This white paper reports on the results of the FIRE STUDY survey that was open between November 15th and December 22nd 2016 and was advertised via the FIRE communication channels. The survey aimed at...
The open consultation for the Next Generation Initiative (NGI) was held between 10th November 2016 and 9th January 2017. 449 people took part, provided input and shared their views on the Next...
As today’s technological advances are happening dynamically, only flexible, globally-minded, and industry-driven policies will continue to fuel innovation. Emerging technologies are being used...
DIGITALEUROPE organised a workshop focused on ' Artificial Intelligence: a winning mix, not a zero-sum game ' on 9 Feb 2017. Please read the outcomes of this very interesting workshop here -...
The internet will be THE digital environment in which we live and will potentially know everything about us. The report reflects on the challenges related to the personal data and privacy. A group of...
A Note by the Director of the Ditchley Foundation Context and why it matters The ideal of a global unfettered Internet is on a collision course with the values and aspirations of authoritarian states...
Report reflecting on the technical challenges related to the “Discovery and Identification” of relevant, contextual and personalised information, services and experiences. Produced by a...
Please find below the European Commission's slides about the draft plans for NGI – an Open Internet initiative which were presented at Barcelona CAPS infoday by Fabrizio Sestini...
Distributed ledger technology – commonly referred as Blockchain – has emerged as candidate for financial institutions to reform their businesses. The distributed ledger allows...
This is the final version of the report on the validation of the methodology used by the Next Generation Internet, finalised by Puja Abbassi. To complete the report, we would like to include the...
Please read and give feedback! The OECD is undertaking an ambitious two-year project (2017-18) that exploits its policy breadth and international purview to examine how the digital transformation...
ARCHITECTING SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SYSTEMS We suggest that architecting hyperscale computing systems for science will enable tackling grand challenges in science and engineering.
This is the original English version of an op-ed I wrote for Zeit Online . It is the first in a new series to take a critical look at technology as part of their 20th-year celebrations. This piece is...
Xnet, an activist project which has been working on and for networked democracy and digital rights since 2008, launches in the Barcelona City Hall the first public Anti-Corruption Complaint Box using...
Digital data is an essential resource for economic growth, competitiveness, innovation, job creation and societal progress in general. The EU needs to ensure that data flows across borders and...
Position paper by Marco Conti and Andrea Passarella, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, IT The vision of NGI as a human-centric complex socio-technical system is supported by several trends,...
The papers in the First Monday special issue "Reclaiming the Internet' with distributed architectures" were originally part of the final symposium of the research project ADAM (Architecture Distribu...