B-BRUSSELS: STUDY ON EUROPEAN INTERNET TRAFFIC: MONITORING TOOLS AND ANALYSIS SMART 2012/0046

Short description:                                                                                    Maximum Value: 400.000 EUR

Collection and analysis of appropriate European Internet traffic data from existing sources for:

  • long-term/offline purposes e.g. planning of EU backbones/infrastructures, research and innovation priorities,etc.
  • short-term/online purposes e.g. early warning system for cyber-attacks, prioritisation of traffic in case ofemergency, etc.

Gap analysis for monitoring tools and methods:

  • What tools exist to effectively monitor European Internet traffic?
  • What do we miss and what do we need more?
  • What broadly accepted metrics should be defined?
  • What monitoring is necessary for public Interest uses beyond commercial purposes?
  • What monitoring facilities areexisting/needed and what sort of federated monitoring models can be applied in Europe?
  • What 'telescopes' and'microscopes' we need for the Internet in Europe


The study focuses on the innovation enabled by future Internet and in particular on social innovation enabled by the 'network effect' of the Internet and by new models for co-production and sharing of content, and open development of apps. It includes the analysis of how the open innovation ecosystems can be more fluid for new entrepreneurship and enterprise creation based on societal innovation. It will involve entrepreneurs, academics, students and 'geeks', NGO and volunteers, citizens.

The objectives of the study are:

  a) to identify the actors in the different fields (e.g. democracy, environment, energy, ... quality of life at large) and in the different regions
      of Europe and worldwide;
  b) to analyse and compare their approaches, especially in relation to the objectives of the European Digital Agenda;
  c) to identify and compare the most effective strategies for maximising innovation in European research programmes;
  d) to mobilise the new actors and the general public in view of future research actions and social innovation activities;
  e) to explore new types of entrepreneurship and business models enabled by simultaneous societal innovation and user-centricity in service
      creation, using open innovation ecosystems.

Duration in months: 26 (from the award of the contract)


Deadline: 07 September 2012

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