LIVING IN A DIGITAL WORLD

Universidade de Lisboa

Pedro Veiga

AGENDA

Who I am?

My Vision of The Digital World

Challenges for Universities

Final Comments

WHO AM I?

Professor of Informatics Computer Systems Organisation

Network Protocols, Computer Security, Operating Systems, …

Pro-rector for the Information System of UL

Chairman of FCCN RCTS - Portuguese NREN

Manager of .PT Former Manager of the Information Society

Programme 830M€ EU Co-funded Programme

THE DIGITAL WORLD

Internet Time

Google

Wikipedia

Everywhere

Anytime

Cut / Paste

WEB 2.0Twitter

Facebook

Instant Messaging

SMS

• Industrial Society• Production Lines• A few creators• The others behave as machines and can be

replaced by machines - robots

• Information Society• All have to be creative

• Change position in the value chain

Universities have to master different skills

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e-Skills

INFORMATION SOCIETY

Common Aspects of Information Society and Industrial Society Both Are Disruptive Both represent singularities; there is no way back

Differences Between Information Society and Industrial Society The Industrial Revolution took 3 or 4 generations to

become a reality; but the Information Society revolution will take only 1 generation

The Industrial Revolution was led by the eldest; the Information Society revolution is being led by people below 30

THE “HOMO ZAPPIENS”

E-Science

RCTS – OPTICAL NETWORK

1.000Km optical cable with 48 fibres 24 G-652, 24 G-655

Connection to Spain in 2 locations Fusions already done

17 optical nodes; 23 entities connected; Coverage of ~85% of users

(Higher Education and R&D)

THE CAMPUS NETWORK

Gigabit to the desktop Significant investments in the wired

network Wireless everywhere

Significant investments in wireless networks

Security problems

The Data Tsunami All scientific areas produce and need huge

amounts of data

APPLICATIONS

Wireless networks 100% coverage of Higher education institutions with

Eduroam Aprox. 400.000 potential users

Videoconference HD systems in all institutions 2 Telepresence studios (FCCN and Univ. Porto)

Video Services Zappiens.pt Broadcast and recording of Scientific events

APPLICATIONS Private VoIP network with higher education

45 institutions 32 higher education 13 institutions of MCTES Around 35.000 phone accesses Savings of 30% (aprox.) for most universities

b-on: Knowledge Library Online with 17,100 scientific journals, 18,200 e-books,

12,400 proceedings and transactions titles, 10 referential data bases, free access in all Higher Education and Scientific Institutions

Savings of a national initiative

APPLICATIONS

National Open Access Scientific Repository Optional / Mandatory deposit of scientific papers, reports,

thesis, … One repository per institution

The Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities

In 2008

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• 12 February 2008

Faculty of Arts and Sciences – Harvard University

Each Faculty member grants to the President and Fellows of Harvard College permission to make available his or her scholarly articles and to exercise the copyright in those articles. In legal terms, the permission granted by each Faculty member is a nonexclusive, irrevocable, paid-up, worldwide license to exercise any and all rights under copyright relating to each of his or her scholarly articles (…). The policy will apply to all scholarly articles written while the person is a member of the Faculty (…).

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Harvard Law School – establishes similar policy for it’s members

Em 2008

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“Grant recipients will be required to deposit peer reviewed research articles or final manuscripts resulting from their FP7 projects in an online repository. They will have to make their best effort to ensure open access to these articles within either six or twelve months after publication, depending on the research area.”

OpenAire – To be leaunched in Ghent 2nd December 2010

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Open Access Mandate for all the MIT, unanimous approvalThe Faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is committed to disseminating the fruits of its research and scholarship as widely as possible. In keeping with that commitment, the Faculty adopts the following policy: Each Faculty member grants to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology nonexclusive permission to make available his or her scholarly articles and to exercise the copyright in those articles for the purpose of open dissemination. In legal terms, each Faculty member grants to MIT a nonexclusive, irrevocable, paid-up, worldwide license to exercise any and all rights under copyright relating to each of his or her scholarly articles, in any medium, provided that the articles are not sold for a profit, and to authorize others to do the same. The policy will apply to all scholarly articles written while the person is a member of the Faculty except for any articles completed before the adoption of this policy and any articles for which the Faculty member entered into an incompatible licensing or assignment agreement before the adoption of this policy. The Provost or Provost's designate will waive application of the policy for a particular article upon written notification by the author, who informs MIT of the reason.

To assist the Institute in distributing the scholarly articles, as of the date of publication, each Faculty member will make available an electronic copy of his or her final version of the article at no charge to a designated representative of the Provost's Office in appropriate formats (such as PDF) specified by the Provost's Office.

The Provost's Office will make the scholarly article available to the public in an open- access repository. (…)

In 2009

E-Learning

LEARN IN THE DIGITAL WORLD

MIT Open Courseware

Professors relutant to change They are not digital

natives! Other barriers

But slowly moving …

E-Administration

On-line Services for Students Administrative tasks, Access to course

material, authorisation and authentication, access to B-ON, …

On-line Services for Professors and Researchers Invoices, reporting, project management,

scientific burocracy, … Many more things …..

Some problems Lack of e-skills from almost everybody Very limited staff

Process oriented approach Consultants

Identify processes relevant for the university Design the Information System

Build with the existing pieces or design new system?

Need of a Document Management System Living in a paperless world

Cost reduction Lack of visibility – problem to non digital

natives Fear of losing control

FINAL COMMENTS

Break the cultural barriers Each Faculty is an island

Autonomy vs Shared Services The Sinatra Syndrome

Throw money and technology to a problem to solve it

Greater transparency is not welcome by many people