The netherlands has set a total of six million euros available to internet freedom to promote. Activists in dictatorships get trainings to internet censorship circumvention and technical resources to support them.
That said the Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs Uri Rosenthal Thursday night, at a conference on internet freedom. The government sets a million is available for technical measures to censorship, for example, backup internet connections via satellite and mesh networks. As a result, the activists in dictatorships where the internet connection is limited, yet of internet to use.
Almost five million euros to the training of human rights activists to the internet censorship to bypass. In addition they can on the computers of embassies of internet use. There is also the server capacity available to activistensites that is offline are removed, again in the air to get.
In addition, the government together with the European Union and large companies for export of hardware and software that can be used to get people to listen to dictatorships, to prohibit. “This is no time for semi-soft measures”, said Rosenthal.
The Us Secretary of state Hillary Clinton, stressed at the conference that companies take into account human rights and internet freedom should promote. Also governments have to do what Clinton is concerned, be careful with regulations concerning the internet, in order to avoid that the internet is fragmented. Instead, countries worked, states Clinton. The conference in The Hague was by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Google organized.