SBM_2006_09_08

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Future Internet Ambitions and Actions
Luis R. Roselló Head of Unit Networked Media Syst
ems
Directorate D DG-INFSO
Networked Media Concertation Meeting, Antwerp,
28th April 2009
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Background

• Work on the Future Internet as part of the
  Framework Programme is now ongoing for several
  years.
  
• Numerous initiatives have been launched at Member
  State level aiming at conducting research and
  promoting opportunities in the context of the
  Future Internet.
• Elsewhere in the world (US, Japan, China, etc),
  ambitious RD activities are on-going.
  
• The topic of Future Internet is equally the
  subject of intensive debate at major world
  conferences (e.g. Future Internet Economy OECD
  Ministerial conference).

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ICT Work Programme 2009-2010
i2010Flagships
Socio-economic goals
Digital Libraries and Content
Towards sustainable and personalised healthcare
ICT for Mobility, Environmental Sustainability
and Energy Efficiency
ICT for Independent Living, Inclusion and
Governance
ETPs
Network and Service Infrastructures
Future and Emerging Technologies
Cognitive Systems, Interaction, Robotics
Technology roadblocks
Components, Systems, Engineering
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Future Internet Projects
P2P NEXT TA2 2020 3D Media PHAROS NAPA-WINE S
EA
ADAMANTIUM
ASPIRE COIN CuteLoop iSURF CASAGRAS
TRILOGY 4WARD EFIPSANS E3 SENSEI CHIANTI PS
IRP N-CRAVE MOBITHIN MOMENT AUTOI SMOOTH-IT
SOCRATES ETNA SENDORA EURO-NF
(NoE) sISI EIFFEL eMOBILITY MobileWeb2.0
SAPIR VICTORY PetaMedia CONTENT 4NEM CHORUS
IRMOS NEXOF-RA RESERVOIR SLA_at_SOI SOA4ALL OPE
N SHAPE m CIUDAD PERSIST SERVFACE S-CUBE Ser
vice WEB 3.0
NESSI 2010
Content creation and delivery
Internet of Things
Services Architectures
Network Architecture and Mobility
ONELAB2 PII FIREWORK PARADISO OPNEXT ECODE N
4C SmartNet Perimeter Echos ResumeNet SelfNet

VITAL WISEBED
Trust, Security, Privacy
MASTER TAS3 PRIMELIFE TECOM AVANTSSAR AWISSEN
ET WOMBAT PRISM SWIFT PICOS eCRYPT II FORWAR
D
THINK-TRUST
FIRE Future Internet Res Exp
IP STP NOE SA
eMobility - NEM - NESSI - ePosss - ISI
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The EU in the debate

• Strengths
• Strong telecom know how and culture
• World class know how/players in key Future
  Internet drivers mobility, security, RFID,
  broadband
  
• Web economy Innovation potential (even if not
  well advertised) Skype, Kelkoo, Ciao, Exalead,
  Netvibes, Twitter, Daily Motion, TrueKnowledge,
  Taptu, FAST
• Global partnership culture
• Strong know how across whole value chain, both
  technology providers and users
  
• Leading Internet usage region with committed
  take up public sector
  
• Language diversity
• Commitment towards long term societal
  challenges
  
• Weaknesses
• Competitiveness deficit
• Software/Internet global players as technology
  providers
  
• In spite of EU leading in mobile, most recent
  innovations come from abroad
  
• Links academia/industry
• Fragmentation handicap leading to inefficient use
  of resources
  
• Lack of critical mass

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Two essential questions need to be posed

• How best to address EU weaknesses
• Competitiveness deficit
• Fragmentation handicap (the EU dimension)
• Lack of critical mass
• Inefficient use of resources
• What should be the key elements of a coherent EU
  RD strategy (Member States, Industry, Academia)

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Our Ambition

• Moving away from a mere selection of independent
  projects that have been launched in response to
  fragmented Work Programme objectives.
  
• Ensuring a greater degree of effectiveness and
  impact through greater RD and industrial
  coordination
  
• Responding to the competitiveness and innovation
  challenges and reflecting economic recovery
  aspects.
  
• Public-Private Partnership Initiative
• Facilitating trans-European collaborations
  between key actors, development of synergies,
  harmonisation of measures, creation of a
  strengthened single market
• Building on
• a bottom-up effort, building up on the support of
  the research actors (Industry, Academia)
  
• a top-down effort, building up on the commitment,
  drivers and interests of policy actors (MS, EC)
  

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A three dimensional answer

• Provide greater focus and coordination of
  on-going WP activities
  
• Look for greater impact and take-up of results
• Articulate activities with policy requirements
• Establishment a PPP complementing the WP
  activities
  
• Bridge the gap between the technologies and key
  application sectors (energy, health, transport,
  etc) with massively distributed features
  
• Look for new actors and innovation opportunities
• Establish a Future Internet Forum of Member
  States
  
• Set the basis for a Europe wide strategy on FI
• Share best practices

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1. Greater Coordination through the Future
Internet Assembly (FIA)

• 94 EU-funded projects, 400 million euros, 500
  participants
  
• RD activities are no longer being seen from
  different technological silos
  
• FIA meets twice a year
• Bled, March 2008 ? Bled Declaration
• Madrid, December 2008
• Prague, 11-13 May 2009 ? Future Internet Forum
• Stockholm, 23-24 November 2009
• Valencia, 23-25 March 2010 (tbc)

www.future-internet.eu/
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1. Internet Assembly - Next Steps

• A new wave of Future Internet related Projects
  will arise out of Calls 4 and 5
  
• Adding a potential 300 to 400 million euros of
  new funding to the Future Internet activities
  within the WP
  
• Coordination of RD activities becomes ever more
  necessary
  
• Standards, regulations, governance need serious
  consideration

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2. PPP on Future Internet

• Vision and SRA available
• Industrial commitment very high (core 16
  members)
  
• Open to additional critical actors
• Having its focal theme in the short to medium
  term horizon (2015)
  
• Networking technological foundation but with a
  clear application focus (energy, transportation,
  health, etc)
  
• Exploring the interrelationship of networks and
  applications
  
• Aiming at stimulating business innovation and
  new economic opportunities
  
• Implementation modalities under examination
• First public discussion in Prague (12 May 2009)

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2. Partners in a dialogue
Scenarios and Research challenges
Position papers produced in FIA Madrid
Strategic research agendas of the ETPs
FI Content
International sources
PPP Comp. to the WP
Next WP 2011-2013
Architectures and Business models 90 FI projects
Dialogue with MS via the Forum
Scenarios from visionary experts
Dialogue with industry via dedicated meetings
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3. Forum of Member States FI Initiatives

• Promoted by National ICT Research Directors
• Future Internet Working Group launched under
  Slovenian Presidency to
  
• Take stock of national initiatives, towards joint
  programming and co-ordination of research in
  Europe
  
• Fuel the ICT RD and Innovation debate in view of
  the forthcoming changes in the policy landscape
  
• Provide recommendations
• Two meetings (May and September 2009)

www.future-internet.eu/fileadmin/documents/reports
/FI_Rep_final__281108_.pdf
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3. Known Member States FI Initiatives

• Finland - ICT SHOK -  www.futureinternet.fi
• Spain - Spanish Technology Platform convergent
  towards Future Internet - www.idi.aetic.es/esInt
  ernet/
  
• Germany - G-Lab -  www.german-lab.de
• France - Groupe de Reflexion Internet du Futur - 
  GRIF
  
• Sweden - Ambient Sweden
• www.vinnova.se/upload/EPiStorePDF/AmbientSweden.pd
  f
  
• Belgium -  www.ibbt.be
• Luxembourg -  www.ipv6council.lu
• Italy -  cit.fbk.eu/future_internet
• The Netherlands -  www.futureinternet.ez.nl
• Ireland -  www.futureinternet.ie
• UK -  www.internetcentre.imperial.ac.uk/about_us
  
  

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Economic recovery through Innovation

• Internet disruptions will be plenty
• We have a unique chance to put Europe ahead of
  the game (technologies and applications)
  
• New economic opportunities to be explored
• Structural changes and an open innovation
  attitude are needed
  
• Ambition and commitment to act are an imperative
  (.. particularly in times of economic recovery)

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Our Proposal

• WP (2011-2013)
• Strengthen RD coordination (FIA )
• Maintain funding levels
• Complement the WP with a PPP (2011 )
• Reconcile technologies with applications
• Stimulate innovations for a networked world
• Commit significant funding drawn from WP
• Forum of Member States
• Best practices in the single market for FI
• Conceive a EU wide FI strategy