News about Future Internet

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European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society Mariya Gabriel and Austrian Minister of Transport, Innovation and Technology Norbert Hofer presented the awards to the four FIWARE ICT Challenge Vienna winners - Team Kios, Team CC, Team Hop Ubiquitous and Team Elmitel - during the closing ceremony of the Commission’s ICT 2018 research and innovation event in Vienna, Austria on 6 December.

Interested by smart cities, communities, water, energy, data and/or platforms in regions & cities? Don't miss the many networking opportunities and the unique possibility to discover several EU projects working in your domains at ICT 2018!

The final report on the Future Internet Public-Private Partnership (FI-PPP) entitled "Breaking the Mould: A New Model for EU Innovation Programmes" has just been published.

All the European Union Member States and EFTA countries signed the 'eGovernement Declaration' in Tallin on 6 October 2017. The declaration was signed during the Ministerial Meeting which took place in the framework of the eGovernement Ministerial Conference. This was chaired by Minister Urve Palo, representing the Estonian Presidency of the Council of the EU and in the presence of Andrus Ansip, European Commission Vice-President for the Digital Single Market.

Mariya Gabriel has been appointed as the new Member of the European Commission for the Digital Economy and Society. She will contribute to delivering a Digital Single Market, helping to lay the groundwork for Europe's digital future with EU-wide telecommunications networks, digital services that cross borders and a wave of innovative European start-ups.

Bruno Kessler Lecture by Roberto Viola, Director-General for Communications Networks, Content & Technology at the European Commission.

A sneak preview of the first findings of the ongoing Study on 'Cross-Cutting Business Models for the Internet of Things (IoT)' will be presented at NET FUTURES 2017 conference. The study examines how firms can adopt a cross-cutting approach to enter the IoT market and entails recommendations to help lower the barriers organisations face in their efforts to achieve this.

Digitisation is not a choice but a necessity for European businesses and economies as a whole. It cannot be stopped but needs to be accompanied. Digitisation brings plenty of opportunities, but also repercussions, and above all change: some jobs will be replaced, new jobs will be created, and many jobs will be transformed.

The partnership managed by IMEC with the City of Antwerp and the Flemish region is equipping more than 70 locations around the city and its harbour with gateways supporting multiple wireless Internet of Things (IoT) communication protocols.