Research ClusterOpportunities and Challenges in the Digital Economy:

an Agenda for the Next-generation Internet

Internet of Services

The Internet is Great

but …

Not all things are right, the future is not guaranteed

What needs fixing?

What needs doing?

What needs leaving alone?

Next-generation Internet

Identity, Anonymity and Trust

Internet is a social system

The NGI consists of people, not machinesPeople are the nodes and active agents.

Web2.0 every consumer is a producer.

If we can’t safeguard the identity of users, the whole thing falls apart.

Dig Econ principle: Participation is proportional to trust.

Economy:money::Internet:identity_token

Two Priorities

Enabling IdentityGuarantee that you are who or what you claim to be.

Enabling AnonymityGuarantee that no more than the minimum info required is revealed.

Trust is the measure of bothWhat am I prepared to reveal to this resource?

What I need to reveal to this resource?

Solutions

No intervention, Free marketBUT:

Lose the integration possibilities, i.e. no NGI

Do we allow the majors (inc. government) to take over?

Data and Identity ManagementThe BBC solution

The distributed solution

Technologies

Headlines

Pervasive connectivityNot just higher bandwidth to the few, but some bandwidth to the many

Web as an applications infrastructureCloud ComputingResource Oriented Architectures

Data liberated from application silosLinked dataObama announcement

Co-evolution with societyWeb 2.0 is about peopleWeb Science

Pervasive Connectivity

Two distinct effects:Greater bandwidth – affords new capability

Greater connectivity – more people more often

The increasing participation in the digital world is the single most powerful new effect in distributed systems

Our students don’t remember life without the Web / without Google – what will the next generation bring?

Web - an applications infrastructureShift away from desktop applications installed

locally by user or system administratorShift toward browser-based apps which don’t

make your disk dirty, and apps on mobile devicesPerpetual beta web sites are agile

Ease of use and ease of developmentThe SOA versus ROA debate – the Web is simply the most scalable most usable distributed system ever

Access cloud resourcesBeware that cloud is not a silver bullet, we are in an evolving ecosystem

Data liberated from application silos

Linked Data guidelines make data more reusable – a Web of Data, not just a Web of documents

Data providers are beginning to publish in Semantic Web format (RDF)See linked data cloud picture (next slide)

e.g. Obama’s use of Semantic Web

Co-evolution with societyDon’t just think technology drivers, infrastructure or service provisionThe Web (infrastructure, content and applications) is an evolving organism and it is co-evolving with society that uses itCompare with Web 2.0 – not a new architecture but a set of observations on how the Web is actually usedNeed to look at micro and macro effectse.g. Social network analysis and theories

This is the new discipline of Web Science

Economics

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Internet Business Models

Gadget ModelGadget Model Advertising ModelAdvertising Model

Free ModelFree Model

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Applications/Services

Creative MediaContent providers and P2P user/distributors

Open Market Services c.f. Apple App Store

Mobile and Transport Services

Public Service InternetAssisted livingHealthcare communitiesSchools

Consumer Support and PlanningInternet Life Management SystemNudges (micro management)

Open Service Market

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