ICT WORK PROGRAMME 2017 - ICT-41
Problems
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The Internet today is
primitive.
The Internet looks like a set of
silos, non-interoperable,
proprietary platforms
concentration of data.
Power is accumulated by a
relatively small set of
influential actors.
EU industry presence in the
Internet economy is low
"It should offer more to people
and to our society, providing
better services and greater
involvement and participation. It
should be designed for humans, so
that it can meet its full potential
for society and economy and
reflect the social and ethical
values that we enjoy in our
societies."
Roberto Viola
HUMAN
INTERNET
The scope of the initiative should therefore be broad
• Addressing technological opportunities arising from crosslinks and advances in various research fields,
• Extending from new network architectures and softwaredefined infrastructures to open service platforms, and
• From application domains to aspects of social innovation.
Validation and testing market traction with
minimum viable products are part of involving
users and market actors at an early stage.
Big
Agile
Key Aspects
#New:
#Think Big:
#Different process:
#Different people:
#Open:
#Visible:
#Multidisc:
#Policy:
No overlap with ongoing RTD & I activities
Start now, prototype in H2020, flagship in FP9?
Fast & flexible, continuously agile
Real Internet researchers & innovators, stake-holders
who are not part of community RTD&I today.
Build true partnership, national programmes & US
Professional communication & marketing
Cater for innovation coming from the unexpected
Embed within the broader European policy lines
How to do?
• Create a strong programme logic
• Built all value steps into the programme, including
the way to define the actual work topics.
• Short development cycles (24 months end-2-end)
• Work only with strong & committed stakeholders.
• Multi-disciplinary is key – open your mind.
Ex Machina
3-5 per year
• Continuously identify the
research opportunities
• Define 3-5 themes per
year to investigate
• Use a high-level guru
team
Research
Opportunities
10-20 actions per topic
Calls for
Action
• Prepare an open call for
research teams
• Tailor call for an audience
• Open call
• Expert evaluation
• Carry out the research
• Find the innovation
• Accelerate breakthrough
knowledge, a MVP or
value proposition
Harvest
• Harvesting at the level of
organisation and themes
• Value creation
• Opening up & Hand-over
• Technology Transfer
• Knowledge, IPR,
technology, prototypes
• New team, startups
• Products
RTD & I phase
Outcome
at the level
of the topic
Feedback
18-24 months
Example of tech startup based Internet research
Solomon Hykes started Docker in France as an internal project within
dotCloud, a platform-as-a-service company, with initial contributions by
other dotCloud engineers including Andrea Luzzardi and Francois-Xavier
Bourlet. Jeff Lindsay also became involved as an independent collaborator.
Docker represents an evolution of dotCloud's proprietary technology, which
is itself built on earlier open-source projects such as Cloudlets.
Applied research
Speed
Docker was released as open source in March 2013. On March 13, 2014,
with the release of version 0.9, Docker dropped LXC as the default execution
environment and replaced it with its own libcontainer library written in the
Go programming language. As of October 24, 2015, the project had over
25,600 GitHub stars (making it the 20th most-starred GitHub project), over
6,800 forks, and nearly 1,100 contributors.
A May 2015 analysis showed the following organizations as main contributors
to Docker: the Docker team, Red Hat, IBM, Google, Cisco Systems and
Amadeus IT Group.
Corporate support
Roadmap
Horizon 2020
Next RTD&I framework programme
Call
NGI Flagship?
Call
WP2018-20
Pilot the NGI flagship
Study
Call
2016
ICT-41 (CSAs)
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
ICT-41
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Establish the base for a large scale research
flagship on the NGI.
Prototype and validate new processes for
research and innovation on NGI.
Mobilise the new players indispensable for
agile research on the NGI, notably leading
individual or teams of researchers and high
tech startups.
Build an active, visible and agile ecosystem
comprising all relevant stakeholders for
making the NGI flagship a success.
Build a dynamic and growing knowledge
base of technological trends, initiatives and
key players in the area of NGI.
Objective ICT-41: Next Generation Internet
Today the Internet is key to almost any socio-economic activity, a true value creator
which reshapes economic and societal behaviours. This trend is irreversible and in
10 years from now the Internet will be an even more indispensable motor for
socio-economic activity worldwide. If Europe aims to shape this future Internet as
a powerful, open, data-driven, user-centric, interoperable platform ecosystem, it
must take action now.
What
Why
With a fresh view, the European Commission launches a new track of future Internet
research aimed at developing a next generation of the Internet enabled by key
technologies and services allowing it to become an open ecosystem avoiding the
dominance of a few giant economic players. This coordination and support action will
prepare the conditions, mobilise the constituencies and prototype the operations of
a large future Next Generation Internet initiative going beyond Horizon 2020.
ICT-41
a) Identification
of research
topics
b) Dynamic and
continuous
consultation
c) Ecosystem
building
Three Coordination and Support Actions - one for each area.
All three to act as one 'project'.
a) Identification of research topics
Design, build and apply a methodology to identify continuously
those key future technologies that will support an Internet
model more open and more inclusive in 10 years from now.
For this:
• Perform a portfolio analysis, coverage, mapping and gap analysis of
ongoing and emerging research topics in future Internet.
• Identify those key future Internet technologies, i.e. the game-changers for
an Internet in 2025, and deduct specific technology roadmaps.
• Analysis programmes and developments in Member States and Associated
Countries, and activities in international partner countries.
b) Dynamic and continuous consultation
Build an open, dynamic and continuous consultation process
which engages all relevant stakeholders in a long-term and multidisciplinary fashion. For this include:
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The scientific community and outstanding scientists who lead the Internet technology research
in Europe.
Identifying the high-tech startup community, its competences and capacity, i.e. the relevant
specific actors.
Member States and Associated Countries along with national R&I funding bodies to shape the
NGI in a fully synergetic way.
The aspect that the NGI flagship is part of a global race towards mastering the future Internet.
The benefits from ongoing research and policy activities, notably the roadmap-based research
ongoing in areas such as 5G, IoT, cloud, data and cybersecurity.
c) A programme shape for of a Next
Generation Internet initiative
This initiative will mobilise the best researchers and focus on a
continuous scouting of developments with the potential to change
the way the Internet is operated, often by an opportunistic and
multidisciplinary combination of advances. For this:
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Identify and validate the constituent basic elements for a large Next Generation Internet
flagship which includes characteristics such as speed and adaptability.
Build a strong and fluid link and a feedback loop between short and long-term research to
strengthen Europe’s capacity to actually bring advanced technology to the market.
Involve in a practical way new players and set a prototype interaction between the scientific
community and today’s best Internet innovators, the startups and SMEs.
Make use of the research topics identified under (a) and the consultation and community
identified under (b).
Promote the notion of a European Next Generation Internet ecosystem by building a
community among academia, researchers, startups, SMEs and corporates involved.
ICT-41 Data sheet
• Budget: Euro 2 million
• Deadline: 25 April 2017
• Type of Action: Coordination and support action
The Commission considers that proposals requesting a contribution from the EU of about 0.7 million would allow
each bullet point (a, b and c) to be addressed appropriately. Nonetheless, this does not preclude submission and
selection of proposals requesting other amounts. No more than one action per bullet point will be funded.
Advice
Consortium:
• 1-2 partners
• Credibility in the
Internet research
community
• Competent to
lead the action
Proposal:
• Involve the real and leading European Internet
researchers and innovators. Next generation of
Internet by a new generation of people.
• Very concrete in terms of names and actors.
• Become one project with the other two actions,
foresee resources for this. Stay agile, agile, agile!
• Communication and marketing are key.
• Ready to start 1 September 2017, front load, overall
18 months max.
Open Information Day planned for end January/February 2017
"As for the future,
your task is not to
foresee it, but to
enable it."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Actions have started:
1. Open continuous consultation (Futurium)
2. Specific workshops & ecosystem building (Autumn
– Spring)
3. Call for a study on 'Next Generation Internet'
(tender documents)
https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/
https://twitter.com/DSMeu and #NGIeu
Information Session on
Mathematics in H2020
WHY?
o There is vast potential in the mathematical world in
Europe
o There is relevance for our WP topics
o Proposals will have better quality with mathematical
participation
o We recommend mathematicians to be active
o We recommend partners to talk with mathematicians
Information Session on
Mathematics in H2020
Conversation:
"As for the future,
your task is not to
foresee it, but to
enable it."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery