EC publishes study on Next Generation Internet 2025

The NGI initiative was started in 2016, with the mission to "re-imagine and re-engineer" the Internet "for the third millennium and beyond". The NGI initiative sets out to enable human potential, mobility and creativity at the largest possible scale — while dealing responsibly with our natural resources. The study by NLnet Foundation and Gartner released today lists a number of strategic R&D priorities as well as relevant linked policy topics for this important initiative, which is currently still in a bootstrap phase. Underpinning the NGI are important social objectives that desperately need to be met: an internet that more than anything is an open, fair and inclusive internet of human values, that has equal opportunities for all, that actually delivers trustworthiness in the online environment, Michiel Leenaars. It becomes clear from the study that those goals are actually realistic, and with the right amount of ambition and strategic operations Europe can become a determining factor in the establishment of the Next Generation Internet. NGI study report: Next Generation Internet 2025 EC Publication Office, October 5th 2018 This report consolidates the outcomes of the study on the Next Generation Internet performed by NLnet Foundation and Gartner, commissioned by the European Commission under SMART 2016/0033.