Welcome

Welcome to the 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.

Downloadable toolkit

A page of resource materials, including media information has been lunched on the OPAALS Open Knowledge Space here

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