MeshUp and Market, and Society

MeshUp and ICT policy

Data and Digital media and in general information contents is now available - if found - in a wealth of formats, qualities and unlimited feature capabilities. But a problem arises in how to manage the production and distribution of the Contents in ways that recognise they are intellectual creations and respect the rights holders and the individual and Society rights to the information.

MeshUp is arising the problem of digital rights management (DRM), rights to the information and the preservation of the privacy. Today, there are three main environments for online content delivery and consumption: the TV environment, where conditional access is mainly addressed under the DVB umbrella; the PC environment, where DRM issues are primarily addressed under the MPEG 21 umbrella; and the mobile environment, where significant DRM work is carried out under the OMA umbrella.

MeshUp needs to reconcile these three environments by providing users the possibility to legally move content from one environment to the other, without having to be concerned with the various DRM issues. The creation, delivery and consumption of media contents and info-services across a MeshUp, where security issues, such as intellectual property rights protection, privacy, access rights and transaction tracing are of major concern and a big challenge.

Its objective is to unleash the full potential of digital media, addressing the complete consumption chain - media creation, delivery and consumption, while removing the DRM barrier. This will be achieved by introducing an integration platform capable of handling the various DRM standards and interoperability requirements.In the policy arena, MeshUp is directly relevant to eEurope, where the interoperability of DRM solutions has beenrecognised as a key enabler for the widespread deployment of broadband access.

Reports about DRM outlines the critical role of interoperability in the context of copy protection, privacy and preservation of consumer interests. All the stakeholders - technology, content and service providers, application integrators, communication suppliers, and consumer associations - reach a consen to protect and preserve the value added by the content chain, consumer interests and Society rights. On the contrary, MeshUp should favour the emergence of open-spaces and raise conflicts, reducing the potential opportunities of the creativity to merge and enhance new information services.

Consequently, MeshUp needs a legal and policy framework to build new business models for the industrial sector simultaneously to promote the creation and innovation pf the IST policy in relation to propriety and information rights, privacy, consumer protection and social responsibility

Envisioning challenges and opportunities in EU-IST

I our honest opinion, EU IST Collaborative Environments needs to define a basic glossary of term. After six or more years the collaboration and cooperation term had produced problems of definition.

Now it seems we reach some common understanding: cooperation is more strong and committed interactive relationship that collaboration at least in the IST area.

However it breaks our mind when the new Mashup technologies are defined as simple relationship of collaboration and countries policies that consider the use and copy of contents as collaborative actions (they - and us - think that information MUST be open and public as one main right of the Society.

However merging contents to create new needed services have to preserve the added value of all the industrial chain, defining collaborative business models for media and information content providers, integrators and suppliers.

EU has to know the difference about cooperation and collaboration independently of the country culture. Here is the importance of the language, as way of how to think and understand.

The real pity is that the massive catalog of IST collaborative tools, instruments and environments which are used to boost RTDI in any industrial sector we will follow using a simple post (Identical that two years ago for IST-2004).

Any now that European cooperatives (SCE) are effective from August. Some professionals micro-companies or spin-off can form a legal society to cooperate sharing resources, IST multidisciplinary competences and to guarantee public funds or risk capital.

Well criticism are good, in order to push innovation in a governmental conservative context.

The real suitable envisioned European cooperative environment is one available next year to meshup bionics implants with leader mobile application in a open wireless communication infrastructures to reduce the cost of information services, increase the competitiveness of the industries and the social benefits of the EC integrative efforts.

Policy areas: 

• Society: Culture; Education; Employment & Social Affairs; Health; Inclusion
• Governance: e-Government; Justice, Freedom & Security; Regional Policy
• Sustainable Development: Agriculture & Rural Development; Environment; Energy & Transport;
• Competitiveness: Enterprise Policy; Industrial Policy; Single Market
• Research & Innovation: Media; Research & Technology; Standardisation
• International Relations: Development & Humanitarian Aid; External Relations; External Trade

A vision from the CONSEN EEIG Networking IST/OS Cluster

Ubiquitous computing and advanced processing capacity provide new possibilities for mobile and rich media that draw on embedded applications. These technologies provide challenging new networking models and partnerships.

We want to explore the creative, technical, and business potentials of physical interfaces such as body implants, wearable computing, sensor based memory devices, locationbased rich experiences that rely on ubiquitous computing and mobility. Applications span personalized media systems, location based games, training applications, security systems, wellness, recreational, working and living technologies.

The miniaturization and reduction in cost of digital memory/processing and the proliferation of body implants, personal recording devices as well as surveillance technologies provides individuals and societies with a vast realm of memory materials, embedded processing and ubiquitous communication. One of the proclaimed goals of pervasive computing research is to develop invisible distributed sensor networks to record and process various aspects of our activities. We examine the idea of alternate display substrates (e.g., walls, garments, or furniture) that recall their ÔÇ£history of use,ÔÇØ or how embodied memory can be communicated through augmented data and be processed in real-time.

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This concludes that affective computing in human individual/collective Ambient Assisted Living and/or Working environments have to be investigated, discussed, explained, developed, implemented, tested, used and innovated by/within the themselves from the simple action/reaction to the ubiquitous uncertainly complexity.

Envisioning challenges and opportunities in EU-IST

I our honest opinion, EU IST Collaborative Environments needs to define a basic glossary of term. After six or more years the collaboration and cooperation term had produced problems, now it seems we reach some common understanding: ÔÇ£cooperation is more strong and committed interactive relationship that collaborationÔÇØ at least in the IST area. However it breaks our mind when the new Mashup technologies are defined as simple relationship of collaboration and countries policies that consider the use and copy of contents as collaborative actions (they - and us - think that information MUST be open and public as one main right of the Society. However merging contents to create new needed services have to preserve the added value of all the industrial chain, defining collaborative business models for media and information content providers., integrators and suppliers).

In EU we have to know the difference about cooperation and collaboration independently of the country culture. Here is the importance of the language, as way of to think and understand.

The real pity is that the massive of IST collaborative tools, instruments and environments used to boost RTDI in any industrial sector we will follow using a simple post (Identical that two years ago for IST-2004).

Any now that European cooperatives SCE are effective from August. Some professionals micro-companies or spin-off can form a legal society to cooperate sharing resources, IST competences and reach guaranteed funds.

Well criticism are good, in order to push innovation in governmental conservative context.

The real suitable envisioned European cooperative environment is one available next year to meshup bionics implants with leader mobile application in a open wireless communication infrastructures to reduce the cost of information services, increase the competitiveness of the industries and the social benefits of the EC integrative efforts.