We may have 3.4 billion users but creating meaningful points of engagement and maintaining relationships between users and content will be critical. The real challenge is 'relevancy' of content and how that is best achieved and realised by users through personal search agents, linked data and the injection of 'meaning' into content. There are many barriers to learning but technology should not be one of them and the 'original' vision of the WWW was as a collaborative enviornment where you could read and write. We need to re-focus effort on automation of processes which provide knowledge that can be discovered and searched. This will empower organisations and indivuduals; creating points of engagement through Applications which engage and retain users by enabling learning from distributed knowledge.

1. The Internet: growth
Since the mid-1990s the
internet has had a
dramatic impact on
culture, commerce and
society.
Brings many benefits to
organisations and
individuals.

2. Cisco Projects
Insane Growth
in Web-Users
and Data
Traffic
•1. An Increasing Number of Devices:
To quote the report, ”The proliferation of tablets, mobile
phones, connected appliances and other smart machines
is driving up the demand for connectivity.
By 2015, there will be nearly 15 billion network
connections via devices — including machine-to-
machine — and more than two connections for each
person on earth.”
•2. More Internet users:
“By 2015, there will be nearly 3 billion Internet users —
more than 40 percent of the world’s projected
population.”
•3. Faster broadband speed:
“The average fixed broadband speed is expected to
increase four-fold, from 7 megabits per second in 2010 to
28 Mbps in 2015.
The average broadband speed has already doubled
within the past year from 3.5 Mbps to 7 Mbps.”
•4. More video:
“By 2015, 1 million video minutes — the equivalent of
674 days — will traverse the Internet every second.”
The Internet

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mobile
commerce
($Bn) in US
The Internet
Different
patterns
of use!

4. The Internet
3.4 billion people online by 2016, with nearly 19 billion network-
connected devices.
Faster broadband speeds that will support greater consumption of
content; and much more video content driving demand.
How big will the internet be?

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Exabytes
per month
mobile
segment
The Internet
Exabyte:
1,000,000,000
gigabytes
How big will the internet be?

6. Is this evolution or revolution?
The internet appears to have no fixed boundaries and is
getting bigger and being used in many different ways.
Development of mobile and tablet devices changes
patterns of use and expectations of services.
Increasing access across diverse applications requires
flexibility and adaptability of content.

7. Verinote is engaged in R&D with international
projects associated with the Apache foundation,
to provide tools and services for consumption
and delivery of Linked Data providing semantic
enhancement of content, intelligent search and
content ‘discovery’.
We work with a range of partners to develop useful
and relevant use cases for the application of
semantic enhancements and content
enrichment.
Research and Development

8. Our R&D work directly benefits clients as we identify areas
for innovation and business opportunities.
We want to reduce the barriers to accessing knowledge and
to support communication through the application of
technology with OpenSource solutions.
Our interest is in the development of Linked Data and
Personal Search Agents as this equips organisations
with the ability to use the internet for rich learning and
collaboration within communities of shared interest.
And it is a more efficient use of resources.
Why we do it?

9. • Data management and representation; Design and build
of intelligent-systems driven by Semantic Web
technologies to create and use Linked Open Data
• Content creation, development and publishing via
internet-based services for video, audio, images and
other content
• Inclusion of legacy data - structured and unstructured
• Tools and services for the management and distribution
of Linked Data
• Distributed learning and knowledge sharing
• Automating business processes and intelligence
• There are many others…
..and considerable scope for collaboration.
This creates opportunities