Congratulations! Le 01.04.2017 à 13:35, Juanjo Hierro a écrit : > > 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 believethat 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, > > -- > JuanjoHierroEmailSignature > Juanjo Hierro > > Chief Technology Officer > FIWARE Foundation > FIWARE Foundation > email: juanjose.hierro at fiware.org > www: http://fiware.org > twitter: @JuanjoHierro @FIWARE > > > > > > __________________________________________________________________________________________ > > You can get more information about our cookies and privacy policies on the following links: > - http://forge.fiware.org/plugins/mediawiki/wiki/fiware/index.php/FIWARE_Privacy_Policy > - http://forge.fiware.org/plugins/mediawiki/wiki/fiware/index.php/Cookies_Policy_FIWARE > > Fiware-ihubs-committee mailing list > Fiware-ihubs-committee at lists.fiware.org > https://lists.fiware.org/listinfo/fiware-ihubs-committee > -- *Sébastien Ziegler Director, Mandat International* President, IoT Forum Vice Chairman, IEEE ComSoc Internet of Things TsC Rapporteur on Research and Emerging Technologies for the IoT and Smart Cities, ITU-T SG20 Coordinator IoT Lab, F-Interop and Privacy Flag European research projects Mandat International International Cooperation Foundation 3 ch. du Champ-Baron 1209 Geneva - Switzerland Phone: +41 79 750 53 83 sziegler at mandint.org <mailto:sziegler at mandint.org>www.mandint.org <http://www.mandint.org/> ********************************************* This e-mail may contain privileged, undisclosed or otherwise confidential information. 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