The future of Internet

The European Future Internet Assembly

Against this background, a range of European research projects are instrumental in the creation of the European Future Internet Assembly, which aims at identifying the long term societal and economic trends of future "on line societies", how they may impact the underlying network and service technologies, and how they subsequently drive research requirements.

As a consequence, opportunities for action at European level will be explored with the intention of further facilitating and mobilising the relevant research constituencies, also taking into account initiatives already launched in other regions of the world.

The European Future Internet Assembly will offer a vehicle for excellence and innovation that will create for the relevant European actors an opportunity to exchange and promote their views in the global "Future Internet" debate and building up on relevant initiatives emerging from the first call of the ICT programme, such as the "EIFFEL" initiative (http://www.future-internet.eu/).

The European Future Internet Assembly aims to:

• Coordinate European efforts with a view to foster cross-disciplinary innovation and creativity
  
• Develop the European knowledge base underpinning the Future Internet
  
• Design and build the technologies and networking architecture for the Future Internet
  
• Encourage collaborative business models and social network applications
  
• Create the conditions for the development of innovation friendly service oriented architectures
  
• Ensure the robustness of the networks and create trust and security in the on-line world
  
• Develop the tools and approaches harnessing the potential of the Internet of Things
  
• Develop capabilities for the creation, sharing, search and delivery of new-media content
  
• Raise awareness of economic, policy and regulatory orientations identified  by the UN Internet Governance Forum, the OECD and the European regulatory framework