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Dear all,
As most of you certainly know, the
PARADISO initiative developed by the Club of Rome and Sigma Orionis, and
supported by the European Commission under FP7, aims at analysing the
interaction between Internet and societal developments and at deriving
recommendations on research to be developed under FP8. I am happy today to
provide you, below, with latest news on PARADISO activities. We count on your
involvement in upcoming activities. Do not hesitate to contact us for any
questions you may have or information you may need.
Kind
regards.
Roger Torrenti
Coordinator
of the PARADISO2 FP7 FIRE project
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Meet
us at the ICT event (Brussels, Sept. 27-29)
- PARADISO will be strongly involved in the ICT 2010
conference and exhibition (http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/ict/2010/index_en.htm):
PARADISO will benefit from a big stand in the central part of the exhibition
area and is also involved in the organisation of two networking sessions
devoted to “International cooperation on Future Internet” and to “Internet
Science”. Should you attend the event, please come and visit our stand and
attend these sessions!
Registration for the PARADISO workshop of Nov. 23
is open
- The 2010 PARADISO workshop will be held at the European
Commission, in Brussels, on November 23 on the theme “Understanding the
interaction between Internet and societal developments”. It will include three
plenary sessions: “Exploring the future of our societies”, “Exploring the
Future Internet”, and “How could the Future Internet be better suited to our
future?”. Keynote speakers from all over the world will contribute to the
workshop. The agenda to date is available online (http://www.paradiso-fp7.eu).
Registration for the event is free of charge but compulsory and has to be made
online. Due to the limited capacity of the venue, it is recommended to
register as soon as possible. Applications will be handled on a first come,
first served basis.
Join the
PARADISO community LinkedIn group
The
PARADISO Foundation has been created
- The PARADISO Foundation (http://www.the-paradiso-foundation.org)
has been founded on Sept. 1, 2010 in Brussels, as a “private foundation” under
the Belgian law, by the same stakeholders who have been developing the
PARADISO initiative since the first half of 2007. The rationale is to provide
the initiative with a more sustainable framework, beyond the one of EU-funded
projects thanks to which most PARADISO activities have been undertaken so far.
Among planned activities: open events, research, publications, support for
innovative projects and initiatives. Roger Torrenti, CEO of Sigma Orionis,
coordinator of the ongoing EU-funded PARADISO2 project, is the Managing
Director of the Foundation. To support the Foundation or for further
information, please contact us at info@the-paradiso-foundation.org.
PARADISO messages from visionary people and
leading experts
- An increasing number of visionary people and leading
experts are kindly accepting the request from the PARADISO partnership to
deliver video messages concerning the future of our societies, foreseen
technological developments, and the interaction between them. Several such
messages have just been added to the Video channel section of the PARADISO web
site (http://paradiso-fp7.eu/resources/video-channel/),
from Pranab Bardhan (Professor of Economics at the University of California,
Berkeley), Mario Campolargo (Director, Emerging Technologies and
Infrastructures, DG Infso, European Commission), Susan George (Political
scientist and writer), Helga Nowotny (President of the European Research
Council), Michael Oborne (Director of the International Futures programme of
the OECD), Roberto Saracco (Director of Telecom Italia Future Center), Jakob
von Uexkuell (Founder of the World Future Council), etc. We can only recommend
to those interested by the issues addressed by PARADISO to take time to watch
these videos and carefully listen to these
messages.
International cooperation in the field of Future
Internet
- Designing the Internet for the future is obviously not
only a challenge for Europe but for the other regions of the world.
International cooperation has thus to be encouraged in order to more
efficiently address this global challenge. This is why PARADISO has warmly
welcomed the initiative of the European Commission to launch a focused
activity targeting the strengthening of this cooperation, starting with a
Networking session at the ICT 2010 event (on Sept. 29, at 14:00, in room
1103C), which PARADISO has been preparing in liaison with the other EU-funded
support actions addressing Future Internet and having an international
dimension.
For any
questions you may have or information you may need, please visit http://www.paradiso-fp7.eu or contact info@paradiso-fp7.eu