Internet Of Cultures

The Internet of Cultures

Artur Serraartur.serra@i2cat.net

Fundacio i2CATDigital Heritage Exchange,

Korea, September 7th,2004

Index,

1. The hypothesis of Internet of Cultures

2. The i2CAT Foundation: Designing an Internet2 for everyone

3. Next steps: Towards a Global Multicultural Party?

1. The hypothesis of anInternet of Cultures

1. An Internet for every sapiens

The current Internet is for literated, English readers, middle class people. Around 600 milions worldwide.

Is it possible to build an Internet for 6.000 milions and beyond? How?– There are 5.000 human languages worldwide– What is the minimum requirement to participate in

the Information Society?– Every sapiens can speak (almost everyone).– The new Internet will be the Internet of languages,

the Internet of voice and video.

Three cultures, three phases of the Internet technology 1st. 1970s-90s The Internet of computer

technologists and innovative people, ( email,ftp,telnet,...) (6 M people)

2nd.90s-2010s The Internet of scientists, the mathematical and literated people,( WWW, Grid,...). We are still here. (600 M people)

3rd.2010s-2030s The Internet of arts and cultures, The Internet of vocal and visual people, (VoIP, HD,videoconf,...) (6.000 M people)

80% of current Internet trafic isalready interchange of music and videos

2. i2CAT Foundation:Designing an Internet for

everyone

The i2CAT approach: 1. The new Internet2 can be the Internet for

everyone, through the convergence of audio and video technologies into IP networks

2. The ISOC motto: “Internet is for everyone” can become real.

3. The i2CAT is a research foundation for building a model of Internet for every person and every culture, a humane Internet.

European Digital Areas

Central Area

Northern DimensionAtlantic

Area

MediterraeanRegion

i2CAT

Goal of i2CAT: Taking the leadership in the Mediterranean Internet The Mediterranean : The multicultural frontier of

Europe. The Mediterranean Internet a multicultural and diverse Internet

The Catalan Internet, a multilingual and multicultural Internet, – Catalan, Spanish and Latin languages– English and Northern Europe culture– European gateway to Asia (Japan, Korea,...)– Traditional linkages with Arab world and Africa

E-Europe Strategy: “To become in 2010 in the most advanced knowledge economy in the world”

Catalunya 2010, aMulticultural Digital Laboratory?

A Catalan public/private foundation for promoting advanced Internet research and development in order to achieved the leadership in the SouthernEuropean and the Mediterranean Information Society.

I2CAT Platforms

3/4GLambdaCAT

GRID-CAT

HD/Visual-CAT

Òpera Oberta Project (2001)

i2CATMedia

Gatewa y

HDSDI

SD

I MPEG2(10 Mbps)

CINESA Diagonal

UNIVERSITATS (UPC, UdG, UdL)IP Multicast

HDSDI (1,5 Gbps)

LICEU

Òpera Learning Project (2001)

• Create an IP channel TV ofering live Opera from Opera HouseParticipants: Liceu, Techno Trends, UOC, UPC i CIRENE. Now in 2004, more than 35 Spanish and Latin American universities follow the course.

eGòtic Project (2001)

Emulation of UMTS using WL– Touristic

Application.– Streaming audio

and video on real time.

Gaudi Project 2002, High Definition Internet,

• 270 mbps first transcontinental HD Internet transmission between Amsterdam and Seattle of a production of Gaudi’s architecture done by Research Channel and UPC

270 mbps HDSDI between BCN and Brussels (Ipv6 Global Launching, Jan 2004)

Open Forum (May-Sept 2004)

The inauguration day, April 3A major architectural symbol: The Forum‘s Building

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2

3 Forum at the City

Forum Dialogues

Forum

What kinf of content? 1. Forum:

– Artistic performances of all kind– 4 Big Expositions: Voices,Cities-Corners,Xi’an

Warriors,Living in the Planet 2. Forum Dialogues:

– 49 dialogues, 1.500 speakers, 11 topics (Cultural diversity and media,The Word,Science and Sustainable Development,Liberty, Security and Peace,Globalization and Development, Spirituality,Other Voices,Education and Culture in Development, The City, New Actors

3. Forum at the City:– Artistic festivals, concerts and performances.

What we accomplished?The MEPG 2 Transport stream multilingual service Sending

– i2CAT has sent direct live streaming of Forum’ dialogues in MPEG2 to its partners of Internet2.

– The Forum has streamed more than 2.400 houres in SDI format. I2CAT is now in negotiations for putting all this media content on Geant free of use.

Receiving– ANF from Korea has offered to send HD content

on Boudha on the Net

What we accomplished? (2)

The Transformatorium: a VR theater for cultural interchanges in the Forum.– The Interactive Institute of Umea (Sweden)

brought to Barcelona this installation allowing a networking experience in Virtual Reality between different parts of the world.

– The VR model was based in an old Swedish water mill, designed with the help of a secondary school in Umea.

What's next?

How about a Global Multicultural Party?

Computer Parties seems to be a new form of culture in the digital era

What for?

•A) Testing in a big scale the new Internet networks and applicationsB) Making popular the use of new networks

What kind of services? Video services

– High quality video : DVTS, MPEG2,HDSDI, – H.323 Videoconferencing

Multilingual services: – MPEG 2 transport stream (Forum Dialogues will

produce 3 audio channels in three languages: Catalan,Spanish, English)

– MAVS, Multilingual Search Engine (Prous) Exploring Grid Services

– Acces Grid, for video distribution – Storage Grid and Distributed Systems

A real multilingual party

For Catalan speaking worldhttp://www.malhatlantica.pt/comenius/SpainHistory/history.htm

For Spanish speaking world http://www.fccj.edu/library/1-span2.htm For English speaking world ...Aditional languages (French,

Korean,Arab,...) as the partners increase.

The universities of the Internet2- Research Channel Global...can take the lead...

(Megaconference Map)

ANF Korea

Reuna

Sao Paulo

Seattle

BCN

AARNET

Montreal

Surfnet

Monterrey

GMP as forum of cultures

Advances networking and applications allows integration of speech,imaging, sounds, data...allows an Internet of languages and cultures.

The Knowledge Society is a kind of Universal Forum of Cultures

Let’s celebrate the GMP as a first fiesta of the knowledge society. Evaluate the gaming side.

The possibility of celebrating the Global Information Society

UN. World Summit on Information Society, Nov 2005