[Fiware-acceleration-help] Request for Collaboration Re: ICT-12-2016: Net Innovation Initiative

Andy E. Williams awilliams at nobeahfoundation.org
Tue Mar 29 13:18:04 CEST 2016


To: Mr Mark Smitham,
We're writing to invite your organization to join a consortium of partners
we're forming or otherwise assist in responding to the European Commission's
call for proposals entitled "ICT-06-2016: Cloud Computing " within the Horizon
2020 Work Programme 2016 – 2017. 

Our approach is based on a platform our partnership proposes to assemble from
new and existing components using a detailed blueprint developed over the last
decade. This platform will be delivered as part of a separate proposal, and
will enable individuals and devices to collaborate massively in peer-to-peer,
decentralized workflows that can be connected to new software and physical
devices far more scalably. A quick overview can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BL43ivsFmg0

In our approach any particular choice of technology or architecture is just a
starting point for development. We are defining a collaborative innovation
process which adds useful features or deletes restrictive ones according to
the direction identified by an algorithm we've designed to converge on the
best collective wisdom, an innovation process that also objectively measures
outcomes to refine that wisdom. While studying the problems over the last
decade we've come to believe some innovation was necessary to realize this
vision and have contributed highly original work across very specialized
disciplines that can’t easily be duplicated. But our focus is on finding ways
to be inclusive of different ideas and giving them room to explore rather than
excluding them in favor of our own, so in this process the designs are open
and any partner is free to fork off their own version that best matches their
own vision.

A brief summary of our proposal is attached. As part of the FIWARE umbrella
your organization seems an ideal fit and we hope you're interested in
collaborating. If not we welcome your suggestion of other European partners
that might also be an ideal fit. If so we'll send a full draft of the proposal
and more information about each partner and other information you request as
soon as possible. The blueprint of the solution is fairly large and can be
reviewed over the next months before the grant is awarded. The specific
involvement of each party can be negotiated before or on the condition of that
award. We're flexible to negotiating the specific role of each partner
according to capacity, availability, and inclination, and we're also flexible
to joining an existing partnership. Please note that this partnership doesn't
require that your organization refrain from submitting on its own to the same
grant if the call for proposals allows it.

We look forward to your immediate feedback as this response must be submitted
by mid April, 2016.

Best regards,

Andy Williams
Executive Director, Nobeah Foundation
Email: awilliams at nobeahfoundation.org
Web: www.nobeahfoundation.org
 
Caring through innovation
nobeahfoundation.org
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