The NGI Enrichers project aimed to have short, medium and long-term impacts on EU-US and EU-Canada cooperation in NGI topics at the same time contributing to a human-centred and ethical development of digital and industrial technologies. NGI fosters the vision that “The Internet of the future should be more open, provide better services, more intelligence, greater involvement and participation, and reflect the social and ethical values: free, open and more interoperable”.
Maximisation of the impact has been achieved via increased inclusiveness, by supporting a human-centered approach to technology development. NGI Enrichers fellows have been encouraged to develop the projects that comply the NGI vision, supporting human-centric internet values: autonomy, humanities, cooperation, openness, inclusivity, data protection, data sovereignty, data privacy, transparency.
The other important impact includes sustainable, high-quality jobs by targeting skills mismatches, the need to empower workers, and ethical considerations relating to technological progress. To maximise the impact fellows have been supported to develop their projects, engaging with various investors, creating start-ups etc.
An interlinked and humancentric NGI Enrichers community was paramount to achieve NGI Enrichers objectives and to maximise the positive impact on the EU community. A strong desire to connect with one another have been witnessed from the fellows and the NGI Enrichers team facilitates putting community at the place, taking advantage of the mentors and team partners.
Furthermore, the NGI Enrichers developed numerous connection with hosts in the US and in CA, with mentors, ambassadors, evaluators and even thematic experts who intervened during the bootcamps. The community has been growing, but more importantly with people who are fully relevant and actively sharing and networking with the other members.
