The Future Internet

The Future Internet

With over a billion users, today‘s Internet is arguably the most successful human artefact ever created. The Internet‘s physical infrastructure, software and content now play an integral part of the lives of everyone on the planet, whether they interact with it directly or not.

Now nearing its fifth decade, the Internet has shown remarkable resilience and flexibility in the face of ever increasing numbers of users, data volume and changing usage patterns, but faces growing challenges in meeting the needs of our knowledge society.

Globally, many major initiatives are underway to address the need for more scientific research, physical infrastructure investment, better education and improved utilisation of the Internet. The European Union is investing heavily in this area through its research programs like Framework 7. But it is also developing a unified technical- political vision, at the highest level, to ensure the emerging future Internet meets the needs of its citizens and economy. EU commissioners, national government ministers, industry leaders and researchers met in Bled, Slovenia to begin developing a vision of a future internet that will meet Europe‘s needs a decade from now, and beyond.

For more information about the Future Internet Initiative please visit:

Bled conference | www.fi-bled.eu

The Future Internet | www.future-internet.eu