MIT expert workshop
March 1st, 2010
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 |