Brazilian government DE to headline at 3rd OPAALS conference
Sept 2009
The next public OPAALS conference will be in Brazil in the second half of March 2010. Still in the planning stages, it will be hosted within a wider ICT event. The conference will be used to launch the first results of the RTS case study, which is one of the first deployments of a Digital Ecosystem involving a substantial user base.
More details will be published here soon.
Archive
July Newsletter published
Jul 2009
* Phase III and Sustainability * Interim Review Feedback * OPAALS Devolves its Web Presence * OPAALS Research Exchanges: Phase III Opportunities * Abstracts of Submitted Deliverables Now Available * Coming soon: 'Dissemination Storehouse' * Articles * Work Package News
Project deliverable guide
Apr 2009
A new guide to OPAALS project deliverables has been published at:
The guide contains a brief abstract of each deliverable, giving an overview of the output of the project. The full deliverables, from OPAALS and other Digital Ecosystem projects can be downloaded from the Digital Ecosystem file repository, accessible from the links pod on our home page.
New Coordination Team
Jan 2009
The project has announced the formation of a new coordination body inside the consortium: the Integration Coordination Team (ICT).
Sotiris Moschoyiannis, who has the role of theoretical integration, will also chair the new team, which also comprises:
- Yongyan Zheng - architectural integration
- Anne English - communication and OKS
- Thomas Kurz - DBE and OPAALS projects
- Pedro Buesco - governance
- Antonella Passani - social science
The new team is more fully reported in the January Newsletter.
New Project Officer appointed
Aug 2008
Mr Florent Frederix has taken over and Commission Project Officer for the OPAALS project.
With an educational background in Electronics, Computer Science and a Doctoral degree in Economics, before becoming a member of the EU commission in 2001 he spent 20 years in the Information and Telecom industry. He currently heads the RFID sector in the Networked Enterprise and Radio Frequency Identification unit of the Information Society and Media Directorate-General of the European Commission.
Legal issues for e-business
Apr 2008
The Lexelerator conference on legal issues for e-business will take place in Brussels on 7th May.
Organised by the Lektor project, details are available at http://www.lexelerator.eu
New partners
Jan 2008
Phase II sees 5 new partners joining the network:
- Istituto Tecnologico de Aragon (ITA)
University of Zaragoza (UniZar)
- Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)
- University of Cambridge (CAM)
- National University of Ireland - Maynooth (NUIM)
Autumn newsletter published
Nov 2007
The latest edition of The Opal contains:
- News of the first offical project review
- Report on the November EC Digital Ecosystems conference in Brussels
- Feature article on the integration of OPAALS disciplines
- News and updates from each of the Work Packages
See it at: http://oks.opaals.org/website/newsletters/2007-11-27/
OPAALS Research Workshop
Nov 2007
Date: 26-27/11/2007
Venue: Rome
Summary: The first workshop for establishing the theoretical foundation for Autopoietic Digital Ecosystems
Details: http://www.opaals.org/conference.php
EU Digital Ecosystems Conference - November 7th
Oct 2007
The European Commission has organized a ‘state of the art’ conference and webcast to reflect on the achievements and the future of Digital Ecosystems.
Taking place in Brussels, Open Source champion Bruce Perens will open the one-day conference and each session will feature high-level keynote speakers. Two round tables composed of Members of the European Parliament and Regional policy makers will debate the future perspectives for development. At EUR 20M, Digital Ecosystems are the European Commission’s biggest co-funding of Open Source technologies.
Entitled ‘Economic Participation in the Age of Networking: Digital Ecosystems of Knowledge, Business and Services’ the conference will take place on 7th November in room 0A of the Centre Borschette in Brussels. It will be translated in 5 EU languages and webcast.
For further information and registration see the conference website http://de-2007.eu
Open Knowledge Space a growing reality
Jul 2007
The Open Knowledge Space (OKS) will be central to the OPAALS network. Designed to provide an open working space so that researchers from around the world can work together easily and efficiently, the OKS will help underpin a common purpose and a shared knowledge, creating an inclusive community to push forwards the leading edge of Digital Ecosystems research.
The first OKS application to get going was a wiki: a kind of web site where the user can edit and update the pages themselves. Blogs are now also enabled so that members can create their own personal diary of thoughts and ideas. Blogs have been described as people-centred, whereas wikis are content-centred. A file repository is also implemented so that documents can be stored and shared. An issue tracker feature provides a forum for discussion postings.
An online conferencing facility is in the process of development and construction. This will enable VoIP conferencing while application sharing and text messaging, meaning that any users can hold virtual meetings at no cost.
The OKS is developing as the key element for facilitating decentralised and flexible research. Its development is being driven by the needs of the user community, which are being discovered, analysed and met as a key part of the OPAALS project.
