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16 May 08 - The Board of Tekes has donated first-year funding for the Future Internet (FI) programme of the Strategic Center of Excellence in Science, Technology and Innovation in ICT (Finnish acronym ICT SHOK) run by Tivit Oy.
The consortium of this major national initiative consists of Ericsson, Nokia, Nokia Siemens Networks, TeliaSonera, CSC, HIIT, Tampere University of Technology, TKK, University of Helsinki, University of Jyväskylä, and VTT.
The focus area director of the FI programme is Reijo Juvonen from Nokia Siemens Networks and the academic coordinator Professor Jukka Manner from HIIT and TKK/Comnet.
The total volume of the work planned for the first year (1 April 2008 - 31 March 2009) is some 50 person-years and is expected to grow significantly in later years.
Project web site (under construction) www.futureinternet.fi »
Tekes information on ITC SHOK (in Finnish) »
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