Implementing the ICT Strategy Developing UK capability and creating wealth

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Implementing the ICT StrategyDeveloping UK
capability and creating wealth
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Agenda

• Introduction Ian Osborne, Intellect
• ICT Strategy Update Anne Trefethen, Oxford
• Challenges in Aerospace Modelling Jamil Appa,
  BAE
• Cyber Security Sadie Creese, Qinetiq
• Intelligent Transport Systems Phil Pettitt,
  InnovITS
• Panel QA All
• Break ICT Knowledge Transfer Network Exhibition

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Definition of ICT

• The software and communication services needed to
  handle data and information including-
• Gathering
• Storing/Recovering/Maintaining/Managing
• Transmitting
• Processing
• Interpreting
• Presenting
• Protecting (in house and in transit)

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The Topics

• The following six topics address these tasks
• Pervasive systems,
• Digital telecommunications,
• Inter enterprise computing,
• Intelligent systems,
• Modelling and simulation,
• Cyber security.

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Assessment Criteria

• UKs Capacity to Develop and Exploit the
  Technology,
• Potential for Impact and Timescale,
• The Size of the Global Market Opportunity,
• A Clear Technology Strategy Board Role.

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Inter Enterprise Computing Definition

• Set of independent resources combined through a
  unified software system and networking
  technologies
• Provision for dynamic change of independent
  resources to enable robust and secure
  capabilities
• Ability to pool and share IT resources in a
  global environment in a manner which achieves
  seamless, secure, transparent, simple access to a
  vast collection of many different types of h/w
  and s/w resources through non-dedicated wide area
  networks, to deliver customised resources to
  specific applications
• NSF Cyberinfrastructure

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Inter Enterprise Computing Drivers

• The drivers of change include
• More effective use of resources
• Enabling capabilities not afforded in-house e.
  smaller companies access to large-scale resources
  for specific peak work to solve large-scale
  computing challenges
• New business models outsourcing of computing
  tasks, utility computing, catastrophe planning,
  and new model for service provision
• Enabling disparate teams to collaborate e.g
  engine modellers in France, with wing designers
  in the US

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Inter Enterprise Computing Recommendations

• Three technology areas
• Virtualisation
• Web Services
• Autonomics
• The underlying technology areas will require
  further development, including in areas of
• Security
• Real-time data integration
• Personalization
• Management Tools

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Grid Computing Now! KTN Update

• Sector Agenda
• Government/Private Sector focus
• Pilot Project Engagements
• Proof of concept
• Backed by industry supply leaders and eScience
  community
• Events
• OGF 20 Business Track (7-11/5/07)
• Webinars
• Key Industry Issues
• Software Licensing

• KTN Launched July 2005
• IT Leaders in UK Public and Private Sectors
  Industry/Academic partnership
• Web-site launched August 2005
• gt550 Registered Members
• Case Studies
• 17 Published
• Technical Events
• 6 Industry events
• Education/Influence
• Competition

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Intelligent Systems Definition

• Intelligent Systems (IS) encompasses
• Cognitive systems
• Knowledge representation
• Feature extraction
• Image processing
• Natural computing
• Intelligent Agents

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Intelligent Systems Drivers

• Improved security demands
• Technologies for identity card applications
• Fraud prevention
• DRM
• Safety systems
• Internet filtering
• Aging population
• healthcare requirements
• home living
• Accessibility
• Restricted access to data and services
• Natural language interaction
• Information overload
• Productivity shortfalls

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Intelligent Systems Recommendations

• Requirement for Collaborative Research
  Development Projects that bring together RD and
  end users
• Applications would be sought which addressed
  technology development issues within
• Cognitive systems
• Natural computing
• Intelligent agents
• Intelligent image processing
• Data mining
• and provided applications within
• Intelligent agents within serious games and
  simulations
• Applications of ICS within tourism and leisure
• Applications within Robotics and Human Interfaces
• Applications within financial modelling and
  trading
• Intelligent Transport systems

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Modelling and Simulation Definition

• Modelling and simulation underpin quantitative
  prediction in support of innovation in products,
  processes and services, and the acceleration of
  design cycles.
• Modelling is the formulation of mathematical
  frameworks or models
• Simulation uses analytical and numerical
  techniques to solve models.
• Scope
• Applications in all sectors of the economy
• Established use in aerospace, automotive,
  energy, process industries,
• Major opportunities in logistics, finance,
  healthcare, construction,

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Modelling and Simulation Drivers

• Drivers of change include the needs for
• modelling business processes
• supporting strategic decision-making and capital
  projects
• responding to new regulatory environments
• planning for extreme or catastrophic events
• exploiting the possibilities of Grid and
  High-Performance computing
• creating coherence among providers of modelling
  and simulation.

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Modelling and Simulation Recommendations

• High-profile demonstrator and benchmarking
  projects to
• develop emerging applications in high-value areas
  of opportunity, such as financial services,
  retail, healthcare and construction.
• integrate the provider supply network of
  university groups, corporate centres of
  excellence, specialist consultancies, and public
  sector computing facilities.
• Capture case studies of the benefits of a more
  connected supply network, especially where users
  move collectively in response to new technology
  or regulation.
• Develop, in conjunction with management schools,
  the discipline of mathematics for commerce to
  support the growing service sector industries.

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Modelling Simulation Current status

• Target sectors identified for implementing
  recommendations of the draft medium-term strategy
  for modelling simulation
• Intelligent Transport Systems
• Uncertainty Risk in Energy Supply
• Waste Management
• Financial Products
• Process in place for addressing key TSB questions
  for each sector
• UK capacity to develop and exploit
• Size of global market opportunity
• Potential for impact and timescale

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Modelling Simulation Current status

• Workshops held in June (Intelligent Transport)
  and October (Uncertainty Risk in Energy
  Supply), with participants from industry,
  academia and the public sector. Recommendations
  are being developed into roadmaps and action
  plans
• Workshop on Waste Management planned for January,
  linked to the Sustainable Consumption
  Production area of the Technology Strategy, to be
  followed by a workshop on Financial Products
• Further target sectors are being identified to
  address key business opportunities that can be
  exploited by modelling simulation

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Cyber Security Definition

• Cyber security is the ability to secure
  electronic cyber transactions end-to-end across
  heterogeneous networks, technologies and
  information services. It must necessarily
  consider the security solution holistically
  involving the end human users engaging in
  transactions and the supporting network,
  physical, training and social security measures

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Cyber Security Drivers

• Growth in appetite for devices, consumer
  services, mobility
• Growth in business need
• Governance, regulation and legislation
• Decentralisation and de-perimeterization
• Growth in e-crime and novel tech-enabled crimes
• Critical National Infrastructure and societal
  dependence on ICT
• IPR, digital rights management and New Media.

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Cyber Security Recommendation

• Develop metrics for threats and protection
  capability
• Cost effective compliance
• Cost effective risk management
• Secure software development
• Trusted applications
• ID management process governance
• Human issues in security
• Anti-malware in mobile devices
• Seamless security across heterogeneous devices
  and networks

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Autumn 2006 CallNetwork Security Innovation
Platform The Human Machine Interface in Network
Security

• Support for projects that address the challenge
  of effective communication of security to the
  non-specialist user and new systems and
  environmental design to reduce insider fraud.
  This is a 'challenge-driven' approach,
  encouraging consortia to focus on achieving
  solutions to a societal challenge. Support will
  be in two stages - initially through supporting
  short feasibility studies, the best of which will
  be selected, leading to longer-term collaborative
  research and development projects, with the
  ability to make significant change.

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Current Status

• Draft Strategies under review by the TSB
• Medium-term strategies scheduled for release in
  early 2007
• The agreed strategies will inform the priorities
  of the TSB
• Including future RD competitions
• Strategies are dynamic documents
• Will need to respond to changes in the business
  environment and technological developments

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Agenda

• ICT Strategy Update Anne Trefethen, Oxford
• Challenges in Aerospace Modelling Jamil Appa,
  BAE
• Cyber Security Sadie Creese, Qinetiq
• Intelligent Transport Systems Phil Pettitt,
  InnovITS
• Panel QA All
• Break ICT Knowledge Transfer Network Exhibition