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Grant Agreement No.: 604590
Instrument: Large scale integrating project (IP)
Call Identifier: FP7-2012-ICT-FI
eXperimental Infrastructures for the Future Internet
D9.4: Final Report on Dissemination and
Promotion Activities
Revision: v.1.0
Work package WP 9
Task Task 9.1
Due date 31/03/2015
Submission date 02/04/2015
Deliverable lead Martel
Authors Monique Calisti (Martel), Miguel Alarcon (Martel)
Reviewers Uwe Herzog, Maurizio Cecchi
Abstract This deliverable is the final report on dissemination and promotion
activities focusing on year 2 work and achievements, but also
reporting on the overall impact within the FI-PPP and beyond.
Keywords Dissemination and promotion activities, final report
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
D9.4 is the Final Report on Dissemination and Promotion Activities that the XIFI consortium has
pursued in order to ensure broad visibility of the work and generate strong impact within the FI-PPP
context and beyond. This document gives an overview of the various activities performed during the
whole project duration, but focuses specifically on year’s 2 activities (year’s 1 activities have been
reported already in D9.3, Intermediate Report on Dissemination and Promotion Activities and Updated
Dissemination and Promotion Plan, released at the end of April 2014).
During the second year of the project, more precisely towards the end of August 2014, the XIFI
dissemination activities have been aligned with the new FIWARE branding guidelines enforced at the
overall FI-PPP level. This implied several changes with respect to terminology, acronyms, logos and
overall message, so as to focus efforts on a better coordinated way across all FI-PPP projects. As a
matter of fact, the core decision was to push for FIWARE as the main comprehensive offering all the
FI-PPP projects would directly contribute to.
As a consequence, the XIFI dissemination team has firstly adapted the WP9 strategy to better embrace
the following aspects:
Awareness of the FIWARE identity and its outputs, with specific accent on FIWARE Ops.
Refined analysis of the stakeholders and change of focus towards FI-PPP Phase 3 promotion.
Use of the dissemination and communication channels to promote the FIWARE Offering and
the XIFI’s outcomes as part of it.
Coordinate actions across the whole project and across the whole FI-PPP context to build a
high profile image of FIWARE.
Moreover, the XIFI dissemination team has also modified and adapted the promotional material
(including logos, web pages, posters, slides, flyers, software interfaces etc.), and started coordinating
on a regular basis its activities with the FIWARE Press Office, especially for orchestrated efforts on
events’ organization and participation. Emphasis has been given to events directly relevant to the
promotion of FIWARE Ops and the FIWARE Lab Federation.
Overall, WP9’s main achievements, further expanded in this report, can be summarised as follows:
Coordination and involvement of the new XIFI partners in the dissemination and promotional
activities that the various nodes, which joined the federation via the XIFI Open Call, have
been contributing to either globally (within the FI-PPP context) or locally (within their
regions).
The various communication channels and dissemination tools identified at the beginning of
the project, which have been heavily used since then, were consolidated as a powerful engine
to promote XIFI news, initiatives and achievements. These channels and tools have also been
extensively used to contribute to the promotion of FIWARE as a whole, in close coordination
with the FIWARE Press Office.
The XIFI partners attended a number of selected events so as to ensure broad visibility of the
project’s work for the growth of the XIFI Community, but most of all for supporting the
adoption and the exploitation of the project’s outcomes on a large scale and impact creation
for the target stakeholders.
XIFI organized several workshops and training sessions, which WP9 and WP7 closely
collaborated on, which allowed better engagement of infrastructure owners and developers
and provided support to the Phase 3 Accelerators by training them to train SMEs on the
deployment of FIWARE Ops and on joining the FIWARE Lab Federation.
Support was provided to the launch of the Recognition and Reward programme organised to
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validate and reward federated FIWARE Lab infrastructure nodes. The dissemination team
actively contributed to prepare the material to be used to launch the programme and helped
creating visibility around it.
Gained increased visibility thanks to several publications, including our newsletter, the
technical blog and papers published at various scientific and technological events.
Finally, the stakeholders groups’ analysis was enriched and extended, also in relation to the
indications provided by the project’s reviewers, and the corresponding pictures and glossary
on the XIFI website were updated.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ....................................................................................................................3
TABLE OF CONTENTS .......................................................................................................................5
LIST OF FIGURES ...............................................................................................................................7
LIST OF TABLES .................................................................................................................................8
ABBREVIATIONS ................................................................................................................................9
1 INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................10
2 DISSEMINATION AND PROMOTION ACTIVITIES AND RESULTS ......................11
2.1 Action Taken and Goals .........................................................................................................12
2.2 Scientific publications.............................................................................................................19
2.3 Technical Blog and Developers’ Fora Activities ....................................................................21
2.4 External Events’ Participation ................................................................................................22
2.5 XIFI-driven Events .................................................................................................................27
2.5.1 ECFI 1 .....................................................................................................................................27
2.5.2 OCOVA Genova Italy ............................................................................................................27
2.5.3 FIDC’14 Workshop ................................................................................................................27
2.5.4 OCOVA GAP France .............................................................................................................27
2.5.5 ECFI 2 .....................................................................................................................................28
2.5.6 M2M Innovation World Marseille ..........................................................................................28
2.5.7 FIWARE Workshop in Poznań ...............................................................................................28
2.5.8 SENSO Event – Aix en Provence ...........................................................................................29
2.5.9 Fokus Fuseco Forum 2014 ......................................................................................................29
2.5.10 SmartCities Expo World Congress 2014 ................................................................................30
2.5.11 Internetdagarna .......................................................................................................................30
2.5.12 Swiss FIWARE Acceleration Conference ..............................................................................30
2.5.13 NITOS XIFI Info Day.............................................................................................................31
2.5.14 Wigner RCP FIWARE Lab Training Workshop and FIWARE Information Day .................31
2.5.15 Future Internet in Horizon 2020: how to build a pan-European framework to support
Innovation in SMEs ................................................................................................................................31
2.5.16 US Ignite Applications Summit ..............................................................................................32
2.6 Interactions within the FI-PPP Context and other Projects ....................................................33
2.7 Stakeholders’ Involvement .....................................................................................................38
2.8 Contributions to the Community Building Activities .............................................................40
3 FORWARD LOOKING STRATEGYAND CONCLUSIONS .........................................43
3.1 Handover of the dissemination and promotion channels, tools and contacts .........................43
APPENDIX A .......................................................................................................................................44
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Appendix A.1 – Newsletters ..................................................................................................................44
Appendix A.2 – XIFI Leaflets................................................................................................................46
Appendix A.3 – XIFI Posters .................................................................................................................48
Appendix A.4 – Promotional gadgets ....................................................................................................49
Appendix A.5 – Promotional videos ......................................................................................................51
Appendix A.5 – Further Data Concerning the Website .........................................................................55
Appendix A.6 – Community Building Statistics ....................................................................................60
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LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 1: XIFI Stakeholder relations ......................................................................................................39
Figure 2: Newsletter.04 ..........................................................................................................................44
Figure 3: Newsletter.05 ..........................................................................................................................45
Figure 4: Newslette.06 ...........................................................................................................................46
Figure 5: Updated Leaflets for ECFI-2 and then used in other events. ..................................................47
Figure 6: Updated XIFI posters designed for ECFI-2 and used for other events .................................48
Figure 7: Updated FIWARE Ops posters designed for ECFI-2 and used for other events. ..................49
Figure 8: FIWARE Ops gadget: Plug-adaptor. .....................................................................................50
Figure 9: FIWARE Ops gadget: Frisbee ...............................................................................................50
Figure 10: FIWARE Ops gadget: USB toolkit. ......................................................................................51
Figure 11: Video for Smart Cities Expo 2014 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGDbHtO-OwM)51
Figure 12: Video FIWARE Ops by the technical team
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4inUHbTA0) ..........................................................................52
Figure 13: Video XIFI federation New nodes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4R_zwUhIAg) .52
Figure 14: Video XIFI federation New nodes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sonXUV-BVN8) 53
Figure 15: Video XIFI federation New nodes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UekY6qc-LUI) ...53
Figure 16: FIWARE Lab (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeqXGR3m9Z0) ................................54
Figure 17: Visits on XIFI Website ..........................................................................................................55
Figure 18: Unique visits on XIFI Website..............................................................................................55
Figure 19: Pages and hits on XIFI Website ...........................................................................................56
Figure 20: Visit duration time on XIFI Website.....................................................................................57
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LIST OF TABLES
Table 1: List of deliverables submitted and milestones achieved during the whole XIFI project
duration ..................................................................................................................................................11
Table 2: List of face-to-face actions .......................................................................................................15
Table 3: List of mediated communication tools .....................................................................................18
Table 4: List of scientific publications ...................................................................................................20
Table 5: List of related events attended in year 2. ..................................................................................26
Table 6: Interactions with related bodies within the FI-PPP context. ....................................................34
Table 7: Interactions with projects and relevant initiatives outside the FI-PPP context. .......................37
Table 8: Most downloaded files .............................................................................................................58
Table 9: Most visited pages ....................................................................................................................58
Table 10: External sources of visits .......................................................................................................59
Table 11: Summary of the community building and stakeholder engagement ......................................60
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ABBREVIATIONS
DWG Dissemination Working Group
EBM Exploitation and Business Models
ECFI European Conference on the Future Internet
e-IRG e-Infrastructure Reflection Group
FI Future Internet
FIF Future Internet Forum
FI-PPP Future Internet Public-Private Partnership
GA Grant Agreement
GEs General Enablers
NREN National Research and Education Network
SCWE Smart Cities Week
UCs Use-cases
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1 INTRODUCTION
The dissemination and promotion activities of the XIFI project are carried out within work package 9
(WP9) “Federation Promotion & Dissemination”.
The purpose of this deliverable is to report on the XIFI project’s dissemination and promotion
activities held from month 13 to month 24, i.e., April 2014 to March 2015, which is the second and
final year of the project’s activity.
This document highlights the main achievements after the submission of the intermediate
dissemination report (D.9.3), which was released at end of April 2014 and that included:
XIFI dissemination and promotion goals – a revision of what had been previously proposed in
D9.1.
Dissemination and promotion strategy (definition of stakeholders and communication
channels) – a refinement version of what had been initially drawn in D9.1.
Dissemination and promotion activities during year 1 (event participation, interaction with the
FI-PPP context etc.).
This final report focuses on:
Describing dissemination and communication activities and results in year 2:
Presenting measurable results for the activities pursued both in year 1 and year 2, as well as
improvements that were identified and implemented as the project progressed.
Discussing what kind of impact has been created and what specific achievements will be
pushed forward for the benefit of the overall FIWARE promotion by handover to FICORE.
The rest of the document is organised as follows: Section 2 is dedicated to report WP9-driven
activities and achievements in year 2, including a critical analysis of the measurable results. Section 3
focuses on the future goals and activities planned by the WP9 partners, beyond the end of the project
and more specifically what (and how) will be handed over to the FIWARE Press Office. In Appendix
A, a collection of the most prominent and relevant promotional material has been included, but much
more can be found on-line via the XIFI project web pages.
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2 DISSEMINATION AND PROMOTION ACTIVITIES AND RESULTS
Before presenting the results of the various activities concerning the second year of the project, we
report briefly on the WP9 deliverables and milestones achieved within the overall project duration:
Deliverables and
Milestones Description Achievements
MS91 Dissemination
plan draft, including
federation office
description and website
A draft dissemination plan was discussed
at the kick-off meeting of the project,
including a first outline of the federation
office and a first version of the project
website
M02 (May 2013)
The XIFI website was
successfully set up in May
2013 and has been improved
and updated since then
D9.1 Dissemination and
promotion plan
This plan is the basis for steering and
controlling dissemination, and promotion
activities, focusing on the activities of the
first year.
M04 (July 2013)
Submitted on the 31st July
2013
D9.2 XIFI office –
description and
establishment
This document is the reference document
for the responsibilities of the federation
office. It documents all activities that the
office executes pertaining to the
administrative operation of the federation.
M06 (September 2013)
Submitted in October 2013
MS92 First project
workshop
This workshop presented the XIFI Open
Call
M06 (September 2013)
Took place on the 26th
September 2013 in Brussels
(see Section 2.1 below)
MS93 Second project
workshop
A workshop on Smart Cities will be held
on the 4th April 2014 as part of ECFI-1 in
Brussels.
M12 (March 2014)
Will take place on the 4th April
2014 in Brussels as part of
ECFI-1
D9.3 Intermediate
report on dissemination
and promotion activities
and updated
dissemination and
promotion plan
This document reports on the impact of
the dissemination and promotion activities
during the first year of the project. It is an
updated version of D9.1 and documents
the plans for the second year of the
project.
M12 (March 2014)
Submitted on 8 April 2014
D9.4 Final Report on
Dissemination and
Promotional activities
This deliverable is the current document
and summarises the overall achievements
related to dissemination and promotional
activities, focusing on year 2 work and
achievements.
M24 (March 2015)
Table 1: List of deliverables submitted and milestones achieved during the whole XIFI project duration
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2.1 Action Taken and Goals
In the following, we list the various WP9-driven actions taken during the project, highlighting why we
have invested on them (rational) in relation to the major objectives of the project, and what have been
the major achievements and results.
Within year 2, in line with the strategy and plans made in year 1 and presented in D9.1 and D9.3,
substantial efforts have been dedicated to:
• Contribute to better reach prioritized stakeholders’ groups in-line with project goals,
sustainability and exploitation plans to create impact (the why)
• Refining the message (the what) conveyed by our dissemination and promotion
activities in relation to the target stakeholders.
• Refining the set of prioritized activities (the how and when) so as to increase our
reach and impact towards specific communities.
• Better quantify the outreach our actions have (the who and where) and more
specifically encourage feedback to be provided on a regular basis.
• Aligning the dissemination and communication activities of XIFI with the overall FI-PPP
Phase 3 strategy and guidelines:
• As a unique chance for XIFI to consolidate and capitalize on our efforts and push
forward selected outcomes to the broad audience.
• To guarantee cohesive and coordinated efforts across the whole programme so as
to consolidate the FIWARE offering and contribute to the consolidation of the
FIWARE ecosystem.
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Face-to-face types of activities are the ones implying direct communication and/or physical presence of the participants.
Face-to-Face Rational Results
Regular participation at
Dissemination Working
Group meetings organized by
the CONCORD project
(Until Sep. 2014)
To coordinate promotion and
dissemination activities as well as
promotional messages across the
broad range of ongoing FI-PPP
projects and activities
Contribution to the organization of the FI-PPP European Conference on Future
Internet, through participation in the FI-PPP Dissemination WG and moreover
in the organizing committee of the conference. Organisation of a dedicated
XIFI related session on smart cities, and of a booth.
Promotion of XIFI events via the DWG forum and communication channels
(and vice versa).
Contribution to the definition of the FI-PPP promotional activities and
message(s).
Coordination of promotional messages within the broader FI-PPP context
Regular interaction with the
FIWARE Press Office.
(Since Sep. 2014)
A packaged offering FIWARE /
FIWARE Lab / FIWARE Ops is
proposed to FI Developers and
other stakeholders
Definition of a common branding approach combining FIWARE, FIWARE
Ops and FIWARE Lab brands.
Regular and proactive coordination and collaboration with the FIWARE Press
Office for the organization and participation to selected events, taking place in
year 2, including ECFI2, Smart Cities World Congress, 4FYN, CeBIT, Net
Futures 2015.
Workshops organised by XIFI
Promote and encourage the use of
the FIWARE technology with
specific focus on the FIWARE Lab
and FIWARE Ops functionalities
23.06.2014: Test beds for Networks and Communications community: an
untapped potential, during EuCNC 2014
01.07.2014: Synergies between FI-PPP and CAPS during the CAPS 2014
OFF event
23.10.2014: FIWARE Workshop in Poznan, This workshop organized by the
Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Polish Agency for Enterprise
Development and Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center was
dedicated to present funding opportunities of FI-PPP programme for innovative
European SMEs, startups and web-entrepreneurs in the Future Internet
landscape.
13.11.2014: Bridging the gap between Future Internet Research,
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Face-to-Face Rational Results
Innovation and Business during the FOKUS FUSECO Forum 2014
18.03.2015: Future Internet in Horizon 2020: how to build a pan-European
framework to support Innovation in SMEs. A one-day summit organized by the
Italian National Research Council and supported by the XIFI project
04.02.2015: NITOS XIFI Info Day in Volos, The objective of this one-day
event was to facilitate domestic and international cooperation and bring
together relevant stakeholders. Special focus placed on the mobilization of the
domestic SMEs, both in means of resource usage and resource disposal as it
takes place within the XIFI cloud framework.
See also Section 2.5
Support to organization and
advertisement of the XIFI
technical team and the WP7-
driven training sessions
The major aim is to educate, inform
and train the stakeholder groups
about how to use and interact with
the XIFI federation
15.05.2014: Training session for Developers. Organized in Berlin Fraunhofer
FOKUS - 8 developers participated in this first training session (from an FI PPP
Use Case project – FI-STAR, from 3 Universities and from 1 company).
17.06.2014: 2nd Awareness and Training sessions for Public Authorities:
Organized in collaboration with the FIWARE Consortium at the “Smart
Product for a Smart Digital Europe” event held in Brussels. The session was
hosted alongside the “FIWARE workshop with the Chambers of Commerce”.
The participants from several Chambers of Commerce were informed about the
XIFI Federated Infrastructures. The first XIFI training video (XIFI Core
Concepts) was shown.
24-25.06.2014: 2 Training sessions (basic and Intermediate sessions) for
Infrastructure owners and operators organized in Madrid; dedicated to the XIFI
new nodes + external infrastructure owners and operators: 31 people from the
new XIFI nodes, from the University of Messina (Italy), from the University of
São Paolo (Brazil) and from a small Spanish company that does some data
solutions for smart cities (IPS VIAL) participated in the training.
24-29.06.2014: Training session for Infrastructure Owners of the Mexican
node at Campus Party Mexico 2014. Basic and intermediate documentation
with regard to FIWARE and FIWARE Ops suite.
18.09.14: Training session for Phase III projects (A guide to FIWARE for
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Face-to-Face Rational Results
beginners- Accelerator Introductory Training session): Munich, ECFI-2: More
than 40 people from the 16 Accelerator Projects participated in the training.
18.09.14: Training session for SMEs Developers Phase III (A guide to
FIWARE for beginners- SMEs Developers Training session): More than 50
people, Munich, ECFI-2.
19-20.11.2014: 3rd Awareness and Training sessions for Public
Authorities: Workshop during SCWE 2014 in Barcelona. Together with the
presentation" What can FIWARE do for your city?" 20 attendees.
22.02.2015: Training session for SMEs at the kick-off of the FIWARE
Accelerator SpeedUP! Europe. FIWARE Lab and FIWARE Ops as use case
examples of FIWARE usage
Table 2: List of face-to-face actions
Mediated communication activities are the ones that imply the use of some sort of media support to facilitate connection with target interlocutors, as
detailed in D9.1.
Mediated actions Rational Results
Provided input and
support to WP7
training webinars
The major aim is to
educate, inform and train
the stakeholder groups in
how to use and interact
with the XIFI federation
15.10.2014: Introduction to FIWARE Lab. Webinar for Infrastructure owners and
Operators. 9 participants external to the XIFI project.
29.10.2014: How to join the Federation of Infrastructures. Webinar for Infrastructure owners
and Operators. 5 participants external to the XIFI project.
23.02.2015: FIWARE Lab Solution for Managing Resources & Services in a Cloud
Federation. Webinar for researchers and developers. 72 participants.
25.02.2015: XIFI for developer. Webinar for researchers and developers. 54 participants.
03.03.2015: SSH Webinar. Webinar for researchers and developers: 13 participants.
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Mediated actions Rational Results
Project website
A website dedicated to the
project has been designed
and set up in the first
couple of months of the
XIFI project: https://fi-
xifi.eu. The web site has
been continuously updated
and will be maintained for a
few more years, after the
end of the project, as
mention at section 3.1
The website has been constantly improved both in its form and content.
Updates about attended and upcoming events.
Promotion on the homepage of the most relevant information about XIFI.
Post of news related to the project’s work and activities.
Additions to the technical blog site.
Adaptation of all materials and information since the new FIWARE brand guidelines.
Promotion of FIWARE Ops via a dedicated page linked to the official one at fiware.org.
A specific area has been created and dedicated to advertise the training activities in close
coordination with WP7.
All information about website stats can be found in Appendix 4.
Technical Blog A web space dedicated to
post technical articles
The XIFI blog is a web space dedicated to post articles related to the activities of the XIFI technical
team. Deatiled information about the technical blog can be found at section 2.3
Social networks
Twitter and LinkedIn
accounts created in the first
months of the project. A
Facebook page is also
maintained to facilitate
internal communication.
The XIFI Twitter account reached 475 followers by the end of March 2015, with an activity of 360
tweets from its beginning. Active tweeting actions before, during and after events and for relevant
news. A strong support has been done to all FIWARE related actions through the XIFI Twitter
Channel.
The LinkedIn group has a total of 162 members for the same period and the most relevant activities
have been shared across the community.
The XIFI social networks helped building a vast community around our work and more in general
Future Internet initiatives and trials, and give visibility about its work and results across a broad
audience.
Newsletter
The aim is to gather and
collect in a compact, but
still appealing form the
most relevant news to the
In year 2, 4 newsletters were created and published (May 2014, September 2014, January 2015 and
March 2014). Last newsletter was specially designed to make a review of the most relevant outcomes
of the project See Appendix A.1.
The newsletter - in an electronic version – has been sent to 475 recipients that include project
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Mediated actions Rational Results
broad FIWARE ecosystem
as a result of XIFI
activities.
partners and all contacts established via various promotional project activities. It is also available in
the publications area of the XIFI project website.
Each edition of the newsletter has been also promoted through the XIFI social networks.
We observed peaks of 20-30% more visits than average the day each new edition is published and
broadly advertised
Publications
International referred,
scientific and technical
journals when appropriate.
See also section 2.2 for the
detailed list of scientific
papers
17.09.2014: A press release about XIFI was published by ATOS. (http://bit.ly/1GS7GZk).
"FIWARE Lab: Managing Resources and Services in a Cloud Federation supporting Future
Internet Applications" presented at Cloud Automation, Intelligent Management and Scalability
(CAIMS) 2014
"Inter-domain Monitoring and Software-Defined Network Connectivity for Federated
Infrastructures Management" presented at EuCNC 2014
"Unified Representation of Monitoring Information Across Federated Cloud Infrastructures"
presented at Federated Future Internet and Distributed Cloud Testbeds (FIDC) Workshop 2014.
The news item titled "Reaping the rewards of the IoT" and co-authored by Brian Pickering and
Massimo Vecchio was accepted for online publication in the next issue of the IEEE IoT
newsletters (May 2015). In this short report, the authors present an overview of some of the most
important challenges and the corresponding system-level requirements which an environment
seeking to host truly-open IoT developments needs to deal with. The IEEE IoT newsletter
homepage is here: http://iot.ieee.org/newsletter.html
48 public deliverables has been submmited and published on the website. From the statistiques,
we can see that this section is one of the most visited (See Appendix A.5).
Promotional material
Project documentation,
flyers, posters, fact sheets,
gadgets and videos as
appropriate to facilitate and
make more effective the
dissemination and
Creation and distribution of promotional material in various formats:
FIWARE Ops leaflets (updated for ECFI-2 and reuse during all relevant events). See Appendix
A.2.
One poster for the XIFI Federation and one for FIWARE Ops (updated for ECFI-2 and reuse
during all relevant events). See Appendix
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Mediated actions Rational Results
promotion of project work,
ideas and results. e A.3.
FIWARE Ops gadgets were created for ECFI-2 and then re-used during the XIFI training
sessions. Gadgets were conceived to be linked with the FIWARE Ops functionalities; A Plug-
adaptor (connectivity everywhere, international aspect…); A Frisbee (connecting nodes, data
sending..); a USB toolkit (FIWARE Ops is presented as a set of tool for the FI…). See Appendix
A.4.
6 new videos (FIWARE Ops by the technical team, 3 videos to promote the new nodes of the
XIFI Federation, one specific about FIWARE Ops for Smart cities and one video to promote
joining the federation by new infrastructures). See Appendix A.5.
One flyer in Polish was prepared for the Poznań Entrepreneurship Days (7-8.5.2014)
Demos
Demonstrations relating to
the XIFI platform and
associated
applications/offerings
(WP6-showcases)
Exhibition booth together with FIWARE, FIWARE Ops demos – SCEWC, Barcelona 2014
Exhibition booth together with FIWARE, FIWARE Ops demos at Campus Party Mexico 2014
Exhibition booth together with FIWARE, FIWARE Ops demos, ECFI-2, Munich 2014
Exhibition booth together with FIWARE, FIWARE Ops demos, LeWeb, Paris 2014
The showcases of Year 1 were re-packed to form a total of 6 showcases to be developed during
Year 2. Briefly, the pool of showcases of Year 2 is composed of
o three macro-showcases which represent the appropriate merging of some of the v1
showcases,
o two showcases which are the evolution of two v1 showcases which were already identified
with a specific vertical market segment, and
o a brand-new showcase directly addressing concrete startup involvement in the XIFI
ecosystem.
See also the complete list of attended events in Section 2.4
Table 3: List of mediated communication tools
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2.2 Scientific publications
Date, Place Title/Authors Type of event / Name of event Type of
audience
Countries
addressed
Approx. size
of audience
Partner
involved
09-11.11.2014
Unified Representation of
Monitoring Information Across
Federated Cloud Infrastructures
26th IEEE International Teletraffic
Congress, Karlskrona, Sweden
Research &
Industry
Worldwide 150
TUB, UPM,
Telefónica,
Synelixis,
FOKUS
08-11.12.2014
FIWARE Lab: Managing
Resources and Services in a
Cloud Federation supporting
Future Internet Applications.
7th IEEE/ACM International
Conference on Utility and Cloud
Computing (UCC 2014), London,
UK
Research &
Industry
Worldwide 200
Synelixis,
UPM,
Telefónica,
CREATE-
NET, TUB
08-12.12.2014
Taming the Interoperability
Challenges of Complex IoT
Systems
ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware
conference in Bordeaux, France
Academic &
Industry Worldwide
~50 workshop
attendees
~200
conference
delegates
IT Innovation
17-19.02.2015
QoS-based WebRTC Access to
an EPS Network Infrastructure,
Kay Hänsge & Michael
Maruschke
ICIN 2015,
http://icin.co.uk/
Research &
Industry
European
Countries 120 DT
13-17.04.2015
Experiences Monitoring and
Managing QoS using SDN on
Testbeds Supporting Different
Innovation Stages
1st IEEE Conference on Network
Softwarization (NetSoft 2015)
Academic &
Industry Worldwide TBC IT Innovation
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23-25.06.2015
Creating a Sustainable Federation
of Cloud-Based Infrastructures
for the Future Internet – The
FIWARE Approach
10th International Conference on
Testbeds and Research
Infrastructures for the
Development of Networks &
Communities (TRIDENTCOM
2015), Vancouver, Canada
Research &
Industry Worldwide NA
TUB, IT-
Innovation,
FOKUS,
CREATE-NET
14-17.07.2015
A Recommender Service
Distributed Over The Federated
Cloud Of The PPP European
Project
MPTE’15 Research &
Industry Worldwide 500 Telecom Italia
Table 4: List of scientific publications
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2.3 Technical Blog and Developers’ Fora Activities
The XIFI blog was maintained throughout the course of the whole project. The primary focus of the blog was technical issues relating to the project, but
there were some contributions that provided a larger context and, for example, linked to the commercial context for XIFI.
The blog had an average of just over one post per month and covered issues such as performance analysis of cloud resources deployed using Fuel, how to
support multiple external networks in both Openstack Grizzly and Icehouse, integration with some of the FIRE related activities within the NITOS node
and other issues.
The blog attracted readers from all over the world, with over 50% coming from the US, followed by France, Germany and Spain. The most popular post on
the blog related to enabling a second external network in Grizzly and the specifics around how to enable this to support internal federated communications.
The blog will continue to be populated with content during the period from March 2015-September 2015 with more of a focus on operational level issues.
To extend the XIFI publication coverage some of the XIFI partners are in a process to submit technical articles to the OpenStack Super user blog
(http://superuser.openstack.org/) which is a new online publication forum created by the OpenStack Foundation to facilitate knowledge sharing and
collaborative problem solving among OpenStack developers.
The WP9 has also disseminated the Stack OverFlow threads - linked to the FIWARE Ops training portal - on the XIFI web and in Twitter together with
targeted promotion towards Open Stack developers, SMEs and Startups in several LinkedIn groups (See also Section 2.8).
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2.4 External Events’ Participation
The table below the events that XIFI partners attended in year 2 in order to present and promote project’s work and outcomes in different ways and to
different target stakeholders. As a matter of fact, participation to selected venues has been promoted so as to:
• Increase visibility on the XIFI offering/project work and on FIWARE/FI-PPP offering overall
• Collect feedback via questionnaires, discussion sessions and follow up emails to refine our work.
• Reach a broader audience and built direct connections – at local level as well – to help growing the federation.
• Targeted events / demos / presentations as a mean to better reach and engage the prioritized stakeholders.
Date Event name and description Type of participation Targeted stakeholders
23-24.04.2014 Celtic-Plus event, Monaco Presentation and leaflets distribution Developers
Public authorities
07-08.05.2014 Poznań Entrepreneurship Days, Poland
(Startup Poznań Hackathon) Presentation and leaflets distribution
Developers, startups, entrepreneurs,
SMEs
21.05.2014 SME Innovation Day, Sophia Antipolis Presentation SMEs
02-04.06.2014 Major Cities of Europe - Annual conference Leaflets distributed Public authorities/end users
04.06.2014 FI-PPP Day Trento Presentation given Developers, End-Users
05-06.06.2014 OCOVA, Genova, Italy Booth and presentations End-users, developers,
intermediaries
09-10.06.2014 FUSECO Forum Asia 2014 Presentations Sponsors and or Investors
10.06.2014 Open Cloud Day Presentation Infrastructure owners and operators
12-13.06.14 5th European Summit on the Future Internet Leaflets distributed Developers, SMEs, researchers
16-20.06.14 Iot Week 2014 Leaflets distributed End-Users, Technology Providers
24-25.06.2014
XIFI Training Sessions Dedicated to
Infrastructure Owners, Operators and FI-Ops
Users
Two training sessions given Infrastructure owners and operators
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Date Event name and description Type of participation Targeted stakeholders
23-26.06.2014 EuCNC’2014 (European Conference on
Networks and Communications)
XIFI workshop, presentations and
leaflets Developers, SMEs, researchers
27.06.2014 1st CI-FIRE Industry Workshop Leaflets distributed Testbed developers and users /
Industry & SMEs
24-29.06.2014 Campus Party in Mexico FIWARE Ops demo, leaflets, poster Developers, end users
01-02.07.2014
CAPS 2014 - 1st International Conference on
Collective Awareness Platforms for
Sustainability and Social Innovation
FI-PPP session and XIFI
presentation. Leaflets distributed
End-users, developers, SMEs,
researchers from the CAPS
10.07.2014 FI-PPP Info Day for SMEs, held in Paris in
French Presentation SMEs, testbed users
23.07.2014 FI PPP Info day Berlin-Creative ideas meet
expertise and tools Presentation Intermediaries
10.09.14 26th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC
26) Presentation during the workshop Research and industry
15.09.14 FI-PPP Information meeting – Sophia
Antipolis Presentation during the workshop Research and industry
16.09.14 OCOVA, Gap, France Presentations and booth End-users, developers,
intermediaries
17-18.09.14 FI-PPP ECFI-2 Exhibition booth and 2 presentations
slots Gadgets and leaflets distributed
Testbed users and SMEs in
particular
22-24.09.14 M2M Innovation World Congress Marseille Presentation and distribution of
material
End-users, developers,
intermediaries
29-30.09.14 NEM Summit Presentation at the FI-LINKS
session and leaflets distribution
industrial and academic players
worldwide on FI
02-03.10.14 FIWARE Boothcamp Presentation FIWARE Ops, Leaflets Developers and web entrepreneurs
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Date Event name and description Type of participation Targeted stakeholders
03-04.10.14 Hackathon-in-a-box, Budapest, Hungary Leaflets distributed Developers and web entrepreneurs
03-05.10.14 Startup Weekend/FIWARE Special Edition Presentation FIWARE Ops, leaflets Start-ups
09-10.10.14 ICT Proposer Day – Florence Leaflets distributed A bit of all stakeholders will be
there.
20-21.10.14 Techcrunch Disrupt Europe 2014 (London) ICT world
22.10.14 SENSO event, Aix-en-Provence Presentation End-users, developers,
intermediaries
23.10.14 FIWARE Workshop, Poznan Presentations and leaflet distributed SMEs, startups and web-
entrepreneurs
23.10.14 Iminds conference Informal contacts with industry and
SMEs, opportunity such as Phase III.
SME's and web entrepreneurs in the
field of ICT, media, health, energy,
smart cities and manufacturing
29.10.14 Il Future Internet accelera la Smart City Leaflets distributed FIWARE Accelerator Programme
29-31.10.14 eChallenges e-2014 Conference Leaflets distributed
Senior representatives of leading
government, industry and research
organisations
05.11.14 FINODEX Infoday Leaflets distributed FIWARE Accelerator Programme
03-07.11.14 OpenStack Summit, Paris Presentation and leaflets distribution Infrastructure owners and operators
13-14.11.14 FI-PPP International Workshop @ FUSECO Presentation and leaflets distribution End-users, Sponsors and or
Investors, Public Authorities
17-20.11.14 Smart City World Expo 2014 Booth with FIWARE, presentation
and leaflet distribution
24-25.11.14 Internetdagarna 2014 Booth
Data scientists, solution providers,
governments, academics and internet
actors
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Date Event name and description Type of participation Targeted stakeholders
26.11.14 FI-PPP Information day; Budapest, Hungary
XIFI presentation and FIWARE
tutorial with live demo) Developers, End-Users
29.11.14 FIWARE Hackathon. Budapest, Hungary FIWARE presentation + FIWARE
tutorial with live demo Developers and web entrepreneurs
09.12.14 Digital growth in the Baltic Sea Region.
Copenhagen, Denmark
Presentation covering the XIFI
facility
Enterprises, policy makers, experts,
business organisations and industry
04.12.14 Digital growth in the Baltic Sea Region Presentation Companies and entrepreneurs within
the digital economy
05.12.14 Swiss FIWARE Acceleration conference.
Zurich, Switzerland Conferences and presentations
Developers, startups, entrepreneurs,
SMEs
08-12.12.14 UCC14 Presentation Cloud Computing
09-11.12.14 LeWeb 2014 Paris Presentation and leaflet distributed Testbed users and SMEs
08.01.15 Senseair Seminar Presentation Industry
13.01.15 Latvian IT cluster, Estonia Smart city Lab Presentation Research, Developers, startups,
entrepreneurs, SMEs
14.01.15 Swedish ICT day Presentation Research & industry in Sweden
14.01.15 Workshop with Fiber Optic Valley Presentation Research & industry in Sweden
04.02.15 NITOS XIFI Info Day Presentations, conferences and
FIWARE Ops leaflet distributed
Developers, startups, entrepreneurs,
SMEs
02-05.03.15 4YFN FIWARE Ops leaflet distributed Start-ups
09-13.03.15 IEEE International Conference on Cloud
Engineering (IC2E 2015), Arizona, USA Panelist Cloud Computing
16-20.03.15 CeBIT Presentation and FIWARE Ops
leaflet distributed IT & Digital business
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Date Event name and description Type of participation Targeted stakeholders
17.03.15 FIWARE Lab Training Workshop,
Budapest, Hungary
XIFI and FIWARE presentations
tutorials/trainings and live demo,
Developers, startups, entrepreneurs,
SMEs, EIT ICTLabs students from
the whole Europe
24.03.15 FIWARE Information Day,
Budapest, Hungary
XIFI and FIWARE Presentations,
GE tutorials/trainings, consultation
opportunity
Local SMEs, startups and
developers, Cloud Providers
(EUROCLOUD Hungary members)
from Hungary and the Central
European region
24-25.03.15 US Ignite Applications Summit Presentation, booth and leaflet
distributed
Developers, industry, communities,
government, foundations and
universities
24-26.03.15 NetFutures15 Presentation and leaflet distributed ICT Research and Industry in
Europe
01-02.04.15 Machine to Machine &Objet Connectés -
Paris Booth and speaker
End-users, developers, startups,
entrepreneurs Authorities
07-08.04.15 SIDO - Lyon Booth Industry, startups, investors,
designers, entrepreneurs
23-25.06.15 Tridentcom 2015, Canada Presentation Testbeds, Researcher, Developers
and SMEs
Table 5: List of related events attended in year 2.
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2.5 XIFI-driven Events
2.5.1 ECFI 1
Beginning of April, XIFI took part in the 1st European
Conference on the Future Internet that was held in
Brussel. The event presented cutting-edge results on the
European Internet infrastructures and services of the
future, which have been developed in the Future Internet
Public-Private Partnership (FI-PPP).
This was a very successful event for the FI-PPP
community that gathered together a rich selection of
invited speakers from SMEs, public authorities and
major ICT industrial players in Europe, who animated
several technical and business sessions.
In this dynamic and exciting atmosphere, many people visited the XIFI exhibition booth where we
presented the FIWARE Ops (FI-Ops at this period) offering and the latest project’s achievements to
the various conference visitors.
The XIFI Project Coordinator Maurizio Cecchi (Telecom Italia) and one of the key technical leaders
of XIFI, Silvio Cretti (Create-Net), have been invited to give presentations at various sessions about
the XIFI project and the FIWARE Ops offering. This has contributed to provide an insight on our
project’s activities, contribute to clarify synergies between XIFI and FI-WARE, and animate very
interesting discussion panels.
Finally, XIFI has also contributed to organize and run a very interesting session that focused on
discussing the role of Future Internet technologies and experimental infrastructures for the
development of Smart Cities services and solutions.
2.5.2 OCOVA Genova Italy
OCOVA (5-6 June) is the meeting point between future technologies and services targeting to enhance
territory and quality of life. Com4Innov handled a booth with XIFI exposure. This event targeted
regional end-users, developers and intermediaries.
2.5.3 FIDC’14 Workshop
On Friday,13 September 2014, the XIFI Monitoring solution has been presented in the Federated Future Internet
and Distributed Cloud Testbeds (FIDC) Workshop that was held in conjunction with the 26th International
Teletraffic Congress (ITC 26) in Karskrona, Sweden. The accepted paper entitled “Unified Representation of
Monitoring Information Across Federated Cloud Infrastructures” will appear in the proceeding of the 26th IEEE
International Teletraffic Congress.
2.5.4 OCOVA GAP France
OCOVA (16-17 September) is the meeting point between future technologies and services targeting to
enhance territory and quality of life. This instance of OCOVA is dedicated to open Internet
technologies and services to Northern part of PACA region and its Italian neighborhood. This event
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targeted regional end-users, developers and intermediaries. Com4Innov handled a booth with larger
XIFI exposure.
2.5.5 ECFI 2
The XIFI Project organized two training sessions at
ECFI2 in Munich on 18 September 2014. More than
100 people attended the two sessions, which were
respectively dedicated to SMEs and Accelerator
projects.
The session dedicated to SMEs and web-entrepreneurs
(called “A Guide to FIWARE for beginners: SMEs
Developers introductory training session”) was a big
success: more than 60 people attended the training
session. After an overview of the FIWARE Global
offer, focusing on the FIWARE benefits for SMEs,
technical details were provided on FIWARE Lab, and on the FIWARE Generic and Specific Enablers
available. The session finished with a description of the e-Learning portal and the FIWARE Helpdesk.
The afternoon session dedicated to the Accelerator Projects (called “A Guide to FIWARE for
beginners: Accelerators introductory training session”) was equally successful with more than 40
participants. The focus was similar as in the morning with in addition an introduction to FIWARE
Ops.
2.5.6 M2M Innovation World Marseille
At the intersection of new business models and
technological innovation, M2M Innovation World
Congress (22-24 September) fosters exchanges of
insights and best practices to achieve the full potential of
M2M/IoT. Aimed both at M2M Industry players and
their customers from verticals, this independent
conference and exhibition explored the new ways to
translate M2M technologies into vertical business needs
through presentation and live demonstrations.
During this event with European and worldwide
attendance Com4Innov presented XIFI / FIWARE Lab
and use case on Generic Enablers. XIFI and FIWARE
LAB were also highlighted on the Com4Innov / XIFI dedicated booth. Both, the presentation and the
booth were very well attended. Please see the presentation!
2.5.7 FIWARE Workshop in Poznań
On the 23rd of October, Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center coorganised a FIWARE
Workshop dedicated to presenting funding opportunities of the FI-PPP programme for innovative
European SMEs, startups and web-entrepreneurs in the Future Internet landscape. The main objective
was to present the FIWARE Accelerator Programme through talks given by invited representatives of
accelerators: INCENSe, IMPACT, EuropeanPioneers, frontierCities, Speed Up! Europe, CreatiFI,
SmartAgriFood2 and FRACTALS. Moreover, the event included a Q&A session and offered the
possibility to talk personally with people representing the accelerators during a networking and
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consultations session.
The XIFI project was represented by Pierangelo Garino, who gave a talk introducing FIWARE,
FIWARE Lab and FIWARE Ops and was available for consultations at the FIWARE Ops table with
some informational and promotional materials. Pierangelo was aided by employees of PSNC engaged
in XIFI, who helped in the organisation of the event and responded to questions of the attendees.
Additionally, each participant received a conference pack including a flyer explaining and promoting
the FIWARE Ops toolset.
Around 100 people showed up for the event, most of
them representing SMEs or bigger companies, with
some research and education institutions being present
as well. There were many late registration requests that
had to be turned down due to venue constraints and
organisational matters. This, along with the large
number of questions asked and the high attendance at
the networking and consultations session prove the
popularity of the subject matter and the need to
organise similar events.
The event has been recorded by Platon TV, PSNC's scientific TV studio. The recordings are available
at http://www.fiware.pl/poznan2014/videos/ .
2.5.8 SENSO Event – Aix en Provence
In the IoT context, ARCSIS, a French professional association of electronics actors in the region
of Provence-Alps-Cote d'Azur region, in collaboration with the Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne /
CMPGC and the SCS (Secured Communicating Solutions) competitiveness cluster, organizes a
conference dedicated to ‘’Sensors, Energy harvesting, wireless Network & Smart Objects’’.
The aim of this event was to offer a meeting opportunity to all the different contributors and provide a
more integrated vision of the basic elements of such smart objects network, ranging from the effective
exploitation of their energy source up to their final deployment in an actual working environment.
Com4Innov presented XIFI / FIWARE benefits during this event.
2.5.9 Fokus Fuseco Forum 2014
In conjunction with the FOKUS FUSECO Forum
2014, XIFI organized an international FI-PPP
Workshop, a full day workshop for the regional and
international promotion of the European Future
Internet Public Private Partnership (FI-PPP) program
in Berlin, Germany, on November 13, 2014. With
participation of more than 50 guests and speakers the
international FI-PPP workshop successfully provided a
comprehensive overview of worldwide Future Internet
programs and the status of the FI-PPP program in particular. By fostering the collaboration with
related regional and international initiatives and by openly discussing strategies for sustainability and
commercial exploitation, several fruitful and lively discussions took place during the workshop.
During the workshop, the status and achievements of FI-PPP's Infrastructure and Capacity Building
project (XIFI) was presented.
The FI-PPP workshop concluded with a panel discussion where several invited panelists involved in
the FI-PPP answered questions around FI-PPP¹s exploitation, commercialization and sustainability.
Core topics included questions related to the sustainability of the FI-PPP infrastructure (i.e. the
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federation of FIWARE nodes), the added value of standardizing FIWARE platform's Generic Enablers
and their APIs, future plans for creation of a FIWARE foundation and ecosystem and strategies for
SMEs to exploit the results of the program.
2.5.10 SmartCities Expo World Congress 2014
XIFI attended the Smart City Expo World Congress
2014 (18-20 November) that was held in Barcelona
(Spain) in conjunction with FIWARE and 5 of the Phase
3 Accelerators (INCENSe, SpeedUp! Europe,
frontierCities, FI-C3 and IMPACT).
At the exhibition booth, the XIFI team presented the
overall offering of FIWARE with focus on FIWARE
Ops showing live demos of the deployment, the
federation management, the connectivity manager and
the service offer management across nodes. Compared to
last year, when our offering was less mature, this year
most of the visitors had already heard about FIWARE and were interested in concrete deployment
information. For instance, many questions concerned the adoption of the technology, the participation
to the Accelerators programme, the advantage of joining the federation or the benefits of sharing data
into the FIWARE Lab community.
An important example of the consolidated presence of FIWARE was the meeting organised by DG
Connect at the booth with majors of 4 European cities interested in the adoption of the FIWARE
offering to make their cities smarter.
During the 3 days, the XIFI dissemination team was very active through the social networks mostly
with live tweeting during the relevant activities at the booth and at the congress. A specific FIWARE
Ops promotional leaflet and a video were developed for the event.
2.5.11 Internetdagarna
Internetdagarna (The Internet Days), one of the biggest
conferences about the Internet in Sweden and the Nordic
Countries, was held on November 24-25, 2014 in Stockholm,
Sweden.
The conference was attended by 2100 people, representing a
very broad audience: from data scientists and solution
providers to politicians, school teachers and tax authorities.
XIFI was represented by a poster at the exhibition area. The
lunch and coffee breaks were held adjacent to the exhibition
that allowed for a large number of visitors.
2.5.12 Swiss FIWARE Acceleration Conference
The 1st SWISS FIWARE acceleration Conference was held in
Winterthur on December the 5th at the Zurich University of
Applied Sciences ICCLab premises. The event offers, to SWISS
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Small Enterprises and WEB entrepreneurs, the opportunity to introduce project ideas to the
professional A16 accelerators.
“A conference to guide attendees through the difficult time of developing applications and building
businesses”. Several partners of the XIFI consortium were there to answer specific questions about the
FIWARE Ops toolkit and the FIWARE Lab federation.
2.5.13 NITOS XIFI Info Day
The University of Thessaly organized the XIFI-NITOS Info Day that took place in the city of Volos,
Greece, on the 4th of February 2015. The objective of this one-day event was to facilitate regional and
international cooperation and bring together relevant stakeholders working on Future Internet
solutions. Special focus was placed on the mobilization of the local SMEs, both in means of resource
usage and resource disposal as it takes place within the XIFI cloud framework. Towards the goal of
explaining the usage of the Cloud, portal and infrastructure, a number of XIFI showcases were also
presented.
2.5.14 Wigner RCP FIWARE Lab Training Workshop and FIWARE Information Day
The Wigner Research Centre for Physics organized two events in March 2015 to promote the
achievements of XIFI and FIWARE. The FIWARE Lab Training Workshop took place in Budapest,
Hungary on the 17th of March 2015. The main goal of this ona-day event was to give a practical
overview of the capabilities of FIWARE Lab and the most mature FIWARE Generic Enablers to
developers including the winners of some accelerators (CEEDTech, FINISH, CreatiFI) that are active
in Central European region. Besides presentations live demos of the cloud portal and some GEs were
also displayed. This international event had participants from the Netherlands, Serbia and
Hungary.The FIWARE Information Day was held in Budapest, Hungary on the 24th of March 2015,
targeting Hungarian SMEs, startups and entrepreneurs that may be interested in the achievements of
XIFI, FIWARE Lab and the FIWARE Accelerator programme. We have invited presenters from
CEEDTech, FINISH and INCENse. In addition, we had a presentation from EuroCloud Hungary
Association that is an umbrella of Hungarian Cloud providers. Our aim was to promote XIFI
achievements among local cloud operators. This event was also extended by a tutorial/training session
showing developers how FIWARE Lab and some selected GEs can be used in practice.
2.5.15 Future Internet in Horizon 2020: how to build a pan-European framework to
support Innovation in SMEs
On March the 18th, XIFI organized a one-day summit with the support of the Italian National Research
Council. Key players in the European scene presented their vision on how EC-driven programs, such
as FIWARE, and National initiatives will boost innovation for Small and Medium Enterprises
across Europe.
The introduction to a common vision has been elaborated by Luigi Nicolais, President of the CNR.
The Horizon 2020 strategy has been presented by the Vice General Director of CNECT Roberto
Viola, that explained the goal of the EC programs that are actively supporting SMEs by providing both
direct financial, and indirect support to increase their innovation capacity. He envisaged a strong
coordination between the European Commission and the National Programs; they can boost R&D and
Innovation as key pillars of the European SMEs' ecosystem growth. The Managing Director of Tilab
Gabriela Styf Sjoman showed how industrial initiatives such as XIFI can give a real contribution to
the creation of a valuable ecosystem. The overall vision has been substantiated by the presentation of
Mr Ilkka Lakaniemi, the Programme Chair of EU FIWARE Future Internet Public-Private Partnership
(FI-PPP). The German Government policy has been presented by Walter Mattauch, that works for the
German Program Management Agency DLR. In this position, he supports the German Ministry for
Economic Affairs and Energy in the management of research programs in current ICT topics. The
German vision has been complemented by Mathias Rauch, the Director of Fraunhofer Brussels. The
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Austria strategy was explained by Lisbeth Mosnik, that in the Austrian Federal Ministry of Transport
Innovation and Technology, is responsible for National and International ICT Research Strategies.
The Polish vision has been explained by Piotr Kępski, Chief specialist at the Department of
Innovations and Development at Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education.
It was clear from the discussion that FIWARE commons can be thought of as a living ecosystem that
is open and accessible to European companies, developers and researchers, and continuously adapts to
the changing requirements of the Internet market.
XIFI demonstrated how a federation of Infrastructure providers could be open and competitive and
above all not “institutionalised”. Allowing e-Infrastructures to evolve is important: keywords here are
open competition, collaboration but also technological innovation.
It was made clear in the discussion that a great advancement of data infrastructures are needed because
they are not yet as well-established as the basic networking and computing infrastructures in the
European scene.
2.5.16 US Ignite Applications Summit
XIFI Project together with the FI-LINKS CSA and the participation of Peter Fatelnig from the EC,
attended several meetings in Toronto and Washington D.C. and participated in the US Ignite
Applications Summit in Washington D.C. during the week of 23 March 2015. The Summit, which was
entitled “Beyond Today’s Internet: Experiencing a Smart Future”, gathered more than 400
participants. The main outcome of our effort was that FIWARE was proposed to be set up on top of
existing platforms both in Canada and in the US. In Canada, cooperation with the SAVI platform is
being considered; in USA as well, with support from US Ignite, over the existing GENI gigabit
networking and computing infrastructure. The objective in both cases would be to provide the
FIWARE features to application developers in North America, thus promoting the use of open
platforms such as FIWARE (publicity will be made) and also the knowledge of US-Ignite Gigabit
applications activities, GENI and SAVI in Europe.
The ambitious objectives that were discussed could be to demonstrate smart cities applications based
on FIWARE in an event organised by NIST in Washington D.C. on 1st June, 2015 within the Global
Cities Team Challenge (GCTC) initiative, and to showcase a first integration of FIWARE over SAVI
in the Smart City Platforms Summit planned in Toronto on 13-15 October 2015. We will follow this
up shortly as the registration for the NIST event has just been announced. In addition, teams have been
set up between Europe and USA with support from the EC and NSF to work on common challenges,
potentially leading to common research and commercial opportunities.
There may also be opportunities with the World Bank, whose representatives were interested in
evaluating the offering of FIWARE to countries looking at developing smart cities e.g. India, Central
and South-America (e.g. Colombia), and others. More contacts will be made in the next weeks.
Many participants came to see the videos and the demos at the “demo night” organised by US Ignite
and GENI on 24 March evening. FIWARE was voted “best demo” by the participants, out of 63 demo
tables!
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2.6 Interactions within the FI-PPP Context and other Projects
Bodies/Groups Rational Results
Boards and Groups facilitated by CONCORD
FI-PPP Steering Board
XIFI has appointed two representatives to participate at
Steering Board meetings and activities – Maurizio
Cecchi (TI) and Federico Álvarez (UPM).
XIFI actively participated in discussions about the overall
strategy and direction of the FI-PPP with all other FI-PPP
projects and the EC. To be noticed is that Stefano de
Panfilis (Engineering) that is the chairman of the SB is also
an active player of the XIFI team. This has ensured
cohesive actions in-line with the overall Programme
strategy.
FI-PPP Advisory Board XIFI has appointed representatives to participate at
Advisory Board meetings and activities
XIFI actively participated in discussions about the overall
strategy and direction of the FI-PPP with all other FI-PPP
projects and the EC. A presentation was sent to the
Advisory Board explaining the federation nodes, the
benefits of using the FIWARE Ops set of tools, the
handover to FI-CORE and finally our offering for the
FIWARE Helpdesk.
FI-PPP Architecture Board
XIFI has appointed two representatives to participate at
the meetings and activities of the Architecture Board –
Silvio Cretti and Federico Facca (Create-Net).
XIFI played a particularly important role in defining and
specifying the overall FI-PPP service portfolio together
with FIWARE (the FI-WARE project first and the FI-
CORE consortium more recently), thus providing an
“integrated” offering supporting FI business development.
FI-PPP Dissemination Working
Group
XIFI appointed two representatives to participate in the
activities of the FI-PPP Dissemination Working Group
(DWG) – Dr. Monique Calisti (Martel) and Jacques
XIFI has regularly participated to the Dissemination
Working Group activities, including regular conf calls and
contributed to newsletters and organisation of events (like
for instance ECFI-1 and ECFI-2), until the group was
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Bodies/Groups Rational Results
Magen (InterInnov). dismissed to leave the floor to the FIWARE Press Office
(June 2014) – see below.
FIWARE Press Office (since its
start)
The leader of the XIFI Dissemination and
Communication activities (Monique Calisti, Martel)
has been appointed to guarantee coordination of the
XIFI-driven dissemination and promotion activities
with the programme-wide initiatives under the direct
supervision of the FIWARE Press Office.
XIFI has regularly contributed by injecting input for the
production of newsletters; promoting FIWARE related
news and events via all the project’s social channels and
mailing lists; helping with organisation of events, including
organisation of presentations focusing on the FIWARE Ops
and FIWARE Lab Federation for events like CAPS2020,
ECFI2, Smart Cities World Congress, LeWeb, CeBIT, Net
Futures 2015 Conferences.
As discussed in more details below the XIFI team will
ensure smooth handover of the generated know-how and
contacts to the FIWARE Press Office.
FIWARE – Technology foundation: Future Internet core platform
FIWARE
XIFI has actively interacted with the FIWARE project
first and more recently with the FI-CORE team so as
to ensure coordinated efforts both from a strategic and
operational point of view.
XIFI and FIWARE established close collaboration on
strategic, technical and communication matters since the
project start. During year 2 as there was a transition from
FIWARE to FI-CORE, coordination of efforts has been
achieved also thanks to the fact that several partners in
XIFI are also partners in FI-CORE. In these last months of
the XIFI project, we focused on ensuring smooth transition
and hand-over of know-how and resources both at a
technical and communication level. This also in the
perspective of supporting the FIWARE Foundation (not yet
officially created at the time of writing this document).
Table 6: Interactions with related bodies within the FI-PPP context.
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Project acronym Rational Results
Other FI-PPP Projects
FI-LINKS
FI-LINKS is responsible for the production of a
roadmap for the Future Internet, and FIWARE Mundus
programme, which is promoting the adoption of
FIWARE in European regions and in countries outside
Europe where the take-up of Internet innovation can
occur and impact local markets
XIFI has been working actively with FI-LINKS in the
regional promotion (attending common events looking
for enlarging FIWARE lab nodes number) and in the
international aspects as for the Mexico and Brazil nodes
(attended Campus party Mexico and trained on the use of
FIWARE-Ops).
The last action is a common visit to US to discuss future
opportunities for common FIWARE cooperation and
nodes expansion in this area (24-26 March 2015)
FI-STAR
It is built based on the FIWARE technologies and the
cloud hosting offered though the XIFI federation for
the healthcare domain. The FI-STAR Platform
comprises several GEs as well as SEs that are/will be
deployed and offered through XIFI nodes for
Healthcare application developers.
XIFI partners involved in FI-STAR provided technical
and GE evaluation support for the need of FI-STAR
platform.
FIRE (Future Internet Research & Experimentation)
AmpliFIRE
This FIRE CSAs is responsible for overall coordination
of FIRE activities both at the strategic and operational
level. Close communication and interaction with
AmpliFIRE has the main objective to understand how
the FIWARE- and FIRE-driven activities relate and
complement each other. Effective communication has
been guaranteed also thanks to the fact that several
XIFI participated in the FIRE Board and FIRE Forum
discussions so as to contribute to identify complementary
and synergies between the FIRE and FI-PPP programmes
and activities.
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Project acronym Rational Results
XIFI partners are also involved in AmpliFIRE.
Fed4FIRE
Fed4FIRE is the “federation” project within the FIRE
context, the objective of which is to build a federated
offering from currently independent FIRE facilities.
Close interaction has been envisaged to ensure lessons
learned in the two contexts to be exchanged and
possibly shared.
XIFI benefited from the technical work performed in
Fed4FIRE around federation, in particular from the work
of Fed4FIRE towards alignment of experiment
definition, control and monitoring tools. In return, XIFI
(WP8) identified the FedSM project to Fed4FIRE, which
has led to the close collaboration between the two. So far
no technology adoption materialised from FIRE to XIFI,
however the requirements and objectives of the two
initiatives are similar, and it can be expected that a
convergence will take place in the future.
A mutual benefit between XIFI and Fed4FIRE emerged
through the complementary advertising of the different
relevant actions to each other’s communities.
XIFI is considering whether to sign a Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) with Fed4FIRE, based on the
model MoU signed between the projects INFINITY and
FIRESTATION.
FIRE facility projects
Participation of Maurizio Cecchi at the FIRE Board
with close communication with other Members and
initiatives responsible.
Particularly relevant has been the inclusion of some
FIRE facilities such as the iMinds one. Several
discussions have been done with Amplifire on
sustainability issues and with Fed4FIRE. On
benchmarking and other issues.
FIRE research projects
The possibility of using XIFI results has been
discussed with Fed4FIRE and other FIRE projects in
the domain of industrial testing.
In particular, a common effort has been devoted in
understanding how the XIFI Federation could support
industrial testing. This has been done taking in
consideration the upcoming 5G technologies. This has
also been shared and discussed within the 5GPPP
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Project acronym Rational Results
community.
Other Projects
OCEAN Project Collaboration with the OCEAN project thanks to the
liaison with Engineering
The Open Cloud Directory, provided by the OCEAN
project - Open Cloud for Europe, Japan and beyond -, is
now hosting three XIFI Cloud assets - two of them part
of the FIWARE Ops toolkit.
H2020 COMPARE
Wigner RCP is taking part in this H2020 project where
it is responsible for the analysis of genomic data (at
PetaByte scale).
The project may reuse some components of XIFI and
FIWARE including Blueprint templates and BigData
GE.
FIESTA Com4Innov is partner of this H2020 project. Particular focus in using FIWARE components for the
project.
Table 7: Interactions with projects and relevant initiatives outside the FI-PPP context.
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2.7 Stakeholders’ Involvement
The methodology used by XIFI regarding the stakeholders definition and glossary was twofold:
initially, a glossary and a picture (which graphically summarizes the stakeholder categories) were
created in order to ensure that the same terms would have meant the same thing in all the project’s
documents and deliverables, and to determine for each Work Package which stakeholder needs to be
involved and for what purpose. After this first analysis, carried out in Y1, we prepared a short
questionnaire about the stakeholders in order to better understand what stakeholder each partner were
targeting, in order to refine the marketing strategy of the project as a whole, refine the stakeholders
priorities and see how the events planned at national/regional/local level were aligned with the
project’s strategy.
This questionnaire included the following questions:
1. Please classify the stakeholders that you are, as a XIFI partner, interested in/targeting;
2. For each stakeholder that you have selected in question 1, please explain why you consider
them as important;
3. For each stakeholder that you have selected in question 1, please detail which event you will
use in order to engage them: whether it is a local event you can organize, or a
European/International event you will attend. Do not forget to mention the date and location
of the event;
4. For each stakeholder that you have selected in question 1, please explain what are you needs
in terms of training for your targeted community(ies).
Out of the analysed answers, we were able to identify who were the priority stakeholders for the XIFI
partners: the End-users (especially Institutions, Authorities at national/local level, Industries and
Smart Cities), the Intermediaries (especially the Public Authorities at regional/local level, the Phase
III Accelerator projects and the Clusters/Incubators at regional/local level), and the Infrastructures
Owners and Operators are the top target stakeholders. The Public Authorities (especially the
national, regional and local ones) are considered important similarly to Sponsors and Investors and
Intermediaries. Developers (especially the Phase III Developers, SMEs, web-entrepreneurs) and the
Technology Providers are also considered important stakeholders, but less when compared with the
other categories.
Thanks to the questions 1 and 2, we were able to define a first bottom-up approach, which has been
used as a basis for the work carried out in the Community Building (CB) Work Group, see next
section for an overview and D7.4 for more details.
According to this first bottom-up approach, we defined a top down strategy in order to prioritize
stakeholders’ communities and to better understand how we can reach these communities.
Thanks to the 3rd
question, we identified the local and European events that XIFI partners attended in
2014 and early 2015. For each planned event, the XIFI partners specified the stakeholders that they
targeted and WP9 provided support in several ways.
Thanks to the collected information, we maintained a table in order to list the XIFI-relevant events and
identify the stakeholders’ communities that these events would allow to reach/target. For each planned
event, T9.2 checked with the XIFI partner involved in the event’s organisation whether the target
audience were in line with the priority stakeholders identified by the project.
Following the reviewers’ comments, the Community Building work carried out in Y2 and the
outcomes of the questionnaires on stakeholders, we defined the following priority stakeholders as
depicted in “Figure 1: XIFI Stakeholder relations” and we modified the stakeholders pictures and
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glossary accordingly on the XIFI project web pages2 (namely the “Infrastructure developers and
Infrastructure tools developers” and “Non-public Investors” were added):
Direct relationship:
Infrastructure owners and operators
Infrastructure developers and Infrastructure tools developers
Intermediaries (mainly training)
Sponsors / Investors (mainly training)
Indirect relationship3 (via FI-WARE and will continue via FI-CORE):
End users
Application (Apps) Developers
Figure 1: XIFI Stakeholder relations
The tightest relationship we had is with the Infrastructure owners and operators and related
Infrastructure and Infrastructure tools developers. With the Intermediaries (Phase 3 accelerator
projects) and Sponsors / Investors (Public non-public authorities) we have focused more on the
information sharing and training, similarly to what has been done with the “indirect” Developers
(SMEs and web entrepreneurs using the XIFI federation) and End users. It is important to underline
that the XIFI project organized and participated to several “indirect” stakeholder events to support the
FI-WARE promotion and in wider terms the whole FI-PPP programme and community to share
information and to train potential End users and Developers. This has helped them to find and start
using the services and the development environment based on the XIFI Federation platform.
2 https://www.fi-xifi.eu/about-xifi/stakeholders.html
3 Technology providers and Others in lesser extent
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2.8 Contributions to the Community Building Activities
WP9 played an active role in supporting the XIFI Community Building activities, which were led by
WP7 as reported in details in D7.4. The main achievements in year 2 can be summarized as follows:
The different communication channels and dissemination tools (Newsletters, web, LinkedIn,
YouTube and Twitter) have been effectively used and linked to each other to promote the
XIFI news, events, videos, training webinars and overall project achievements so as to reach
the highest possible number of stakeholders. Additionally new LinkedIn groups (see details
below) have been found out to complement and further extend the community coverage.
Additional technical articles and papers have been published and promoted in the XIFI blog
and in various scientific and technological conferences and workshops.
The newsletter subscriptions have increased thanks to our presence at various related events
and workshops and also to the increased activity and media coverage via our Twitter and
Youtube channels.
Tailored marketing campaigns have increased participation in the training events (webinars,
physical training sessions, awareness and training for Public Authorities, training in “pills”)
and generated more video views on the YouTube, increased traffic on the XIFI web and on the
training portal.
Combination of the tailored marketing campaigns and training events/webinars resulted in 13
FIWARE lab nodes participating to the FIWARE Recognition & Reward (R&R) Programme.
These nodes were awarded R&R labels documenting the quality of each node – see below and
D7.4.
The use of the communication and promotion channels has been two-fold:
1. The News on the XIFI web, the XIFI Newsletter, the YouTube channel and the various
mailing lists we addressed (including the former XiPi repository mailing list with direct access
to 242 Infrastructure owners/operators globally) have been used for the more medium-long
term promotion purposes.
2. The Social Media networking channels, namely LinkedIn and Twitter, have been mostly used
for short-term promotion on a weekly or on daily basis to highlight news and gather attention
to specific achievements especially via events’ participation. The Facebook page has been
used on the “background” to support more the Application developers and End Users which
are indirect target stakeholders for the XIFI as mentioned in section 2.7.
These two modalities have effectively supported and complemented each other by generating different
types of contents, at a different pace for different audiences and stakeholders by contributing to
reinforce the FIWARE and FI-PPP promotion at a large via a large set of channels and promotional
material, which can be easily accessed by different stakeholders for their use and re-use contributing to
multiply the reach of our dissemination activities.
WP9 has organized specific tailored dissemination/marketing campaigns, e.g. for the publishing of the
Munich training videos, the Showcase videos and training events with following timing in different
Social Media channels to get the best promotion coverage and repetition rate:
Training videos/events: Basecamp Day 1; Twitter Day 4; several LinkedIn groups Day 8
Showcase videos Basecamp Day 4; Twitter Day 9; several LinkedIn groups Day 14
The results showed the increased amount of the video views in the XIFI YouTube channel, hits on the
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XIFI web site and in the FIWARE Ops training portal4 where the videos were also published. The
impact for the training events was remarkable as the participation to the training events and webinars
increased from earlier typical 10-15 participants to more than 70 participants with more effective
interaction during the training sessions, as the participants were better informed upfront already.
Additionally, as a combination of the tailored marketing campaigns and training events/webinars there
were 13 FIWARE lab nodes that applied to the FIWARE Recognition & Reward Programme, which
received the R&R labels:
- iMinds VZW (Belgium), NITOS (Greece), Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center
(Poland), Wigner Research Centre for Physics (Hungary), University of Piraeus Research
Center (Greece)- a GOLD label;
- Blekinge Institute of Technology (Sweden), CESNET (Czech Republic), Technical University
of Crete (Greece)- a SILVER label; and
- ACREO (Sweden), ImaginLab (France), Neuropublic A.E. (Greece), Waterford IT (Ireland),
and Zurich University of Applied Sciences (Switzerland) - a BRONZE label.
As stated in the section 2.7, the tightest direct relationship XIFI has had was with the Infrastructure
owners and operators and related Infrastructure and Infrastructure tools developers. On the other hand
the several organized and effectively promoted events and training sessions to the “indirect”
stakeholders, namely End users and Developers (lesser extent Technology Providers), has led to
concrete impact supported by figures, as detailed in the D7.4 and in the Appendix A.6, that show
specific growth on the Users/Developers community.
Technically oriented people typically follow/use web, Stack OverFlow, Blog and Twitter while more
business oriented people follow/use LinkedIn/Twitter. Although there are many members in the
LinkedIn groups/community that do not participate actively and only passively follow discussions,
there have been more and more “Likes” and “Comments” especially about the training and showcase
videos published during the year 2. Overall the LinkedIn groups are effective promotion channels to
complement the web presence and the Twitter channel. Beside the XIFI LinkedIn5 group we have used
following LinkedIn groups for promotion and community engagement (“D” indicates direct (e.g.
Infrastructures) and “I” indirect (e.g. Apps developers, End users) stakeholder relationship/influence in
the group):
- EIT ICT Labs LinkedIn6 – community reached: EIT ICT Labs & testbeds 943 members; D
- FI-WARE LinkedIn Group7 - FI-WARE general 707 members; D/I
- FIRE LinkedIn8 – FIRE testbeds 482 members; D
- FI-PPP LinkedIn9 – FI-PPP general 407 members; D/I
- Open Stack LinkedIn10
– Open Stack developers 30,758 members; D/I
- Open Source LinkedIn11
- Open Source developers 122,474 members; D/I
4 http://edu.fiware.org/course/view.php?id=118
5 http://www.linkedin.com/groups/XIFI-5058775
6 https://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=3357925&trk=anet_ug_hm
7 https://www.linkedin.com/groups/FIWARE-4239932
8 https://www.linkedin.com/groups/FIRE-3361373
9 https://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=4175774&trk=anet_ug_hm
10 https://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=3239106
11 https://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=43875&trk=anet_ug_hm&goback=%2Eanb_1310437
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- Living Labs LinkedIn12
– Living Labs, Smart Cities, End Users, SMEs, Public authorities
2,946 members; I
To extend the coverage to new communities, namely SMEs, Startups and non-public investors, the
tailored promotion campaigns (training and showcase videos) were run in year 2 to address the
following LinkedIn groups:
- On Startups13
- The Community For Entrepreneurs 448,222 members; I
- EBN14
- European BIC Network 1,191 members; I
- European Entrepreneurship & Innovation15
@ Stanford | Silicon Valley 14,995 members; I
- Onevest16
- The Startup & Investor Network 40,820 members; I
Opening of the discussions/promotions in these LinkedIn groups has been part of the specific tailored
dissemination/marketing campaigns in the WP9 (e.g. the published training and showcase videos). The
results, based on the LinkedIn contribution level metering17
, indicated that the contribution level
within the direct stakeholders related groups (infrastructure owners and operators) has been either
“Making an impact” or “Building influence”. Within the indirect stakeholders related groups (e.g.
Apps developers, SMEs, Web entrepreneurs, End Users) the contribution level reached “Finding an
audience”. These results show that with the indirect stakeholders XIFI has had more a supporting role
via the FI-WARE collaboration – at the same time creating basis for the more user centric Phase 3 of
the of the FI-PPP programme and the FI-CORE. The activities in these groups have further
complemented the XIFI web page and Twitter based dissemination to get more video views in the
XIFI YouTube channel, more hits on the XIFI web site and on the FIWARE Ops training portal (cf.
statistics in the Appendix A.5).
To conclude, WP9 has followed the planned strategy: during the 1st year, efforts concentrated on
targeting the direct stakeholders: “infrastructure owners and operators”, and also to a lesser extent
“public authorities” and “intermediaries”. Then, during the 2nd
year of the project, we extended our
reach for the promotion and engagement activities to embrace indirect stakeholders: “developers”
(SMEs and web entrepreneurs using the XIFI federation). Also, in year 2, the engagement of the other
identified stakeholders took place i.e. “sponsors and investors” and “end-users” although the latter one
was reached indirectly via collaboration with the FI-WARE project.
Based on the fact that the biggest community growth has happened within the “developers”
community and considering that the primary target was “infrastructure owners and operators”, we can
say that WP9 has played an essential role in supporting the XIFI Community Building activities and to
contribute to the success and sustainability of the whole FI-PPP programme.
12 https://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=1188387&trk=anet_ug_hm
13 https://www.linkedin.com/groups?viewMembers=&gid=2877
14 https://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2201839
15 https://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1573967
16 https://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=7440316
17 Contribution levels that shows members how influential they are in a group are group specific and recalculated every day.
The contribution levels are, in order: Getting started, Finding an audience, Making an impact, Building influence.
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3 FORWARD LOOKING STRATEGYAND CONCLUSIONS
3.1 Handover of the dissemination and promotion channels, tools and contacts
Close collaboration with the FIWARE Press Office since its establishment, as of summer 2014, has
allowed WP9 to guarantee a smooth and transparent hand-over of the most important dissemination
and communication channels and means already during the last couple of months of the XIFI project.
Regular input and activity via the FIWARE BaseCamp and the FIWARE Press Office communication
mailing list, which is grouping representatives from all Phase 2 and Phase 3 projects, has guaranteed
to push towards the whole FIWARE and FI-PPP community all important XIFI results, outcomes,
news and announcements.
The fact that several XIFI partners are also directly involved in FICORE and in several Phase 3
Accelerators has been of great help to guarantee the transition to be as smooth and as effective as
possible. Handover to the FIWARE Press Office and CONCORD-driven activities includes:
The responsibility for advertisement of the Federation of FIWARE nodes and of the FIWARE
Ops toolkit as part of the FIWARE offering, including communication channels as well as
existing promotional materials such as videos, flyers, logos, presentations, etc.
Some of the XIFI web pages have been already moved under the direct control of the
FIWARE Press Office so as to guarantee continuity and update of the specific information and
know-how that will be carried on by FICORE. This includes the FIWARE Ops pages as well
as the training and education ones.
The responsibility to select events at which the FIWARE Ops offering and the federation of
nodes shall be promoted. Several XIFI partners with technical know-how necessary to follow-
up on this task (including CREATE-NET, TI, Engineering, ATOS, etc.) are going to continue
to operate on this from the FICORE project.
At the end of the project, the XIFI website will be reviewed and information that would soon be
outdated will be removed or moved to an appropriate (archive) section. In case of important changes,
news or additions the web will still be updated even after the project end for at least 2 years.
Conclusions The XIFI dissemination and communication activities aimed at contributing to the success of the
whole FI-PPP programme and specifically to contribute to the sustainability of FIWARE-centred
efforts and offering in a broad perspective. This strategic perspective has been pushed forward through
the whole project duration, adapting at the operational level all the dissemination and communication
means according to the development of the work, the exploitation priorities of the XIFI partners, the
identified target stakeholders and the specific opportunities that emerged along the way.
The promotional activities have been fundamental to create awareness about the project’s work and
outcomes and directly contribute to grow the FI-PPP community as a whole. Orchestrated actions
were organised to serve the various XIFI partners and work packages, but also to support other FI-PPP
projects and cross-programme efforts. Dissemination and communication efforts were set and
implemented with the final objective of maximizing the impact of the work done during the project
life-time and possibly beyond its end.
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APPENDIX A
Appendix A.1 – Newsletters
4 newsletters were published in year 2. The complete list of XIFI newsletters is also available on the
website at: https://www.fi-xifi.eu/publications/newsletters.html
Figure 2: Newsletter.04
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Figure 3: Newsletter.05
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Figure 4: Newslette.06
Appendix A.2 – XIFI Leaflets
The complete collection of XIFI leaflets is also available on the website at: https://www.fi-
xifi.eu/publications/project-leaflet.html
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Figure 5: Updated Leaflets for ECFI-2 and then used in other events.
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Appendix A.3 – XIFI Posters
The complete collection of XIFI posters is also available on the website at: https://www.fi-
xifi.eu/publications/poster.html
Figure 6: Updated XIFI posters designed for ECFI-2 and used for other events
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Figure 7: Updated FIWARE Ops posters designed for ECFI-2 and used for other events.
Appendix A.4 – Promotional gadgets
In order to increase the visibility of FIWARE Ops, to attract stakeholders and visitors to the booth
during the most relevant events, and to thanks participants to the training sessions, a set of 3 gadgets
were designed. The plug adaptors and frisbees were created before the changes on the FIWARE brand,
that is why they are branded as FI-Ops
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Figure 8: FIWARE Ops gadget: Plug-adaptor.
Figure 9: FIWARE Ops gadget: Frisbee
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Figure 10: FIWARE Ops gadget: USB toolkit.
Appendix A.5 – Promotional videos
During this second year 5 new promotional videos were edited for different events. The complete
catalogue of XIFI videos is available at: https://www.youtube.com/user/xifiproject
Figure 11: Video for Smart Cities Expo 2014 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGDbHtO-OwM)
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Figure 12: Video FIWARE Ops by the technical team (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4inUHbTA0)
Figure 13: Video XIFI federation New nodes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4R_zwUhIAg)
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Figure 14: Video XIFI federation New nodes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sonXUV-BVN8)
Figure 15: Video XIFI federation New nodes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UekY6qc-LUI)
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Figure 16: FIWARE Lab (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeqXGR3m9Z0)
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Appendix A.5 – Further Data Concerning the Website
To have a complete vision of the evolution of the website, this report will take consideration of the
data from the beginning of the activity (July 2013) until the end of March 2015. For the entire project
life we had a total of 43’000 visits on the website with a very good ratio of unique visitors of 61%.
The peaks of visits are clearly identified during the attended events thanks to the social networking
activity, the promotion of the newsletters and the announcements of relevant information about the
project. The number of visits grows progressively with the project life, with a remarkable peak during
the promotion of the Open Call (Sep – Nov 2014)
Figure 17: Visits on XIFI Website
Figure 18: Unique visits on XIFI Website
The average pages views got an important rise during the project life. Regarding the hits per visit, we
have an average of 30.4. These figures are linked with the average duration time of the visits that has
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been increased progressively to get 4 minutes per visit. A clear interest on the updated content of the
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Figure 19: Pages and hits on XIFI Website
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Figure 20: Visit duration time on XIFI Website
The active promotion of the Open Call (Sept-Nov 2013) with a wide communication, videos and
social networking had significant impact on the visits and the downloaded files. This is also reflected
in the most visited pages; apart from the general pages of the project like “what is XIFI”, the Open
Call ones are the most visited. The dynamic content of the website (publications, news and events) are
in a very good position also showing that the users follow XIFI activity and that social networking is
spreading this information properly. The most downloaded file is the general XIFI presentation
followed by the Open Call documents. Since their publications, the Use Cases document has attracted
also an important number of downloads.
Most downloaded files Hits
1 XIFI-presentation-longv3.2.pdf 641
2 XIFI_Open_Call-Official.pdf 575
3 FI-OPS-presentation-SCWE_v3.pdf 398
4 FIWARE_Ops-Poster_web.pdf 341
5 XIFI_Architecture_and_Vision_INFODAY_FedericoF.pdf 319
6 FIWARE_Ops_Overview.pdf 316
7 XIFI-OC-Info-day-TechnicalRequirements.pdf 307
8 FIWARE_Ops-Leaflet_web.pdf 260
9 XIFI_demo_poster_A1_FIA_web.pdf 249
10 UC8_whitepaper.pdf 247
11 UC1_whitepaper.pdf 210
12 FI-Ops_LeafletFIA2014_web.pdf 207
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Most downloaded files Hits
13 D8.2_Socio-economic_factors_and_business_models_for_XIFI... 198
14 Guide_for_applicants.pdf 188
15 UC3_whitepaper.pdf 167
16 UC4_whitepaper.pdf 166
17 UC6_whitepaper.pdf 149
18 UC5_whitepaper.pdf 144
19 Agenda_of_XIFI_workshop_at_EUCNC_2014.pdf 142
20 UC2_whitepaper.pdf 133
Table 8: Most downloaded files
Most visited pages-url Visits
1 /home.html 24623
2 /Service.html 8839
3 /about-xifi/what-is-xifi.html 6703
4 /fiware-ops.html 6203
5 /publications.html 3426
6 /open-call/ 3286
7 /open-call/open-call-details.html 2620
8 /about-xifi/partners.html 1863
9 /fi-ops.html 901
10 /news.html 1825
11 /events.html 1642
12 /publications/deliverables.html 1547
13 /training.html 1452
14 /federation.html 1244
15 /fiware-ops/deployment.html 1216
16 /showcases.html 1189
17 /about-xifi/federation-members.html 1030
18 /about-xifi/stakeholders.html 803
19 /about-xifi/why-xifi.html 677
20 /fiware-ops/federation-management.html 602
Table 9: Most visited pages
Finally, the external sources of visits came mostly for the FI-PPP projects' websites and also from the
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XIFI partners’ websites as shown in the table below.
External sources of visits Hits
1 www.fi-ware.org/fiware-operations/ 3542
2 account.lab.fi-ware.org 1253
3 www.fi-ppp.eu/projects/xifi/ 1197
4 www.fi-ppp.eu/how-to-participate/ 864
5 help.lab.fi-ware.org 842
6 lab.fi-ware.org 672
7 www.fi-ware.org/about/ 347
8 www.horizon-research.ro/index.php 215
9 www.linkedin.com 98
Table 10: External sources of visits
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Appendix A.6 – Community Building Statistics
The Table 11: below describes the status and measures in the end of year 1 and end of year 2 of the
community building and stakeholder engagement activities in the XIFI project.
Channel End of year 1
End of year 2
XIFI LinkedIn members 76 161
Additional LinkedIn groups addressed 4 11
Additional LinkedIn members addressed 5 000
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XIFI News/Newsletter database 206 475
R & R programme - Gold 0 4
R & R programme - Silver 0 3
R & R programme - Bronze 0 4
XiPi mailing list: Infrastructure owners/operators globally 230 242
XIFI Partners 23 38
FIWARE Lab nodes in the federation 5 19
FIWARE Lab users/developers 1 591 8138
Participants to F2F training events 0 160
Participants to training webinars 0 171
[fiware], [filab] and [fiware-orion] tagged Q&A threads in
the Stack OverFlow 0 269
Training portal visitors 34 1 432
Table 11: Summary of the community building and stakeholder engagement