The following Action Lines
apply to all domains of RTD covered by Key Action II (i.e. II.2,
II.3 and II.4).
Action Line Descriptions
II.1 RTD Spanning Key Action
II
IST2001 - II.1.1 Socio-economic
analysis
Objectives: To understand better
the social, economic, industrial, technological and legal aspects
of e-Work & e-Commerce and to develop models and scenarios
that can help shape future policy, technology development and
deployment strategies.
Focus:
- To identify obstacles to and
opportunities for a wider participation in the knowledge economy,
addressing equal opportunity and quality of life issues. This
includes the identification of new technologies and the definition
of implementation strategies to encourage family friendly work
conditions and accelerate modernisation of work organisation.
- To assess demand for new skills,
competencies and associated training requirements, taking into
account opportunities to increase user-friendliness of e-Work
and e-Commerce systems.
- To identify obstacles to and
opportunities for:
- Faster take up of e-Commerce
by European businesses, especially SMEs, and consumers. This
includes analysis of contractual and liability issues arising
in the context of e-Commerce transactions.
- The creation and growth of
start ups in Europe.
- To gain a better understanding
of the economic impact of the knowledge based economy, its new
business paradigms and intangible elements, and its potential
impact for sustainable growth.
- To explore the possible impact
of radically new business scenarios and roadmaps.
Types of actions addressed:
Accompanying Measures (excluding take-up), Research and Development,
Demonstration and Combined projects.
Links with WP2000: Updated version of Action Line IST 2000 -
II.1.1 reflecting eEurope priorities
IST2001 - II.1.2 Knowledge
management
Objectives: To develop and
validate innovative multidisciplinary solutions and practices
aimed at leveraging numerous and varied sources of often incomplete
and/or ill-structured individual and corporate knowledge found
in dynamic networked organisations and communities of practice.
Focus:
- Integrated ICT platforms,
including mobile, to manage the full lifecycle of knowledge (i.e.
capturing, organising, maintaining, mining, sharing and trading
knowledge) in support of both intra- and inter-organisational
activities.
- Personalised, context-, task-,
and role-sensitive functionality for the dynamic provision and
sharing of timely and relevant knowledge.
- Solutions to organise and
exploit heterogeneous unstructured information sources, using
ontologies, self-organisation paradigms as well as semantic cross-lingual
search, in support of e-work and e-Commerce applications.
- Tools and environments for
knowledge sharing, collaboration and socialisation within and
between organisations, that build on methodologies from areas
such as organisational behaviour, cognitive psychology, human
factors, man-machine dialogues as well as social and management
sciences.
Types of Actions addressed:
Research and Development, Demonstration and Combined projects.
Links with WP2000: Updated version of Action Line IST 2000 -
II.1.2.
IST2001 - II.1.3 Mobile and
ubiquitous e-Work and e-Commerce
Objectives: To explore and
validate secure, user centred mobile and ubiquitous (anywhere,
anytime) models, solutions and practices for e-Work and e-Commerce
Focus:
Visionary, multidisciplinary efforts that bring together expertise
in 3rd Generation mobile, wearable, portable and wireless systems
with that of people working in areas such as cognitive psychology,
human factors, organisational behaviour, architecture/design
and public facilities management.
Focus is on user centred concepts in the following areas:
- Work outside normal offices
(e.g. in public spaces, shopping centres, airports, hotels).
- Environments for open, seamless
and secure integration of heterogenous context-sensitive (e.g.
time, location, or task-sensitive) e-Work/e-Commerce services
and business processes.
- Intuitive e-Work/e-Commerce
solutions and environments that support novel useful interactions
between people (e.g. customers, employees), smart artefacts and
services.
Types of Actions addressed:
Research and Development, Demonstration and Combined projects.
Links with WP2000: Updated version of Action Line IST 2000 -
II.1.3
IST2001 - II.1.4 Exploratory
high risk/long term research
Objectives: To explore visionary
high risk/long term concepts with a high potential payoff.
Focus:
Novel concepts relevant to this Key Action, especially speculative
ideas with potential for important industrial, economic and/or
societal benefits. Interdisciplinary proposals combining technological
innovation with novel practices (individual or organisational)
and/or novel business models are strongly encouraged.
Short assessment proposals (e.g. one year) as well as full scale
project proposals are acceptable. Proposed exploitation plans
will be evaluated, taking into account the longer-term, exploratory
nature of work to be undertaken under this Action Line.
Types of Actions addressed: Research and Development, Demonstration
and Combined projects.
Links with WP2000: New Action Line
IST2001 - II.1.5 High impact
Take-up, dissemination, and training
Objectives: To promote the
adoption and dissemination of novel and secure solutions and
practices for e-Work and e-Commerce and to address training and
international requirements in these areas.
Focus:
- Trials to help customise and
validate promising yet untested technologies, applications, standards,
and practices in realistic operational contexts and, in the process,
to facilitate their early adoption and/or commercial exploitation.
Trials should be replicable one-off exercises.
- Best practice pilots to promote
the broad adoption of novel solutions and practices. Projects
that have a high-impact on regional and sectoral customisation
for SMEs are also welcome, with preference for those capable
of amplifying their impact by leveraging other sources of funding,
private or public (e.g. industrial and/or regional, national
or structural funds). These actions complement activities funded
under Cross Programme Action IST2001
- V.1.11 'CPA11: Regional and
Sectoral pilot actions and demonstrations for the Digital Economy'.
- Awareness and dissemination
actions to promote and facilitate the broad adoption of novel
solutions and practices, especially by SMEs.
- High impact training actions
to address the shortage of skilled people in all areas of e-Work
and e-Commerce (e.g. actions to help set up new training programmes,
to improve industrial relevance of university curriculums or
to raise interest among students).
- Actions to reduce the digital
divide through promotion and co-ordination of grassroots activities
(e.g. local initiatives, initiatives drawing on the expertise
of youngsters).
- High impact support measures
(both take-up and non-take-up) tailored to the needs of Enlargement
countries in their transition to the digital economy.
- Accompanying measures aimed
at promoting mutually beneficial co-operation in e-Work and e-commerce
with third countries.
Types of Actions addressed:
Trials, Best practice, Thematic Networks and non Take-up Accompanying
Measures.
Links with WP2000: subsumes Action Lines IST 2000 - II.1.4, II.1.5
and II.4.2.
IST2001 - II.1.6 Large scale
demonstrators
Objectives: To support the
development of large scale demonstrators in different business
and work settings.
Focus:
Development of open environments to validate, demonstrate and/or
benchmark interoperability, scalability, dependability or usability
of similar or complementary solutions. When appropriate, demonstrators
are expected to include one or more user communities.
Domains of interest include:
- End to end IPR management
for secure distribution of digital content
- Interoperability of Public
Key Infrastructures
- Novel solutions and business
models for digital interactivity
- Large scale e-procurement
demonstrators
- Cross border interoperability
of financial services
- International and multi-jurisdictional
online out-of-court dispute resolution systems and other consumer
protection mechanisms.
- Regional and /or sectoral
e-communities of SMEs
- International, multilingual,
knowledge management environments for business
- Open systems for authentication
of employees outside normal offices, using mobile working technologies
or through public access telecentres.
Types of actions addressed:
Demonstrations
Links with WP2000: New Action Line
II.2 Flexible, Mobile and
Remote Working Methods and Tools
Novel technologies will free
workers and enterprises from traditional spatial, temporal and
organisational constraints and can help increase creativity,
productivity, agility, learning and co-operation. More generally,
they have the potential to significantly enhance competitiveness
and quality of working life, whilst making the workplace more
accessible to all.
IST2001 - II.2.1 Intelligent
workplaces for all
Objectives: To integrate emerging
technologies such as wireless, multimodal, wearable, or embedded
ones with innovative office and workplace designs to create and
demonstrate creative work environments and practices suitable
for all.
Focus:
Focus is on interdisciplinary projects that bring technologists
together with experts from areas as diverse as workplace design,
human computer interaction, human factors, social sciences, psychology
or architecture. Projects should address one or more of the following
challenges:
- Increasing participation in
knowledge work and making it more accessible to people marginalised
by the digital divide, by developing attractive, safe workplace
designs in which integrated information and communication systems
are easy to use and reduce information overload.
- Promoting sustainable development
through novel workplace concepts and novel work practices that
improve efficiency of resource use, both in workplace equipment
and in the built environment itself.
- Developing innovative shared
e-Work facilities, including multi-purpose telecentres in local
communities. Synergy with regional development initiatives will
be encouraged, notably within the framework of European Structural
Funds and, in particular, the European Regional Development Fund.
Types of Actions addressed:
Research and Development, Demonstration and Combined projects;
Concerted Actions.
Links with WP2000: A refocusing of Action Line IST 2000 - II.2.1.
on sustainable workplace design to reflect the policy priorities
of the Lisbon Summit and the eEurope Action Plan.
IST2001 - II.2.2 Smart organisations
Objectives: To support the
transformation of profit and non-profit entities into smart organisations
(i.e. knowledge driven, adaptive and learning as well as agile
in their ability to create and exploit the opportunities of an
Internetworked economy) through a new generation of distributed
and interoperable enterprise applications and services.
Focus:
- Development and validation
of novel architectures, software platforms and pre-standards
to support interoperability, seamless integration and knowledge
sharing between heterogenous enterprise applications and services.
- Promotion of industrial co-operation
in the development of architectures and building blocks for next
generation business applications and services and support of
industry led pre-standardisation activities.
- Development and validation
of:
- Interoperable solutions to
support co-operation, workflow management and co-ordinated planning
across extended/virtual organisations and associated value networks
- Models and knowledge based
methodologies to enhance an organisation's ability to adapt dynamically
to ever changing conditions.
Types of Actions addressed:
Research and Development, Demonstration and Combined projects;
non Take-up support measures; Thematic Networks.
Links with WP2000: This is an updated version of Action Line
IST 2000 - II.2.2 on Smart Organisations.
II.3 Management Systems for
Suppliers and Consumers
New technologies offer the
promise of redefining completely relations between suppliers
and consumers across the value network, leading to a global digital
economy where consumers and businesses can seamlessly and dynamically
come together. These value constellations can be assembled dynamically
in response to constantly changing, highly customised market
demands.
IST2001 - II.3.1 Dynamic value
constellations
Objectives: To explore, develop
and validate innovative and visionary value creation models,
systems, technologies and solutions in order to support market
driven value constellations, where suppliers and consumers come
together dynamically in response to or in anticipation of new
market opportunities.
Focus:
- The dynamic creation of highly
customised products and services in response to changing market
demands.
- E-Market mediation for the
dynamic identification and selection of value constellation partners,
including for example automated negotiation or advanced auctioning
as well as value sharing and other contractual arrangements.
- Full life cycle management
based on IST of highly customised products and services across
dynamic value constellations, from product conception all the
way to dissolution of value constellations, product dismantling
and resource recovery. This includes extended products that combine
both tangible and intangible elements, as well as lifetime customer
relationship management and online solutions for alternative
dispute resolution.
Types of Actions addressed:
Research and Development, Demonstration and Combined projects
Links with WP2000: This is an updated version of Action Line
IST 2000 - II.3.1. on "Dynamic Value Constellations."
II.4 Information and Network
Security and Other Confidence Building Technologies
The proposed work is driven
by the need to build:
- trust in order to stimulate
the development of e-Work and e-Commerce
- user confidence in information
and communication systems and networks.
One important element of Community
funded R&D in this area is its contribution to the development,
adaptation and implementation of EU policies. Another concerns
issues relating to standardisation and regulation. Accordingly,
proposers are expected to be knowledgeable about relevant EU
policies in trust and confidence where relevant to their proposals.
Key reference policy documents
include the Directive on Electronic Signature, the draft Directive
on Copyright & Related Rights in the Information Society
(technical measures for protection & management referred
to in Art. 5 and 6), the Directive on Data Protection, the draft
directive on e-money and the eEurope 2002 Action Plan. Additionally,
new standards, in particular the Common Criteria for Information
Technology Security Evaluation and related protection profiles,
and the ongoing standardisation activities, such as the European
Signature Standardisation Initiative, should be given due consideration.
As in other areas in Key Action
II, R&D in this domain is complemented by Take-up (AL II.1.5)
and large-scale Demonstrations (AL II.I.6).
IST 2001 - II.4.1 Trust in
information infrastructures
Objectives: To enhance trust
in information infrastructures to support e-Work and e-Commerce
and other related services.
Focus:
- Development, integration and
validation of trust and security technologies in information
infrastructures.
- Development of technologies
to support scalability and interoperability of security mechanisms
and their demonstration in specified application scenarios.
- Development and testing of
assurance methods and techniques for information infrastructures
to guarantee security as well as quality of service.
- Development and application
of technologies to prevent, detect and react to attacks on information
infrastructures.
- Development and validation
of tools and methods to model security policies for networked
organisations.
Type of actions addressed:
Research and Development, Demonstration and Combined projects
Links with WP2000: Subsumes some of the issues previously covered
under Action Line IST 2000 - II.4.1
IST 2001 - II.4.2 Enhancing
security in electronic transactions
Objectives: To build trust
in the use of information infrastructures by securing electronic
transactions and content, and enhancing privacy.
Focus:
- Development of technologies
to support auditability and to perform audits of transactions
with respect to security (authenticity, non-repudiation, integrity,
privacy and confidentiality).
- Development of technologies
to enhance privacy of users/consumers and to ensure confidentiality
and integrity of electronic transactions.
- Development and application
of technologies to secure value (including property rights),
content and data of electronic transactions (including financial
transactions) and to support their management for trustful trading
and use.
Type of actions addressed:
Research and Development, Demonstration and Combined projects
- To establish a representative
international forum on copyright management in a digital environment
to work on common rules and standards. Such forum should organise
appropriate liaison with existing standardisation initiatives
such as MPEG.
Type of actions addressed:
Thematic Networks
Links with WP2000: Subsumes some of the issues previously covered
under Action Line IST 2000 - II.4.1 |