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Web 3.0: User-Generated Networks?

ICT Results (01/16/08)

European researchers are applying Web 2.0 concepts such as user-generated content and social networking to the real world in an effort to enable anyone at anytime to create user-generated Internet networks. The concept has been dubbed Web 3.0. The WIP project may lead to the development of a new Internet in which users can spontaneously create networks in a matter of minutes with any kind of device, which would require redesigning the Internet's underlying technology, creating new operating principles, and defining new communication protocols. "When the Internet first emerged, it assumed devices would be fixed in place and linked by wires," says WIP project researcher Marcelo Dias de Amorium. "But that's no longer true. A large number of devices are mobile and equipped with wireless communication capabilities." Dias de Amorium says the project is not looking to replace the Internet, but is simply proposing a robust, flexible, optimized, and user-friendly set of technologies and standards that would allow any user to identify and network with nearby devices. Over the next year Dias de Amorium plans to finalize some elements and integrate them together and eventually he wants to plant the technology in promising communities to jump-start its adoption.

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