Vision
Business organizations and communities in general are facing the big challenge of a continuing, never ending evolutionary process that modifies the forces within their own ecosystem both for exogenous and endogenous reasons. Future computing environments and software architectures are following those societal changes becoming omnipresent and offering a multitude of e-services which will be accessible anywhere anytime. These e-services can be exploited by using many mobile devices (e.g. laptops, PDAs, mobile/smart phones, wearable computers) communicating through various network technologies. In such environment, content and services spread around a disconnected infrastructure.
In these context users can securely access on-demand services and content tailored to the resource-constrained client devices and represented in the way that maximizes user perception and understanding. At the same time the users can adapt, modify and distribute content and services creating its own networked ecosystem that could evolve over time. The potential scenarios envision for next generation electronic applications & services, include next generation e-business ecosystems and support for mobile users (on the road, at home, etc).
About OSCO
OSCO (Open distributed Systems for Communities and business Organizations) Department wants to leverage on the flatting of the world as an opportunity to support with its research the evolutionary changes in Business organization and Networked Communities.Our mission is to draw a new multidisciplinary research approach rooted both in empirical data and applicative activities, and legitimated by theoretical elaboration to develop a new and consistent perspective on ICT in Knowledge Society thought innovative Economic/Business models, ITC infrastructures and Software Technologies which take advantage of the dynamic interaction (co-opetition) of several actors in order to produce systemic results, innovation and economic development.
We'll provide knowledge and tools to create and sustain new kind of business and social relations, enabled to embed economic agents, social routines, material and immaterial resources which can be activated anywhere and anytime.
The OSCO area is coordinated by Luigi Telesca, (luigi.telesca
create-net.org).
Born in June 2006, OSCO Group is the evolution of the former ICT applied to Communities & Businesses Group.
