[Fiware-mundus-committee] GREAT SUCCESS: FIWARE Context Broker technology selected as CEF Building Block

[Pawel Swiatek]

Congratulations to all of you from myself and whole polish community.

All the best,
Pawel

01.04.2017 13:36 "Juanjo Hierro" <juanjose.hierro at fiware.org> napisał(a):

> Dear all,
>
>   It is my great pleasure to communicate to you that the the FIWARE
> Context Broker technology was finally selected by unanimous decision by
> representatives of the EU Member States in the CEF Experts Group meeting
> that took place last Friday.  We haven't yet received an official
> communication from the EC, so we will have to wait for it before
> communicating this officially to the outside, but we know the results
> thanks to people who attended the meeting.  I also had the opportunity to
> confirm this during a conversation yesterday evening with the main CEF
> Architect, Joao Rodrigues-Frade.
>
>   The maturity of the technology (ranked with the highest score by CEF
> Architecture experts) and the recognition about the potential key role it
> can play helping to materialize the EU Digital Single Market strategy were
> considered main arguments in favor of this decision.
>
>   Certainly the position of EU Member State representatives during the
> discussion has been key and, here, we would like to give a big thanks to
> all of you who have been decisive during these last weeks, lobbying in
> favor of this decision in front of representatives of several EU member
> state representatives.    You don't know how proud I feel of the so
> positive reaction and attitude and the good work demonstrated by members of
> the FIWARE Community, in most cases facing the initial challenge of finding
> out whom to contact when there was so little information.   This is a
> rather important sign that there is a true Community behind FIWARE with a
> great potential and a great power to mobilize and change things, ultimately
> deliver impact.
>
>   Maybe I'll forget some names here, apologies if that happens, but I
> wish to name some of the people who has helped us to make this happen (I
> order them by alphabetical order of their countries): Pieter Ballon and
> Davor Meersman (Belgium), Krunoslav Hrnjak, Darko Gebaei and Matija Zulj
> (Croacia), Grete Gutmann (Estonia), Ilkka Lakaniemi, Chandra Challagonda
> and Seppo Haataja (Finland), Judith Stiekema and Francois Richard (France),
> Euripides Petrakis (Greece), Jim Clarke and John Delaney (Ireland), Dario
> Avallone, Lanfranco Marasso, Andrea Cruciani and Giovanni Riganti (Italy), Tom
> Willebrandts and Jeroen Moonen (Netherlands), Gard Jenssen and Arne Berre
> (Norway), Pawel Swiatek and Tomasz Mazuryk (Poland), Paulo Calçada,
> Margarida Campolargo and Rui Costa (Portugal), Cristian Dascalu (Romania)
> and Matic Šerc (Slovenia).   Angeles Tejado and the rest of the FIWARE
> Press Office team who helped to create the list of members of the FIWARE
> Community that could help us in this task force.   Last but not least, Martin
> Brynskov (OASC chairman) for the support from the OASC initiative.  A big
> thank you to all of you.
>
>   Of course, also a big thank you to members of the BoD for their support
> in all discussions with the EC, particularly to our chairman, Hubert
> Tardieu.
>
>   Once more, I would like to underline the relevance of this decision.  The
> CEF and Horizon 2020 programmes are probably the biggest programmes on
> which the EC relies on when trying to materialize its Digital Single Market
> strategy.   While Horizon 2020 is mostly focused on research activities,
> the CEF programme is not research but tries to build the foundation for
> actual digital services in the EU that can work cross-border.
>
>   The selection of the FIWARE Context Broker component as CEF Building
> Block will certainly give a boost to adoption of FIWARE by Public
> Administrations in the EU.   Actually, Public Administrations of Member
> States have to use CEF Building Blocks when building digital services that
> have to work cross-border.   The CEF Program mobilizes a significant amount
> of grants that are given away to Public Administrations that put in place
> projects dealing with deployment of Digital Service Infrastructures based
> on CEF Building Blocks.   However, influence is even higher because, once
> adopted for cross-border digital services, why not to use them for other
> kind of services?  In this respect, we believe that it should also
> definitively help to give a push to adoption of OASC principles among Smart
> Cities.   Because the FIWARE Context Broker technology will become a CEF
> Bulding Block, it will be much justifiable to incorporate requirements
> about incorporation of FIWARE NGSI compliant products in public tenders.
>
>   Last but not least, we also believe that this would, together with the
> other references already accumulated, be instrumental in pushing the
> adoption of FIWARE NGSI as a mean to accelerate digitalization in other
> sectors like Smart Industry and Smart Agrifood.
>
>   Let's celebrate this great success!
>
>   Cheers,
> --
> Juanjo Hierro
>
> Chief Technology Officer
> FIWARE Foundation
> [image: FIWARE Foundation]
> email: juanjose.hierro at fiware.org
> www: http://fiware.org
> twitter: @JuanjoHierro @FIWARE
>
>
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