wealth of networks ii
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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
Thank You!