Next Generation Internet

Computers, Privacy & Data Protection (CPDP) conference
2018-01-24 - 2018-01-26 | Les Halles de Schaerbeek, Rue Royale-Sainte-Marie 22, 1030 Schaerbeek, Belgium, Schaerbeek, Bruxelles, 1030, Belgium
The Conference
CPDP offers the cutting edge in legal, regulatory, academic and technological development in privacy and data protection. Every year in Brussels, CPDP brings together a stimulating mix of stakeholders from all over the world to exchange ideas and discuss the emerging issues and the latest trends. CPDP2017 staged 78 panels and workshops with 383 international speakers from academia, public and private sectors and civil society.
Target Groups
CPDP gathers the most important stakeholders of data protection, privacy, information technology and law. Within an atmosphere of independence and mutual respect, CPDP brings together international and national policy makers, regulators, academics, computer scientists, legal practitioners, industry representatives, activists, consultants and tech journalists. CPDP is an extraordinary networking opportunity to mix and mingle with the privacy and data protection community.
About the CPDP
CPDP is a non-profit platform originally founded in 2007 by research groups from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, the Université de Namur and Tilburg University. The platform was joined in the following years by the Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique and the Fraunhofer Institut für System und Innovationsforschung and has now grown into a platform carried by 20 academic centers of excellence from the EU, the US and beyond. As a world-leading multidisciplinary conference CPDP offers the cutting edge in legal, regulatory, academic and technological development in privacy and data protection. Within an atmosphere of independence and mutual respect, CPDP gathers academics, lawyers, practitioners, policy-makers, industry and civil society from all over the world in Brussels, offering them an arena to exchange ideas and discuss the latest emerging issues and trends. This unique multidisciplinary formula has served to make CPDP one of the leading data protection and privacy conferences in Europe and around the world.
The Orde van Vlaamse Balies has allocated 18 juridical points to CPDP. 6 juridical points per day. Lawyers who attend the three days of the conference will receive 18 juridical points.
More information and registration on the event web at: http://www.cpdpconferences.org/index.html

INFO SESSION ON ICT-24: Discovery and identification technologies
2018-01-18 14:00 - 15:00 (Europe/Brussels) | Online
INFO SESSION ON ICT-24: Next Generation Internet – An Open Internet Initiative // Discovery and identification technologies
This Next Generation Internet (NGI) information session focuses on a) Research and Innovation Action, subtopic:
iii) Discovery and identification technologies: to search and access large heterogeneous data sources, services, objects and sensors, devices, multi-media content, etc. and which may include aspects of numbering; providing contextual querying, personalised information retrieval and increased quality of experience.
You can connect to the room at this link: https://ecwacs.webex.com/meet/sfoglietta. Once reached the virtual room, you will have to join the audioconference so we can hear each other.
The calls of the objective opened on 31 October 2017.
Submission deadline for proposals is 17 April 2018.
A web-based info session for the general call for ICT-24 took place on 7 December 2017 at 14:00 and you can watch the web-stream video recording here.
You can watch the video recording of the webinar here as well as download slides here.

20180118 NGI Consultation Plattform Slides (PDF)
20180118 NGI INFO SESSION PRESENTATION – DISCOVERY AND IDENTIFICATION TECHNOLOGIES (PDF)
20180118 WEBINAR ICT-24 – DISCOVERY AND IDENTIFICATION TECHNOLOGIES (PLAY RECORDING)
The agenda for the sessions:

Introduction (Mirko Presser, 5 mins)
Consultation platform (SPEAKNGI, 5 mins)
Presentation of ICT-24 (EC – Topic Coordinator, 20 mins)
2 min Pitches by possible proposers (find partners, present idea, have feedbacks,…), 30mins
Q&A, 10mins

If you want to pitch your ideas, please let us know before the event – first come first serve – you have 2 minutes (no slides, please) – you can however share material via the consultation platform.

INFO SESSION ON ICT-24: Decentralized data governance
2018-01-17 14:00 - 15:00 (Europe/Brussels) | Online
INFO SESSION ON ICT-24: Next Generation Internet – An Open Internet Initiative // Decentralized data governance
This Next Generation Internet (NGI) information session focuses on a) Research and Innovation Action, subtopic:
ii) Decentralized data governance: leveraging on distributed open hardware and software ecosystems based on blockchains, distributed ledger technology, open data and peer-to-peer technologies. Attention should be paid to ethical, legal and privacy issues, as well as to the concepts of autonomy, data sovereignty and ownership, values and regulations.
You can connect to the room at this link: https://ecwacs.webex.com/meet/sfoglietta. Once reached the virtual room, you will have to join the audioconference so we can hear each other.
The calls of the objective opened on 31 October 2017.
Submission deadline for proposals is 17 April 2018.
A web-based info session for the general call for ICT-24 took place on 7 December 2017 at 14:00 and you can watch the web-stream video recording here.
You can watch the video recording of the webinar here as well as download slides here.

20180117 NGI Consultation Platform Slides (PDF)
20180117 NGI INFO SESSION PRESENTATION – DECENTRALIZED DATA GOVERNANCE (PDF)
20180117 WEBINAR ICT-24 – DECENTRALIZED DATA GOVERNANCE (PLAY RECORDING)
The agenda for the sessions:

Introduction (Mirko Presser, 5 mins)
Consultation platform (SPEAKNGI, 5 mins)
Presentation of ICT-24 (EC – Topic Coordinator, 20 mins)
2 min Pitches by possible proposers (find partners, present idea, have feedbacks,…), 30mins
Q&A, 10mins

If you want to pitch your ideas, please let us know before the event – first come first serve – you have 2 minutes (no slides, please) – you can however share material via the consultation platform.

INFO SESSION ON ICT-24: Privacy and trust enhancing technologies
2018-01-15 14:00 - 15:00 (Europe/Brussels) | Online
INFO SESSION ON ICT-24: Next Generation Internet – An Open Internet Initiative // Privacy and trust enhancing technologies
This Next Generation Internet (NGI) information session focuses on a) Research and Innovation Action, subtopic:
i) Privacy and trust enhancing technologies: as sensors, objects, devices, AI-based algorithms, etc., are incorporated in our digital environment, develop robust and easy to use technologies to help users increase trust and achieve greater control when sharing their personal data, attributes and information.
The calls of the objective opened on 31 October 2017.
Submission deadline for proposals is 17 April 2018.
A web-based info session for the general call for ICT-24 took place on 7 December 2017 at 14:00 and you can watch the web-stream video recording here.
You can watch the video recording of the webinar here as well as download slides here.

20180115 NGI INFO SESSION PRESENTATION – PRIVACY AND TRUST (PDF)
20180115 WEBINAR ICT-24 – PRIVACY AND TRUST (PLAY RECORDING)
The agenda for the sessions:

Introduction (Mirko Presser, 5 mins)
Consultation platform (SPEAKNGI, 5 mins)
Presentation of ICT-24 (EC – Topic Coordinator, 20 mins)
2 min Pitches by possible proposers (find partners, present idea, have feedbacks,…), 30mins
Q&A, 10mins

If you want to pitch your ideas, please let us know before the event – first come first serve – you have 2 minutes (no slides, please) – you can however share material via the consultation platform.

#NGI4EU - IoT, Privacy, Trust, Decentralized, Discovery, Search
2017-12-20 22:00 - 2017-12-21 00:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | The Things Network | Rockstart, Rigakade 10, 1013 BC Amsterdam, Netherlands, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, 1013 BC, Netherlands
Towards a future Internet that better responds to the expectations of the citizens!
„We need the collective vision and engagement of all stakeholders to create the Next Generation Internet. We need to gather and discuss ideas concerning concepts, technologies and applications coming from the largest possible community. We need to work together to build a future Internet that better responds to the expectations of the citizens.“
Bruno Kessler Lecture by Roberto Viola, Director-General for Communications Networks, Content & Technology at the European Commission

NGI Move, @NGI4EU brings you Salons and Meetings all over Europe to promote, exchange and debate the Next Generation Internet movement embodied in the upcoming ICT-24 calls in 2018, 2019 and beyond.

Meet us in Amsterdam!
Wednesday December 20, from 10:00pm to 12:00am
Roundtable with Rob van Kranenburg (NGI Move)and presentations on digital priorities, privacy, trust, search, discovery and decentralized data management as well as Internet of Things. *RSVP kranenbu@xs4all.nl* (maxcap 30)
Venue:
The Things Network, Rockstart
10 Rigakade,
1013 BC Amsterdam, Netherlands

We are yet again at a critical stage for Europe. With the threat of geopolitical instability coming from several dimensions Europe needs to not just assert its presence on the world stage, but moreover needs to assert its digital sovereignty to further its vision of a single digital market. Europe must become a leader in the co-creation of a Next Generation Internet in a more human centric, societal and economic beneficial ecosystem of researchers, high tech start-ups, industrial and government leaders as well as grassroots communities and individuals.
To gather the most impactful group of constituencies in a community, build a shared vision, inspire policymaking and prototype possible alternatives, a series of Salons and Meetups are launched by the NGI Move project, alongside a set of co-creation workshops and annual NGI awards. The Salons are co-creation and design fiction events aimed at rethinking the Internet assumed functioning (in terms of technology, governance, sustainability) and inspiring novel public as well as private services and products relying on it. Participants are invited to discuss around questioning topics and open challenges and build collaboratively possible future scenarios, defined as ‘moonshot’. A series of Moonshots questions the current status quo and federate stakeholders around the building of viable alternatives.
Working close with the European Commission, NGI Move will distil actionable policy recommendations and stimulate the NGI debate. The vision is to create an NGI that is at the service of people and stimulates business opportunities, centred on European values and competing globally. Our message is pragmatic cybernetics, balancing extreme centralisation and extreme decentralization where data stays with citizens.
This initiative aims at developing a more human-centric Internet supporting values of openness, cooperation across borders, decentralisation, inclusiveness and protection of privacy; giving the control back to the users in order to increase trust in the Internet. It should provide more transparent services, more intelligence, greater involvement and participation, leading towards an Internet that is more open, robust and dependable, more interoperable and more supportive of social innovation.
For the ICT-24 call closing in 2018 ‘R&I Actions’ in the following three sub-topics will be called for. Proposals should address only one of these sub-topics. Specifically, the call is designed for 20/80% spilt, where 80% is reserved for sub-granting.

Privacy and trust enhancing technologies: as sensors, objects, devices, AI-based algorithms, etc., are incorporated in our digital environment, develop robust and easy to use technologies to help users increase trust and achieve greater control when sharing their personal data, attributes and information.
Decentralized data governance: leveraging on distributed open hardware and software ecosystems based on blockchains, distributed ledger technology, open data and peer-to-peer technologies. Attention should be paid to ethical, legal and privacy issues, as well as to the concepts of autonomy, data sovereignty and ownership, values and regulations.
Discovery and identification technologies: to search and access large heterogeneous data sources, services, objects and sensors, devices, multi-media content, etc. and which may include aspects of numbering; providing contextual querying, personalised information retrieval and increased quality of experience.

Follow @NGI4EU to find out more.

NGI @ INTERNET GOVERNANCE FORUM (IGF)
2017-12-18 - 2017-12-21 | Palais des Nations, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland, Geneva, Geneva, 1211, Switzerland
The twelfth annual meeting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) will be held in Geneva, Switzerland, from 18 to 21 December 2017.
The NGI initiative will be presented at the Open Forum and will also have an NGI Booth.
NGI Booth
The NGI booth will be a central hub of NGI activities at the IGF’2017. The Open Forum will be promoted and people invited to participate and provide their views and feedback. During the Open Forum we will in turn try to validate the inputs received from participants at our booth/stand.
NGI activities taking place at the NGI Booth:

Day 1 – Visit of the Commissioner to the NGI booth
Day 1 – Come and leave your video testimonial at the NGI booth
Day 1-3 – Provide your views and feedback – Come and join us at the Open NGI Forum.

Open Forum 72- Next-Generation Internet
Wednesday 20th, 12.20-13.20 (Room XXIV-E)
The Internet is at the core of our socio-economic development. However in the last years we witnessed an increasing level of distrust towards Internet technology. In order to re-establish trust in the users and boost socio-economic growth, the Internet of the future will have to deliver more to the users. Therefore we have to build it around common and shared values that will put humans at the center of technology development.
The European Commission has launched the Next Generation Internet initiative, to support the development of a human-centric Internet around core European values. This Internet of Values will also contribute in shaping Internet Governance for the next decade and the Open Forum will be the perfect venue to present the initiative on the Internet Governance global scene.
In the context of this year IGF, which will take place in Geneva from the 17th to the 21st of December, we will host an Open Forum on the Next Generation Internet initiative on the 20th of December. The Open Forum format is interactive in nature with the audience being fully involved: there will be live feedback both on line (via the twitter page, the Facebook page and via an app that will show real time users’ comments on a tablet screen) and on site.
Different speakers will contribute to the panel. A very important contribution to the discussion will be provided by the Internet Society. In their annual Global Internet Report, in fact, ISOC presented the results of a consultation on the future of the internet, that they run in parallel with our consultation exercise. The results confirm the trends: 1) the trust of users towards internet technologies is decreasing. 2) concerns about security 3) emerging relevance of IoT and AI. We are considering also to invite two experts in the area of data protection/privacy and distributed architecture. Both of which are topics that are on our current ICT-24 call. We will then present the on-going ICT-24 Call in more details.
The NGI Study conducted by NLNet and Gartner will also be presented during the Open Forum, the panellist will introduce the methodology they used and the topics identified so far for the Work Programme 2019 and the feedback received for the long-term NGI vision. The results will also be presented in order to receive feedback from the audience on the identified topics.
Onsite moderation
Valentina Scialpi, European Commission
Speakers
Frédéric Donck, Internet Society
Clementine Valayer, Gartner
Online moderation
Fulvia Menin, European Commission

Blockchains for Social Good 2017
2017-12-15 09:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Rome) | Incet, Via Francesco Cigna, 96, 10155 Torino TO, Italy, Torino, Piemonte, 10155, Italy
The challenge to solve
The challenge is to develop scalable, efficient and high-impact decentralised solutions to social innovation challenges leveraging Distributed Ledger Technology (DLTs), such as the one used in blockchains.
The event is organised by the City of Turin, University of Turin and Nesta Italia and will bring together policymakers, startups, researchers and other representatives of academia, and anyone else interested in the space of blockchain and its potential.
The event will open with the launch of the €5m European Commission Prize: “Blockchains for social good”. The prize has been designed by the European Commission to promote scalable, efficient and high-impact decentralized solutions to social innovation challenges leveraging the technology used in blockchain.

The presentation of the prize will be followed by the panel ‘Uncovering the potential of blockchain‘ with the participation of Andrea Bracciali (Lecturer, University of Stirling), Marcella Atzori (Blockchain Advisor and International Coordinator, TrustedChain) and Vinay Gupta (Blockchain Fellow, Digital Catapult). Leonardo Camiciotti, Executive Director at TOP-IX Consortium will moderate the discussion. Among others, Alessandro Lombardi, Microsoft’s Digital Transformation Advisor, will also participate.
Francesca Bria (Chief Technology and Digital Innovation Officer, Barcelona City Council), Paola Pisano (Deputy Mayor for Innovation and Smart City, City of Turin), Cristina Tajani(Deputy Mayor, Municipality of Milan) and Fabrizio Sestini, Senior Expert for Social Digital Innovation, DG will present the ‘Benefits of blockchain in cities‘, a panel chaired by Marco Zappalorto, Director, Nesta Italia.
Throughout the event, a few successful examples of blockchain applications will be showcased by corporates, startups and universities.
The event will close with a networking reception until 16:00 followed by a pitching session about the social goods security aspects introduced by the blockchain, moderated by TOP-IX Consortium – Please note that for the latter, separate registration is required here.
More info here: https://ec.europa.eu/research/eic/index.cfm?pg=prizes_blockchains

NGI Move Salon 3 @ Warsaw
2017-12-08 11:00 - 14:00 (Europe/Warsaw) | Miasteczko ORANGE (room AB/0/k13ab), Miasteczko Orange, Aleje Jerozolimskie 160, 02-326 Warszawa, Poland, Warszawa, mazowieckie, 02-326, Poland
NGI Salon Warsaw on digital priorities
December the 8th from 11:00 – 14: 00
Roundtable with Rob van Kranenburg (NGI Move) moderating a selected group of invited participants to discuss digital priorities. *RSVP kranenbu@xs4all.nl* .
The meeting is prepared in cooperation with FundingBox, National Contact Point and Orange Polska
For more information, please download the info document.

Preliminary agenda:
11:00 – 13:00 roundtable discussion
13:00 – 14:00 lunch and networking
Venue:
Miasteczko ORANGE (room AB/0/k13ab)
Al. Jerozolimskie 160,
020-326 Warszawa, Poland

NGI – Towards a future Internet that better responds to the expectations of the citizens!
„We need the collective vision and engagement of all stakeholders to create the Next Generation Internet. We need to gather and discuss ideas concerning concepts, technologies and applications coming from the largest possible community. We need to work together to build a future Internet that better responds to the expectations of the citizens.“
Roberto Viola, Director-General for Communications Networks, Content & Technology at the European Commission

NGI Move, @NGI4EU brings you Salons and Meetings all over Europe to promote, exchange and debate the Next Generation Internet movement.
What should the Next Generation Internet look like? | Join the NGI-Movement @NGI4EU

NEXT GENERATION INTERNET FUNDING
For the ICT-24 call closing in 2018, ‘Research & Innovation Actions’ in the following three sub-topics will be called for. Proposals should address only one of these sub-topics. Specifically, the call is designed for 20/80% funding scheme, where 80% is reserved for sub-granting.

Privacy and trust enhancing technologies: as sensors, objects, devices, AI-based algorithms, etc., are incorporated in our digital environment, develop robust and easy to use technologies to help users increase trust and achieve greater control when sharing their personal data, attributes and information.
Decentralized data governance: leveraging on distributed open hardware and software ecosystems based on blockchains, distributed ledger technology, open data and peer-to-peer technologies. Attention should be paid to ethical, legal and privacy issues, as well as to the concepts of autonomy, data sovereignty and ownership, values and regulations.
Discovery and identification technologies: to search and access large heterogeneous data sources, services, objects and sensors, devices, multi-media content, etc. and which may include aspects of numbering; providing contextual querying, personalized information retrieval and increased quality of experience.

Follow @NGI4EU to find out

INFO SESSION on ICT-24 and ICT-31
2017-12-07 14:00 - 16:30 (Europe/Brussels) | web-streamed
INFO SESSION on ICT-24 and ICT-31, 7 December 2017
This Next Generation Internet (NGI) information session focuses on 2 calls:

The NGI Open Internet Initiative (objective ICT-24-2018: 3 Research & Innovation (R&I) Actions; EUR 21 Million; 2-3 years; 1 R&I project per topic: Privacy and trust enhancing technologies, Decentralized data governance, Discovery and identification technologies; supported by 3 Coordination and support actions (CSAs); EUR 7 million))
The EU-US collaboration on NGI (objective ICT-31-2018; 2 CSAs (EUR 2.5 Million; 3 years; CSA 1: Organise & other support activities; CSA2: A Fellowship programme).

The calls of the 2 objectives open on 31 October 2017.
Submission deadline for proposals is 17 April 2018.
A web-based info session for ICT-24 and ICT-31 took place on 7 December 2017 at 14:00.
The agenda of this info session.

The web-recorded session
Please find the European Commission’s slides (pdf) about the NGI initiative, the idea behind including a deep-dive into the calls above.
Please also check the slides of the IDEALIST Network. Ideal-ist is an international network of National Contact Points who are trained by the European Commision to assist proposers in the submission of project proposals in the H2020. All their services are FREE and include partner search, online pre-proposal check tool, etc. (see presentation for others). Please see who the National Contact Point is in your country: http://www.ideal-ist.eu/representatives.
PLAY RECORDING (1 hr 44 min)

More information about these calls, possible proposers etc. you currently can find on our webpage for the ICT Proposers’ Day 2017, which took place 9-10 Nov 2017 in Budapest. Please have also a quick look at the report about this event.

Info Session on NGI Initiative in France
2017-12-01 09:30 - 12:30 (Europe/Paris) | Business France | Amphithéâtre Letocart, 77 Boulevard Saint-Jacques, 75014 Paris, France, Paris, Île-de-France, 75014, France
Information Session on the Next Generation Internet Initiative in France
The ICT National Contact Point (NCP), in cooperation with Cap Digital and Images et Réseaux competitiveness clusters, organises an information session on the Next Generation Internet Initiative (in French) on 1 December 2017 in Paris.
In Autumn 2016, the European Commission launched the Next Generation Internet (NGI) Initiative which promotes a more open and interoperable Internet offering better services. In the ICT LEIT 2018-2020 program, a set of open calls is dedicated to this Initiative and addresses different technologies such as immersive technologies, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, social media, etc.
In order to better understand this new initiative, the ICT NCP organises an information session on 1 December 2017 in Paris, where the EC will present the calls which were opened on 31 October (deadline on 17 April 2018):

ICT-24-2018-2019: Next Generation Internet – An Open Internet Initiative (RIA 21.5M€ – CSA 7M€)
ICT-26-2018-2020: Artificial Intelligence (RIA 20M€)
ICT-28-2018: Future Hyper-connected Sociality (RIA 10M€ – IA 10M€ – CSA 1M€)
ICT-29-2018: A multilingual Next Generation Internet (RIA 18M – CSA 7M€)
ICT-31-2018-2019: EU-US collaboration on NGI (CSA 2.5M€)

Registration to the information session is free, but mandatory.
More information and Registration: http://www.horizon2020.gouv.fr/cid121890/inscription-matinee-information-sur-initiative-next-generation-internet-2017.html
Program (in French): http://cache.media.education.gouv.fr/file/ICT/37/7/H2020_TIC_NGI_-_Ordre_du_jour_previsionnel_vfinal_840377.pdf

ThingsCon 2017
2017-11-30 - 2017-12-01 | Volkshotel, Wibautstraat 150, 1091 GR Amsterdam, Netherlands, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, 1091 GR, Netherlands
A conference about the future of hardware, connected devices and Internet of Things
ThingsCon is Europe’s leading conference about the future of hardware, connected devices and Internet of Things (IoT). Started in Berlin it is growing into a global community of like-minded practitioners around Internet of Things and new hardware. ThingsCon fosters the creation of a human-centric & responsible IoT. To this end it provides practitioners with an open environment for reflection & collaborative action.
ThingsCon Amsterdam started with a one day conference on 7 November 2014, inspired by the successful format of that year’s first Berlin edition. In 2015 we grew into a conference with about 250 attendees and we felt that we needed to keep growing the Dutch community by also organising smaller focused events; the Salons. In 2016 we organised five Salons and ended the year again with the 3rd edition of the Thingscon Amsterdam conference, with an international line-up of top notch speakers and about 25 sessions and 50 speakers on different aspects of making a meaningful impact through product and service design of connected products, with around 330 attendees.
ThingsCon Amsterdam 2016 took place on 1 & 2 December at the Volkshotel in Amsterdam. Find a report on the talks and sessions on the reporting page.
We continued to organise the Salons in 2017. Next to that we organised a research trip to Shenzhen in April.
Thingscon Amsterdam is organised by Iskander Smit (Info.nl), Marcel Schouwenaar (The Incredible Machine) and Monique van Dusseldorp (Van Dusseldorp), in close corporation with the Berlin team.

Mirko Ross reporting on heise online
ThingsCon Amsterdam: Für ein verantwortungsvolles Internet of Things

Rob van Kranenburg – Next Generation Internet, what is it?

Watch the speech on ThingsCon Amsterdam 2017

Do not miss the NGI Meet Up @ ThingsCon on December 1st!

NGI Workshop @ Belgium
2017-11-29 09:00 - 15:00 (Europe/Brussels) | CETIC Research Center, Avenue Jean Mermoz 28, 6041 Charleroi, Belgium, Charleroi, Wallonie, 6041, Belgium
The NGI Contact Point for the French speaking region of Belgium is organising an NGI workshop on 29/11 from 9:00 to 15:00 (by invitation only).
The workshop will be held at CETIC Research Center which is located near Charleroi airport.
The agenda:

09:00-9:20: General introduction to NGI (European Commission)
09:20-10:45: NGI in the walloon Region of Belgium in the next 10 years:

Regional numerical strategy : Andre Blavier (AdN)
Technical vision: Peter Van Roy (UCL), Nicolas Point (Multitel), Thierry Dutoit (UMons)
Industry 4.0: Nicolas Vanhille (Sonaca)
Legal: Jean-Marc Van Gyseghem (UNamur/CRIDS)
Education: Guy Detroz (Technofutur-TIC)
SmartHealth: Monique Marrec-Fairley (BIOWIN)

10:45-11:15: coffee/tea break
11:15-12:45: World café: discussion in sub-groups
12:45-13:45: Lunch
13:45-15:00: Conclusions and presentation of results by the sub-group rapporteurs

Funding possibilities in ICT 24 - Privacy, Trust, Decentralized, Search
2017-11-28 17:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Brussels) | Café Vooruit, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 23, 9000 Gent, Belgium, Gent, Vlaanderen, 9000, Belgium
NGI Move, @NGI4EU brings you Salons and Meetings all over Europe to promote, exchange and debate the Next Generation Internet movement, embodied in the upcoming ICT-24 calls in 2018, 2019 and beyond.
For the ICT-24 call closing in 2018 ‘R&I Actions’ in the following three sub-topics will be called for. Proposals should address only one of these sub-topics. Specifically, the call is designed for 20/80% spilt, where 80% is reserved for sub-granting.

Privacy and trust enhancing technologies: as sensors, objects, devices, AI-based algorithms, etc., are incorporated in our digital environment, develop robust and easy to use technologies to help users increase trust and achieve greater control when sharing their personal data, attributes and information.
Decentralized data governance: leveraging on distributed open hardware and software ecosystems based on blockchains, distributed ledger technology, open data and peer-to-peer technologies. Attention should be paid to ethical, legal and privacy issues, as well as to the concepts of autonomy, data sovereignty and ownership, values and regulations.
Discovery and identification technologies: to search and access large heterogeneous data sources, services, objects and sensors, devices, multi-media content, etc. and which may include aspects of numbering; providing contextual querying, personalised information retrieval and increased quality of experience.

Follow @NGI4EU to find out more.

An NGI Move Salon: Informal Seminar on blockchain and public agency
2017-11-22 14:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Brussels) | DIGITALEUROPE, Wetenschapsstraat 14, 1040 Brussel, Belgium, Brussel, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, 1040, Belgium
An NGI Brussels: on blockchain and public agency
On blockchain and public agency.
Decentralized data governance: leveraging on distributed open hardware and software ecosystems based on blockchains, distributed ledger technology, open data and peer-to-peer technologies. Attention should be paid to ethical, legal and privacy issues, as well as to the concepts of autonomy, data sovereignty and ownership, values and regulations.
In Smart Decentralisation: Moving From The Cloud To The Fog, Dominik Schiener, Co-Founder — IOTA Foundation, asks what the evolutionary transition towards smart decentralization means for both the internet of things and our society?: “With the introduction of blockchain, the internet of things will actually move away from the cloud and towards the fog – something that in turn could give rise to a fully autonomous machine economy, one that no longer needs the intervention of human managers.” DECODE provides tools that put individuals in control of whether they keep their personal data private or share it for the public good. IDEO, Microsoft, IOTA support DIF in building an open source decentralized identity ecosystem for people, organizations, apps, and devices. The goal of the World Identity Network (WIN) is to catalyze progress towards universal ID and robust, secure, digital identification systems using 21st century technology solutions, such as the distributed ledger technology (DLT). uPort is an open source software project to establish a global, unified, sovereign identity system for people, businesses, organizations, devices, and bots. Accenture and Microsoft are creating a blockchain solution to support ID2020, a global public-private partnership dedicated to solving the challenges of identity faced by more than 1.1 billion people around the world. What will this competition on the passport lead to? What kind of societies are being built by whom?
Venue
DIGITALEUROPE
14 Rue de la Science,
1040 Brussels, Belgium
Moderators
Gérald Santucci (writer) and Cecilia Bonefeld-Dahl, DG DIGITALEUROPE
Rapporteur
Rob van Kranenburg (Resonance Design)
Agenda

NGI Welcome by Nicole Müssigmann, Policy Officer EC
Opening remarks by Eva Kaili, Member of the European Parliament #Chair Scientific Foresight Unit & Chair D-NATO PA EU
Panel with:

Andrea Servida, Head of Unit “eGovernment and Trust” DG CONNECT
Denis ‘Jaromil’ Roio, CTO and co-founder of Dyne.org Foundation, lead design of DECODE
Dominik Schiener, Working on the intersection of IoT and Blockchain. Co-Founder @iotatoken
Susana Nascimento, Policy Analyst-Foresight, Behavioural Insights and Design for Policy, JRC
Fabrizio Sestini, Senior Expert for Digital Social Innovation, DG CONNECT
Marloes Plomp, Member of the Advisory Board bij bitJob, presenting Blockchain Pilots

The event is FREE but RSVP to kranenbu@xs4all.nl (max 30)
Be up to date! Follow @NGI4EU | #NGI4EU #NGIeu

NGI – Towards a future Internet that better responds to the expectations of the citizens!
„We need the collective vision and engagement of all stakeholders to create the Next Generation Internet. We need to gather and discuss ideas concerning concepts, technologies and applications coming from the largest possible community. We need to work together to build a future Internet that better responds to the expectations of the citizens.“
Roberto Viola, Director-General for Communications Networks, Content & Technology at the European Commission

NGI Move, @NGI4EU brings you Salons and Meetings all over Europe to promote, exchange and debate the Next Generation Internet movement.
What should the Next Generation Internet look like?
Join the NGI-Movement @NGI4EU

NEXT GENERATION INTERNET FUNDING
For the ICT-24 call closing in 2018, ‘Research & Innovation Actions’ in the following three sub-topics will be called for. Proposals should address only one of these sub-topics. Specifically, the call is designed for 20/80% funding scheme, where 80% is reserved for sub-granting.
Privacy and trust enhancing technologies: as sensors, objects, devices, AI-based algorithms, etc., are incorporated in our digital environment, develop robust and easy to use technologies to help users increase trust and achieve greater control when sharing their personal data, attributes and information.
Decentralized data governance: leveraging on distributed open hardware and software ecosystems based on blockchains, distributed ledger technology, open data and peer-to-peer technologies. Attention should be paid to ethical, legal and privacy issues, as well as to the concepts of autonomy, data sovereignty and ownership, values and regulations.
Discovery and identification technologies: to search and access large heterogeneous data sources, services, objects and sensors, devices, multi-media content, etc. and which may include aspects of numbering; providing contextual querying, personalized information retrieval and increased quality of experience.

NGI Move Salon @ 4YFN SMART CITY VILLAGE
2017-11-15 12:30 - 13:45 (Europe/Madrid) | Fira de Barcelona (Gran Via Venue), Av. Joan Carles I, 58, 08908 L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Catalunya, 08908, Spain
NGI Move Salon: FRESH IDEAS ON PRIVACY, TRUST AND DATALAKE MANAGEMENT | 4YFN LOUNGE @ 4YFN SMART CITY VILLAGE
November the 15th from 12:30 to 13:45
Roundtable with Rob van Kranenburg (NGI Move) moderating a selected group of invited participants to discuss digital priorities.

MODERATOR
Rob van Kranenburg (IoT Council, NGI MOVE)
SPEAKERS

Francesca Bria (CTO Barcelona)
Luis Sanchez (Smart Santander)
Chris Massot (Partner at Claro)
Marc Pous (thethings_io)
Antonio Skarmeta (University of Murcia)
Mara Balestrini (IDEAS FOR CHANGE)

The main conclusions from the panelists were:

Our vision of technology is still largely influenced by the Computer of the 21st Century paper, it’s too concerned with the pushing the boundaries of technology without questioning its meaning and role
Enhance education, especially with a STEAM (STEM + Arts and creativity) approach, so that people can learn to value their data and have more agency and awareness when sharing them with third-parties.
Sharing data is crucial to solve world problems as the ones identified by the Sustainable Development Goals

The most inspiring outcome from the panel was the focus on new ideas on privacy.
The general feeling is that the GDPR might be a starting-point, but is looking at privacy in a too static way. In a fully connected environment of potential added value to citizens the new term ‘privacies’ was very well received. Privacies can be described as dynamic levels of accountability, levels that can be set according to predefined rules and are in control of the end-user. Such concepts are more easily hard-codable and reflect the new given: privacy in a hybrid world is a process distributed over the environment (smart), a citizen (grown up in the digital), and the objects themselves (dynamic and learning environments themselves).

NGI – Towards a future Internet that better responds to the expectations of the citizens!
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NGI Move Salon @ SMART CITY PLAZA
2017-11-15 10:00 - 10:45 (Europe/Madrid) | Fira de Barcelona (Gran Via Venue), Av. Joan Carles I, 58, 08908 L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Catalunya, 08908, Spain
NGI Move Salon: TOWARDS A FUTURE INTERNET THAT BETTER RESPONDS TO THE EXPECTATIONS OF THE CITIZENS!
AGORA STAGE @ SMART CITY PLAZA
November the 15th from 10:00am to 10:45am
MODERATOR
Marta Arniani (Founder of Futuribile)
SPEAKERS

Marc Pous (thethings_io)
Oleguer Sagarra (decode Tech coordinator)
Mara Balestrini (IDEAS FOR CHANGE)

Methodology: awareness and education, narrative drivers for stories, examples to create immediate action
There is an even bigger divide between explaining the current drivers of the Digital Transition to a lay audience than the original Digital Divide (having access and primary skills). Paradoxically the effects of the hybrid nature of the digital are visible and present in everyday life and interactions: fake news, depression among youngsters, addiction to social media, sexting, and on a more economic scale, fear of job loss because of robotic automatization, lack of agency on a political level (fining innovative companies or legally trying to regulate fat protection, (GDPR). The dominant narrative is fear, even from the policy perspectives that should try to create enthusiasm for opportunities and possibilities. We lack a possibilist framework. Without it finding good examples to explain the opportunities of a hybrid reality for everyday life and Europe as a 500 million zone is very difficult. NGI.eu should be part of the solution to this.

Plurality

Which stakeholders are involved concretely in the concept and implementation of data sovereignty – as data is new oil – what is the process of of granting data ownership?
Why are citizens unable to see themselves and their networked identities as central to organizing building-blocks around that level of agency, but keep outsourcing this level of agency to another state building scenario? Why, in other words do people take to the streets for abstract notions such as ‘Spain’, ‘Catalonia’, ‘England/Great-Britain’, and why if they refuse to be ruled from ‘outside’ can they not see that they themselves always posit this notion of ‘outside’, not from a position of the individual – themselves – but from a previously fixed set of rules that they have come to view as such?

We acknowledge the fact that before we can offer tools of decentralized data management from the point of view of the ‘citizen’, that citizen first has to emancipate his or herself into the level of primary agency, or rather citizens have to own the framing of their subjectivity. This is not the case now as we can see clearly played out in the streets of Barcelona, England and other EU nations.
Hannah Arendt recognizes that plurality can best be experienced at city-level. “The larger the population in any given body politic, the more likely it will be the social rather than the political that constitutes the public realm” (Arendt 1959, p. 39). With big numbers, plurality degenerates into mere and unendorsed interdependence, while natality and its inherent openness and unpredictability are perceived only under the categories of uncertainty and risk.
Can the notion of plurality help us understand the current situation in which citizens instead of decentralizing to the level of their subjectivity, engage with a new level of state agency?
Territorial identities seem to be the last binary that remains relatively acceptable as a social agent. Whereas discrimination in terms of gender, race, age is firmly addressed and sanctioned, it remains acceptable still to identify as a person from a particular territory, a binary as one either is in or out.

Blockchain
In Smart Decentralisation: Moving From The Cloud To The Fog, Dominik Schiener, Co-Founder — IOTA Foundation, asks what the evolutionary transition towards smart decentralisation means for both the internet of things and our society: “With the introduction of blockchain, the internet of things will actually move away from the cloud and towards the fog – something that in turn could give rise to a fully autonomous machine economy, one that no longer needs the intervention of human managers.”
Can individuals build and maintain social networks through which they “negotiate” their identities and subjectivity that brings them together in a different way that bridges the current gap between authorities and end-users?

decodeproject.eu
DECODE is about giving people ownership of the personal data so they can secure their privacy and reclaim their digital sovereignty. It will create new technologies which put them in control of how their data is used so they can decide who has access, and for what purposes. In doing so, DECODE will create a new digital economy ecosystem, enabling in particular the rise of platform cooperatives and data commons. The new technology will be piloted in Amsterdam and Barcelona. A key principle of this will be the pursuit of social value over purely economic return. It will also enable governments to be more responsive to citizen needs.
DECODE is a response to five key problems created by the use of personal data in the internet economy:

The way that many internet-oriented companies use personal data erodes people’s privacy and creates threats to their online security
The abundance of personal data and lack of control over how it is used and shared exposes people to discriminatory and exclusionary practices
The integral role personal data plays in the internet economy means there are barriers to entry for new firms
Personal data contributes to network effects which make it possible for companies to become excessively dominant. This is especially problematic in the sharing and collaborative economy.
Personal data, if anonymised, could have considerable benefits for society, helping us to live more sustainably and deliver better public services. Without individuals having control over personal data, these benefits can’t be realised.

DECODE will create a number of practical tools as part of a technical infrastructure. This will include personal data storage options, the ability to specify in granular detail how data is shared and with whom, privacy-preserving tools which enable authenticated digital participation without revealing private information, and a mechanism for anonymised data to be pooled so that it can be used by governments, researchers, innovators and not-for-profit organisations.

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GARR CONFERENCE 2017
2017-11-15 - 2017-11-17 | CA’ FOSCARI UNIVERSITY OF VENICE, Dorsoduro, 3246, 30123 Venezia VE, Italy, Venezia, Veneto, 30123, Italy
THE DATA WAY TO SCIENCE
The GARR Conference brings together users, technical operators and managers of the Italian Research and Education Network, with the aim to share experiences and ideas about the use of the network as a cross-disciplinary and cross-context tool for research, education and culture.

This years’ conference theme is the role of data in research. Data are a valuable asset that constitutes more and more the real basis of scientific work. They are in all disciplines, with common requirements, peculiarities and emerging needs.
From Big Data to open data, from data sharing to data storage, from processing of huge amounts of data to the Internet of Things: these are just a few of the many topics covered over the three days on innovation and collaboration for research.
During the conference, several aspects of the life of data will be analysed: production, storage, management, dissemination, reuse, security and interoperability. The conference will showcase success stories, good practice and the discussion on common strategies among national and international network.

NGI @ GARR CONFERENCE 2017
Jean-Luc Dorel (European Commission DG CNECT), had a presentation in the GARR Conference on Wednesday 15 November, 2017: Overview of the Next Generation Internet initiative.
The presentation video is available here on the GARR event web.

IoT BCN Smart City Expo: Blockchain + IoT + Next Generation Internet (NGI)
2017-11-14 18:30 - 21:30 (Europe/Madrid) | thethings.iO HQ, Passatge de la Independència, 23, 08026 Barcelona, Spain, Barcelona, Catalunya, 08026, Spain
The next IoT Barcelona meetup (http://iot.barcelona) during the Smart City Expo 2017 in Barcelona. Actually this will be a mix of Blockchain and IoT together with Smart City Expo IoT companies, all with fresh beers by our kind sponsor Moritz (http://moritz.com) and thethings.iO (https://thethings.io)

NGI Meetup with Marc Pous, Co-presenters were Josep Sanjuàs about Blockchain, Ethereum and Bitcoin and how to apply these technologies with the Internet of Things and John Tillema speaking about the hardware development of the Things Network. Rob van Kranenburg talked about the bigger picture – #IoT, #AI, #Robotics and the agency of Europe, and the new funding schemes in ICT-24.
A discussion that addressed the current political situation in Barcelona in a logical way ensuing from notions of transparency and information flow of the Digital Transition. The audience debated that it is strange that we want analytics and real time data streams in all networks that make up Internet of Things:

BAN, Body Area Network: Wearables
LAN, Local Area Network, (Smart) Home
WAN, Wide Area Network, (Connected) Car
VWAN, Very Wide Area Network, (Smart) City

but in the most important of decision making areas: society, we still allow a 19th century fully analogue model of people discussing in the basis of belief, particular personal needs, romantic territorial notions or ideologies tuned to pre-network archetypes.
The pragmatic cybernetics advocated by NGI Move was seen as a powerful potential bringer of calm, serenity and opportunities in the particular Catalunya situation, and for the EU as a 500 million zone as a whole.

#IoT #AI #Robotics #ICT-24 #NGI4EU

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NGI workshop @ Switzerland
2017-11-14 12:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Zurich) | Euresearch Head Office, Effingerstrasse 19, 3008 Bern, Switzerland, Bern, Bern, 3008, Switzerland
The NGI Contact Point of Switzerland organises a NGI workshop in Bern.
It will start at 12:00h and end around 18:30h.
Please save-the-date!
Details will follow soon!

SMARTCITY EXPO 2017
2017-11-14 - 2017-11-16 | Fira de Barcelona Gran Via, Av. Joan Carles I, 58, 08908 L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Catalunya, 08908, Spain
More than ever, what happens in cities is shaping our world. The future of the world’s urban population will mostly be built in our lifetimes. The challenges we face are immense and only by working together will we be able to tackle them.
Over the next few decades, the continuing urbanization and overall growth of the world´s population is projected to add 2.5 billion people to the cities. All regions in the world are expected to urbanize further, especially in Asia and Africa, where the fastest growing cities are located.
The world is becoming even more interdependent and cities must act together across borders to deal with similar challenges: population growth, climate change, traffic congestion and pollution, lack of adequate and affordable housing, education and health, the integration of refugees and migrants into urban life, among many other pressing issues.
Empowerment has been defined as an intentional ongoing process which occurs in communities and organizations, involves active participation, critical reflection, awareness and understanding, and most difficult but important of all, the access and control over important decisions and resources, in a climate of mutual respect and caring.
In 2017 Smart City Expo World Congress intends to increase the presence of public and private organizations, exhibitors and visitors from all over the world, to keep generating synergies, sharing knowledge, provoking discussion, promoting out of the box thinking and inspiring a call for actions. More than 16.000 professional visitors are expected, with over 600 exhibitors, along with high level representatives from more than 650 cities and over 400 experts and thought leaders.
The Congress gathers the most relevant experts and leaders of the world´s most innovative cities, companies, entrepreneurs, start-ups, research centers, initiatives and solutions, with strategies for a smarter and more sustainable urban world. At the Exhibition Area, participants showcase their latest developments, real solutions and products, with technologies that are making concrete and lasting positive impacts on the lives of millions of people.
Be part of this global community, an ecosystem committed to creating powerful solutions, the ones that will help to develop a more plural economy, improve our quality of life and promote a healthier future.

An NGI Move Salon: What's next for the Internet (of Things)
2017-11-10 18:00 - 20:00 (Europe/Budapest) | Andrássy út 66, Budapest, Andrássy út 66, 1062 Hungary, Budapest, 1062, Hungary
An NGI Move Salon.
Salon Nr 1: What’s next for the Internet (of Things)
Where is the Internet heading? What are the strengths and the weaknesses of its present form, and what are the likely/possible/ideal next steps and directions of its development?
We are delighted to bring to you Rob van Kranenburg of NGI Move, who was one of the first people ever to use the term “the Internet of Things”, and who has recently started to run a series of “NGI Move Salons” around Europe, aimed at (i) rethinking the functioning and the potentials of the Internet (in terms of technology, governance, sustainability), and (ii) inspiring novel public, as well as private services & products relying on the next generation Internet.
The event is organized by early-stage hardware and IoT focused startup investor SmartWare.tech, and will feature a panel discussion among:

Rob van Kranenburg of NGI Move (NGI standing for “Next Generation Internet”)
Ákos Maróy, CEO at Aero Glass

Péter Langmár, partner at SmartWare.tech and CEO at Lab.Coop
Moderator: Barnabás Málnay, partner at SmartWare.tech and business developer at EIT Digital.

About 20 people joined the meeting. After a general intro on IoT and the speed and scope of the digital transition we focused on the model and topics of ICT 24. General agreement that cascading funds is a good model, also general ‘worry’ that purely professional process organizations without a vision would be able to occupy the 20% spaces. Thus, it is important, it was noted from the Latvian and Berlin side that some granularity and reflection is necessary patched on Funding Box or other type of incubator organizations.
Also raised: the perceived optimism around NGI able to not only defensively (GDPR) look at privacy for example but come up with radical new models to look at trust.
Individual Meetings make connections to potential consortium members for „ICT-24-2018-2019: Next Generation Internet – An Open Internet Initiative”
#privacy #trust #decentralized #NGI4EU

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SmartWare.tech is a Hungary-based investor looking to partner with exceptionally brilliant, motivated, and growth-oriented early-stage hardware and IoT companies, helping them get through the most critical early stages of their development trajectories. Besides providing them with pre-seed funding in the range of 20-200k EUR, the Accelerator supports its portfolio companies primarily in (i) building effective MVPs and prototypes, (ii) jumpstarting customer development, (iii) designing and sharpening business models, and (iv) preparing for raising follow-up funding.

NGI Contact Point booth @ FOKUS FUSECO Forum 2017
2017-11-09 - 2017-11-10 | Fraunhofer FOKUS, Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 31, 10589 Berlin, Germany, Berlin, Berlin, 10589, Germany
Save-the-date!
The NGI Contact Point of Germany (Fraunhofer FOKUS) organises an NGI Contact Point booth at the 8th FOKUS FUSECO Forum 2017 in Berlin, Germany.

The FOKUS FUSECO Forum 2017 event will again feature three dedicated tracks consisting of tutorials and interactive workshops on the first day, namely:

Multi-access Network Technologies in 5G-Ready Networks;
5G Edge and Core Software Networks and Emerging 5G Applications; and
Network Virtualization and Network Slicing for 5G-Ready Networks.

The second day features a full-day conference uniting these topics under one umbrella „The 5G Reality Check: 5G-Ready Applications and Technological Enablers for 5G Implementation“.
Organized and hosted by:
Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems FOKUS
Berlin, Germany, November 9-10, 2017
Venue:
Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems FOKUS
Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 31
10589 Berlin
Germany
Chairman:
Prof. Dr. Thomas Magedanz, TU Berlin/Fraunhofer FOKUS
The FOKUS FUSECO Forum 2017 is part of the #Berlin5GWeek 2017 that takes place in Berlin, Germany from November 6th to 10th, 2017.
For more information:
www.fuseco-forum.org
www.berlin5gweek.org

ICT Proposers' Day 2017
2017-11-09 - 2017-11-10 | HUNGEXPO Budapest Fair Center, Budapest, Albertirsai út 10, 1101 Hungary
ICT Proposers’ Day 2017 will take place on 9 and 10 November in Budapest, Hungary. This networking event centres on European ICT Research & Innovation with a special focus on the Horizon 2020 Work Programme for 2018-20. An opening ceremony and social event will take place on November 8.

The event will focus on the 2018 Calls for Proposals of the Horizon 2020 Work Programme in the field of Information & Communication Technologies. It will offer an exceptional opportunity to build quality partnerships with academics, researchers, industrial stakeholders, SMEs and government actors from all over Europe.
Programme
The programme will include:

Networking sessions where potential proposers present their project ideas, organised according to the Pillars and Topics of the Work Programme 2018-20;
Information sessions on how to prepare and submit a proposal;
Information stands on the ICT-related topics of the Work Programme 2018-20 and the content of the calls for proposals;
A European Commission information desk to supply information on the content and logistics of the event;
Booths, organised by village, which serve as meeting points for people interested in the same research topics;
Ample space for informal networking and bilateral meetings between participants.
Workshops and Face2Face Brokerage organised by Ideal-Ist.

You are invited to join the discussions on Twitter, following @ICTproposerEU and using the hashtag #ICTpropday. Please also consult frequently for the latest updates of the programme and for some practical information about transfers.
NGI @ ICT Proposers’ Day 2017
The NGI Networking session
Date: 10/11/2017 (09:30-11:00)
This Next Generation Internet (NGI) networking session focuses on 2 calls:

The NGI Open Internet Initiative (ICT-24-2018: 3 Research & Innovation (R&I) Actions; EUR 21 Million; 2-3 years; 1 R&I project per topic: Privacy and trust enhancing technologies, Decentralized data governance, Discovery and identification technologies; supported by 3 Coordination and support actions (CSAs); EUR 7 million)).
The EU-US collaboration on NGI (ICT-31-2018; 2 CSAs (EUR 2.5 Million; 3 years; CSA 1: Organise & other support activities; CSA2: A Fellowship programme).

Feel free to propose your project ideas for the 2 NGI calls above!
NEW!!
Find the updated agenda and the latest EC presentation on the Next Generation Internet (NGI) networking session.
Digital Single Market News: Next Generation Internet at ICT Proposers’ Day 2017

Recording of the session

The NGI booth
Meet NGI experts, make your NGI portrait photo and share it to your colleagues! Discover here all the portrait!

More information:
Digital Single Market: Next Generation Internet

Internet of Opportunity: Will the Internet Benefit All Europeans?
2017-11-07 09:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Brussels) | Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Congresplaats 1, 1000 Brussel, Belgium, Brussel, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, 1000, Belgium
In partnership with Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) and European Committee of the Regions
About Regional Development Dialogues
This conference is part of a global series of Internet development conferences organized by the Internet Society with the aim of furthering the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) that aim at tackling the world’s main development challenges by 2030. Previous Regional Internet Development Dialogues have been held in Asia Pacific, Latin America & Caribbean and Africa.
Format & Audience
This event will gather participants from government, local authorities, business, and civil society to discuss the development of the Internet and its relation to economic growth, digital economy and social inclusion with a focus on European regions and local communities. The event will be divided into four thematic sessions – jobs, innovation, remote access and skills. The objective is to highlight success stories from across Europe and to encourage the European regions and communities to make them most out of the Internet opportunity.
Setting the scene
The Internet is transforming Europe’s rich cities. The metropolises benefit from high speed connections and are the site of most start-ups and new tech jobs. But what are the consequences of this transformation? And what will happen to less populated regions and disadvantaged urban fringes? These will be the guiding questions for this day-long event organized by the Internet Society, CEPS, and the Committee of the Regions.
Leading policymakers and industry representatives will be on hand to present research and recommendations, with CEPS presenting a new paper on “The Internet and Jobs – A Giant Opportunity” analysing the current trends in Europe. We will debate whether the Internet is killing jobs – or whether it could create new long distance positions. Looking at questions of access, we will consider the progress towards extending fast-speed broadband right across Europe, and we will present success stories in regional innovation across Europe.

For more information, please contact the Internet Society European Regional Bureau at riddeurope@isoc.org.

BLOCKCHAIN WEBINAR @ OPEN UNIVERSITY
2017-10-31 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe/London) | Webinar
Blockchains as a Component of the Next Generation Internet
Blockchains are best known as the technological underpinning for the Bitcoin cryptocurrency highlighted for its potential to revolutionise the financial world. For example, a World Economic Forum survey in 2015 found that those polled believe that there will be a tipping point for the government use of blockchain by 2023 and Santander have predicted savings of up to $20 billion by 2022.
The reach of blockchain technology, however, will go far beyond the financial sector, with pilots and deployed systems already emerging in a wide variety of sectors including: logistics, luxury goods, the Internet of Things, energy, music, education, land registry, social networks, human resources and insurance.
In this webinar, Prof John Domingue, from Open University, will first cover the basic principles and components underlying blockchains, including the use of cryptographic signatures, consensus mechanisms and smart contracts and then explore the current and future potential for this technology to impact and shape the Next Generation Internet.
Download the Blockchain Webinar slides (pdf).

The webinar video
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ICT-31-2018
2017-10-31 - 2018-04-17
ICT-31-2018 – The EU-US collaboration on NGI
The scope of the EU-US collaboration objective ICT-31-2018 for the calls in 2018 is:
Building upon the EU-US collaboration in previous work programmes in the area of research experimentation, the aim is

to reinforce cooperation and strategic partnerships in the area of Next Generation Internet
to establish a continuous dialogue among the key actors in the US and European programmes

Proposals shall foresee twinning with entities participating in projects funded by the US to exchange knowledge and experience and exploit synergies.
The call opens on 31 October 2017.
Submission deadline for proposals is 17 April 2018.
2 Coordination and support Actions (CSA): EUR 2.5 Million; 3 years; 1 CSA per topic:

CSA 1) Organise & other support activities
CSA 2) A Fellowship programme.

CSA 1) should organise workshops and other support activities to facilitate the coordination of research and innovation initiatives in the EU and US, and to promote collaboration between the research groups while creating a Next Generation Internet open ecosystem engaging relevant initiatives and key actors from the EU and the US.
CSA 2) should support 3 to 6 months fellowships for Internet researchers notably from hi-tech startups, SMEs, mid-caps, research centres or academia to broaden the understanding of different approaches, perspectives and values, in view to then contribute to concrete NGI services and products ‘Made in Europe’. The project will only provide financial support for travel and subsistence, and only citizens of the EU and associated countries will be eligible for funding.

More information: ICT 31 EU-US collaboration on NGI
Get more detailed information about the ongoing NGI calls in the current ICT Work-Programme 2018-2020.
The Participants’ Portal is the place to get more information about how to participate.
Please submit your proposal by 17 April 2018.

ICT-24-2018
2017-10-31 - 2018-04-17
ICT-24-2018 – Next Generation Internet-An Open Internet Initiative
The scope of the NGI Open Internet Initiative objective ICT-24-2018 is:

3 Research & Innovation (R&I) Actions; EUR 21 Million; 2-3 years

1 R&I project per topic:

Privacy and trust enhancing technologies
Decentralized data governance
Discovery and identification technologies

3 Coordination and support actions (CSAs); EUR 7 Million

1 CSA project per topic:

Technology Strategy&Policy
Technology Harvest&Transfer
Outreach Office

The call opens on 31 October 2017.
Submission deadline for proposals is 17 April 2018.
This initiative aims at:

developing a more human-centric Internet
supporting values of openness, cooperation across borders, decentralisation, inclusiveness and protection of privacy;
giving the control back to the users in order to increase trust in the Internet
should provide more transparent services, more intelligence, greater involvement and participation
leading towards an Internet that is more open, robust and dependable, more interoperable and more supportive of social innovation
involving today’s best Internet innovators
to address technological opportunities arising from cross-links and advances in various research fields
to include validation and testing of market traction with minimum viable products & services, of new economic, mobility and social models
to involves users and market actors at an early stage

The 3 specific ‘R&I Actions’ are targeted on beneficiaries who should make explicit the intervention logic for their specific research domain, their capacity to attract top Internet talents, to deliver a solid value-adding services package to the third party projects as well as their expertise and capacity in managing the full life-cycle of the open calls transparently. This process will be supported by 3 CSAs. Multi-disciplinary approaches are encouraged.

More information: ICT 24 Next Generation Internet – An Open Internet Initiative
Get more detailed information about the ongoing NGI calls in the current ICT Work-Programme 2018-2020.
The Participants’ Portal is the place to get more information about how to participate.
Please submit your proposal by 17 April 2018.

NGI WORKSHOP @ CZECH REPUBLIC
2017-10-11 12:30 - 17:30 (Europe/Brussels) | CESNET offices, Zikova 1903/4, 160 00 Praha 6-Dejvice, Czechia, Hlavní město Praha, 160 00, Czechia
The NGI Contact Point of the Czech Republic organises a NGI workshop in Prague.

AGENDA
October 11th, 2017

12:30
Welcome lunch

13:30
Setting the scene: The NGI Initiative, context, plans and actions of the European Commission
Nicole Muessigmann, EC

14:00
A start-up’s view on NGI: needs and expectations
Petr Springl, Flowmon Networks

14:15
The research perspective: Trends and topics that NGI should embrace
Ondrej Filip, CZ.NIC

14:30
Civil society needs and expectations: What does NGI do for the people
Petr Pavlinec, Vysocina Region

14:45
World Café
(3 tables – start-up, research, civil society), one “host” to be appointed per questions

16:15
Coffee Break

16:30
World Café summary
3 hosts present results

17:00
Wrap-up and closure

17:15
End of meeting

QUESTIONS

What are the three main topics the NGI initiative needs to address?
What expectations do we have from the NGI initiative (as individuals but also as representatives of a certain sector)?
What are the most visionary and high potential solutions/trends envisaged, at technology and policy levels?
What (type of) actors will be key for the development of this vision?
What should be the role of the EU in this process?

REGISTRATION
Please fill in the registration form
More details you find here!

VENUE
CESNET offices
Zikova 1903/4, 3rd floor
160 00 Prague 6, Czech Republic

NGI WORKSHOP @ FINLAND
2017-10-05 14:30 - 18:00 (Europe/Brussels) | Event house Bank, Unionsgatan 20, 00130 Helsingfors, Finland, Helsingfors, 00130, Finland
The Next Generation Internet (NGI) Contact Point of Finland, Dimecc Oy, organises an NGI workshop in Helsinki (by invitation only).
NGI WORKSHOP AGENDA:
[gem-table]

14:30
Registration

14:45
Introduction, targets for the workshop

14:50
Setting the scene: presentation by Jean-Luc Dorel, European Commission, DG CONNECT

15:30
Industry needs and expectations (company representative, to be announced)

15:45
Trends and topics that NGI should embrace (research perspective, to be announced)

16:00
Workshop on 3 themes

17:00
Summary 3 short presentations

17:15
Wrap-up and closing

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VENUE
Event house Bank, room Bank Meeting Point, 2nd floor, Unioninkatu 20, Helsinki

WEBINAR: WEB FORUM ON DISCOVERY AND IDENTIFICATION TECHNOLOGIES
2017-10-03 15:00 - 15:15 (Europe/Brussels)
WEBINAR: WEB FORUM ON DISCOVERY AND IDENTIFICATION TECHNOLOGIES – NGI
The Web Forum will be an opportunity to discuss one of the three areas that will be part of the Work Programme 2018 and the focus of the next Research and Innovation call: Discovery and Identification Technologies.
In order to make sure that to reach the right constituencies and to mobilize the right professionals with the right ideas, the EC needs your help. If you want more information regarding the topic, here is the link to the last published report: https://ec.europa.eu/futurium/en/content/discovery-identification-technologies-next-generation-internet
The Forum will be entirely online, using the WebEx platform. In order to facilitate the collaboration of the participants, there will be 5-minute slots where the participants can give their opinion and share their ideas about the Discovery and Identification topic, followed by a Q&A.
REGISTRATION
You can register by sending an email to:
Luis-Eduardo.MARTINEZ-LAFUENTE@ec.europa.eu or CNECT-Next-Generation-Internet@ec.europa.eu.
IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO CONTRIBUTE AND RESERVE ONE OF THE SLOTS, THEY WILL BE ASSIGNED ON A FIRST-COME, FIRST-SERVED BASIS.
