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The Future Internet: The Social Nature of Technical Choices

A seminar & workshop organized by SESERV and KNetworks, 28th June 2011

June 28, 2011, St Annes College, University of Oxford, U.K.

A workshop and seminar entitled "Building the Future Internet: The Social Nature of Technical Choices". During this workshop and seminar, which will be held on June 28 from 10:00 to 16:00, experts in FI technology will be engaging with researchers such as social scientists and economists, with policy experts, and with other stakeholders to discuss how the latest technology developments are encountering socio-economic realities. Particular attention will be given to the methods and approaches that facilitate the creation of multidisciplinary networks of collaboration and knowledge exchange. The specific topics will be announced soon, and will be based on the results of the SESERV survey currently being circulated to FI projects about socio-economic issues relevant to the realities on-the-ground in the FI community. 

Motivation

The future of networked knowledge, economic development, and societal engagement is increasingly and inextricably tied to the Internet. The communities, relationships, and exchanges that take place in the socio-economic sphere rely on the necessary technology being developed to extend and enhance the underlying structure of the Internet. The European Commission has funded over a hundred technical projects which are developing aspects of the Future Internet among other initiatives that foster innovation and knowledge transfer. However, for these projects to move from the laboratory into the real world, they must take into account broader socio-economic realities.

During this workshop and seminar, experts in FI technology will be engaging with researchers such as social scientists and economists, with policy experts, and with other stakeholders to discuss how the latest technology developments are encountering socio-economic realities. Particular attention will be given to the methods and approaches that facilitate the creation of multidisciplinary networks of collaboration and knowledge exchange. The specific topics will be announced soon, and will be based on the results of a survey currently being circulated to FI projects about socio-economic issues relevant to the realities on-the-ground in the FI community. The agenda and list of speakers will also be announced at that time.

The event will offer an opportunity to analyze how to understand the future of the Internet as a platform that can foster innovation, collaboration and knowledge transfer. The results of this event will be written up as a whitepaper, and considered for possible publication.

Agenda

Registration

Attendance is by invitation only but we do have some places available on request. If you wish to be considered for participation in the event, please email: events (at) oii.ox.ac (dot) uk

1. INTRODUCTION / BACKGROUND 

The European Parliament has provided under the European Union budget 2011 - budget line 15 07 79 - specific funds for a pilot project “Knowledge Partnerships".

The integrated approach advocated in the Europe 2020 Strategy involves the development of 

synergies and combined actions between research, innovation and education policies (so-called "knowledge triangle").  In the Innovation Union" Communication, a flagship of the EU2020 Strategy, the Commission has committed itself to "support business-academia collaborations through the creation of "Knowledge Alliances" between education and business to develop new curricula addressing innovation skills gaps". 

The EU has devoted many efforts to strengthening the relations between research and 

innovation and between research and education. The EU has also showed political 

determination to enhance relations between business and academia, e.g. as one of the core 

elements of the modernisation agenda for universities and in the context of the European Higher Education Area. But the concrete implementation so far has been less structured and systematic leaving the relation between education and innovation somehow as the  neglected link of the knowledge triangle. 

The University-Business Forum has opened a dialogue between the two worlds about how they can work more closely together. It has demonstrated that there is an appetite on both sides for working in partnership focused on education, with the common goal to ensuring that education delivers high-level and highly  valued skills, underpinned at  all times by high levels of adaptability, entrepreneurship and creative and innovative capacities. 

More information: http://ec.europa.eu/education/calls/1911/call_en.pdf