• Mr. Andy Wyckoff
    (Head of ICCP Division, OECD)

    "We need to upgrade the infrastructures and find basic principles which will act as foundation for creating common policies"
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  • Mr. Jean Charles Hourcade
    (Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Thomson)

    "The use of generated content and services is going to mix itself with more traditional audiovisual contents like television, radio, and music offering a new form of cooperative entertainment"
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  • Mr. Mike Carr
    (Director Research and Chief Science Officer, BT)

    "The Internet is becoming multiple infrastructures and now we are moving into multiple services and multiple services into global"
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The future of Internet

Europe plays a key role in the Future Internet

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Future Internet is vital to sustainable economic growth in Europe

In the future, even more users, objects and critical information infrastructures will be connected to the Internet and it will become a critical factor for supporting and improving the European economy.
It is therefore time to strengthen and focus European activities on the Future Internet to maintain Europe’s competitiveness in the global marketplace.

Europe addresses the technological challenges of the Future Internet

The Future Internet needs radically new concepts and technologies if it is to support our future society in an effective way. 
Europe has committed €9.1 billion for funding ICT research in FP7 but we must ensure that enhanced and focussed attention is given to the design of the Future Internet.
It is a matter of strategic importance for Europe to fully engage in the conception, development and innovation of the Future Internet to ensure the long term growth of the ICT sector in Europe, support the multitude of applications and services relying on continued innovation in the Internet infrastructure.

The promise of the European research community on the Future Internet

We have to radically rethink the networking infrastructure and the networks of the Future with a view to having a new Internet that meets Europe’s commercial and societal ambitions.
The more than 70 EU ongoing research projects  represent a public and private partnership investment of around €500 million that recognizes the need for innovative approaches to new network architectures and exciting service technologies to ensure the emergence of a new wave of applications that will serve the European society’s future needs.