The Internet of Cultures

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The Internet of Cultures

• Artur Serra
• artur.serra_at_i2cat.net
• Fundacio i2CAT
• Digital Heritage Exchange,
• Korea, September 7th,2004
• (modified Sept 12th,2004)

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Index,1. The hypothesis of Internet of
Cultures2. The i2CAT Foundation Designing an
Internet2 for everyone3. Next steps Towards a
Global Multicultural Party?
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1. The hypothesis of an Internet of Cultures
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1. An Internet for every sapiens

• The current Internet is for literated, English
  readers, middle class people. Around 600 milions
  worldwide.
• Is it possible to build an Internet for 6.000
  milions and beyond? How?
• There are 5.000 human languages worldwide
• What is the minimum requirement to participate in
  the Information Society?
• Every sapiens can speak (almost everyone).
• The new Internet will be the Internet of
  languages, the Internet of voice and video.

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Three cultures, three phases of the Internet
technology

• 1st. 1970s-90s The Internet of computer
  technologists and innovative people, (
  email,ftp,telnet,...) (6 M people)
• 2nd.90s-2010s The Internet of scientists, the
  mathematical and literated people,( WWW,
  Grid,...). We are still here. (600 M people)
• 3rd.2010s-2030s The Internet of arts and
  cultures, The Internet of vocal and visual
  people, (VoIP, HD,videoconf,...) (6.000 M people)

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80 of current Internet trafic isalready
interchange of music and videos
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• 2. i2CAT Foundation
• Designing an Internet for everyone

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The i2CAT approach

• 1. The new Internet2 can be the Internet for
  everyone, through the convergence of audio and
  video technologies into IP networks
• 2. The ISOC motto Internet is for everyone can
  become real.
• 3. The i2CAT is a research foundation for
  building a model of Internet for every person and
  every culture, a humane Internet.

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European Digital Areas
i2CAT
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Goal of i2CAT Taking the leadership in the
Mediterranean Internet

• The Mediterranean The multicultural frontier of
  Europe. The Mediterranean Internet a
  multicultural and diverse Internet
• The Catalan Internet, a multilingual and
  multicultural Internet,
• Catalan, Spanish and Latin languages
• English and Northern Europe culture
• European gateway to Asia (Japan, Korea,...)
• Traditional linkages with Arab world and Africa

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• E-Europe Strategy To become in 2010 in the
  most advanced knowledge economy in the world
• Catalunya 2010, aMulticultural Digital
  Laboratory?

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A Catalan public/private foundation for promoting
advanced Internet research and development in
order to achieved the leadership in the
Southern European and the Mediterranean
Information Society.
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Òpera Oberta Project (2001)
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eGòtic Project (2001)

• Emulation of UMTS using WL
• Touristic Application.
• Streaming audio and video on real time.

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Open Forum (May-Sept 2004)
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What kinf of content?

• 1. Forum
• Artistic performances of all kind
• 4 Big Expositions Voices,Cities-Corners,Xian
  Warriors,Living in the Planet
• 2. Forum Dialogues
• 49 dialogues, 1.500 speakers, 11 topics (Cultural
  diversity and media,The Word,Science and
  Sustainable Development,Liberty, Security and
  Peace,Globalization and Development,
  Spirituality,Other Voices,Education and Culture
  in Development, The City, New Actors
• 3. Forum at the City
• Artistic festivals, concerts and performances.

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What we accomplished?The MEPG 2 Transport stream
multilingual service

• Sending
• i2CAT has sent direct live streaming of Forum
  dialogues in MPEG2 to its partners of Internet2.
• The Forum has streamed more than 2.400 houres in
  SDI format. I2CAT is now in negotiations for
  putting all this media content on Geant free of
  use.
• Receiving
• ANF from Korea has offered to send HD content on
  Boudha on the Net

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What we accomplished? (2)

• The Transformatorium a VR theater for cultural
  interchanges in the Forum.
• The Interactive Institute of Umea (Sweden)
  brought to Barcelona this installation allowing
  a networking experience in Virtual Reality
  between different parts of the world.
• The VR model was based in an old Swedish water
  mill, designed with the help of a secondary
  school in Umea.

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Sept 7th-11th, 2004HD transmission BCN-Korea at
19.7mbps

• A new camcorder JVC GR-H1 camera allows a HD
  quality (720p) reducing the transmission to
  19.7bmps.(www.hdvinfo.net)
• Korean ANF sento to Barcelona Buddha on the Net
  production
• And i2cat sent to Korea a video of the spectacle
  Le singe de so dyeu, of the Circ Baobab from
  Guinea, at the Forum of Cultures.
  http//www.barcelona2004.org/eng/eventos/espectacu
  los/ficha.cfm?IdEvento3492

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What's next?
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How about a Global Multicultural Party?
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What for?

• A) Testing in a big scale the new Internet
  networks and applicationsB) Making popular the
  use of new networks

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What kind of services?

• Video services
• High quality video DVTS, MPEG2,HDSDI,
• H.323 Videoconferencing
• Multilingual services
• MPEG 2 transport stream (Forum Dialogues will
  produce 3 audio channels in three languages
  Catalan,Spanish, English)
• MAVS, Multilingual Search Engine (Prous)
• Exploring Grid Services
• Acces Grid, for video distribution
• Storage Grid and Distributed Systems

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A real multilingual party

• For Catalan speaking worldhttp//www.malhatlantic
  a.pt/comenius/SpainHistory/history.htm
• For Spanish speaking world
• http//www.fccj.edu/library/1-span2.htm
• For English speaking world
• ...Aditional languages (French, Korean,Arab,...)
  as the partners increase.

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The universities of the Internet2- Research
Channel Global...can take the lead...
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GMP as a universal forum of cultures

• Advances networking and applications allows
  integration of speech,imaging, sounds,
  data...allows an Internet of languages and
  cultures.
• The Knowledge Society is a kind of Universal
  Forum of Cultures
• Lets celebrate the GMP as a first fiesta of the
  knowledge society. Evaluate the gaming side.