INFINITY: PPP Project
INFINITY is a Coordination Support Action which is part of a new initiative from the EC called the ‘Future Internet Public-Private Partnership (FI-PPP). The project kicked off in April 2011 and will run for three years.
Coordinated by Technical University of Madrid (UPM), INFINITY comprises thirteen partners. It will collaborate with organisations across Europe to capture and communicate information about test infrastructures, as well as interoperability requirements and issues.
INFINITY’s objectives are to identify, analyse and catalogue existing and emerging advanced experimental infrastructures. It will then evaluate the selected infrastructures and usage profiles. A Web Repository will be established which will include all information (based on confidentiality of course) related to the available infrastructures.
Liaison Strategy
INFINITY will establish a partnership & relationships liaison strategy between external FI initiatives and infrastructure owners & operators, local/regional authorities, stakeholders and end-users. The project will provide dissemination activities to advertise and promote excellence in European FI research capacity and infrastructures worldwide. INFINITY allows infrastructure owners to be exposed to FI experimenters interested in using their test infrastructures all around Europe and beyond.
Five months into the project, an extensive list of test infrastructures is being gathered and an initial survey of some of these infrastructures is being carried out. The Web repository to house the information on the infrastructures is being developed and will have its first release in March 2011.
For more information see www.fi-infinity.eu or contact Project Coordinator Federico Alvarez (UPM) [email protected]
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UK Future Internet Strategy Group
The UK Future Internet Strategy Group (UK FISG) was established under the sponsorship of the UK Technology Strategy Board, chaired by Nick Wainwright of HP Labs, Bristol. It is coordinated by the ICT Knowledge Transfer Network (ICT KTN).
The group comprises senior representatives from industry and academia. The Business Information and Skills Department and the Technology Strategy Board are also represented and provide guidance to the group on Future Internet definition.
Extensive Interviews
The UK FISG recently commissioned research into a number of aspects of the “Future Internet”. Eddie Townsend, ICT KTN, conducted extensive interviews with circa 20 leading figures from the UK’s most renowned organisations, including Arup, University College London and the BBC, along with multinationals like Cisco, Fujitsu and Alcatel-Lucent.
The picture that emerged was one of major opportunities to unlock data and break down silos in service delivery, (not just in public sector data) and in doing so create opportunities for innovative services. This would reduce costs, increase citizen involvement in services and increase industrial competiveness.
The driving need is to create service innovation tthat benefits end-users; the means is to embrace ‘internet-style’ service-oriented approaches not industry or public sector silos.
Click here to download a copy of the report.
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