Future of the Internet
Posted on November 20, 2006
Filed Under What's New, European Web 2.0 pipeline |
The EU is hosting a day’s mini-conference on the future of the Internet on December 15th.
Any longer term EU watchers will recognise a few of the names there as well as a really backward piece of EU planning. In fact the EU is currently getting things so wrong it’s a wonder there isn’t some form of protest from the politicos.
Here’s the rub of it. A couple of years back the EU decided to concentrate its R&D spending on future audio-visual network systems (that’s the web!) on infrastructure and the purse holders for future applications (that’s web 2.0, 3.0 and thereafter) will be the large EU multinationals who organised different aspects of infrastructure. So on software services there is NESSI organsied by Telefonica of Spain.
At the last General Assembly NESSI was clearly positioned as the platform that will enable new services and that will “transform the Internet to service our lives”
There’s emobility. And a couple of others. Their jobs? They feed into the EU’s GRID planning and they help decide who gets funding for web apps and services.
The whole things is just gross and an abject failure by politicians to control the European Commission. Or it’s a cunning plan to corner the market in high capacity networks and network management technologies.
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