Digital technologies and the Internet are rapidly and radically changing the dynamics of both individual and collective human experience, underpinning innovation across private and public sectors, being core enablers for the transformation of the European society and services. This represents a unique opportunity to address some of the most pressing social and environmental challenges.
The Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative, launched by the European Commission in the autumn of 2016, aims to shape the future internet as an interoperable platform ecosystem that embodies the values that Europe holds dear: openness, inclusivity, transparency, privacy, cooperation, and protection of data. The NGI will drive this technological revolution and ensure the progressive adoption of advanced concepts and methodologies spanning the domains of artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, interactive technologies and more, while contributing to making the future internet more human-centric. This ambitious vision requires the involvement of the best Internet researchers and innovators to address technological opportunities arising from cross-links and advances in research fields ranging from network infrastructures to platforms, and application domains to social innovation.
HUB4NGI has been the first Coordination and Support Action assisting the EC in the launch of the NGI initiative with the overall goal of creating a collaborative framework capable of effectively supporting and coordinating activities across the whole NGI context by combining knowledge, tools and processes to reach and engage top-notch Internet researchers and innovators.The selected and carefully designed activities HUB4NGI has pursued have been organised around 5 main work packages: the NGI APPROACH, the NGI GUIDE, the NGI CATALYST, the NGI BOOST and the NGI FIGHTER. By close interaction of these activities, HUB4NGI has covered strategy and operation by:
Defining a methodology for collecting and assessing the information in the NGI domain.
Grounding the NGI vision, strategy and plans.
Accelerating the NGI programme implementation.
Running community building, outreach and communication activities.
HUB4NGI has played a crucial role for the whole NGI community helping also to grow and liaise with relevant European, international, national and regional initiatives via support to the Future Internet Forum and close interaction with other Horizon 2020 programmes such as CAPS, 5G PPP, IoT-LSP, FIRE, etc.
All outcomes and outputs have been made available via the NGI Portal at: www.ngi.eu
