1. Consulta)on
Objec)ves
The
object
of
the
consulta)on
exercise
was
to
explore
various
aspects
of
the
catapult
with
the
CDE
communi)es,
drilling
progressively
deeper
into
key
aspects
specifically
to
get
your
views
on
• The
purpose
of
CDEC
and
the
various
roles
it
should
fulfil,
and
• CDEC’s
poten)al
priori)es
in
terms
of
building
capabili)es
and
R&D
projects
to
help
shape
the
CDEC
Business
and
Implementa)on
Plans.
2. Consulta)on
Process
The
consulta)on
process
ran
from
April
to
June
2012
• 280
Registra)ons
of
Interest
• Four
‘Shaping
the
CDEC’
workshops,
304
delegates
working
through
group
exercises
• Five
roundtable
discussions
with
smaller
groups
• Telephone
follow-‐up
interviews
Report
published
15
July,
on
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3. CDEC
roles
What
you
told
us:
• ‘The
‘nerve
centre’
of
the
CDE
in
the
UK’
• ‘An
unparalleled
source
of
knowledge
and
exper)se
across
digital
domains’
•
‘The
focal
point
for
R&D
that
addresses
strategic
challenges
and
opportuni)es’
• ‘Hold
and
communicate
the
vision
of
the
connected
digital
economy
future’
•
‘A
champion
of
open
data’
•
‘A
nexus
between
content,
technology
and
users’
4. CDEC
core
ac)vi)es
In
the
consulta)on
you
highlighted
a
variety
of
ac)vi)es
that
you
considered
to
be
core
to
the
work
of
the
Catapult.
We
grouped
grouped
these
around:
• ‘Promo)on’
of
the
Connected
Digital
Economy
• ‘Informa)on’
–
the
defini)ve
and
accessible
source
of
CDE
knowledge
• Research
and
collabora)on
approaches,
and
• An
environment
that
provides
Support
for
innova)on.
5. Promo)on
What
you
told
us:
• ‘Have
a
‘wow’
factor
of
interna)onal
standing
that
appeals
across
a
broad
community’
• ‘Provide
a
public-‐facing
showcase
of
the
best
connected
digital
economy
innova)ons’
• ‘Act
as
a
source
of
inspira)on,
par)cularly
to
young
people’
6. Informa)on
What
you
told
us:
• ‘Become
the
first
choice
point
of
contact
both
for
knowledge
of
the
connected
digital
economy,
and
for
businesses
wan)ng
to
innovate
in
this
domain’
• ‘Be
accessible
for
SMEs,
with
an
ac)ve
programme
of
events
and
engagement
to
connect
stakeholder
communi)es’
7. Research
and
collabora)on
What
you
told
us:
• ‘Focus
on
an
applied
R&D
agenda
to
strategically
address
the
topics
iden)fied
as
key
to
realising
major
business
benefits’
• ‘Be
an
open
lab’
• ‘Influence
and
drive
connected
digital
economy
standards’
8. Support
for
innova)on
What
you
told
us:
• ‘Be
user-‐led,
crea)ng
a
culture
and
way
of
opera)ng
which
aspires
towards
‘useful’
innova)on
• ‘Provide
a
safe
arena
for
the
development
of
paradigm-‐
shiging
innova)ons’
• ‘Encourage
entrepreneurship
and
drive
commercialisa)on
of
technology
research’
9. More
generic
support
You
also
told
us
that
CDEC
could
provide
access
to
more
generic
business
and
innova)on
support:
• ‘Signpost
general
business
advice’
• ‘Broker
rela)onships
between
prospec)ve
partners’
• ‘Provide
access
to
investors
and
capital’
• ‘Direct
towards
sources
of
advice
on
IPR’
• ‘Act
as
a
venue
for
events’
• ‘Draw
on
and
augment
exis)ng
clusters
of
relevant
exper)se’
10. R&D
Priori)es
A
wide
variety
of
poten)al
R&D
topics
were
iden)fied
during
the
consulta)on.
For
convenience
we
have
grouped
these
around:
• ‘Big
data’
• ‘Security,
privacy,
trust’
• ‘User
centricity’,
and
• ‘Mobile’
11. R&D
Priori)es
–
Big
Data
What
you
told
us:
• ‘Big
data
–
having
access
to
and
being
able
to
transform
the
massive
volumes
of
data
being
generated
from
many
areas
such
as
the
Internet
of
Things
into
novel
internet-‐style
services’
• ‘geing
value
from
the
re-‐use
of
public
data’
‘Big
data’
theme
includes
new
services
linking
the
physical
and
the
digital
worlds
including
through
novel
visualisa)on,
and
augmented
and
virtual
reali)es.
12. R&D
Priori)es
-‐‘Security,
privacy,
trust’
What
you
told
us:
• ‘Security,
privacy,
trust’
-‐
including
new
technology-‐based
methods
for
micro-‐payments
and
revenue
distribu)on,
balancing
management
of
rights
with
the
concepts
of
open
data,
and
extending
to
governance
regimes
and
considera)on
of
ethics.
13. R&D
Priori)es
–
User
centricity
R&D
Priori)es
–
what
you
told
us:
• ‘User
centricity’
-‐
including
new
methods
to
explore
and
quan)fy
user
experience,
the
personalisa)on
and
contextualisa)on
of
services;
extending
to
users
involvement
in
design
and
co-‐crea)on.
14. ConsultaR&D
Priori)es
–
mobile
What
you
told
us:
• ‘Future
networks
and
services
–
delivering
compelling
and
seamless
user
experience
over
heterogeneous
networks
(par)cularly
mobile)
by
means
of
service-‐oriented
architectures,
such
as
fashioning
heterogeneous
content
and
data
into
new
value-‐add
services’
Summed
up
as
‘mobile’!
15. R&D
Priori)es
summary
In
the
consulta)on
process
the
consensus
view
was
that
in
order
to
be
useful
for
business,
CDEC
should
be
able
to
explore:
• Finding
ways
to
exploit
‘big
data’
to
create
novel
services
• Implemen)ng
technology-‐based
methods
to
ensure
and
maintain
security,
privacy
and
trust
• Puing
the
user
at
the
centre
of
new
developments
• Fashioning
heterogeneous
content
and
data
into
new
value
add
services
delivered
over
future
networks
(‘mobile’)