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2009- The Year of Innovation The Challenges for ICT
Trento - January 30, 2009
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Dario Avallone
Engineering GroupR&D Director
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About Engineering Group
/ who & where
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a strong 28-year leadership on the IT services market
Complete and client-tailored offering excellence in R&I Italian stock exchange European company
37 branches 6.500 staff 800 customers 750 M€ Revenue
Public Admin
Industry
TLC
Finance
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About Engineering Group
/ Organisation
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Finance
Oil & Services
Utility
IndustryTelco
Local PA & Health
R & I
MARKET
Central P
A
COMPETENCE CENTERS
ENTERPRISE CONTENT
MANAGEMENTSECURITY OUTSOURCING AUTOMATION &
CONTROLSAP
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Research and Innovation
/ The ID card
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R&I Division is the glue betweenR&I Division is the glue between research, innovation and research, innovation and production, guaranteeing the group’s technological production, guaranteeing the group’s technological excellence and competitive advantageexcellence and competitive advantage
150 researchers (300 total R&I staff) 5 Research centres
Trento (Lego/FBK), Roma, Napoli, Lecce, Palermo 50 M€ invested in over the three-year period 06-08 30 on-going research projects 100 international partners (operational)
““To create awareness on the future challenges and operate To create awareness on the future challenges and operate to turn them into business opportunities”to turn them into business opportunities”
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Research & Innovation
/ Main Partnership
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Research Center
CNRINFNINFMCIRACNITFBKCRESFraunhofer Inst.INRIAIRCAMESICERN, GenevaINA
ICT Company
ATOS Origin
British Telecom
Cap Gemini
France Telecom
HP
IBM
Nokia
SAP
SIEMENS
SoftwareAG
Telefonica
Telecom Italia
Thales
Italian University
Uni. Bolzano Uni. Trento Politecnico di MilanoPolitecnico TorinoUni BolognaScuola Normale SuperioreUni. PisaUni. FirenzeUni. Roma Uni. UrbinoUniversità del SannioUni NapoliUni. SalernoISUFI Università LecceUni. PalermoUni. Catania
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Research & Innovation
/ Mission
Research Innovation Production
Research projects Technological experimentation and
re-usable components
Research Projects Results Technological and architectural solutions
The Mission of the R&I Division is to foster technology and innovation to production, to perceive and anticipate market trends and to consistently
orientate research priorities.
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Research & Innovation
/ Main research areas
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Digital Media Services
ProcessEngineering
Grid
Trustworthiness
Service Engineering
Intelligent Systems
Traceback, Foodsys FoodNet
Grifin, ETICS2, ERINA, DILIGENT
MASTER, SERENITY, DEWS
PHAROS, CALLAS,
BeAWARE, CASPAR, BRICKS
DISCORSO, X@Work, TEKNE
NEXOF-RA, SLA@SOI, Qualipso, SECSE
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The innovation process
/ vision
Innovation is generated by market needs (pull) as well as by technological inventions “enabling” new demand (push)
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“Equilibrium perturbation that generates a modification in the previous equilibrium”
Schumpeter Development Theory
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The innovation process
/ importance of the ICT sector in general
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Figures ICT as a General Purpose Technology
• The EU ICT sector account for 644 Billion Euro (over 5 % of EU GDP in 2006).
– Software share is 11.1% of the total ICT (71.5 B €).
– IT services share is 20.5 %, (132 B €).
• 50 % of the EU productivity growth, comes from ICT (i2010).
• The ICT sector represents 3,4 % of EU employment.
• Important indirect impacts on the economy as an enabling technology.
• ICT relevance for leaner and more efficient business processes along the whole value chain.
• ICT relevance for efficient relations with customers and suppliers.
• “Money spent on computing technology delivers gains in worker productivity that are three to five times those of other investments” (IT and Innovation Foundation)
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The innovation process
/ the enabling role of ICT (eBusiness W@tch 2006)
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The role of ICT for product and process innovation
Companies having introduced new products/services in 2005/06
16
42
32
28
25
31
8
10
15
9
13
16
8
11
14
29
29
16
11
17
53
23
0 15 30 45 60 75
Total
Food & bev.
Footw ear
Pulp & paper
ICT manuf.
Cons. electr.
Shipbuilding
Construction
Tourism
Telecoms
Hospitals
Product innovation (not ICT-enabled)
Product innovation (ICT-enabled)
Companies having introduced new processes in 2005/06
8
16
10
18
15
18
19
8
8
5
10
24
26
14
27
36
26
4
18
27
50
38
0 15 30 45 60 75
Total
Food & bev.
Footw ear
Pulp & paper
ICT manuf.
Cons. electr.
Shipbuilding
Construction
Tourism
Telecoms
Hospitals
Process innovation (not ICT-enabled)
Process innovation (ICT-enabled)
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The Innovation Process
/ the role of Internet
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Internet is today the most important information exchange means that is providing to the society the mechanisms to create new forms of social, political and economical intercourse, which is today designing the society of the 21st Century.
Internet is “more and more” becoming the key enabler for the free movement of knowledge in addition to the free movement of persons, capital, services and goods
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The Innovation Process
/ the role of Internet
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• Fifteen years ago nobody would have envisaged the Internet as it is today.
• The Internet has become the core communication environment for business relations and for social and human interaction. Some evidences are:– the Web, which processes 100 billion clicksXday, – the 55 trillion links between Web pages,– the exchange of 2 million of emails per second,– 1 million instant messages per second,– Over 1,5 billion users worldwide,– 570 million devices (including mobile) connected -
expected to become 3 billion in 2011-
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The Innovation Process
/ the role of Internet
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– phase 1 (’80) = “connectivity” • Internet as a communication infrastructure (email)
– phase 2 (’90) = “show room” (web 1.0)• Web sites pubblication: Internet as a promotional
infrastructure– phase 3 (2000) = “universal library” (web 2.0)
• Access to any type of unstructured content (Google), active role of users in generating content (WikiPedia)
– phase 4 (2015…) = “Towards Future Internet” (web 3.0)• “co-creating” (collaborative production, semantic Web).
Ubiquity, availability, complexity (services), knowledge, dependability, trust, resilience
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The Innovation Process
/ the role of Internet
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2015?
1990
Specialised networks
Internet
Future InternetAmbient Intelligence
UbiquityKnowledge
Security and trust
1960
2008WEB 2.0
Computer in the center User at the margins
NetworkedDevices
AbstractionMiddleware
GridVirtualization
servicesprocessesSemantic
Servizi per gli utenti Cittadini e Business
User in the centerComputer at the margins
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Looking ahead
/ Internet today
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The Internet was designed in the 1970s
• Internet has (and will more and more) grown beyond its original expectations (resulting from an increasing demand for performance, availability and reliability)
• Internet has (and will more and more) grown beyond its original design objectives
• The Internet infrastructure has evolved with changing applications
• Internet architecture was not created to function as a global critical infrastructure and is progressively losing its original simplicity and transparency due to new needs faced trough incremental evolution.
• The risk is that the Internet architecture will progressively reach a saturation point in meeting increasing user's expectations and a substantial inability to efficiently respond to new technological and socio-economical challenges (in terms of security, scalability, mobility, availability, and manageability) .
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Looking ahead
/ towards the Future Internet
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Cross-ETPs “Future Internet” initiative
• The ETPs eMobility, NEM, NESSi, ISI, and EPOSS are working together to define a new vision and cooperate for implementing the Future Internet
– The ETPs represent more than 1000 members: Manufacturers, Operators, SMEs, Academics
– Strong multidisciplinary competencies on networks, devices, content and services which embrace most of the aspects of the Future Internet
• The driving force stands in the conviction that research on Future Internet can only be effective by following an holistic approach where the different components and challenges are addressed in a synchronized way.
• This collaborative effort can improve effectiveness on R&D spending while fostering innovation and hence contributing to the Lisbon strategy for growth and jobs
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Looking ahead
/ towards the Future Internet: main challenges
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1. To accommodate unanticipated user expectations together with its continuous empowerment,
2. To become the common and global information exchange of human knowledge,
3. To evolve information and communication technologies as well as capabilities and services to fulfill increased quantity and quality of Internet use,
4. To be scalable to provide cultural, scientific and technological exchange among different regions and cultures,.
5. To be ubiquitously accessible (from physical, connectivity and informational level), and open,
6. To be secure, accountable, and reliable without impeding user privacy, dignity, and self-arbitration.
7. To support mobility and be capable of assisting society in emergency situations.
8. To support means for various performance adaptability features based on context, content, etc.
9. To support the innovative business models to allow for more entities (including businesses, SMEs, and individuals) to be involved in providing any particular instance of a service.
10. To be carbon neutral and energetically sustainable.
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Internet of Services
Network Infrastructure
Internet of Contents and Knowledge
Internet of Things
Internet by and forpeople
Allign prioritiesAllign priorities
•Information Tech.
•Telco
•Devices
•Media&Content
•Security
Looking ahead
/ towards the Future Internet: pillars
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Looking ahead
/ towards the Future Internet: key success factors
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• excellence – assure broad convergence of the stakeholders– accommodate “conflicting priorities” going beyond sartorial
and specific interests,– to be open to participation and contribution– activate effective and “ad hoc” collaboration (e.g. a
coherent network of PPPs based on competencies and opportunities)
• sustainability– activate of European, National and Regional (possibly
complementary) programs and financial resources that facilitate broad participation and contribution
– strategic alignment on objectives, progresses and results– valorisation and exploitation of past investment (FIA is an
example but more needs to be done to capitalise from existing National and Regional past investments)
– broad political awareness and support
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Looking ahead
/ towards the Future Internet: by and for the people
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• the FI should be able to interconnect growing population over time.
• The FI shall be capable to meet new and common people (Internet users) expectations and needs while – promoting their continuous empowerment, – preserving their self-arbitration (avoid “undue” control over
their online activities) – sustaining free exchanges of ideas.
• The FI shall also provide the means to:1. facilitate everyday life of people, communities and
organizations,2. allow the creation of any type of business regardless of
their size, domain and technology, 3. break the barriers/boundaries between information
producer and information consumer
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Looking ahead
/ towards the Future Internet: Content and Knowledge
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• With the evolving role(s) of digital communication, a cognitive society goes beyond information and content accumulation and usage by involving conscious intellectual activity (as thinking, learning, reasoning, or remembering).
• the Internet should support mechanisms for knowledge dissemination both at local and global level. – The way of managing the networked knowledge needs to
be revised to meet user expectations.– Knowledge and culture must be diffused worldwide to
breakdown barriers and to promote dissemination and learning.
• the Future Internet shall provide beyond information access, adequate processing means and involve conscious intellectual activities.
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Looking ahead
/ towards the Future Internet: things
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• In the future, we can expect that any object will capable to interact (not only computers, printers, mobile phones, but literally any “thing” around us, anywhere, at any time), creating an universally addressable continuum.
• These “things” will have the capacity of addressing each other, verifying their identities, to exchange and, if necessary, actively process information according to predefined (deterministic or not) schemes, which may or may not be.
Hence, the “Internet of Things” can be defined as “a world-wide network of uniquely addressable and
interconnected objects, based on standard communication protocols”..
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Looking ahead
/ towards the Future Internet: Services
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• The Internet of Services is the component driving the future business services in the Future Internet – manufacturing, logistics, finance, energy, health,
and government.
• These “services” will need to be proactive and not only reactive services as currently enabled on today’s Internet.
• The Internet of Services it will empower people to personalize their experience (dynamically tailored services).
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Looking ahead
/ towards the Future Internet: Network Infrastructure
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• The main domains of improvement for the network infrastructure relate to functional aspects and architectural properties.– functional aspects concerns accountability,
security/privacy/trust, manageability and diagnosability, availability, mobility
– architectural properties concerns flexibility, evolvability, resiliency/survivability, scalability.
• Such improvements require in-depth investigation of the underlying Internet design principles and components.