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Information Society Technologies Programme

Angelo Airaghi

Finmeccanica - Senior Vice President Business Development

ISTAG (IST Advisory Group)

Role and Results

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ISTAG Organisation

• ISTAG (Information Society Technology Advisory Group) is and independent Group appointed by the European Commission

• ISTAG counts 25 members coming from leading Institutions (industry, services, R&D centers, universities) involved in Information and Communication Technology

• ISTAG has started its activities in January 1999

• ISTAG meeting are both physical and virtual(total 5-6 per year)

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ISTAG Role

• Provide the Commission with independent advice concerning the content and direction of research work to be carried out under the IST Programme

• Provide a longer-term-view on related policiesand regulations

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ISTAG: the first advice

• Workprogramme’99 is broad

• Focussing needed for WP2000 and beyond:– to avoid fragmentation of effort and ensure necessary

coverage of important promising areas– to mobilise a critical mass of key players– For Europe to be in leading positions to seize opportunities

offered by the convergence of IST

• Identification and selection of “hot topics”, setup of working groups leading to a consolidated report

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Driving Forces, Markets and Opportunities

• Technological: – Computing power doubles every 18 months, transmission

capacity every 12 months, IP every 6 months. 30 Million Chips per year are produced for PC’s, > 250 Million go to other devices

• Economic: – The rapid growth in the mobile communications market is

reinforcing the EU leadership in this area. Half of EU companies are expected to have Internet e-commerce activities in 1999.

• Social and Personal: – Widen access to the general and also the disadvantaged citizen

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ISTAG Vision Statement

”Create an ambient intelligence landscape

(for seamless delivery of services and

applications) in Europe relying also upon

testbeds and open source software, develop

user-friendliness, and develop and

converge the networking infrastructure in

Europe to world-class"

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The notion of “Ambient Intelligence”

the convergence of

Ubiquitous computing and communication+

Intelligent user-friendly interfaces

The resulting Ambient Intelligence landscape is

Embedded, Personalised, Adaptive, and Anticipatory.

It is presponsive instead of being simply responsive

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UbiquityCommonplace appliances-seamless services,...

Dialoguelaid-back mode, enjoyable,...

Networking Distribution Embedded

•Fixed/mobile integration•Broadband/all-optical•Mobile IP

•Interworking/interrupt.•Mobile processes•Scalability

•Embedded internet•Light weight OS’s

Interfaces Content

•Multi-modality•Learning systems•next generation interfaces

•Multi-linguality•converging media

Trust generation

•Security•Privacy•Dependability

ISTAG vision: Technology perspective

The technology is all around us but almost invisible

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ISTAG vision: Applications / services perspective

Ubiquity Dialogue

Seamless access to services/applications

At home At work ... Commuting Special needs

World class converging infrastructure

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Benefits of the Vision

• The benefit of the vision to the citizen is to enhance the quality of our life by providing universal access to services : based on interaction that is relaxing and enjoyable: otherwise stated…

– the dominant mode of interaction is:• laid-back (relaxed, enjoyable)

– rather than:• lean-forward (tense, concentrated).

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Benefits of the Vision (cont.)

• For industry, – The vision highlights a path to the next generation of

computing, communication and media products & services.

– Builds on Europe strength in: • Mobile communications, infrastructures, consumer electronics,

electronic appliances, software integration, ..

– Places Europe in a competing position in core businesses:• For the delivery of, and access to applications and services• For the development and provision of applications and services

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Conclusion• For 2000 workprogramme

– ISTAG Report published in September 1999

“Orientations for WP2000 and beyond” (the Vision)

www.cordis.lu/ist/istag

• For 2001 workprogramme and beyond

– Keep alive the “vision” (maintenance)

– Identify and address the crucial weaknesses between the on-going RTD activities and the needs of the “vision” (roadmap)

– Prevent major potential pitfalls and obstacles

– Evaluate the competitiveness of the European IT industry in the perspectives of a full accomplishment of the “vision”

– Activate a dialogue with the comparable exercises done worldwide

– Propose a Europewide strategic initiative for the years to come

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