One, our next talk is presentation by Peter Mackles and Victoria Noyman from Fettie variety.
Oh, wow, lots of excitement about Fettie variety.
Well, great.
Thanks for giving them a welcome and let's see what they have to say.
So, hello.
Who of you is actually on the Fettieverse? Hands up.
Yes.
Lots of people in the room.
Who of you follows a public administration?
Oh, quite a few people as well.
Okay.
Who of you is from a public administration that has a account.
Okay.
Well, good.
I have.
Thank you.
So, we study Fettieverse integration in public administration.
We are part of Fettie variety.
And we are juggling the Fettieverse.
Thank you, Anel Met, actually, for funding us.
And thanks as well.
Go to the Dutch CIO government and the city of Amsterdam.
For supporting our uncomference coming in March in Amsterdam.
An uncomference based actually on our findings.
The findings from our research reports and fueled with stories from all of us.
Please look at the topic there if you can.
And for discussion, you know, and take part if you're available.
Try to open up new chapters of history.
So, this is a very short sneak peek about our research journey.
We're going to picture you the calls and the case of our study as well as the consequences.
Plus, if we have enough time, we'll share a story with you from our famous lookbook.
But before diving into our case, the study, what was actually our calls for this thing.
We went actually to a keynote titled Fettieverse integration, why we try, and why we fail.
At the freedom of fear, uncomference in 2022, in a dazzling keynote speech,
European data protection supervisor pointed us to their failure to integrate the Fettieverse into public admin.
And he called out to reach out to the politicians, to the parliament.
And that's actually that's something that we crossed our minds.
Immediately following that kind of appeal as a step of that stage, we approached that professor.
And we challenged him that this wasn't a failure,
especially not regarding the numbers for their Fettieverse accounts.
So he came back to very next day to have a workshop on their failing U-voice video pilot.
And here, our circus took off.
So the first result after some grading was that we came up with a page for an advertisement campaign on pawnhop,
to promote alternative social media to politicians during the European elections.
Unfortunately, no funding for this case yet.
Maybe the next selection circle.
But this idea dragged us in into the European maze.
So, the case, the coding code, failing case, the subject of our study, U-voice and U-videal.
In order to do our research, we had an absolute fabulous trip.
To get a grip, we proposed a research study about the U-voice and U-videal case.
So now, if you want to close your eyes, take a deep breath.
The EDPS pilot project, U-videal Stroke video, was one of the first to integrate self-instead Fettieverse instances into cross-institutional public administration.
For this research, Fettieveriety examined data on the creation, usage, and experience of the 40 institutionally U-voice,
Master Don, and 60 U-videal, peer-to-go accounts.
Fettieveriety made freedom of information requests to 21 institutions, resulting in documents like reports, correspondence, presentations, manuals, and evaluation reports.
They also conducted 10 interviews with individuals involved in the pilot and beyond, such as the Dutch government pilot,
and the wider open source community pushing for the Fettieverse.
Therefore, Fettieveriety attended various events, including lobby events, policy meetings, advocacy priorities, tech conferences,
at gatherings, to observe, and to have intimate conversations about the complex interplay of power and seduction in the European maze.
By the way, this study uses a blend of qualitative research method based on an document analysis and grounded theory.
Fettieveriety's overall aim is to provide policy recommendations and comprehensive guides for public administration's interest in self-hosting alternatives of decentralized and federated social media.
The insights and recommendations from this study will be discussed at the notes on a web-unconference.
So, darling, why not open some new chapters of history?
So, what have we actually learned from Fettieveriety adoption in public administration?
It's totally doable. It is a success. It's cheap. It doesn't cost much to deploy.
Many governments already have the infrastructure and the people able to do it.
And find the right budget here is a bit of the key. But we think it's doable, especially if we want to do it a bit more long term.
It's also easy. We found that admin and moderation wasn't much of an issue for the people we interviewed.
And thanks to many pilots, like the one from ADPS, there's a lot of resources out there, like GDPR compliant terms and conditions.
And while I say it's easy, governance is still work, but that's a responsibility.
But most importantly, it was fun. Our participant really liked the conversations that they had on the Fettiever's and the engagements they had.
They even liked the collaborations that it created cross-institutionally in the cross communities as well.
And they did enjoy experimenting with it, what works and how it works and what works for them and what not.
So, if it's cheap fun and easy, why isn't there a more wide scale adoption of this?
So, what we found was also a very European story in a way.
There's a little bit of funding here and a little bit of a budget there for a pilot, some prototypes, some features.
And sometimes they're labeled as a failure, but often they're actually a great success, if not, a learning experience.
But then it stops and has to take grip and GI for all its shortcomings.
But what we also found was that it was a very common open-source story, as in that it's not as easy to use.
It's kind of difficult in many aspects and it's not quite fit for purpose.
But we believe that it can be.
And we have to be a bit more daring and thinking long-term and take responsibility.
But we also need to take care of our communities while we do it.
To quote one of our participants, the Fettiever's is an easy vehicle to work together on a digital comments.
So we invite you to step into an era of collective sense making, even if we fail sometimes.
And discuss what well use we want to see reflected, maybe also beyond data protection.
What we would like to see developed and a roadmap on how to get there.
But we can only bring our stories to you.
What we need are your stories.
And now.
Ta-da.
The logbook then.
It's a logbook we gathered actually based on our stories based on genuine quotes from real people we interviewed.
We encountered regarding actual events, all related to Fettiever's integration in public administration.
Stories with a little Fettieveriety twist, of course.
To help us understand actually the challenges that we face in the Fettiever's as a public space.
One has to step into particular situations together and discuss these situations from all possible angles.
So this is imagine our logbook menu where you're assembled with lots of quotes and lots of stories.
And we just pick one out of it that I'm going to tell you.
Mind in this, that our personal logbooks recorded the experiences, doubts, excitements, challenges, opportunities,
loves and hopes of some of the people we met on this fantastic journey.
May 11th, 2024.
So I was a letter to myself before hitting the button, before starting,
shaping a rock into a ball.
Navigating the European Union resembles an intimate dance.
Challenging as we strive to shape a stubborn rock into a smooth ball, difficult yet thrilling.
Hidden in the shadows of public institutions are the resistance we encounter,
emerging only when they attempt to breach tricky communication barriers.
In high stakes environments like the EU, trust and courage.
Trust and courage are crucial yet often held close, like sweet secrets.
The stakes are high and willingness to engage can feel in this seemingly limited.
To tackle these challenges, we established an advisory office for unsolicited devices
and became an accredited organization within the EU transparency registered meaning where lobbyists currently.
Our interview here, likened our quest for Fediver's integration to the intimate art of shaking a rock into a ball,
just as that requires passion and dedication.
We aim to innovate public administration with new technologies.
The journey is fraught with resistance, complex regulations, and historical burdens.
Yet, the rewards, people, the rewards.
And enhanced transparency and deeper citizen engagement shine brightly.
Ultimately, shaping a rock into a ball reminds us all that meaningful change, the emancipations and resilience.
As we strive for a responsive and inclusive public admin in this captivating digital age, that is on fire.
Let's keep juggling the Fediver's and get involved.
Please, get involved.
Thank you.
We have some online actually for people out there who are hooking or who are willing to take all kinds of questions now and in the future.
All right.
Do we have questions for our friends from Fediver ID? Any questions?
Anyone need to run down on the various icons that are on the Fediver ID logbook menu?
Description?
No?
There we go.
Hi.
First of all, thank you so much.
Your storytelling is the kind of experience that the Fediver needs.
So I ask for everyone for another round of applause, specifically for that.
More circles on the Fedivers.
I wanted to ask you, your approach seems very European and broad, but I'm wondering if you have any experience or if you had any feedback or what are your thoughts specifically regarding small small institutions like little municipalities, towns.
Because I think the approach bottom up can start specifically from those institutions that are already in the public sector, but are tiny and maybe easier to approach.
Yeah, that's a very nice question.
Thank you.
What we actually are now looking for also for the unconference is people who are already having experience with the Fedivers and who are maybe from smaller institutions.
We think that there is a lot of resources in the lovely community out there that can help you along if you want to do Fediver's adoption.
We kind of like in it oftentimes as in, well, it's like a second hand bike that you get from a, I don't know, a flowmark.
Yeah, the frame is really a good piece of engineering.
It's really there, but the saddle needs replacement, the brakes might not work.
And while you're writing it, you encounter many other issues.
And what we need is that we want to hear what the issues are.
From the people who are using it every day, especially people who are doing the communication part and, yeah, who are using it.
So we would really like to see more people coming because our focus was we started out with the you, you wasn't your video pilot.
And then it kind of breached out during our research to the Dutch pilot as well and some of the wider community, but we want to see more.
So, so far, we haven't really approached anyone yet, we can write up some of the results, but even for us, it's a bit hard because some of the recommendations that we can give is very specific.
And especially when it comes to public institutions, they're very contextualized and that's why we would like to hear more stories.
Do you have any other questions?
If not, oh, we do.
So, I have a feeling that I have a feeling that one of the biggest challenges to use Fedverse applications in the public sector is that the C-sad means and the IT people don't have knowledge and don't have the training to use them and install them and resolve problems because they are going out of the school.
They're getting a certification from Microsoft, they're getting a certification from Cisco.
But this is my feeling, is this something that you are seeing a lot?
I do see it in the wider open source community that there is a lack of getting the good techies into open source, yes.
But what we can see from our research is that it's not that hard to actually like host and instance.
If you have a little bit of this admin, even if you don't, if you use one in your host, right?
It takes you like maximum three hours to actually set it up and then it's like what 30 minutes to hours a month to actually do that.
So, I don't think that the threshold for the admin people in public administration is that high for that adoption.
It's just like, are there already part of our communities?
And if they are, they're very open to it. And if you find someone in your own local administration or like, you know somebody who works for, I don't know, a hospital or a library who does that IT stuff.
If you poke them, they often get the bull rolling.
So, yeah, it's both that we need to find the people who are already part of our communities and nourish them and get them to do stuff.
And also the ones that we kind of forgotten about last couple of years to get them back in.
It has like, thank you so much. Thank you.