New UK strategy group set up to help steer the future of the internet
A new business and academic group has been established to help the UK play its part in shaping the internet of the future - giving the UK a common voice on the development of the internet, highlighting R&D priorities, advising government and contributing to EC initiatives.
The UK Future Internet Strategy Group (UK FISG) has been established by the Technology Strategy Board and its Digital Communications Knowledge Transfer Network, with endorsement from the Department of Business Innovation and Skills and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.
The Group will look from a UK perspective at every aspect, from underlying technologies to high-level applications, which will contribute to the development of a future internet - where more users will be attracted to new services requiring greater speed, mobility and interactivity.
The new group has been set up in the context of global recognition of the importance of continued investment in internet technologies. For example the European Commission has made the Future Internet a priority for research investment, including a proposed €300m public private partnership initiative due to start in 2010.
Members of the UK FISG include leading figures from UK-based business and academic organisations involved in activities related to future internet development, with observers from the public sector. The Group is currently chaired by Nick Wainwright, Director of Open Innovation at Hewlett Packard Laboratories Europe.
More details at Technology Strategy Board