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1 SEVENTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME ICT PPP Future Internet The Environmental Observation Web and its Service Applications within the Future Internet FP Collaborative project D6.3.1 ENVIROFI Digital Living Lab I EC-JRC Deliverable due date: 20/09/2011 Actual submission date: 30/09/2011 The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/ ) under grant agreement n

2 Document Control Page Title Creator Description Publisher Contributors D6.3.1 ENVIROFI Digital Living Lab I Sven Schade (EC-JRC) This initial version of the "ENVIROFI Digital Living Lab" document explains the general concept of a (Digital) Living Laboratory for Environmental and Geospatial Matters in the Future Internet, the intended use within the ENVIROFI project, as well as a possible connection to ongoing developments within the coordination and support project for the FI-PPP (CONCORD). It furthermore presents the required and available means to connect the environmental informatics community with the FI activities in Europe and to foster collaboration. These may include additional large scale observation networks; FI related working groups at standardization bodies and potential partners for follow-up projects. ENVIROFI Consortium Sven Schade, Carlos Granell (EC-JRC) Denis Havlik (AIT) Creation date 11/08/2011 Type Language Rights Audience Review status Action requested Text en-gb copyright ENVIROFI Consortium internal public restricted Draft WP leader accepted Technical Manager accepted Coordinator accepted to be revised by Partners for approval by the WP leader for approval by the Technical Committee for approval by the Project Coordinator Requested deadline Copyright 2011 ENVIROFI Consortium Page 2 of 24

3 Revision history Version Date Modified by Comments v0 14/07/2011 Sven Schade (EC-JRC) Table of Content created, executive summary and introduction drafted, intended content indicated v0.1 06/09/2011 Sven Schade (EC-JRC) Content added to all sections v0.2 08/09/2011 Carlos Granell (EC-JRC), Sven Schade (EC-JRC) Restructured document... v0.3 09/09/2011 Carlos Granell (EC-JRC) Content to sections 2 and 3 v0.4 12/09/2011 Sven Schade (EC-JRC), Carlos Granell (EC-JRC) Revision of all sections v0.5 15/09/2011 Sven Schade (EC-JRC) Revision of all sections v0.6 16/09/2011 v1.0 26/09/2011 Denis Havlik (AIT), Sven Schade (EC-JRC) Antonio Oliván, Jose Lorenzo (ATOS) Revision of all sections; simplifying the texts. Quality Assessment Final revision & approval Copyright 2011 ENVIROFI Consortium Page 3 of 24

4 Table of Contents Glossary...6 Abbreviations and Acronyms...6 Executive Summary Introduction Background Open Innovation Crowd Sourcing Living Laboratories Living Lab for Environmental and Geospatial Matters in the FI: General Concept and Methodology Methods for Implementing the Living Lab for Environmental and Geospatial Matters in the FI Scanning the Environment Connect Set Boundaries and Engage Support and Govern Manage and Track Idea and Concept Creation Connect Set Boundaries and Engage Support and Govern Manage and Track (Research and) Development Connect Set Boundaries and Engage Support and Govern Manage and Track Deployment Connect Set Boundaries and Engage Support and Govern Manage and Track Proposed Next Actions ENVIROFI Internal Actions FI-PPP Internal Actions FI-PPP External Actions Conclusions and Outlook References Copyright 2011 ENVIROFI Consortium Page 4 of 24

5 Index of figures Figure 1. Typology of open innovation programs according to targeted audience and selection topics Figure 2. Cyclic Innovation Model and ENVIROFI ([07 - Living Lab definition]) Figure 3. Cyclic Innovation model for User-driven innovation networks (or Living Labs) ([07 - Living Lab definition]) Index of Tables Table 1. Abbreviations and Acronyms...6 Table 2. Success measures for Living Lab for Environmental and Geospatial Matters in the FI Table 3. References Copyright 2011 ENVIROFI Consortium Page 5 of 24

6 Glossary The glossary of terms used in this deliverable can be found in the public document ENVIROFI_Glossary.pdf available at: Abbreviations and Acronyms Term AB CEN DoW EEA EGU ENVIROFI ESSI FI FI-PPP GEO GEOSS ICT INSPIRE IPR ISO JRC OASIS OGC OMG SOA SoaML SDI SWE TC WP Explanation Advisory Board European Committee for Standardization Description of Work European Environmental Agency European Geosciences Union The Environmental Observation Web and its Service Applications within the Future Internet Earth & Space Science Informatics division of the EGU Future Internet FI Public-Private Partnership Group on Earth Observations Global Earth Observation System of Systems Information and Communication Technology Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community Intellectual Property Rights International Standardization Organization Joint research Centre Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards Open Geospatial Consortium Object Management Group Service Oriented Architecture Service Oriented Architecture Modelling language Spatial Data Infrastructure Sensor Web Enablement Technical Committee Work Package Table 1. Abbreviations and Acronyms Copyright 2011 ENVIROFI Consortium Page 6 of 24

7 Executive Summary The deliverable at hand (D6.3.1) reports on the first achievements in respect to the Digital Living Lab for Environmental and Geospatial Matters in the Future Internet. It explains the general concept of a (Digital) Living Laboratory (Living Lab in short) as an application of the concept to a large amount of stakeholders, and possible experimentation sites; as well as the use of this to boost innovation within the ENVIROFI project and potentially beyond the project s life-time. Possible connections to Living Lab related activities within the coordination and support project for the FI-PPP (CONCORD) are sketched. This deliverable furthermore presents the required and available means to connect the environmental informatics community with the FI activities in Europe and to foster collaboration. These include investigation of and connections to additional large scale observation networks; FI related working groups at standardization bodies and potential partners for follow-up projects. This is the first deliverable in a group of three to address these issues. Updates will be provided in project month 14 (May 2012) and month 24 (March 2013). Copyright 2011 ENVIROFI Consortium Page 7 of 24

8 1 Introduction One of the five ENVIROFI project objectives is to establish a Digital Living Laboratory for the ENVIROFI Stakeholders on the basis of existing expert groups in related interest communities to facilitate collaboration between the environmental ICT sector (including established SMEs, research projects, public institutions, standardization bodies, as well as citizen), the FI core platform community and other usage areas. This objective specifically targets a key concern of the Innovation Union initiative by linking ICT innovation and growth [01 - ENVIROFI Consortium]. ENVIROFI brings on board the key developers and forward looking users from environmental domain: (1) through direct participation in the project consortium; (2) through project s advisory board; and (3) through community events. The Digital Living Lab should support these activities by providing the platform for required collaborations. While WP4 interacts with the FI core platform and other usage areas, WP6 ( Collaboration with ENVIROFI Stakeholder Communities ) provides a hub to the ENVIROFI Stakeholder Communities i.e. to public and private organizations as well as people. Task T6.1 presented the state of play at the beginning of ENVIROFI; task T6.2 ensures valuable short-term project results; and this task (T6.3: Initiation of ENVIROFI Digital Living Lab ) prepares sustainability for mid-term developments. T6.3 analyses the required and available means to connect the environmental informatics community with the FI activities in Europe and to foster collaboration. ENVIROFI thus enables the dialog between environmental community and the FI community for the benefit of both sides. At the same time, this task provides a tool to exploit additional possibilities for large scale implementations in phase 2 of the FI- PPP. Once the Living Lab is available, unlocked capacities (such as additional large scale observation networks, FI related working groups at standardization bodies and new potential partners) can be used for deploying early trials, but also real large scale applications. Activities in T6.3 include possible extensions of the European Future Internet Portal with a subsection on the Environmental Usage Area, and complementary Future Internet work items in the context of standardization within International Standardisation Organization (ISO) Technical Committee (TC) 211, Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and European Committee for Standardization (CEN TC 287). Impacts on ISO and OGC might include contributions to the revision of architectural models aiming at seamless integration of the Future Internet (FI) enablers in environmental applications. In this way, ENVIROFI can help to significantly reduce the gap between technologies and standards of the FI and of the Environmental Usage Area. Other T6.3 related activities include identifying of the missing communication channels and infrastructures, and of the appropriate management of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR). They also include a strategy to connect user communities to the requirements analysis and testing within the ENVIROFI scenarios work packages (WP1-3). The artifacts (web pages, white papers, best practices etc.) that are produced by these activities serve project dissemination (WP7). Initial input to task T6.3 (the stakeholder and technical components wiki [02 - ENVIROFI Paper], as well as content produced through stakeholder consultations) is provided by Tasks T6.1 and T6.2 respectively; both are maintained and continued in the scope of T6.3. The Living Lab should serve the seed for mid-term implementations of an ENVIROFIed Future Internet. As such, it should at least provide the means to (i) maintain stakeholder and (technical) component surveys and (ii) hosting consultation results. This might be complemented with overviews about community opinions and individual highlights. As Living Lab related activities are also foreseen within the coordination and support project for the FI-PPP (CONCORD), we set the seeds for common discussions. We do not assume that the full infrastructure will be in place at the end of the project, but we will prepare as much as possible. In this sense, the ENVIROFI task T6.3 is not only producing documentation, but also assembles usable tools, such as wikis, portals, specific web sites, etc. While this initial version of the deliverable provides a loose collection of some of the required building blocks, later versions (i.e. deliverables D6.3.2 and D6.3.3) will focus on integration. These versions will particularly include the results from discussions with CONCORD. The remainder of this document is structured as follows. Section 2 briefly presents the required background. The basic principles of and the overall methodology for the Digital Living Lab for Copyright 2011 ENVIROFI Consortium Page 8 of 24

9 Environmental and Geospatial Matters in the Future Internet, as well as possible relation to CONCORD project are outlined thereafter (section 3). Section 4 summarizes possible methods for Living Lab implementation, which includes the connection requirements between the FI and the arising Environmental Usage Area, together with a state of play and gap analysis. Proposed future actions for addressing the identified issues are outlined in section 5, before we draw conclusions and outline our plan for future work (section 6). Supporting materials provided in the annexes. Later versions of this report (i.e. D6.3.2 and D6.3.3) will follow a similar structure. Copyright 2011 ENVIROFI Consortium Page 9 of 24

10 2 Background This section introduces open innovation, crowd sourcing and the notion of Living Laboratory as the central concepts underling the Digital Living Lab for Environmental and Geospatial Matters in the Future Internet. All of these items will be connected in section 3, where we introduce the ENVIROFI contributions as such, and in section 4 respectively, where general requirements are opposed to available implementation capabilities. 2.1 Open Innovation In a nutshell, open innovation refers to approaches which move the act of introducing new things (or methods) outside the closed boundaries of a particular organization, and the use of internal and external paths to market them. Whereas research and development are classically addressed inside industrial companies or other businesses, open innovation makes underlying challenges and intermediate results visible to wider audiences, in some cases even to the public. Various sub-categories can be distinguished depending, among others, on the targeted audience and the selection of the topics covered [03 - ENVIROFI Wiki]. On one hand, the former dimension is concerned with who can submit an idea, that is, the targeted audience who is invited to participate on an open innovation program for a particular organization (X axis in figure 1 below). The range of possibilities is enormous, and it depends on the goals of the organization which is running this kind of programs. Possible scenarios range from a brainstorming session that involves a smaller set of external experts invented by the organization (invitational) to open calls to the entire Web, what sometimes is referred to the crowd (participative). For instance, the website challenge.gov is a clear example of a participative approach to an open innovation program since everyone can participative in any of the challenges launched by the American Public Administrations. On the other hand, the selection of topics refers to the openness of the topics, challenges or issues to which the participants respond. Again, the huge range of options between a concrete topic (defined) or issue and anything (open) depends on the goal, intended impact and resources available by the organization. For instance, open the door to any idea that participants can provide without suggesting any topic has the inconvenient later in a major effort in the selection process. Figure 1. Typology of open innovation programs according to targeted audience and selection topics Figure 1 above reflects the four types of open innovation according to the previous two dimensions: targeted audience and selection of topics for innovation. Although these two dimensions are simple in conception, choosing the appropriate granularity on the scope of the topics or challenges covered, and Copyright 2011 ENVIROFI Consortium Page 10 of 24

11 who and how the participants are involved is key for a successful open innovation program. The figure above serves to explain and clarify the existing relationships among similar terms such as open innovation, crowd sourcing and Living Labs: right column (blue) identifies the crowd sourcing strategies (section 2.2) of an open innovation program, while left column (grey) identifies the Living Lab strategies (section 2.3) of an open innovation program. The concept of open innovation is well-aligned with the spirit of the FI-PPP program, where all projects are under contractual obligation to exchange work in progress between the different consortia. ENVIROFI builds on this effort and event extends the audience of project internal research and developments to stakeholders from the environmental informatics sector. Intermediate results are discussed with the ENVIROFI Advisory Board and, wherever possible, with other stakeholder representatives, for instance at the workshops and conferences with ENVIROFI participation.. So far, the latter is foreseen in the context of the three ENVIROFI consolidation workshops, but (as we argue below) the Digital Living Lab will eventually bind much higher number of stakeholders, and assure the sustainability of the results beyond project life time. Finally the two dimensions of previous figure ( selection of topics and targeted audience play an important role in the CONCORD methodology for the creation of Living Labs (see sections 3 and 4 for more details), 2.2 Crowd Sourcing Crowd sourcing in general describes acts of outsourcing any kind of task to some community (referred to as the crowd ), which might have previously unknown members. This outsourcing takes place in open calls or competitions that call for solutions to a more or less precisely described problem [04 - Chesbrough, H.W.]. It can be thus seen as one means to distribute problem solving and challenges, that is, an open innovation program where there are no restrictions on the targeted audience which can participate and submit ideas (See right side of figure 1). The notion recently gained attention in the context of Web 2.0 [05 - Jeff Howe], in the sense that this kind of collaborative technologies and techniques has greatly fostered the participation of users and citizens as an active producer of information and new content. Main reasons for applying crowd sourcing include: (i) the low investments to start a crowd sourcing project because web-based solutions to collect and capture ideas, and support distributed users are already in place in form of Web 2.0 web sites and tools; and (ii) the intention to capture a vast quantity of ideas, either in some topics of interests or over a broad spectrum of topics and themes. Crowd sourcing and open innovation are complementary approaches: crowd sourcing methods allow scaling of open innovation approach, thus allowing us to involve very large communities at some phases of the open innovation process. Likewise, the open innovation can be used to define the crowdsourcing methodology and analyze the results obtained through crowdsourcing. In respect to the Future Internet, crowd sourcing is an interesting option to be exploited, especially considering the desire of cross-domain use of FI components and the identification of generic enablers. Opening issues that appear specific for a single usage area to a wider audience might be a valuable idea. 2.3 Living Laboratories A Living Laboratory (short Living Lab) can be described as an open innovation ecosystem with a strong focus on a delimited network of (end) users. Opposed to crowd sourcing, Living Lab can be seen as an open innovation program where there are restrictions on the targeted audience which can participate and submit ideas (See left side figure 1). It integrates research and innovation processes through some form of public-private-partnership (PPP). Living Labs are driven by co-creation, exploration, experimentation and evaluation of innovative ideas, scenarios, concepts and related technological artifacts in real life use cases [06 - Tim O'Reilly]. Frequently, Living Labs may be applied at limited spatial extent (within cities or small regions), which in turn set some (spatial) restrictions of the topics Copyright 2011 ENVIROFI Consortium Page 11 of 24

12 covered, and limit the selection of topics covered in order to ease management and assure productivity through easier control. For instance, the topic sustainable cities is considerably much broader than sustainable Rome. Main reasons for applying the Living Lab approach to a specific innovation domain include: the potential of capturing valuable, unique ideas from a set of participants who have some knowledge about the specific problem or issues exposed, and the intellectual protection of the ideas as the mere selection of the participants makes it easier. The concept goes hand-in-hand with open innovation; it basically provides the collaboration environment for the targeted community within the PPP. As a consequence of its PPP affiliation, The Living Lab concept is inherently very close to the ideas expressed in FI-PPP. Accordingly, the individual Usage Area projects already form a kind of Living Labs without necessarily making these ecosystems explicit. For the Environmental Usage Area, we decided to establish an internet platform for exposing the various elements of the according laboratory together with the involved institutions, persons, etc. We believe that this will be beneficial for any follow up activities beyond the ENVIROFI project. Copyright 2011 ENVIROFI Consortium Page 12 of 24

13 3 Living Lab for Environmental and Geospatial Matters in the FI: General Concept and Methodology The Future Internet is addressing the interplay between the public and the private sector: innovation should be triggered primarily by an application pull, whereas a technology-push is secondary. Consequently, ENVIROFI has to encompass the socio-economic and organizational dimensions of the development: facilitate the articulation of requirements and creation of added value services; motivate actors (such as SMEs, research institutions, and public organizations) to develop and market innovative services in a competitive context; and motivate the data owners, sensor network owners, environmental modelers and citizen to market their resources. The Digital Living Lab for Environmental and Geospatial Matters in the Future Internet ( ENVIROFI Living Lab or just Living Lab from now on) shall be a main instrument for the assessment of existing Research and Development (R&D), and Innovation activities of the Environmental Usage Area. It shall build on the inputs of tasks T6.1 and T6.2, and provide a tool for which helps us to streamline standardization-related work in environmental application fields. ENVIROFI shall develop a plan for user community building, including the development of the Living Lab specifications. Furthermore, ENVIROFI shall also provide the resources for its initialization; in particular through provision of the services allowing open individualized experimentations and Living Labs with collective capability in monitoring the environment at high resolution spatial scales. This overall incentive is summarized in table 2. Objective Measurable Success Indicators Target Establish a Digital Living Laboratory for Environmental ICT in Europe o o o Availability of Living Lab specification Availability of supporting platforms (in FI portal and in environmental communities) Activities in that laboratory (due to ENVIROFI internal activities, but also to external collaborations) D6.3.x ENVIROFI Digital Living Lab scheduled at: Table 2. Success measures for Living Lab for Environmental and Geospatial Matters in the FI o o o M6: Specifications M14: extension of EU FI Portal with subsection on Environment area; open to all related FP7 projects M24: ENVIROFI use cases integrated in Digital Living Lab A sound, flexible methodology is required to help us to shape and start our Living lab on the premises of the open innovation, and to materialize our planned objectives, aims, and expectations with respect to the Digital Living Lab for Environmental and Geospatial Matters in the Future Internet, The methodology of choice will be the CONCORD approach [07 - Living Lab definition] to the creation of Living labs, which in turn is based on the Cyclic Innovation Model (CIM) [08 - User innovation definition, 09 - CONCORD Project]. In doing so, the benefits are several. In a short-term, the Living Lab shall be aligned with the CONCORD project and thereby with the PPP program as a whole. In a mid- and long-period, as Digital Living Lab for Environmental and Geospatial Matters in the Future Internet should be shaped according to the CIM methodology, this will notable increase the likelihood to endure the Living Lab after the ENVIROFI project ends. The most important feature of the CIM methodology (Figure 2) is that the different phases towards innovation are not a one-way pipeline but a circle: innovations build on innovations (feedback), ideas create new concepts, successes create new challenges, and failures create new insights [08 - User innovation definition]. The first two phases (Scanning the Environment and Idea Concept and Creation) may be suggested in this deliverable. The Research and Development phase may be deal to some extent at the end of the project. The last phase, Deployment, is envisioned in an advanced state of the project (phase 2), so it is not explicitly dealt in this deliverable. Furthermore, the CIM methodology proposes an innovation model composed of dynamic processes, which evolve according to environment and context changes, along with four phases: Scanning the Environment (market transitions), Ideas Copyright 2011 ENVIROFI Consortium Page 13 of 24

14 Creation (innovation), Research and Development, and Deployment. This means that the four phases influence each other. As a result, relations between innovation & creativeness (left side, Idea and Concept Creation), science & technology (top, Research and Development), industry (right side, Deployment) and market (bottom, Scanning the Environment) are reflected in the model, which leads to creative, open, and interactive innovation processes. ENVIROFI mainly addresses the first three of these phases. Follow up on R&D, eventually leading to highly scalable implementations of environmental enablers and to large scale implementations ( deployment ) are foreseen for the ENVIROFI follow-up project in the phase 2 of the FI-PPP. ENVIROFI Task 6.3 Figure 2. Cyclic Innovation Model and ENVIROFI ([07 - Living Lab definition]) The CONCORD approach [07 - Living Lab definition] suggests extending the CIM methodology for the creation of user-driven innovation networks (or Living Labs). Each of the CIM phases (see Figure 2 above) follows a cyclic model made up of four methods as illustrated below (Figure 3): Connect: This step is concerning with the initial, minimum infrastructure to enable collaboration, etc. to start each CIM phase. An important aspect at this step is the definition of the intended users and audience to delimit and anticipate the needed resources, scope, and impact of the Living Lab at each CIM phase. For instance in the case of the Digital Living Lab that is prepared within ENVIROFI, the target audience for the phase Idea and Concept Creation (section 4.2.1) may be different from those in the Development phase (section 4.4.1). Furthermore, trying to answer to following questions is a good exercise: do we prefer to engage a lot of people, even without knowledge or expertise in the Environmental Usage Area, or a smaller, more selective team? Do we have incremental or disruptive ideas? Do we want to establish a trusted network of partners or just to attract people interested is such themes? Boundaries and engage: the definition of the boundaries in terms of intellectual right management and formal agreements among the involved stakeholders, as well as the definition of use cases and best practices. In the case of the Digital Living Lab for Environmental and Geospatial Matters in the Future Internet, this step may include the initial consortium and collaboration agreements, as pointed out in section Support and govern: As each CIM phase is related to different aspects in an open innovation Copyright 2011 ENVIROFI Consortium Page 14 of 24

15 program, such as market, science, innovation, technology, and industry, the supporting tools, services, and infrastructure to carry out each phase may be distinct. Some examples of supporting services are listed in sections Manage and track: This step includes an assessment of the expected impact and expectations of the outcomes of each CIM phases, according to the initial goals and scope set in the Connect step. Again, in the case of the Digital Living Lab for Environmental and Geospatial Matters in the Future Internet, this step may include different actions, depending on the CIM phase, as briefly illustrated in sections and Figure 3. Cyclic Innovation model for User-driven innovation networks (or Living Labs) ([07 - Living Lab definition]) The aim of the CONCORD approach is then to accommodate the core CIM methodology to the specific scenario of the setup of Living Labs. In other words, each CIM phase in figure 2 suffers a specific tuning though the application of the four cyclic steps in figure 3. Notably, each step may (and most likely will) include different methods and supporting services as they aim at different outcomes and because different people are involved. Disclaimer: the work presented above is based on work in progress within the CONCORD project. This basis might still to topic to changes. The overall methodology, the methods, and ENVIROFI customizations of these (see also next section) might be subject to updates. Copyright 2011 ENVIROFI Consortium Page 15 of 24

16 4 Methods for Implementing the Living Lab for Environmental and Geospatial Matters in the FI As already mentioned, the development of the Living Lab methodology is still in progress within the CONCORD project. Discussions between ENVIROFI and CONCORD are still required in order to well align the approach of the Usage Area with the solution proposed at FI-PPP level. This deliverable contains initial input to these discussions and raises major questions, using the structure that is imposed by the general framework. Later versions will build on discussion outputs and intense updates of this section will be provided where appropriate. Naturally, at this stage, the earlier sub-sections of this chapter include more information than the letter once. 4.1 Scanning the Environment It is one main objective of ENVIFORI to provide community consolidated Future Internet requirements and enabler specifications for the Environmental Usage Area. Supporting conceptual prototypes and a socio-economic analysis of the expected impacts is requested in addition. Focusing on the environmental observation web and facilitated applications, the work is defined in a way that may have major implication on the future generation of environmental information infrastructures (Digital Earth). Accordingly, public and private organizations, as well as people, have to be involved from the beginning. This includes the provision of basic (reference) material together with an initial sketch of the desired ENVIROFI architecture. The environment for establishing the above has already been scanned during the proposal preparation and in the first month of the ENVIROFI project. Particularly task T6.1 provided major contributions in terms of general stakeholders and available technical components (see also deliverables D6.1.1 [13 - ENVIROFI Consortium] and D6.1.2 [14 - ENVIROFI Consortium]) Connect The FI-PPP project consortia and especially the ENVIROFI partners are destined to be early adopters and testers of the intended Living Laboratory. In addition, stakeholders of the various domains of environmental informatics have been identified [14 - ENVIROFI Consortium]. Main stakeholders include (see also [15 - ENVIROFI Paper]): Citizens of a particular social, political, or national community; Environmental agencies on sub-national, national and European level; Public authorities of national and regional and other level; Industries from the primary, secondary and service sector; Platform providers offering frameworks on which applications may be run; Infrastructure providers offering physical components and essential services; Sensor network owners holding the sensor and basic communication hardware. Standardization organizations providing the umbrella for establishing standard procedures. The ENVIROFI scenarios set a focus in terms of content (to terrestrial biodiversity, atmospheric conditions and pollen, and marine assets) Set Boundaries and Engage Boundary conditions have been already set within the FI-PPP Programme and internally within the ENVIROFI project. Achievements include: Copyright 2011 ENVIROFI Consortium Page 16 of 24

17 The Signatures of the consortium and collaboration agreements. The establishment of project and programme mailing lists etc. The engagement of project consortium members in terms as defined in the ENVIROFI Description of Work (DoW) [01 - ENVIROFI Consortium]. The contributions of all project partners to task T6.1, especially to the stakeholder and technical components surveys [02 - ENVIROFI Paper] Support and Govern Support and governance structures are mainly topic to tasks T6.1 ( ENVIROFI Stakeholder Analysis: Communities, Architectures and Technologies ) and T6.2 ( Preparation, Execution and Reporting of Community Consultations ). However, decisions on appropriate tools still had to be taken. For ENVIROFI, following tools have been used for scanning the Living Lab environment: ENVIROFI Stakeholder and Components Wiki ([03 - ENVIROFI Wiki], not publically available at the time of writing this document) ENVIROFI Web page ( ENVIROFI Twitter account ( Future Sensor Web and its Applications group on the INSPIRE Forum ( Environmental Information Infrastructures and Platforms (ENVIP) portal ( FI-PPP web page ( offered by CONCORD) FIA and general FI web pages ( for some reason weakly linked with the FI-PPP one) Manage and Track The coordination of required actions in centralized in WP6. Whereas task T6.2 is the main carrier for managing and tracing stakeholder engagement, task T6.3 shall provide the required tools. Related risks have been defined and tracked [01 - ENVIROFI Consortium]. 4.2 Idea and Concept Creation The evolution of a Future Internet infrastructure goes in line with the emergence of open, secure and trusted service platforms for building networked applications. Such an infrastructure can be leveraged through user-centered open innovation schemes. The Digital Living Lab for Environmental and Geospatial Matters in the Future Internet provides the urgently required grounds for a collaborative development approach. It will help to relieve egovernment for environment from its infancy. Contributions will continue after the end of the project. This includes the agreement on common/representative scenarios, as well as discussions of (i) FI requirements (ii) environmental enablers for the FI, (iii) ENVIROFI conceptual prototypes, and (iv) socio-economic impacts. This activity started and is in progress (in terms of task T6.2); a first stakeholder workshop will take place in early October Connect The needs of the usage areas represented within FI-PPP cannot be fully represented by the respective Usage Area projects. The usage area projects therefore have to rely on additional inputs and feedback from their respective stakeholders communities, For these reasons, WP6 establishes and coordinates the collaboration with the ENVIROFI Stakeholder Copyright 2011 ENVIROFI Consortium Page 17 of 24

18 Communities, which includes environmental agencies up to national and European level, standardization bodies and related international initiatives, SMEs working in the earth observation, environmental and geospatial sector, as well as local authorities and end-users. Activities for establishing relevant communities have already been undertaken. For example, EC-JRC and the European Environmental Agency (EEA) organized a workshop on The Future Sensor Web and Its Applications in late January 2010, in which core areas for innovation have been identified. It was concluded, that many issues of the observation web can be addressed by existing research results. The effort to lift available prototypes to innovative scalable and robust products/services is the real challenge. Additionally, SINTEF co-organized the first Environmental Information Systems and Services Infrastructures and Platforms (ENVIP) workshop, which brought together current FP7 research projects dealing with environmental content and services. The participants agreed to proceed with the community building. As concluded mid of November 2010, CEN/TC287 follows similar efforts in order to maintain research results and to facilitate related standardization processes. Main stakeholders include: Citizens of a particular social, political, or national community; Environmental agencies on sub-national, national and European level; Public authorities of national and regional and other level; Industries from the primary, secondary and service sector; and Standardization organizations providing the umbrella for establishing standard procedures Set Boundaries and Engage ENVIROFI shall establish the connections between the involved communities. Instead of building new expert groups, the project shall establish an environmental connector to the Future Internet, as well as a Future Internet hub for the environmental sector. In terms of standardization, the latter shall be used to contribute to the advancement of the 10 year old service model ISO of ISO/TC211 and accordingly contribute to an updated OGC reference model. Both shall take the Future Internet development into account and allow for the best integration possible. ENVIROFI standardizations shall help to lay the basis of the Digital Living Lab for Environmental and Geospatial Matters in the Future Internet. They shall allow for collaboration with geospatial and environmental standardization bodies (ISO, CEN, OGC etc.) and provide access to experimentation infrastructures and technology, preparing for both an environmental and a geospatial enabling of the Future Internet. Related end users from the public and private sectors shall become involved. The ENVIROFI Advisory Board (AB) reflects the targeted audience. Advisory board has been selected and formally invited [16 - ENVIROFI Consortium]. The above also holds to wider communities, as we invited stakeholder representatives to the first ENVIROFI consultation workshop [16 - ENVIROFI Consortium]. Future engagement might be reached by launching open competitions e.g. together with OGC test beds, GEOSS Architecture Implementation Pilots or with the upcoming ENVIROFI workshops Support and Govern For this stage, the Digital Living Lab requires means for connecting the FI with the Environmental Informatics communities. This section outlines the basic needs, available capabilities and an analysis of the missing pieces. It provides the basis for defining next actions in the preparation of the Digital Living Lab for Environmental and Geospatial Matters in the Future Internet: ENVIROFI Stakeholder and Components Wiki ([02 - ENVIROFI Paper], not publically available) ENVIROFI Web page ( ENVIROFI Twitter account ( Environmental Information Infrastructures and Platforms (ENVIP) portal ( FI-PPP web page ( offered by CONCORD) Copyright 2011 ENVIROFI Consortium Page 18 of 24

19 FIA and general FI web pages ( for some reason weakly linked with the FI-PPP one) OGC web page ( and portal ( GEOSS front-ends ( INSPIRE web page ( INSPIRE portal ( INSPIRE Forum ( As far as concrete supporting techniques are concerned, and on top of the techniques already mentioned in deliverable D6.2.1, we plan to investigate Oxford style debates (Originating from the Oxford Union Society, which is one of Britain s oldest debating societies; Oxford-style debates suggest a clear structure, process and rules for debating) as for example demonstrated by the Economist [17 - The Economist] Manage and Track Management and tracking will largely depend on the choice of appropriate tools. For the time being, we exploit the ENVIP portal [12 - ENVIP], which provides the required means for reporting on the first stakeholder workshop. 4.3 (Research and) Development Related developments are foreseen later in the project within the scope of the thematic WPs, i.e. WP1, WP2 and WP3, as well as in WP5. In their combinations, ENVIROFI will provide (conceptual) prototypes, which illustrate how envisioned scenarios of the Environmental Usage Area could be realized within the FI. The resulting software components should provide the basis for large scale implementation in phase 2 of the FI-PP. Thus, they should become part of the Living Lab. Related discussions are planned for the final consultation event of the project, see also task T Connect To be examined at a later stage of the project, mainly in collaboration with standardization organizations such as ISO, OGC and CEN. Main stakeholders will include: Environmental agencies on sub-national, national and European level; Public authorities of national and regional and other level; Industries from the primary, secondary and service sector; Platform providers offering frameworks on which applications may be run; Standardization organizations providing the umbrella for establishing standard procedures Set Boundaries and Engage To be examined at a later stage of the project. Note: INSPIRE and GEOSS compliance should be examined here. Again, future engagement might be reached by launching open competitions e.g. together with OGC, GEOSS or with the upcoming ENVIROFI workshops. Copyright 2011 ENVIROFI Consortium Page 19 of 24

20 4.3.3 Support and Govern To be examined at a later stage of the project Manage and Track To be examined at a later stage of the project. 4.4 Deployment In terms of the Living Lab, deployment is at the moment out of the scope of the first phase of the FI- PPP, which also holds for the ENVIROFI project Connect In terms of the Living Lab, deployment is at the moment out of the scope of the first phase of the FI- PPP, which also holds for the ENVIROFI project. Main stakeholders include: Citizens of a particular social, political, or national community; Environmental agencies on sub-national, national and European level; Public authorities of national and regional and other level; Industries from the primary, secondary and service sector; Platform providers offering frameworks on which applications may be run; Infrastructure providers offering physical components and essential services; Sensor network owners holding the sensor and basic communication hardware. Standardization organizations providing the umbrella for establishing standard procedures Set Boundaries and Engage In terms of the Living Lab, deployment is at the moment out of the scope of the first phase of the FI- PPP; this also holds for the ENVIROFI project Support and Govern In terms of the Living Lab, deployment is at the moment out of the scope of the first phase of the FI- PPP; this also holds for the ENVIROFI project Manage and Track In terms of the Living Lab, deployment is at the moment out of the scope of the first phase of the FI- PPP; this also holds for the ENVIROFI project. Copyright 2011 ENVIROFI Consortium Page 20 of 24

21 5 Proposed Next Actions Part of this deliverable is based on material, which the CONCORD project kindly provided. However, as indicated previously, this material just presents the recent status of work that is still in progress within the support action. At the same time, we identified a series of material as well as of processes that have to be provided for ENVIROFI and beyond the project lifetime. We can subdivide required actions accordingly. 5.1 ENVIROFI Internal Actions Within ENVIROFI, we have to: Maintain the stakeholder and technical components Wiki [02 - ENVIROFI Paper], which has been initiated within T6.1. Decide whether the above mentioned Wiki should become fully or partially accessible to the FI- PPP or the public. Define an IPR strategy based on the collaboration agreement within ENVIROFI. Establish a mechanism that allows project external stakeholders to register FI requirements from the Environmental Usage Area (probably moderated by ENVIROFI WP6). Establish a mechanism that allows project external stakeholders to register available infrastructures for possible phase 2 implementations (probably moderated by ENVIROFI WP6). Decide whether we desire to build a separate Digital Living Lab for Environmental and Geospatial Matters in the Future Internet. Alternatively, this Lab may be designed as a part of an even larger setting, such as a general Living Lab for the FI-PPP with usage area specific branches. The latter might be a better tool for fostering cross-usage area scenarios and pilots. Define a promotion strategy for the Living Laboratory in collaboration with WP7, ideally by identifying already available infrastructures and initiatives, such as ENVIP. Identify an optimal setting of available tools, new developments and community building efforts in a comprehensive way that is independent of the project lifetime. 5.2 FI-PPP Internal Actions Outside ENVIROFI, but still within the FI-PPP, we have to: Discuss the ENVIROFI instantiation of the overall methodology with CONCORD. Discuss the overall integration of the Digital Living Lab for Environmental and Geospatial Matters in the Future Internet with other FI-PPP projects. Align the IPR strategy with the overall FI-PPP IPR strategy. Discussing possible relations to the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL), a consortium member of CONCORD (ENVIROFI is invited to participate as a panelist in the ENoLL/FI-PPP FIA session held in Poznan on Wednesday 26, FI-PPP External Actions Outside the FI-PPP, we have to: Actively engage community building or merging. This requires additional efforts, beyond building a community portal. Discuss the (potentially close) connection of the ENVIP community and portal. Copyright 2011 ENVIROFI Consortium Page 21 of 24

22 Investigate the suitability of tools, such as the Oxford style debate, statistics from survey, individual highlights, brief questions/opinions, for our purposes. Copyright 2011 ENVIROFI Consortium Page 22 of 24

23 6 Conclusions and Outlook This first deliverable of task T6.3 presented the overall concept of the Digital Living Lab for Environmental and Geospatial Matters in the Future Internet, together with the required background. A first connection to program level activities, mainly initiated by the CONCORD project has been established. In respect to our goals indicated in Table 2. Success measures for Living Lab for Environmental and Geospatial Matters in the FI, we have provided a first Living Lab specification and set the grounds for implementation. However, many discussions are still required. Now that the various projects become stable and provide first outcomes. It is the right time for putting ideas on the table and for getting engaged in program level discussions. Outcomes of these discussions should be used for stepwise future improvements. In respect of ENVIROFI, those will be reported on in deliverable D6.3.2 (month 14, i.e. May 2012), and D6.3.3 (month 24, i.e. March 2013). Given the high number of participants and of available tools, further decisions on establishing usage area specific or common Living Labs, will require an honest reality check within ENVIROFI, but also inside the FI-PPP. In the end, Living Lab implementations will strongly depend on value for money measures. Given the available resources, prioritizations still have to be made across FI-PPP projects and risks have to be defined and closely monitored. From our perspective, final decisions should be taken to the best possible benefit to FI and to environmental informatics. We hope to be able to provide an overview of available tools and governance workflows within the next version of this deliverable, i.e. D An intense debate on the intended use of Living Labs in phases 2 and 3 of the FI-PPP still has to be issues. This should include considerations of usage area internal activities (e.g. roadmaps of INSPIRE, GMES and GEOSS [18 - GIGAS project forum]). We hope to be able to provide more concrete outcomes on these issues with the next version of this deliverable. Copyright 2011 ENVIROFI Consortium Page 23 of 24

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