SFE OA: Building momentum

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8 June 2009
11:00 AM
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After various sessions in important European events (ICT 2008, ServiceWave 2008 etc. ), targeted to make the initiative known and stimulate collaboration, our alliance continues to gain momentum.

The ideas, ambition and objectives of the SFE OA appear  to be shared by many organizations in the European research community, something that has allowed us to already count on a solid core of member organizations.  The initial list of organizations that created the SFE Open Alliance is:

  • Telefónica I+D, Spain
  • SAP Research, Switzerland
  • Universidad Politécnica de Madrid - UPM, Spain
  • Viena University of Technology - TUV, Austria
  • Université Catholique de Louvain - UCL, Belgium
  • University of St Gallen, Switzerland
  • Instituto di Scienza e Technologie dell’Informazione - ISTI, Italy

The following organizations have recently joined the initiative:

  • Telecom Italia, Italy
  • Franhoufer Institute, Germany
  • DERI Galway, Ireland
  • Fundación CTIC, Spain

In 2009 we have already had three internal workshops , one hosted by SAP in Zurich on the 11th,12th,13th of February, another in Madrid on the 10th,11th,12th of March and the last one right after the Future Internet Assembly event organized by the European Commission in Prague, and are now gearing up our activities.

Since the first workhop the SFE OA members have had the chance to setup the main guiding principles and objectives of the alliance. In addtion, an analysis has been carried out, targeted to the identification of projects that will form the foundations upon which  the whole vision is going to be built. Currently, the following projects have been selected:

•         EzWeb
•         FAST
•         OPUCE
•         MyMobileWeb
•         inContext
•         USIXml

However, the list of projects aiming to contribute is growing.

One of the main achievements of the activity so far has been the publication of the SFE Open Alliance’s manifesto you can read here.   All  organizations subscribing objectives and principles established in this manifesto are invited to join their forces.

Summarizing, we now  have a nucleus of very relevant members,  an ambitious but concrete vision, a solid foundation of results coming from successful and widely recognized projects and an initial set of challenges to be addressed by forthcoming activities and projects.   Join us if you share the spirit !

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