Ranking research priorities for Trustworthy ICT an

Building International Cooperation for Trustworthy ICT: Survey on Ranking priority areas of research for Horizon 2020.

Dear Sir or Madame,

You are invited to participate in our survey from the BIC project (http://www.bic-trust.eu). In this survey, approximately 100 selected people will be asked to complete a survey that asks questions about ranking research priorities for Trustworthy ICT topics and International Cooperation. It will take approximately 10 minutes of your time to complete the questionnaire.

Your participation in this study is completely voluntary. There are no foreseeable risks associated with this project. However, if you feel uncomfortable answering any questions, you can withdraw from the survey at any point. It is very important for us to learn your opinions.

Your survey responses will be strictly confidential and data from this research will be reported only in the aggregate. Your information will be coded and will remain confidential. If you have questions at any time about the survey or the procedures, you may contact the project coordinator, Mr. Jim Clarke, at +353719166628 or by email at the email address specified below.

Thank you very much for your time and support. Please start with the survey now by clicking on the Continue button below.

Yours Faithfully,

The BIC project team

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* The Horizon 2020 Research & Innovation programme will need to take into account the balance between technological dimensions, diversity, interoperability, on the one hand, and usability and flexibility, on the other hand. The BIC project highlights these key challenges of the Future Internet research community, which will need to be addressed within Horizon 2020.

Challenge a. Diversity and interoperability: An ecosystem in the global geography with diversity of cultures and contexts;
Challenge b. Flexibility and innovation: An ecosystem flexible, simple, universal and polymorphic in its structure, sharpened and adjusted in usage;
Challenge c. Trustworthiness: Strengthening the resilience of infrastructure control and crisis management;
Challenge d. Transparency: Governance and digital control, in Europe and worldwide and digital multi-lateral governance at global scale, neutrality of the entire ecosystem, not just net neutrality;
Challenge e. Freedom, Openness, Ethics: Principles of human values, flexibility and usability, architecture and usage interrelation and feedback, building together a cyber-ethics;
Challenge f. Accountability and Responsibility: Digital sovereignty of responsible entities (providers, users) and the redefined responsibilities of access, services, content providers, and digital dignity of users, and respect for privacy and digital behaviour;
Challenge g. Trust and Privacy: Digital industrial policy, restoring confidence and privacy, intimacy of cloud computing, repositioning trust infrastructure at the same level as security infrastructure.

Please drag and rank(1^st to 7^rd) the following in your view of the priority order (1 being highest priority) of key challenges for joint international research in the Horizon 2020 programme:

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Challenge a. Diversity and interoperability Challenge b. Flexibility and innovation Challenge c. Trustworthiness Challenge d. Transparency Challenge e. Freedom, Openness, Ethics Challenge f. Accountability and Responsibility Challenge g. Trust and Privacy

* The BIC project has highlighted a number of research topics of importance across the three BIC countries, India, Brazil and South Africa and correlates these with the ongoing research work in the EU.

Topic a: Research in Cyber security: Fight against cyber crime, digital forensics, move from bilateral approaches to multilateral approaches, critical infrastructure protection;
Topic b : Trust and Privacy: Trust instrumentation, human values, social computing trustworthiness, privacy by design, information security awareness;
Topic c : Mobile security, Social media and Cloud security: For individuals and enterprises, standardisation and metrics, software security, security as a service;
Topic d : Security of Applications and data protection: Ownership, intellectual property, data provenance, digital governance, usage control, Big Data;
Topic e : Identity management, accountability frameworks: Strong authentication, forensics, responsibility, digital evidence, digital signature, certificates, linkage with privacy mechanisms, usage control;
Topic f : Future Internet security: Security of the Future Internet (network security and information security), cryptography and protocols, security of smart grids, of IoT, robots and drones, green security, search engine.

More details on these can be found in their Deliverable D2.4, Report on prioritized Trust and Security themes.

Please drag and rank(1^st to 6^rd) the following in your view of the priority order (1 being highest priority) of topics for joint international research in the Horizon 2020 programme:

	Drag your choices here to rank them
Topic a. Research in Cyber security Topic b. Trust and Privacy Topic c. Mobile security, Social media and Cloud security Topic d. Security of Applications and data protection Topic e. Identity management, accountability frameworks Topic f. Future Internet security

* At their open BIC international workshop held in June 2013 in Malaga, Spain, the participants have highlighted a number of obstacles that need to be addressed to enable the maximum impact of international cooperation across the BIC countries into H2020.

Obstacle a. Lack of coordination: It is important to set a coordination body to assemble all the key stakeholders to catalyse the activities, make the best out of the current resources, avoid duplications and create an international roadmap with momentum and acceptability; This is something that projects like BIC have been carrying out – but what happens after?

Obstacle b. Lack of appropriate mechanisms for effective INternational COoperation (INCO): The BIC project is promoting a longer term, multi-lateral cooperation model for topics like Trustworthy ICT while at the same time integrating with the tactical, bi-lateral approaches used today. Although the current discussions around H2020 and INCO are espousing a more strategic planning approach, it still is not clear whether this will include adequate mechanisms for enabling this type of interaction between multiple countries instead of one country to one county bi-lateral activities.

Obstacle c. Flexibility to deal with coming needs: The clock-speeds of the research actions, policy and decision makers are obviously different. It was recommended that there is a need for setting a general policy that considers this discrepancy and allows the coordination body to handle emerging needs. Challenges related to different countries’ priorities, addressing different areas (e.g. focus on research only instead of research and innovation) need to be addressed with urgency.

Obstacle d. Impacts on large networks (e.g. Future Internet): need also to be considered as the Internet is growing daily and more than this the quantity of data generated is growing even faster, causing a much greater need for INCO research and innovation in topics related to trustworthy ICT.

Obstacle e. Continuity of action is required. Horizon 2020 gives a time frame of 7 years which is appreciated; however, it does not create confidence long enough into the future. There is a need to guarantee the continuity of action at the international level on a long term strategic perspective and avoid very short term projects, and hence, avoiding short terms visions.

Please drag and rank(1^st to 5^rd) the following in your view of the priority order (1 being highest priority) of obstacles to address for maximising impact for joint international research in the Horizon 2020 programme:

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Obstacle a. Lack of coordination Obstacle b. Lack of appropriate mechanisms for effective INCO Obstacle c. Flexibility to deal with coming needs Obstacle d. Impacts on large networks (e.g. Future Internet) Obstacle e. Continuity of action is required

* Would you like to become involved in a Working Group within your country to promote these priority research topics for inclusion in future Work Programmes e.g. H2020?

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* * Would you be interested to participate in a jointly funded European - International resarch project related to Trustworthy ICT?

Yes

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The FP7 BIC project is supported within the portfolio of the European Commission's DG-CNECT Unit H.4 Trust and Security.