This document discusses the European Union's Digital Agenda, which aims to promote an open and competitive digital economy in Europe. It outlines several major initiatives of the Digital Agenda, including enhancing broadband access, developing a digital single market, boosting innovation through research funding, and ensuring digital inclusion. The document also discusses using information and communication technologies to address issues like an aging population in Europe and improving public services.

1. Per Blixt
16 May 2011

2. A new chapter in EU history
§ Lisbon Treaty and the new institutional setting
§ Ambitions and priorities Barroso II ‘guidelines’,
EU2020
§ Enhancing economic prosperity and social cohesion
§ Digital Agenda is a major building block of the EU2020
§ Future Internet at the core of the Digital Agenda

3. Innovation Union
Youth on the move
Digital Agenda for
Europe
Resource efficient
Europe
Industrial policy for
the globalisation era
Europe 2020
Agenda for new skills
and jobs
smart, sustainable and inclusive growth
European platform
against poverty
…vision of Europe's social market economy for the 21st century.

4. Why?
from ICT as interesting
to ICT as hugely important

5. scale factor: how big is big?
WEB sites:
30 new Million sites added in 2008
17% annual growth
§ Google indexed 26 Million pages in 1998 – today it indexes 1 trillion pages
§ There are currently 210 billion emails per day (73% spam)
§ User generated content (e.g YouTube) produces 73+ billion streams in 2008
§ Facebook and MySpace each have over 100 million users (3/4 teenagers)
§ 3.7 million pictures uploaded every day in Flickr
§ 1.3 trillion SMS messages in 2008

6. mobile and things factor
§ Internet goes mobile due to the widespread of smart terminals and of
broadband mobile networks
§ +50% in 2008; >1 Billion users expected to use their mobile as
Internet gateway in 2012
2100
Broadband
1800
Subscription, 2/3
Smartphone
Subscriptions (Millions)
1500
mobile in 2012 shipments x1000
1200
900
600
300
0
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Mobile Fixed
Towards trillions of connected devices, Internet of objects,
novel applications driven by user needs:
CONTEXT: e.g. Geo-location as embedded capability
PARTICIPATION: e.g. Combine virtual with the physical world

8. To whom?
SMEs
Musicians
Workers
Consumers
Doctors
Patients Elderly
Environment
Researchers
Artists
Authors Disabled

9. How?

10. Research and innovation
Funds double investment to €11 bln
light&fast measures to access
Coordination

11. Innovation Union
European Council, 4 Feb 2011
Innovation contributes to tackling the most
critical societal challenges we are facing. …
ensure that innovations with a societal benefit
get to the market quicker…. pilot Innovation
Partnership on active and healthy ageing is an
important step...

12. Digital public services: 2015
50%
EU citizens use eGovernment
Member States have online
100%
cross-border public
services
100%
EU citizens access eHealth

13. Openness and interoperability
Improve standard settings
Coordinate interoperability
Promote common standards

14. Online trust and security
identity theft
low trust = low use
spam
cybercrime
cybercrime centre
computer emergency response teams

15. Digital Single Market: 2015
legal online access to content
50% shop online
20% buy cross border

16. Internet for all
2013 2020 2015
internet ≥30Mbps ≥50Mbps
for 100% for 100% for 50%

17. Digital inclusion: 2015
get more people online
75% 60%
60% 41% 30%
15%
now 2015 now 2015 now 2015
regular use disadvantaged never used
eSkills training

18. ICT and Demographic Ageing
Social necessity
• 80+ population doubles until 2050; 60+ from 20% (2000) to 29%
(2025)
• 21% of 50+ population has severe vision/hearing/dexterity problems
• Today 4 working for 1 retired, in 2050 only 2 working for 1 retired
• Shortfall of care staff,
(estimated need for 20 million informal carers by 2025)
Economic opportunity
• Empowering elderly persons to age actively
• 85 million consumers in Europe over 65 today, 150 Million by 2050
• Telecare market >5 B€/year by 2015 in Europe
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19. ICT in support of older
people…
• At Work
– Staying active and productive for longer
– Better quality of work and work-life balance
• In the Community
– Overcoming isolation & loneliness
– Keeping up social networks
– Accessing public services
• At Home
– Better quality of life for longer
– Independence, autonomy and dignity
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20. Governance
Digital Agenda Scoreboard
stakeholders
Member European
States Digital Agenda Assembly Parliament
Yearly DAE Communication
European Council

21. Future Internet:
A Comprehensive EU Approach
Technology
Future Internet
Risk
FP7
FP7/PPP
CIP/ICT PSP • market oriented R&D
• longer-term R&D
• integration of new
• cost-efficiency
• large scale trials • Common enablers ICT & new ideas
(using existing • adaptation to specific • open platforms and
technology) demands… interoperability
• service innovation
Time to
Market
Piloting 2-3 years 5-10 years
deployment
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22. Open Innovation for Future
Internet-enabled Services in
Smart Cities
7 Pilots - Different Priorities
• SMARTiP, PEOPLE: empowering the citizen
• Peripheria, Life 2.0: social interaction
• Open Cities: public sector services 25 Smart Cities in
15 Member States
• EPIC: Business and commercial aspects
• Smart-islands: geographical synergies
2
Common Objectives 1
• apply user-driven open
innovation methodologies 1
• build on innovative but mature 1
1 3
Internet technologies 2
• boost deployment of 2 1
internet-services
3
• carry out actual piloting at 1
representative scale 3 3
1 1

23. FIRE
Future Internet Research & Experimentation
• Supporting research and innovation on new network
and service architectures FIRE Research
validation
• Through large scale experimentation, predict
Research Large Scale
behavior and assess non-technical impact Experiment.
FIRE Experimental Facility
requirements
User Communities
Test bed 1 Test bed 2 Test bed 3 Exp5
Exp2
Test bed 9
Test bed 1 Test bed 4 Test bed 2 Test bed 3
Test bed 5
Test bed 4 Exp Exp4
1 Exp3 bed 5
Test
Test bed 6 Test bed 7 Test bed 8
Test bed 6 Test bed 7 Federated Service Testbeds bed 8
Test
Federated Network Testbeds
Onelab2, PII, and Wisebed
are offering their prototype services

24. FI PPP: programme architecture
Call 1 300M€ planned in 2011-13
Call 2 Call 3
Up to 8 Use Case Scenarios
Up to 5 Trials
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

25. future internet: complementary vectors

26. Conclusions
Internet, from typewriter to core
infrastructure
Big challenges and possibilities
101 actions
Open innovation, Inclusion, Single market

27. Thanks for your attention
Digital Agenda for Europe
http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda
per.blixt@ec.europa.eu