User Verified Social Telematics – Newsletter 1/2015a project of the Open Media Cluster

Over the last 18 months, the User Verifiable Social Telematics (UVST) R&D project and standardization proposal – for the creation of the world’s most user-trustworthy general-purpose open computing service platform and standard – has greatly evolved in the depth of technical and business analysis, and in the expertises of its core public and private partners, advisors and prospects.

Through the last 3 months, together with 4 core UVST partners with unique high-assurance ICT expertises, we’ve arrived at the final review of a new UVST Consortium, including detailedUVST Principles and Requirements, Membership Agreement, and Basic Architecture. The Consortium inherits all UVST IP rights and will set out to finalize the final selection of additional world-class domain-specific participants to proposals for 3-5 UVST-based H2020 Calls. These will range from a 2-400K€ UVST International Standardization Proposal to H2020 EU-Brazil EUB1 Call with key governmental partners to a 8M€ UVST R&D Project proposal to H2020 Trust eServiceCall.

We’ll also submit a 4M€ R&D proposal to H2020 FET-Open RIA, which is now in its very late draft. We are negotiating with leading EU 200-300mm foundries for participation in an ECSELproposal, to present a expanded UVST R&D Project, with more permanent and scalable fabrication oversight facilities and equipment, the UVST Virtual Foundry, and an integrated long-term vision of local economic development and related local government co-funding proposal.

ROADMAP: A synthesis of our Consortium roadmap for Jan-Mar 2015:

• refine our current draft proposals to the targeted H2020 Calls;

• prepare a major workshop for March 2015 (draft) to promote the UVST International Standardization Proposal, in Berlin or Brussels, in co-organization with EU EIT ICT Labs and others;

• seek and select additional participants for selected H2020 proposals, including relevant EU and non-EU (highly-democratic) governmental cyber-security standards agencies;

• seek and select additional UVST R&D Consortium members (1-2), with unique expertises in mobile/handheld device hardware & UX design/making and/or capabilities to economically exploit the R&D results globally in several ICT domains.

• pursue, as a Consortium, alternative funding direct funding through seed funders or large company direct investments, leveraging extensive business case docs (20pp.+), including: competitive and market analysis, business case and conceptual business planning, per deployment mode and by market sector.

NEWS: Over the last 6 months, we presented UVST via keynotes at major sectoral events and helped organised a Cyber Security and Privacy event in Rome on Dec 11th 2014 with EIT ICT Labs Privacy, Security and Trust Action Line. We have an active blog and twitter account.

Read below a selection of the most recent press releases, blog post and past events.

We look forward to your participation in the project!

Rufo

Rufo Guerreschi, Exec. Dir.
Open Media Cluster (omc.trustlesscomputing.org), Rome, ITALYrg@trustless.ai — direct/mobile +393357545620

 

Recent press releases, blog posts and past events

Technological Sovereignty needs new international cybersecurity standard

In a Guardian article today, Evgeny Morozov predicted that “technological sovereignty” will be the hottest digital theme for governments in 2015, as they’ll strive to protect the communications of their citizens, institutions and businesses from political and economic abuse from foreign states and criminals. […]

Event: UVST standard and R&D presented at EIT ICT Labs Cyber Privacy & Security event in Rome

On Dec 11th 2014, User Verified Social Telematics was presented at the event “How to guarantee security without loosing privacy?”, organized by the EIT ICT Labs Privacy, Security and Trust Action Line, lead by Jovan Golic. Full program in english (pdf). Profile […]

Post: Cyber-libertarianism vs. Rousseau’s Social Contract in cyberspace

The cyber-libertarian belief that an individual will be able to autonomously protect its rights in cyberspace if we just keep making safer and more usable crypto software is incorrect and a huge drain of volunteer ethical hacking resources. It is in […]

Press-Release: User-Verified Social Telematics Consortium is announced

UPDATE of Jan 13th 2015: After intense work over the last 3 months — with 5 core UVST partners with unique global high-assurance IT competencies — we are now in the final review stage of Membership Agreement (doc), UVST Principles and Requirements (binding), […]

Event: UVST presented at ICT Proposers’ Day in Florence

On Oct 8th-10th 2014, the Exec. Dir. of the Open Media Cluster, Dr. Rufo Guerreschi, has participated, together with some of our UVST partners, to the EU Horizon 2020 ICT Proposers’ Day in Florence, where all R&D programs and proposers have […]

Event: UVST presented at Meet IoT for highest-assurance IoT deployments

On Oct 1st 2014, the Open Media Cluster Dir. Rufo Guerreschi was invited the the Meet IoT conference in Rome, Italy, (agenda in doc), next to Intel, Arm, and St Microelectronics, to present User Verified Social Telematics as a new paradigm for industry and government driven standard for IoT services, […]

Event: UVST presented in Amsterdam to global e-auth/e-ID leaders

On Sept 15-16th the Open Media Cluster was invited — in its Observer status capacity — to present in plenary session for 30 minutes at the annual meeting of Trust in Digital Life. We presented the User Verifiable Social Telematics project, […]

Event: UVST presented at EU EIT ICT Labs Security and Privacy in Digital Life Summer School

On Aug 8th 2014 in Trento, Italy, Open Media Cluster Director Dr. Rufo Guerreschi was invited and honored by Jovan Golic — the PEU EIT ICT LABS Privacy, Security and Trust Action Line Leader of the €3 billion EU R&D agency — to hold the (only) Concluding […]

A case for a “Trustless Computing Group”

Is it possible to imagine a Trustless Computing Group that deploys the same kind hardware-level security standards deployed to-date by the (un)famous Trusted Computing Group — but (a) intrinsically user-accountable (b) severely hardened and (c) extended to manufacturing process oversight […]

Campaign for a “verified telematics service” international standard body

Open Media Cluster launches draft campaign for the establishment of an international standard and standard body for end-to-end telematic services that aim to provide an unprecedented — and therefore acceptable and reasonable — level of user-verifiable assurance of the resistance […]

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