Final Brussels workshop
August 28th, 2010
In June we held our final project workshop in Brussels. You can now read our report of the proceedings.
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MIT workshop report
June 14th, 2010
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Here is a short report on the expert workshop we held at MIT earlier this year. Many thanks to the participants for their time and for contributing their notes on the event.
Tokyo expert workshop
June 8th, 2010
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Image: Mac Funamizu
Our third and final expert workshop happened last month at Keio University in Tokyo. It followed the format of March’s event at MIT, with twenty invited experts from east Asia analysing our draft future scenarios and their implications for future Internet research. Thanks to team member Prof. Motohiro Tsuchiya and his Keio colleagues for putting this together. You can now read his report on the event.
Interim report published
May 17th, 2010
We have now completed our interim report. This contains a wealth of information on the project so far, including the results from the first round of our online Delphi survey and our nearly-finalised scenarios. We look forward to your comments!
MIT workshop slides
March 18th, 2010
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Our MIT expert workshop went very well earlier this week. Thanks again to our participants: David Clark, Karen Sollins, William Lehr (all MIT CSAIL), John Wroclawski (University of Southern California), Karmen Guevara, Chris Marsden (University of Essex), Andrea Matwyshyn (University of Pennsylvania), David Reed (MIT Media Lab), Atanu Ghosh, Ken Carlberg (SAIC), Michael Geist (University of Ottawa), Eddan Katz (EFF) and Andrew Odlyzko (University of Minnesota). (Jonathan Zittrain was unavoidably detained, but happily now seems to be on the mend!)
Here are the slides I used to introduce the event:
Towards a Future Internet workshop
View more presentations from Ian Brown.
We will be posting a short summary of the event once it is written.
Talking net neutrality at EuroCPR
March 1st, 2010
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I’m looking forward to the 25th annual European Communications Policy Research Conference in Brussels later this month. My colleague Dr Alison Powell will be presenting the paper we have co-authored with Alissa Cooper on US and UK discourses of network neutrality. This is timely, since net neutrality is a key policy variable in our Future Internet scenarios. I will also be responding to a paper on identity as a concept for policy design.
The State of the Internet
March 1st, 2010
Jesse Thomas animated this short databurst about today’s Internet:
JESS3 / The State of The Internet from Jesse Thomas on Vimeo.
MIT expert workshop
March 1st, 2010
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Later this month MIT are kindly hosting our second expert workshop. Twenty invited participants from across the Americas will be analysing future Internet trends and technology based on the draft scenarios we are developing around Europe’s future Internet needs.
Many thanks to Karen Sollins and Sue Perez for facilitating, and to all of our participants for sharing their expertise. It’s exciting to be running this Future Internet event at one of the birthplaces of the ARPANET.
You can read a draft report on our first expert workshop, held last September in Brussels with a similar number of European experts. In May we will be holding our third and final expert workshop in Tokyo.
Agenda
| 0900-0930 | Welcome and overview of project |
| 0930-1000 | In pairs/threes: review of four scenarios |
| 1000-1030 | Whole-group discussion (plenary room) |
| 1030-1045 | Coffee break |
| 1045-1230 | In three groups: isolating the key social, economic, technical scenario trends, and identifying their inter-relationship. How does the Internet need to develop to support positive trends and minimise negative trends? |
| 1230-1300 | Sandwich lunch |
| 1300-1315 | Groups report back |
| 1315-1400 | Plenary discussion |
| 1400-1415 | Overview of European Commission Future Internet actions |
| 1415-1530 | In three groups: identifying Internet-focused R&D and policy actions that promote positive trends and minimise negative trends identified earlier in day |
| 1530-1545 | Coffee break |
| 1545-1600 | Groups report back |
| 1600-1630 | Plenary discussion |
Fighting over the Future of the Internet
January 12th, 2010
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Interesting short article from Dave Clark in IEEE Computer: Fighting over the Future of the Internet.
For much of the Internet’s life, it has coevolved with the PC. The relative maturity of the PC could thus lead to the erroneous assumption that the Internet itself is mature. But as computing enters the post-PC era over the next decade, with mobile devices, sensors, actuators, and embedded processing everywhere, the Internet will undergo a period of rapid change to support these new classes of computing.
Trends in connectivity technologies and their socioeconomic impacts
January 8th, 2010
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Lots of goodies from RAND Europe today. Here is another just-published report, summarising their study on Policy Options for the Ubiquitous Internet Society:
This report has discussed and linked together technologies, connectivity technology trends, socio-economic impacts, and policy challenges, ending with recommendations for possible policies and approaches. It launched the concept of the ‘Internet of X’ as a generic description of the multiple of concepts that express the trends of converging information infrastructures, increasing computing power and its embedding in everyday objects, the convergence of humans and machines and the growing intelligence of the web. The report should provide policymakers with a rich account of what the Internet of X may entail and what can be done to support its socially and economically beneficial development.