The NGI - Europe

- Overview

Recent technological advances and the inevitable shift to the Internet of Everything are creating a data-driven society where productivity, knowledge, and experience depend on increasingly open, dynamic, interdependent, and complex networked systems. 

As we enter the digital decade, many new technologies are emerging with the potential to change our lives. The three key advanced technologies for our future are the Internet of Things, blockchain and the next generation Internet. 

The Internet of Things (IoT) connects the physical world to the digital environment, with connected objects reporting their status and their surroundings. You can use a smartwatch to monitor your health or fitness, or check from your phone that your home alarm system is on and your doors are locked. This is possible thanks to IoT. 

IoT also has huge benefits: Industry uses IoT to help run factories; sensors in fields collect data to help farmers make better decisions; and entire cities can be outfitted with sensors and monitors to become smart cities.

The challenge for the Next Generation Internet (NGI) is to design and build enabling technologies, implementation, and deployment systems that create opportunities while allowing humans and machines to work together seamlessly, taking into account ever-increasing uncertainty and emergent system behavior. 

- The NGI Initiative: An Internet of Trust

The Next Generation Internet (NGI) is an initiative of the European Commission to develop the Internet into an "Internet of Trust". NGI envisions an Internet that is:

• Accessible and diverse
• Respectful of privacy
• Open, inclusive, transparent, cooperative

NGI includes emerging technologies in the following focus areas:

• Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Machines
• Blockchain and distributed ledgers
• Big Data
• Internet of Things
• 5G
• Cybersecurity and privacy technology
• Cloud and edge computing
• Open data

Please refer to the following for more details:

• Wikipedia: Next Generation Internet

- Goals of the EU's NGI Initiative

The Next Generation Internet (NGI) Initiative aims to implement the key technical building blocks of the future Internet and shape the future Internet into an interoperable platform ecosystem embodying the values that Europe holds dear: openness, inclusiveness, transparency, privacy, cooperation and Data Protection. The goal is to give users the freedom to choose from a range of open source decentralized digital solutions. 

To this end, NGI covers grassroots projects at all levels of the Internet: from open hardware, network and transport technologies, firmware, operating systems and virtualization, electronic identity and middleware, decentralized ledgers, software productivity tools, traffic policing tools, up to the top Internet and vertical applications.

The NGI initiative's goals include:

• Create an Internet that meets the needs of business, consumer, research and communications networks
• Build the future Internet into an interoperable platform ecosystem embodying European values such as openness, inclusiveness, transparency, privacy and cooperation
• Upgrade Internet infrastructure to improve security and privacy
• Improve network performance
• Make the Internet more energy efficient

- The Topics of the H2020 ICT

The Next Generation Internet (NGI) Initiative aims to implement the key technical building blocks of the future Internet and shape the future Internet into an interoperable platform ecosystem that embodies the values Europe holds dear: openness, inclusion, transparency, privacy, collaboration and data protection. 

The goal is to give users the freedom to choose from a range of open source decentralized digital solutions. 

The NGI is a key priority in H2020 ICT work programme 2018-2020. It funds research and innovation addressing the following topics:

• Blockchain for the Next Generation Internet
• Interactive technologies
• Next Generation Internet of Things
• An empowering, inclusive Next Generation Internet
• Next Generation Media
• Next Generation Internet - An Open Internet Initiative
• Interactive Technologies
• Artificial Intelligence
• Internet of Things
• Future Hyper- connected Sociality
• A multilingual Next Generation Internet
• EU-US collaboration on NGI

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