The April edition of the NESSI newsletter reports on the Future Internet Assembly (April 15-16, 2010) and the NESSI Projects Summit (April 12-13, 2010), which were both held in Valencia, Spain. FAST were there presenting its latest findings and achievements. In particular, FAST organised an information booth at the FIA Exhibition. On tuesday 13th FAST participated in the “From Service Front ends to Security, check out which projects are relevant!” sessions. These sessions had the objective to clarify the results reached in each working area and introduced future developments as well as future plans. For each of the considered areas, one or more NESSI Strategic/Compliant Projects took the lead, and FAST excelled at Service Front-ends.
To do so a Collaboration Plan has been elaborated and released.
The competitiveness of the modern nations and that of the European states in particular leans on the technological development and the use of networked facilities. The advent of the traditional internet was a gigantic leap in the working habits and procedures in the organisations. However, the original model is depleting and the growing demands of bandwidth and complexity of services required hint that there must be a breakthrough in the infrastructure of the Internet soon. Acknowledging this fact, the EC do not want to lag behind the technological development but to lead the change to position Europe in a favourable situation to face the challenges of the future. Hence, the EC has made an appeal to European wide action to ensure the competiveness of the ICT sector in Europe. The conference recently held in BLED, hosted by the Slovenian Government is a first step to start building this initiative.
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