Research Agencies
The Research Council of Norway [external link]
Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education [external link]
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Research Strategies and Priority Areas
Research Council of Norway: IoT and Future Internet Research Strategy [external link]
Digital Agenda for Norway [external link]
Norwegian Government ICT Policy [external link]
VERDIKT (ICT Programme of the Norwegian Research Council) Strategy 2005-2014 [external link]
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Estimated Public Funding of ICT Research 2013
€200 – €300 million.
Best Estimate: €260 million
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Organisations
VERDIKT [external link]
Internet of Things Value Creation Network [external link]
ICT Norway [external link]
Telenor [external link]
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Projects & Initiatives
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ASSET
The ASSET (Adaptive Security for Smart Internet of Things in eHealth) project aims to build risk-based adaptive security methods and mechanisms for IoT eHealth applications.
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Digital Oil
The Digital Oil project addresses the challenging research issue and pressing, practical concern of utilising ICT to process and manage the vast amounts of heterogeneous data generated by subsea, wireless sensor-based operations.
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Direct Visualisation in the Cloud
The Direct Visualisation in the Cloud project will develop techniques for the high-quality, interactive visualisation of large models on workstations and web-based clients.
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Forum for Research and Innovation in Security and Communications
The Forum for Research and Innovation in Security and Communications is a network established by the VERDIKT programme to create synergies within the Norwegian Security and Communications ecosystem.
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Igov2
Igov2 seeks to examine a set of important issues that arise from recent and ongoing changes to the way in which the Domain Name System (DNS) of the internet is governed.
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NFC City
NFC City is an open innovation project which seeks to promote the development and use of services for information exchange, access, ticketing and payment through new applications of mobile and near field communication (NFC) technologies.
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RFID in Society
The aim of the RFID in Society project is to evaluate the current use-value and further our knowledge of RFID technology.
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Secure Data Storage and Sharing in Big-data Cloud
This project aims to bridge the gap between HPC and Cloud Computing by merging Cloud Computing’s elasticity and easy resource allocation with supercomputing ‘s processing power, thereby scientific analysis of Big Data in the cloud.
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Smart System to Support Safer Independent Living and Social Interaction for Elderly at Home
The main objective of this project is to expand and solidify social networks for senior citizen’s healthcare services through the use of internet of Things technology.
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Tidal News
The Tidal News project seeks to tackles challenges arising from the exponential expansion of the increasingly complex, extensive, and heterogeneous internet systems of which the Internet of Things consists.
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WeSearch: Language Technology for the Web
The WeSearch project aims to develop a semantic parsing technology which will allow IT systems to ‘make sense’ of the human language-based User Generated Content.
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