Miguel PdL

Interesting article on IEEE Spectrum: IBM Takes the Guesswork Out of Services Consulting, which may have some barring on the Living Labs approach and in particular on our attempt to describe the “Open Innovation Services of the Living Labs”. Although as with the Living Labs definition there is some way to go before the services science has a clear charter.
Services Science:

curricula, training, and research programs that are designed to teach individuals to apply scientific, engineering, and management disciplines that integrate elements of computer science, operations research, industrial engineering, business strategy, management sciences, and social and legal sciences, in order to encourage innovation in how organizations create value for customers and shareholders that could not be achieved through such disciplines working in isolation.

Living Lab:

The Living Lab is an environment for building a future economy in which user-centric innovation will be the normal creation technique for new products and services.
This vision is moving the goal posts from a position where the user is seen as the research object and consumer of industry lead innovations, to a position where the user and user communities are contributors and co-creators of product and service innovations.

Enterprise Ireland have kindly asked that I give a short presentation at their Event: FP7 Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Information Day to be held in Dublin on January 12th, (this week).
The subject matter “Experiences of FP6 – an Academic perspective”. I’m finalising the presentation at the moment I hope I can give FP6 its fair dues.
Other items and presenters at the event include:
Overview of ICT Work Programme by Khalil Rouhana, European Commission. Mr. Rouhana is Head of Unit for Strategy for ICT Research and Development in the Directorate General for the Information Society and Media in the European Commission.
Participating in FP7 by Morten Moller, European Commission. Mr. Moller is Head of Unit for IST Operations in the Directorate General for the Information Society and Media in the European Commission.
Experiences of FP6 – an Industrial perspective by Mark Roddy, Lake Communications,. Mark is a product manager, and a colleague of mine on the FP6 project IST Daidalos.
The final section of the presentation is given to an explaination of Enterprise Ireland support during FP7. Sounds like they’ll be a crowd, 90 places have already been booked.

BarCamp / Barcamp Ireland – SouthEast is coming to town, now I must admit putting the words Bar & Camp together conjured up different thoughts in my head, but once I read the BCISE Blog and wiki page the concept became clearer and I thought this is something great to see happening in the South East of Ireland. So I feel compelled to support it and attended.
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Well it’s a new year and a new call to watch out for. The EU has officially opened the FP7 ICT Call 1
With the following 9 challenges to be addressed.
Challenge 1: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
Challenge 2: Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics
Challenge 3: Components, systems, engineering
Challenge 4: Digital libraries and content
Challenge 5: Towards sustainable and personalised healthcare
Challenge 6: ICT for mobility, environmental sustainability and energy
Challenge 7: ICT for independent living and inclusion
Future and Emerging Technologies
Horizontal support actions (i.e. International cooperation)
It’s certainly going to be interesting, with a call closer date of May 8, 2007, at 17:00, Brussels local time.

Since my post in August on the European Network of Living Labs at IST 2006 we have worked hard and are finally here, the launch day of the Living Lab network.

It has taken some organisation by the European Commission, the Finnish government, and CoreLabs , but the community website is ready at www.openlivinglabs.eu, the event is in a lovely location in Helsinki and has high participation, you couldn’t ask for more.

Arc Labs is a member of this first wave, and it is interesting to see and hear some similar and some diverse Living Labs from across Europe. Well the doors are open we are all ready to collaborate!
It was an early start, 8.00am to start the network session, a couple of pictures were taken and I have uploaded these to a flickr account.
This one additional picture is of my presentation on Arc Labs.

I’d like to take this opportunity to highlight the 2nd Conference on Collaborative Working Environments for Business and Industry (CWE´07) which will take place June 14-15, 2007, in the brand new House of Culture in Luleå, Sweden.
The conference is co-organised by Luleå University of Technology and the European Commission in a joint effort to direct the ICT sector more closely towards the needs of European business and industry.
If Europe is going to achive the goal of becoming the most dynamic and competitive knowledge-based economy in the world by 2010, as stated in the Lisbon Strategy, many crucial challenges and opportunities clearly fall into the domain of Collaborative Working Environments.
Just like in CWE´06 (held in Brussels, Belgium, May 10-11, 2006) the mission of the conference is to bring together both industry practitioners and academics to jointly address emerging inbdustry needs, and to collectively shape the future research agenda in the area of Collaborative Working Environments.
One essential change since the last conference is that CWE´07, apart from our esteemed keynote speakers, also includes parallell sessions in which researchers from both academia and industry are invited to present their work.
We look forward to your contribution and welcome you to beautiful Luleå, just south of the Arctic Circle.
CONFERENCE THEME
The overall theme of CWE’07 is:
* Service-Oriented Collaboration Infrastructures
Topics include but are not limited to:
* Collaboration Service Modeling
* Collaboration Service Assembly
* Collaboration Service Management
* Collaboration Infrastructure Runtime
* Quality of Service of Collaboration Services
* Methods and Tools Supporting Creativity and Productivity
* Practice and Research
IMPORTANT DATES
January 15, 2007
Deadline for electronic submission of full papers. Papers should have a maximum length of 10 pages (Times New Roman, 12 pt).
February 15, 2007
Deadline for electronic submission of revised papers.
Papers will be subjected to a double-blind review-process. Accepted papers will be published in the conference preceedings.
MORE INFORMATION
Website www.cwe-europe.org

I’ve been asked to present a few slides on the Research Domain perspectives on eMobilty and EU Collaborative Research for a seminar organised by Enterprise Ireland / InvestNet in association with the EPISTEP Programme.
The event is hosted at the O’Connell Suite, 2nd Floor, Burlington Hotel, Upper Leeson Street, Dublin 4.
The other speakers are Dr Fiona Williams, Chairperson, eMobility Technology Platform & Research Director, Ericsson Research, Germany and Fiona will talk about the eMobility Technology Platform – Overview and benefits of participation for Irish companies
Derek Gallagher Co-Chair EPISTEP program / Targeting Innovation Ltd is talking about the EPISTEP Project – enabling SMEs greater access to European collaboration
Mark Roddy, Product Manager, Lake Communications and Dawood Ghalaieny, Managing Director, Cellusys also offer their perspectives.
Last but not least the event is Free of Charge to attend.

In an attempt to continue along the theme of the Future Internet, I’ve just been altered to a report by Pew Internet and American Life in which the Internet’s future in 2020 is debated
The initial link given above is to the BBC report, however there’s nothing better than going to the horses mouth. “The Future of the Internet II” report can be found at the Pew Internet site and the full survey of technology thinkers [pdf] is here.
There are some interesting scenarios considered:
Scenario One: A global, low-cost network thrives
Scenario Two: English displaces other languages
Scenario Three: Autonomous technology is a problem
Scenario Four: Transparency trumps privacy issues
Scenario Five: Virtual reality brings mixed results
Scenario Six: The internet opens access and blurs boundaries
Scenario Seven: Some Luddites will commit terror acts
World Priorities: Ranking priorities for global development

As co-chair for the Demonstrations for the TridentCom 2007 conference, I was recently informed of a move of the date of te conference from the original date of Feb 2007 to May 21-23, 2007.
This move will help resolve some time issues and also accommodate the
involvement of IEEE COMSOC, a co-sponsor, in the organization of the conference.
Correspondingly, there are new submission and notification deadlines.
Full papers due: December 31, 2006
Demo proposals due: December 31, 2006
Notification of acceptance: February 28, 2007
Final manuscript due: March 31, 2007
Conference date: May 21-23, 2007
I’ve changed the details on Upcoming.org also.

Trust Paul W to get some good shots of te ArcLab open day
Life is grand ? Bertie came.

A whole set of pictures can also be spotted on Flickr