And I ask you to join the upcoming event this year, 11:32.000 --> 11:50.000 because has been announced at a bigger event. So last year was two days. Maybe this year would be an entire week. The open source, the United Nation week. 11:50.000 --> 12:10.000 Deeper on the proposal and the suggestion, so I started from a very high level topics down to some concrete actions. 12:10.000 --> 12:34.000 I'm talking about something concrete, for example, to add an additional exclusion for copyright limitation, 12:34.000 --> 12:46.000 for those using that information to train artificial intelligence system really is open source under the OSI definition. 12:46.000 --> 13:14.000 We already have a couple of exemptions, the Article 3 and 4 of the DSM directive exempt for scientific topics, for scientific activities and genetic activities, the copyright for data training and data mining. 13:14.000 --> 13:35.000 But that likes to see an additional exemption for open source AI model. So we can even enforce the definition of open source AI definition by OSI. 13:35.000 --> 13:55.000 The last proposal, since in two hours, I'll give another talk in a devroom about venture capital investment in open source. It's a very challenging topic. 13:55.000 --> 14:05.000 For example, I'd like to see tax reduction for those investing in open source again. 14:05.000 --> 14:26.000 It's a strict way of open source, not open-forcing, and we need to do a lot on this topic, but I'd like to see at least the Europe tax reduction for start-ups releasing open source software and backed by venture capital as well. 14:26.000 --> 14:39.000 So I think I'm on time. If you have questions, I don't know how many minutes we have, and here we have my contacts. 14:39.000 --> 14:49.000 Thank you very much. 14:49.000 --> 15:02.000 All right, there's a question in front here. Please speak up. 15:02.000 --> 15:12.000 Thank you very much. 15:12.000 --> 15:25.000 I don't understand why you mentioned the picture called freedom. I'm not to use something. 15:25.000 --> 15:50.000 Because I cannot change the name of the painting, but I'm joking. You're right, and usually I display my presentation that I want to use open source and freedom and free software in a free way. 15:50.000 --> 16:12.000 Because I don't know the differences, but because in the past we have seen a lot of discussion and we have lost a lot of power and resources discussing between each other against these differences. 16:12.000 --> 16:24.000 We need to take care about these differences, but at the end of the day the rest of the world doesn't care that all doesn't care at all these topics. 16:24.000 --> 16:35.000 So you are right, but I want to be extremely practical.