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Advanced digital technology
The European Union (EU) is focusing on three advanced technologies for the future:
Internet of Things (IoT)
IoT connects physical objects to a digital environment where they can report on their status and the environment around them, offering benefits to individuals, industries, and cities. The EU is working to foster a thriving IoT ecosystem, a human-centered approach to IoT that respects EU values and empowers citizens, and a single market for the IoT.
Blockchain
Blockchain technology, known as the database behind cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, can make online life safer by verifying identity, transferring data, voting in elections, and monitoring supply chains securely. The EU aims to foster blockchain growth to become a global leader in the technology.
Next generation Internet (NGI)
The EU also takes a human-centric approach to advanced technologies, focusing on how they can improve citizens' lives. The Internet plays a crucial role in our lives, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. The EU wants to ensure that the Internet reflects its values and responds to society's needs, making it fully accessible, enhancing citizens' involvement in society and the economy, and ensuring data security. The Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative offers funding opportunities for technologies like blockchain, IoT, and multilingual tools to build a safer, more open, and respectful Internet that is more people-focused. The EU's vision for advanced technologies aims to benefit individuals, industries, and society as a whole.
Next Generation Internet initiative
The Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative aims to reimagine and re-engineer the Internet of tomorrow, reflecting fundamental human values. NGI wants to put people at the center of the next generation of the Internet, empowering users with the freedom of choice among a range of open-source decentralized digital solutions. The initiative is funded by the European Union, and its goal is to shape the future Internet as an interoperable platform ecosystem that embodies European values such as openness, inclusivity, transparency, privacy, cooperation, and data protection.
The NGI initiative provides financial support to grass-root projects covering all layers of the Internet, including open hardware, networking and transport technologies, firmware, operating systems and virtualization, electronic identities and middleware, decentralized ledgers, software productivity tools, traffic supervision tools, over-the-top internet, and vertical applications. Through NGI projects, the cascade funding mechanism is used to fund a large number of highly talented grass-root innovators who are changing the course of the Internet. NGI is among the EU initiatives that directly contribute to the development and uptake of digital commons in the area of internet technologies.
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- Internet of Things (IoT)
- Blockchain
- Next generation Internet
Internet of Things (IoT)
IoT connects physical objects to a digital environment where they can report on their status and the environment around them, offering benefits to individuals, industries, and cities. The EU is working to foster a thriving IoT ecosystem, a human-centered approach to IoT that respects EU values and empowers citizens, and a single market for the IoT.
Blockchain
Blockchain technology, known as the database behind cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, can make online life safer by verifying identity, transferring data, voting in elections, and monitoring supply chains securely. The EU aims to foster blockchain growth to become a global leader in the technology.
Next generation Internet (NGI)
The EU also takes a human-centric approach to advanced technologies, focusing on how they can improve citizens' lives. The Internet plays a crucial role in our lives, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. The EU wants to ensure that the Internet reflects its values and responds to society's needs, making it fully accessible, enhancing citizens' involvement in society and the economy, and ensuring data security. The Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative offers funding opportunities for technologies like blockchain, IoT, and multilingual tools to build a safer, more open, and respectful Internet that is more people-focused. The EU's vision for advanced technologies aims to benefit individuals, industries, and society as a whole.
Next Generation Internet initiative
The Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative aims to reimagine and re-engineer the Internet of tomorrow, reflecting fundamental human values. NGI wants to put people at the center of the next generation of the Internet, empowering users with the freedom of choice among a range of open-source decentralized digital solutions. The initiative is funded by the European Union, and its goal is to shape the future Internet as an interoperable platform ecosystem that embodies European values such as openness, inclusivity, transparency, privacy, cooperation, and data protection.
The NGI initiative provides financial support to grass-root projects covering all layers of the Internet, including open hardware, networking and transport technologies, firmware, operating systems and virtualization, electronic identities and middleware, decentralized ledgers, software productivity tools, traffic supervision tools, over-the-top internet, and vertical applications. Through NGI projects, the cascade funding mechanism is used to fund a large number of highly talented grass-root innovators who are changing the course of the Internet. NGI is among the EU initiatives that directly contribute to the development and uptake of digital commons in the area of internet technologies.
Go to NGI Portal
Check the financing opportunities
