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Internet Science

"The views expressed in this presentation are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission"

Fabrizio.Sestini @ ec.europa.euhttp://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/fire/future-internet-and-society_en.html

European Commission DG Information Society & Media

Drawing made by primary

class children for the

Paradiso contest “the Internet of the future seen by the children of

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tecnology /infrastructures

tecnology /infrastructures

sociologysociology

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economy

Life and Humanistic SciencesLife and Humanistic Sciences

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• Economic transformation

– Productivity gains in standard businesses

– New businesses/SMEs, new advertisement paradigms, energy grids

– New economic models (skype, google, apple, cloud, …)

Internet is not just about technology...Internet is not just about technology...

• Social expansion

– Ubiquitous access to information (copyrighted or free: wikipedias, googlemaps, ...)

– Online social networking (Linkedin, Facebook, Twitter, ...)

– Personal expression (Youtube, Flickr, …)

• Psychological change

– Internet time (affecting workstyles and lifestyles)

– Globalisation, multilinguality, Augmented Reality

– Online Trust

• Legal Impact

– Redefinition of Privacy and Identity

– Copyrights in the digital era

– Cybercrime

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• the present Internet: was it …

we wonder…we wonder…

• the future Internet: what will it look like?

planned?planned? or just serendipitous?or just serendipitous?

Future Internet & sustainability: an ethical question?

• We are facing the convergence of multiple crises– Financial, Environmental, Energy, Social

• How can Internet help the transition towards a more sustainable future?– Environmental-friendly way of living

• Product ranking, Life footprint, efficiency

– Sustainable economic development• Empowering people, new market models, new IPR

– Participative global governance• Based on cooperation, sharing, low-cost access

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Future Internet scenariosFuture Internet scenarios(See also the

Oxford Internet Institute Study on Technological, Social and Economic aspects of FI,http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/fire )

(See also the Oxford Internet Institute Study on Technological, Social and Economic aspects of FI,

http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/fire )

Big Brother:commercial servicesentertainment (e.g. IPTV)DRM-heavyapolitical

Collective Awareness:(user-gen. knowledge)P2P, blogs social netse-democracy

Technological and Policy choices have Social and Economic impacts

(OII Study, MIT workshop)

Technological and Policy choices have Social and Economic impacts

(OII Study, MIT workshop)

Collective Awareness Big Brother

Internet infrastructure

Current architecturead hoc/mesh, user driven

Vertically integratedspecialized nets

Technological developments

InteroperabilityDistributed controlGeneralized wiki

NGN or "clean slate“ for streaming Walled gardens

Security and Privacy

Privacy / identity more than securityOnline Reputation

Strong Security, proprietary

Policy Light / no IPR protectionTransparency

Strong IPR protection

StandardsOpen or Open source standardsMulti-cultural support

Competing closed standards may prevailNational customisation

Network Neutrality Key, to enforce Just a burden

Platforms for Collective Awareness and Action

http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/collectiveawareness/index_en.htm

• platforms for social innovation, supporting informed

and sustainability-aware decisions, based on an extended awareness of the environment and of the consequences of our actions

• Harnessing concepts from:

– IoT -> collecting data from environment

– Facebook -> social interaction

– Wikipedia -> production of new knowledge

Approach

• Sustainability

– Beyond GDP, Low Carbon economy

• Self-regulation

– Based on collective situational awareness

• Bottom-up

– And coordinated

• Non commercially-driven platforms

– That can produce new business modelsand (social) innovation

Applications:

• Prompting behavioural changes– Life Footprint, more efficiency

• Access to simulations/statistics– Visual Analytics style

• Anticipating societal changes

• Informing consumer decisions– Product ranking/labelling/development

• Virtual communities for change– Social Innovation

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privacyprivacy identityidentity securitysecurity

environmental monitoringenvironmental monitoring

sensors/IoTsensors/IoT

customer control/profilingcustomer control/profiling

trust/reputationtrust/reputation

P2PP2P IPRIPR

community networks, ad-hoccommunity networks, ad-hoc centralised control, cloudscentralised control, clouds

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multidisciplinary consequences oftechnological / application / policy choices

multidisciplinary consequences oftechnological / application / policy choices

network neutralitynetwork neutrality quality of servicequality of service

ambient intelligenceambient intelligence

deep packet inspectiondeep packet inspectionfreedom of expressionfreedom of expression

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