User Verified Social Telematics Proof-of-Concept Sprint is announced

UPDATE: Sprint start date has been delayed to Oct 30th 2014.
Kryptus and American Mini Foundry have joined, the latter as observer partner. GSMK Cryptophone is close to formal acceptance. Lfoundry has shown CEO-level interest. Our other 15 R&D partners and others will be invited in September

July 2nd 2014. Today, we’ve opened invitations to world leading organizations to participate as a partners to a 3-months User Verified Social Telematics Proof-of-Concept Sprint, under the aegis of the Trust in Digital Life project, together with leading global ICT companies and leading technical ICT civil rights organizations. It will managed and coordinated by the no-profit Open Media Cluster, on Sept 30th – Dec 30th 2014.

What. User Verified Social Telematics Project (“UVST”) aims to develop a profitable ecosystem and an international standard around the creation of the world’s most user-trustworthy end-to-end computing platform, with power consumption and form-factor that make it suitable for a thin handheld device integrated or “attached” to the user’s ordinary smartphone, as well as for server, routing, and Internet-of-things equipment, albeit very basic features and performance. It is centered on a 6-12M€ ground-breaking international UVST R&D Project developed with 15 Italian, EU and Brazilian leading private and public partners.

How. Extreme minimization of hardware and software will allow extreme verification relative to complexity of ALL software, firmware, hardware and processes – including hardware design and manufacturing, and datacenter management processes – involved in the truly-end-to-end telematics offerings, which in turn enables to achieve such unprecedented assurance levels at low per unit cost, and economic sustainability within an initial limited budget of its core UVST R&D Project.

THE SPRINT

  • Time, Date, Location: It will be executed from Sept 30th – Dec 30th 2014 partly remotely an partly in a location contributed by a Hosting Partner in Europe.

  • Activities: The Sprint will develop general architecture, technical feasibility and cost analysis, presentation documentation aimed at solidly validating the business case to support the co-investment of 6-12M€ of private (and grants) funding to realize a first ready-to-market UVST-based solution.

  • Cost for Private Partner: An amount between 40-80K€, of which 60% in the form of very expert and complementary research staff and 40% in cash for project management and consultants.

  • Benefits to Private Partner: Minimal investment will give provide you with: a major role in huge potential for economic exploitation of the UVST project and its IPR; a major networking and knowledge transfer opportunity in the most cutting-edge ICT security and privacy area; validate UVST potential for your organization.

  • Cost for governmental and public research partners: none

  • Intellectual Property: At the end of the Sprint all IPR related to the 45-pager UVST Full Project Description and Conceptual Business Plan (product of 18 months of work), all modifications, extensions to it, and all new documentations and innovations developed, will be will jointly owned by the Private Partners and OMC, each with one vote.  Exceptions may be requested in advance for specific new or partly-new innovations developed by the private partner, whose IPR will be declared, before the first day of the Sprint, to be exclusive to the Private Partner. Inclusion in the general architecture may be jointly considered, but will require the complete public verifiability without NDA of such innovations, and very clear long-term licensing terms to the UVST Project.

  • Prospective partners: Participation will be offered preferentially to selected Trust in Digital Life members, current 15 UVST Italian, EU and Brazilian leading private and public partners, EIT ICT partners of the Trento Node, and other UVST prospective governmental and private partners (see bottom of this page).

For more info:
5-pager Formal MOU for Sprint Partners (and a 4-pager Annex) (late draft)20-pager UVST project Exec Summary, similar info on the UVST website

Call directly to Open Media Cluster Exec.

Dir., Rufo Guerreschi,
at +39 335 7545620.

Rufo Guerreschi