Project: Service Web 3.0
European Consumers and Web 3.0: Fair Consumer Services supported by the Future Internet and Semantics
Yesterday was the first day of an EU Commission lead Consumer Summit which incorporated extensive content on Web 3.0. The overall focus of the Summit, opened by Mr. John Dalli, European Commissioner for Health and Consumers, was on services for consumers and in particular on access, fairness and choice. Specifically, the Summit aimed to develop…
Future Internet in Stockholm
The beginning of this week saw over 350 Future Internet stakeholders from academia, government and industry meet with the Kista Science City in Stockholm. This meeting, part of the series of six-monthly Future Internet Assemblies, enables the leaders of over a hundred EU projects representing a budget approaching 500M Euros to collaborate on key issues…
Semantics and Future Internet Workshop at FIS 2009
This week saw a highly stimulating workshop on how Semantic Technologies could support the Future Internet held in conjunction with the Future Internet Symposium in Berlin. The workshop combined a number of leading players from the semantics arena and from the main areas of the Future Internet, namely from the: Internet of Services, Internet of…
The Future Internet takes another Step Forward
More than ever the Global Economy and Society depends on the Internet – all major sectors of industry, from transport and banking to entertainment and education are moving online. With today�s 1 billion Internet users soon to be joined by 3 billion mobile online devices Internet usage will need to become fully pervasive, incorporating a…
Future Internet Video Released
In preparation for the Service Web 3.0 project review, last week saw the release of the project�s Future Internet Video. Designed to be viewed by stakeholders, who may be non-experts, in a new generation Internet, the video outlines the basic themes of the European Union�s Future Internet initiative. These include: an Internet of Services, where…
Future Internet Symposium (FIS 2008)
We are now at the start of an exciting new venture – designing a new planetary scale network to meet today�s industrial and societal needs. The first Future Internet Symposium (FIS 2008) which was held in Vienna, 28-30 September, provided a forum for leading researchers and practitioners to meet and discuss the wide-ranging scientific and…
Future Internet: Defining a new Internet for Europe for 2020
With over a billion users world-wide, the current Internet is a great success – a global integrated communications infrastructure and service platform underpinning the fabric of the World economy and society in general. However, today’s Internet was designed in the 1970s for purposes that bear little resemblance to current and foreseen usage scenarios. Mismatches between…
SOA4All and Service Web 3.0: Creating a Web of Billions of Services.
Emerging technologies such as the Semantic Web, SOA, and Web 2.0 will transform the Internet from a network of information to a network of knowledge and services. The number of services which will be offered on the Internet is expected to rise dramatically in the next few years as will the amount of collaboratively shared…