Project description DEENESFRITPL Decentralisation and democratisation: a new era of trust and governance for social media Individuals from teens to octogenarians frequently use social media, and often multiple platforms, to share and find information of all types. Social media have become a key driver of social and political thought and action – and are increasingly under the microscope regarding trust and governance, largely focused on the single, individual organisations controlling the networks. Decentralised governance and free and open-source principles are among the pillars of a next-generation secure data ecosystem. The EU-funded ARTICONF project is harnessing blockchain technology to address issues of trust, time criticality and democratisation with novel approaches that will significantly improve privacy, robustness and autonomy compared to current proprietary social media platforms. Show the project objective Hide the project objective Objective Social media platforms are key technologies for next generation connectivity. Social media platforms have the potential to shape and mobilise patterns of communication, practices of exchange and business, creation, learning and knowledge acquisition. Typically, social media are centralised platforms with a single proprietary organisation controlling the network. This poses critical issues of trust and governance over created and propagated content. This is particularly problematic when data breaches are a regular phenomenon at the hands of centralised intermediaries. To address this, we need innovative solutions at the user level (i.e. that of consumers, prosumers, and businesses) and at the level of the underlying social media environment. This will facilitate global reach, improved trust, and decentralised control and ownership. ARTICONF researches and develops a novel set of trustworthy, resilient, and globally sustainable decentralised social media services. ARTICONF addresses issues of trust, time-criticality and democratisation for a new generation of federated infrastructure, to fulfil the privacy, robustness, and autonomy related promises that proprietary social media platforms have failed to deliver so far. Namely, its goals are to: (1) simplify the creation of open and agile social media ecosystem with trusted participation using a two stage permissioned blockchain; (2) automatically detect interest groups and communities using graph anonymization techniques for decentralised and tokenized decision-making and reasoning; (3) elastically autoscale time-critical social media applications through an adaptive orchestrated Cloud edge-based infrastructure meeting application runtime requirements; and (4) enhance monetary inclusion in collaborative models through cognition and knowledge supply chains. Fields of science social sciencessociologygovernancesocial sciencesmedia and communicationssocial scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementbusiness modelsnatural sciencescomputer and information sciencescomputer securitynetwork securitynatural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems Programme(s) H2020-EU.2.1.1. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies - Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Main Programme Topic(s) ICT-28-2018 - Future Hyper-connected Sociality Call for proposal H2020-ICT-2018-20 See other projects for this call Sub call H2020-ICT-2018-2 Funding Scheme RIA - Research and Innovation action Coordinator UNIVERSITAET KLAGENFURT Net EU contribution € 885 125,00 Address UNIVERSITAETSSTRASSE 65-67 9020 Klagenfurt am Wörthersee Austria See on map Region Südösterreich Kärnten Klagenfurt-Villach Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost € 885 125,00 Participants (7) Sort alphabetically Sort by Net EU contribution Expand all Collapse all UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM Netherlands Net EU contribution € 637 750,00 Address SPUI 21 1012WX Amsterdam See on map Region West-Nederland Noord-Holland Groot-Amsterdam Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost € 637 750,00 THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH United Kingdom Net EU contribution € 427 877,50 Address OLD COLLEGE, SOUTH BRIDGE EH8 9YL Edinburgh See on map Region Scotland Eastern Scotland Edinburgh Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost € 427 877,50 REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA - UNIVERSITY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ST.PAUL THE APOSTLE OHRID North Macedonia Net EU contribution € 137 375,00 Address PARTIZANSKA STREET BB 6000 OHRID See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost € 137 375,00 MOG TECHNOLOGIES SA Portugal Net EU contribution € 522 000,00 Address RUA ENG FREDERICO ULRICH 2650 PARQUE DA CIENCIA E TECNOLOGIA DA MAIA 4470 605 Maia See on map SME The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed. Yes Region Continente Norte Área Metropolitana do Porto Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost € 522 000,00 AGILIA CENTER SL Spain Net EU contribution € 331 250,00 Address CALLE ARQUITECTURA NUM 2 BLOQUE 11 PLANTA 7 PUERTA 3 4 41015 Sevilla See on map SME The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed. 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Yes Region London Inner London — East Tower Hamlets Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost € 372 000,00 BITYOGA AS Norway Net EU contribution € 853 500,00 Address 3 ETASJE BLOCK B GRENSEVEIEN 21 4313 Sandnes See on map SME The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed. Yes Region Norge Vestlandet Rogaland Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost € 853 500,00