Digital Business Ecosystems Workshop

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Digital Business Ecosystems Workshop
Bernard Barani Directorate Attaché DG INFSO-D
European Commission
Brussels, 18 May 2005
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Lisbon objective and IST

• There is now a greater consensus than ever before
  on the significant contribution which ICTs make
  to productivity and growth.
• ICTs play a role directly through the
  contribution of the ICT sector to GDP, and
  indirectly as other sectors throughout the
  economy take up and exploit ICTs.
• ICTs also improve the quality of life of
  citizens for example by promoting improved
  access to existing services or by providing
  completely new services.
• The Lisbon targets cannot be met without a
  pro-active policy on ICT as a key component.
• Pervasive adoption of ICT by businesses is a key
  pillar of such policy

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ICT in Figures

• In Europe the growth rate is 2.8 in 2004,
  US3.5 and Japan2.8
• 40 of this growth rate is related to ICT goods
  and services.
• Overall, the EU invested half the US amounts in
  ICT EU total investment in ICT only grew from
  2.2 to 2.6 of GDP from 1990 to 2001, while in
  the same period it grew from 3.3 to 4.2 in the
  US. Overall the EU economy is less ICT-intensive.
  
• Need to foster ICT adoption by entreprises and
  SMEs

Source EITO Report 2004
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Some Challenges and associated Policies (i2010)

• Globalisation and delocalisation (Trade and
  competitiveness)
• Interoperability and Standardisation (Competition
  and Internal Market)
• Open Source (Competition and consumer protection)
• Regulation and Market Barriers (Comp)
• Trust and reliability (Security)
• Deployment (Member States/Regional deployment
  policies eEurope/i2010, eTEN, Structural funds)
• Convergence of technologies and industries (
  competitiveness and innovation)
• All are important drivers for Business Ecosystems

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Ever growing complexity
ANY DEVICE All devices can communicate with and
understand one another
RFID Interactive Sensors

• There will be over one trillion devices by 2005
• Number of communicating data devices growing from
  2.4 billion to 23 billion in 2008 and one
  trillion by 2012
• Towards more complex business environments

Source IDC Research 02/2004
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Ever growing complexity
ANY DATA Seamlessly communicate exploding amount
of data on demand, to support people and business
processes
Amount of data received or transmitted by device
(in Petabytes/Day)

• Amount of data accessed will explode to 1.075
  Zettabytes (1018) by 2008
• Variety of Data
• Driving the need for flexible architectures
• Driving more complex business relations
• Creating opportunity for business transformation

Industrial Automobile
Entertainment
Mobile
Computers
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Increased complexity in Business Networking
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Vulnerability and Privacy

• Increased connectivity, diversity of devices,
  global resource sharing and richer applications
  increase complexity, amplifying the vulnerability
  of the network and escalating the privacy
  concerns.
• 150 Zombies a week
• 60 of all e-mail is spam
• 80 of all PCs infested with malware

Annual losses
1995 96 97 98 99 00
01 02 03 04
Challenges Pervasive connectivity will increase
vulnerability and privacy concerns, requiring
radically new software solutions, Establishment
of trusted devices, servers and gateways will
be required to accommodate dynamic network
infrastructure and provide end-to-end
security, Containing the damage caused to
businesses by malware, including the cost of
fixing systems and lost revenue.
2000
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Birth and rise of the Digital Business Ecosystem
concept

• Launch of the concept, 2002
• Discussion paper Towards a network of digital
  business ecosystems fostering local development
• Spring 2003 workshop
• DBE concept also in the US, though different
  approach
• FP6 - call1 - 2003
• 3 IP proposals
• DBE project started in November 2003
• 2005 six regions acting as pilot (3 3)
  regions joined
• Results
• initial sw results to be released in
  open-source
• contribution in innovations and standards
  (OMG)
• concept of ecosystem contaminated platforms
• mainstream in industry and development policy
  strategies
• Concept now anchored to the ICT business
  sector, paving the way towards Future research

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Key Actors

• ICT Organisations
• System integrators
• Service providers
• Software component developers
• Open source communities
• Open systems developers
• Enabling these organisations to keep and preserve
  their knowledge and the possibility to
  develop/integrate ICT-based applications

• SMEs
• 19 million enterprises in Europe
• 99.7 are SMEs, 93 are micro (lt 10 employees)
• ICT skills usually from outsiders
• Providing SMEs with customised ICT applications
  services for improving their efficiency (through
  process and organisational integration) and for
  extending their business beyond local barriers

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Key Actors

• Regions
• From traditional rural economy to e-economy
• Connectivity ? high-speed fibre-optic telecom
  network wireless in areas where cable is
  uneconomic
• Digital literacy ? ICT-enabled social and
  entrepreneurial activities
• Promoting regional economic growth,
  competitiveness and employment
• Rejuvenating industrial areas through adoption of
  distributed, networked and open systems
• Networking of SMEs and experimenting with new
  services and new business models
• Synergies with the Structural Funds

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Networked Businesses, the IST picture
ATHENA
CrossWork
Co-DesNet
No-Rest
ECOLEAD
ILIPT
TrustCoM
Mosquito
INTEROP
Spider-Win
DBE
MyCarEvent
V-CES
Legal-IST
MyTreasury
SATINE
VERITAS
XBRL in Europe
VE-FORUM
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Networked Businesses, the IST picture
Product Lifecycle Business models Smart objects
identification Wireless RF technologies Real-tim
e monitoring Middleware interfacing Agent-based
systems Knowledge discovery Self-configuring
networks Operations research
Business Networking Reference models Knowledge
Management Multi-agent systems Virtual
Organisations Breeding Environments Support
technologies
Enterprise Interoperability Frameworks, reference
architectures Interoperability Infrastructure Ente
rprise Modelling Service-oriented
architecture Trust management Contract management
ATHENA
CrossWork
Co-DesNet
No-Rest
ECOLEAD
ILIPT
TrustCoM
Mosquito
INTEROP
Spider-Win
Digital Ecosystems Complex systems theory Formal
languages Business models Policy and growth
models Knowledge Sharing
DBE
MyCarEvent
V-CES
Legal-IST
MyTreasury
SATINE
VERITAS
XBRL in Europe
VE-FORUM
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Looking Ahead

• IST-FP6 Call 5 ICT for Networked Businesses
• Digital business ecosystems for SMEs
• Open-source distributed self-adaptive environment
  and models enabling SMEs to co-operate for
  design, development of flexible and adaptable
  components interoperable with proprietary systems
• Support of spontaneous composition, sharing
  distribution of business solutions and knowledge
• IST in FP7
• Technology Pillar Software, Grids, security and
  dependability
• Application Pole ICT supporting business and
  industry
• New forms of dynamic networked co-operative
  business processes, digital ecosystems
• i2010
• Take-up of ICT ? an integrated policy on
  e-business giving special attention to SMEs

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ICT for Networked Business FP6 call 5

• Key Objectives
• Software solutions adaptable to the needs of
  local/regional SMEs, supporting organisational
  networking and process integration
• Distributed collaborative ambient
  intelligence-based network-oriented systems for
  efficient, effective and secure product and
  service creation and delivery
• Focus
• Digital business ecosystems for SMEs
• open-source distributed self-adaptive
  environment and models enabling SMEs to
  cooperate for design, development of flexible
  and adaptable components interoperable with
  proprietary systems
• Support of spontaneous composition, sharing
  distribution of business solutions and knowledge
• Extended products and services
• decentralised architectures new approaches to
  business processes
• Horizontal actions
• IPR and legal issues raised by os, networked
  and collaborative paradigms

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Roadmap to FP7 - 2005

• 7 June Council - Orientation debate
• 21 Sept EC proposal on SP and RfP
• 11 Oct Council - views on SP and RFP
• 23 Nov EC proposal under Art 169/171
• 28/29 Nov Council - Orientation debate on
  SP and RFP
• 12-15 Dec EP First reading on FP

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Roadmap to FP7 - 2006

• Feb/Mar Council - Common position on FP
• EP First reading on RfP
• April Common position on RfP
• May/June EP - Second reading FP,
• opinion SP, second reading RfP
• June Council adoption of FP RfP
• July Council EP - Adoption FP RfP
• July Council - Adoption of SPs
• Oct Commission adoption WP
• Nov Publication of the first call

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Seeing Old Things in New Ways
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IST in Figures (II)

• The ICT sector is a major economic sector in its
  own right, covering IT plus telecommunications
  equipment and services
• The sector has grown from 4 of EU GDP in the
  early 90s to around 8 in 2000 and 6 of
  employment in 2000.
• The ICT sector is one of the most innovative
  sectors accounting for 18 of the overall RD
  spending in 1999 and one of the most productive,
  with an annual productivity growth of 9 on
  average over the 1996-2000 period.
• The sector as a whole performs fairly well in
  comparison with the US in terms of size (10 of
  GDP in the US against 8 in the EU, productivity
  and job creation, but less so in terms of
  contribution to RD (in the US, ICT account for
  30 of RD).
• Source OECD

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A Generic Trend
Beyond the pure business environment, dynamicity,
reconfiguration, heterogeneous environments are
becoming key trends of the ICT landscape
As encrypted networks grows in popularity, is
there a danger that these so-called darknets will
replace bigger and bigger chunks of the
Internet?It's not a danger - it's a requirement.
Historically, corporations had physical walls.
Firewalls try to emulate them, but it's not the
way we work anymore. We need virtual boundaries
around our workgroups - which may include a lot
of people from other organizations - not around
corporations. The only way to accomplish that is
with darknets. Ray Ozzie , Groove
Networks Wired , Issue 12.08 - August 2004
The Darknet and the Future of Content
Distribution Peter Biddle, Paul England, Marcus
Peinado, and Bryan Willman Microsoft Corporation