This document describes the Mobile Jungle web platform, which was created as part of a French national initiative to boost innovation in the mobile services sector. The platform aims to facilitate collaboration and networking between researchers, large companies, clusters, SMEs, and entrepreneurs. It provides various tools like groups, blogs, discussions, and an idea box to help the mobile services community share information and work on projects. While still new, the platform seeks to centralize people, ideas, and information to generate new technology transfer opportunities in the mobile sector.

1. Tools for External Collaboration
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– Fostering Interregional Exchange in ICT Technology Transfer –
www.FITT-for-Innovation.eu
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2. Case study on Mobile Jungle web platform
 Collaborative web platform as an implementation of national initiative
on mobile services, focused on transfer (technology, knowledge,
competencies, ideas)
 The architecture of the platform is reusable; the initiative can be
converted to other sectors and geographical locations (national/regional
markets)
 Case is mostly generic
 Stakeholders: development engineers, TT and Communication officers
 The case is related to FITT processes: “Communication &
Collaboration” and “Network Management”
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3. The Mobile Jungle concept
 Platform for networking and collaboration between various stakeholders of
mobile services sector
 Objective:
to facilitate interaction between research – large companies – clusters –
SMEs – entrepreneurs, boost innovation and leverage transfer projects
 Mean:
by creating and maintaining an online collaboration environment designed
specially for the mobile services community
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4. The context – Initiative on mobile services
 Mobile Jungle is a part of the French national initiative on mobile services (“Initiative
Services Mobiles”), which involves:
- research institutes in ICT
- ICT clusters and associations
- large telecom groups
- innovative SMEs
- innovation agency supporting SMEs
 One of the first of national initiatives launched to boost the innovation and transfer in
the sector of strategic importance
 Targets a fast-growing market with high potential
 Similar initiatives will be launched in other sectors (high performance computing is
the next to come)
 In this perspective this initiative will be broadened from national to European market
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5. The context - Initiative for mobile services
 The objective is to stimulate the national ecosystem of mobile services
through coordinated actions and to leverage the innovation capacity of its
players
 The main elements:
 Mobile Jungle – platform for networking and collaboration for mobile
services community
 Data Publica – access to public data for software developers
 SMEs programme – support for SMEs to enter or to expand on the mobile
services market
 Some other elements under development
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6. Mobile Jungle – the origin
 INRIA is coordinating the mobile services initiative
 Mobile Jungle was the first implemented action
 there was a need for a good starting point which will centralize people and ideas
and will generate new projects in a longer term
 the platform was designed by INRIA engineers with help of TT associates
(labs-industry interface)
 it aims to provide multiple but complementary facilities:
- networking environment (online equivalent of professional trade fairs)
- collaboration interface (discussions, ideas, uploads, wikis)
- complete source of information about activities in the sector
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7. Mobile Jungle – how does it work?
groups
blogs discussions
COMMUNITY
documents
idea box
sharing
links to
surveys
wikis
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8. Mobile Jungle – how does it work?
The mapping of mobile services “jungle” - search directory sorted by:
People Organisations Results
Type Software
Among
community Applications
members Market /
application Patents
Technology / Projects
Filtered by user scientific domain
name or type of Articles
interest Geographical
location Theses
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9. Mobile Jungle – how does it work?
Bunch of useful features:
• calendar of events
• calls for projects
• tenders
• job offers
• press releases
• Google map with mobile services organisations
• advanced search engine
• homepage with summary of recent community updates and events
• chat and mailing through the interface
• audio & video communication features will be added soon
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10. Web 2.0 design
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11. Implementation
 Experimental method:
 The conception and implementation were done in parallel
 No specifications, only the clear objectives
 The platform was first opened a year ago with only the basic functions and then
tested in a continuous way, adding / deleting / modifying different elements
 The present state is still not the final one – constant evolution
 One moderator, in collaboration with TT officers and TT associates
 Communication:
 To attract users, one must start with networking
 Possible starting points:
- existing thematic events and networks established earlier on
- existing clusters and professional associations
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12. Main characteristics
 Online work environment
 Brings together collaborators from different organisations or distant
locations
 creates networking opportunities and centralises information related to the
domain
 Designed to support a national initiative to boost innovation in the sector
 Focus on users/community needs
 Heterogeneous users (also beyond the members of mobile services
initiative)
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13. Conclusions
 The mobile Jungle platform is very recent and will be further developed,
following the results of ongoing evaluations and tests
 The feedback of users is one of key elements of continuous development
 To keep the platform alive and attain the goals (synergies, leverage) is a hard
task which needs continuous efforts
 ~200 visitors per day, ~500 member accounts
 Too early to say if the objectives are achieved; while it is possible to measure
the information traffic, number of members and relations between them, it is
not the case for monitoring the number of businesses resulting from that
 Expanding to the European market and involving global players such as
Nokia, Ericsson etc. may be a key issue for the future of the initiative
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