Presentation at final workshop for EC project Towards a Future Internet, held in Brussels 22 Nov 2010

1. Key messages
TOWARDS ATOWARDS A
Ian Brown
Oxford Internet
Institute
Final Public Workshop, Brussels, 22 November 2010

2. Rapid growth & globalisation play a more significant role. Developing
countries have greater influence over evolution of Internet (plus key market)
1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015 2020 2025 2030
Expected 7 Bn users 2017 (103% world pop)
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Billionsofmobileservicesusersworldwide
NICs’ middle
classes
1.5Bn users, 2004
5Bn users, July 2010
(74% world pop.)
4Bn users, Jan 2009 (60 % world pop.)
800K users, 2000
Expected 6 Bn users June 2012
(89% world pop.)

3. Digital participation key to social and economic life, and government
interaction - but what about those who decide to opt out?

4. Security and privacy are key for user trust - but are they tractable?

5. Need for coherent regulatory and policy approach – Digital Agenda is a
good start

6. Future Internet research must be multidisciplinary – importance of social,
economic & psychological factors and Internet Science
Neurology and
brain science
Mind as a computational machine
using cognitive science
Systems analysis of the neural
architecture, its main centres (eg
speech) and their inter- operation
Microbiology of cell interactions at
neurotransmitter/ receptor level
as computing element systems
Grid computing - billion element scale neuronal
network simulations and visualisation for main
centres and whole cortex
Biochemistry
of molecular level neural
activity and connections
Activity detection and
monitoring at synapse level
-Electromagnetic imaging
-Other (imaging)??
Psychiatric analysis of
disorders and their treatment

7. Future Internet research must be multidisciplinary – importance of social,
economic & psychological factors and Internet Science
Neurology and
brain science
Mind as a computational machine
using cognitive science
Systems analysis of the neural
architecture, its main centres (eg
speech) and their inter- operation
Microbiology of cell interactions at
neurotransmitter/ receptor level
as computing element systems
Grid computing - billion element scale neuronal
network simulations and visualisation for main
centres and whole cortex
Biochemistry
of molecular level neural
activity and connections
Activity detection and
monitoring at synapse level
-Electromagnetic imaging
-Other (imaging)??
Psychiatric analysis of
disorders and their treatment