Vision
The current telecommunication and ICT services world is characterised by a clear distinction between users / subcribers and the entities providing them wih services. So we have from one side Telco operators and Internet services and from the other we have “locked-in” end-users. Very simply put, monetisation in such service provision context is clearly relying upon either ownership of subscribers (i.e. paying monthly fees for access and service bundles) or substained by the so called “network effect” of Web 2.0 services, which creates streams of click-based revenues. To complete the picture, we then have niche markets where specific communities’ needs in terms of ICT services are met by specific ad-hoc solutions individually tailored to meet those requirements.
A marked shift towards open services and a gradual change in the “end-users mix” where proactiveness is becoming more the rule than the exception is undermining the above illustrated status-quo and the associated business models. There is a need to promote service innovation through open multisided platforms that provide both, technically composable components as well as dynamic means for performance monitoring and compensation.
The vision for the OSCO group sits within this wider context: our aim is to create solutions that not only fulfill end-users needs and foster prosumerism but can also bring sustainable revenues to the stakeholders who then have to invest in the platforms that instantiate those solutions.
About OSCO expertise
OSCO (Open Systems for COmmunities) group was funded in 2006 by Luigi Telesca. Its objective is to support the evolution of business organization in networked society.Activities in the OSCO group span from software delivery platforms and how can those dynamically exploit underlying infrastructure resources to the understanding of socio-economic implications surrounding future communication services. Multidisciplinary expertise within the team also encompasses a number of different topics such as data management, models for generic offer-demand negotiation, context-aware networks, software services validation and classification.
The OSCO area is coordinated by Raffaele Giaffreda
