DigiRight: Relevance to and
Potential Impact on
Strengthening Excellence on
DRM
First International MobileIPR workshop
August 27 – 28, 2003
HIIT, Helsinki, Finland
Habtamu Abie
Habtamu.Abie@nr.no
http://www.nr.no/~abie/
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Habtamu Abie (abie@nr.no), DigiRight, MobileIPR, 27-28/08-2003, Helsinki
Outline
• Relevance and potential impact
• important technological, social and
economic issues
• Strengthening Excellence
• Spreading Knowledge
• Research and Tools
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Habtamu Abie (abie@nr.no), DigiRight, MobileIPR, 27-28/08-2003, Helsinki
Relevance
• An integrated approach to address the
IST trust and confidence vision in
building the future e/m-Europe by
– providing a common background
and basis for combined research
and facilitate the exploitation of the
synergy of the various projects,
areas of expertise and stakeholders
• Developing innovative tools for
protecting digital assets will contribute
to a better social cohesion by
– providing efficient, secure and
private systems for communication,
business, health, transport, risk
management, learning and cultural
heritage
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Habtamu Abie (abie@nr.no), DigiRight, MobileIPR, 27-28/08-2003, Helsinki
Relevance...
• Contribution to European Research
Area
– mobilising DRM researchers across
Europe and networking the effort
necessary to address the relevant
challenges
– contributing to the European
leadership in DRM technologies at
the heart of the knowledge economy
– mobilising the industrial and
research communities around longterm goals facilitating the
aggregation of public and private
research effort on European scale
– reinforcing European strengths in
DRM research
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Strengthening Excellence
• The laws pertaining to the protection of
IPR vary widely between countries and
are likely to remain different,
notwithstanding EU’s and other coordinated efforts to harmonise them
• Today, technical DRM solutions, models
of human interaction, legislation and
business models are produced by
technology providers, social scientists,
legislators and economists who co-exist
without fully considering the side-effects
on other domains
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Strengthening Excellence...
• What Europe really needs to
strengthen and to reinforce DRM
excellence is an inter-domain and
multidisciplinary approach that can be
achieved by a specific restructuring of
all existing research capacities and the
way research is carried out
• Aims at making easier the process of
multi-domain communication, sharing
and understanding of results and
concepts
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Relevance and Impact
• Integration of multidisciplinary
communities
• Internally
– create Special Interest Group (SIGs)
• work on a specific inter-related tasks
• contribute to common goals and start to
establish closer links between their
respective organisations
– other activities such as meetings,
workshops, conferences, summer schools,
will also contribute to the fusion of entities
• Externally
– establish links with various research
institutions in the various fields of interest
– Create industrial board and increasing
industrial participation
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• provide guiding input Norwegian Computing Center
• facilitate knowledge transfer to the
industry
A Lasting Network
• Establish a DRM research framework
that will
– integrate the traditionally separated DRM
research communities across Europe in the
fields of technology, business, law, ethics
and social science, all of which are vital to
understanding the issues related to DRM in
the future and its use
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Grand Challenges
• Merge European laboratories in DRM
into a single research group
• Develop a common theoretical
framework
• Develop a network of usability test
facilities and establish and assessment
methodology
• Develop a common distributed
software platform available for
researchers and the public at large
• Establish a scientific foundation that
will manage an international journal
run especial session at existing
conferences
• Address a series of grand challenges
in the field of DRM
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Habtamu Abie (abie@nr.no), DigiRight, MobileIPR, 27-28/08-2003, Helsinki
Objectives of the Network
• To strengthen Europe’s excellence on
DRM by integrating critical mass of
expertise and resources
• To achieve integration and shaping of
European research
• To facilitate faster and more complete
sharing of knowledge than would
otherwise happen
• To achieve leadership and be a world
force
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Habtamu Abie (abie@nr.no), DigiRight, MobileIPR, 27-28/08-2003, Helsinki
Conclusions
• DigiRight boasts a breadth and depth
understanding of DRM systems and the
relationships between DRM technology and
people, organisation and society
• Excellence: the highest research and
practice standards shall be the aim of
DigiRight
• Relevance: DigiRight will respond to
aspiration and vital needs of Europe
• Vision: Visionary and anticipatory thinking is
essential for a timely and enlightened
identification of problems and issues
• Holistic approaches: these are
fundamental to the interdisciplinary method of
DigiRight’s work and its research, training and
dissemination shall be carried out in an interrelated, mutually reinforcing manner.
Thanks for your attention !
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