Welcome

Welcome to the project website of OPAALS (Open Philosophies for Associative Autopoietic Digital Ecosystems), a multi-disciplinary network of research excellence for developing the science and technology behind Digital Ecosystems.

Digital Ecosystems represent the next generation of Internet usage. Applicable to many fields, they will perhaps have the greatest effect in enabling Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) to compete on the global stage. Based on open and low-cost peer-to-peer architectures, Digital Ecosystems represent the future of technical, social, and economic aspects of the connected world.

It's finished!

The EU co-financed OPAALS project officially concluded in August 2010. But that is not the end. The partners remain as a Network of Excellence and their work is disseminating through their contact with the research and business communities. The Open Knowledge Space (OKS) has taken over from this project web site, which will not now be updated. In an exciting development under negotiation during 2010, the OKS may become the basis for a commercial and self-sustaining global research network that will provide an ongoing funding stream for Diital Ecosystems research. The OKS is now the major resource, including a media and general information toolkit here

July 2010

• End of project reflections
• Workshop, Spain: SMEs in the context of PPPs
• Third OPAALS internationla conference, Brazil
• Profile: Waterford Institute of Technology

December 2009

• Hollywood or Reality?
• Third Annual OPAALS Review
• Future Internet Enterprise Systems Cluster Meeting
• Work Package News

July 2009

• Phase III and Sustainability
• Interim Review Feedback
• OPAALS Devolves its Web Presence
• OPAALS Research Exchanges: Phase III Opportunities
• Abstracts of Submitted Deliverables Now Available
• Coming soon: 'Dissemination Storehouse'
• Articles
• Work Package News

January 2009

• New Integration and Coordination Team announced
• 2nd General Meeting report
• Latin American mission (EULAKS)
• Social science survey

August 2008

• Welcome from new Project Officer Florent Frederix
• Report on Digital Ecosystems at regions conference
• Summer school video available
• News and updates from each of the Work Packages

November 2007

• News of the first offical project review
• Report on the November EC Digital Ecosystems conference in Brussels
• Feature article on the integration of OPAALS disciplines
• News and updates from each of the Work Packages

June 2007

• Virtual researtch space a reality
• Digital Ecosystems repository launched
• Mathematical symmetry the key to life's computer?
• Language is the key to interdisciplinary research