The IV Summer School AMETIC-UPM at Segovia was the chosen scenario to carry out the first validation process of the di.me project
From July, the 8th to 11th, 2012, more than 400 participants were gathered at the 8th Summer School in La Granja de San Ildefonso (Segovia), to discuss some of the current trending topics. One of the courses, attended by almost 100 people including student and professionals, was organized by AMETIC in collaboration with the Technical University of Madrid (UPM). It dealed with the role of information and communications technology in the socio-economic environment. The seminars feature lectured from renowned industry professionals and academics as well as roundtable discussions, and were focusing on the convergence process of technological, market, business, and social factors to meet the challenges posed to reach economic sustainability and job creation.
With occasion of this event, the di.me project consortium was validating their first research prototype for advanced, privacy-ensuring social communication. Under the motto "Be part of the European R&D! Be part of the future!”, participants at the event were encouraged to test the userware prototype during the four-day seminar.
More than 100 personal private servers running di.me userware were setup for attendees. A presentation held by the coordinator of the project on 9th as well as a booth at the main entrance of the venue helped the attendees with their first contact to di.me.
The participants at the course welcomed the di.me investigation: the prototype application became a nice way to show the improvements which di.me purposes on the field of the digital identity management.
On the last day of the course the consortium organized a workshop with a group of selected student of the technical University of Madrid, who were attending the course. Members of the consortium explained the R&D topics which di.me is working on to the students and guided them on the use of the first userware prototype. The students, also expert social networks and mobile applications users, participated actively in the discussions proposed by the researchers. By filling up some questionnaires, they provided their feedback on the usability of the application as well as some suggestions for the future of the development.
On Friday, July, the 12th ,the consortium held a board meeting to discuss about the next steps an development, evaluation and dissemination of the project, setting up the upcoming calendar
Related links for more information
- Post @ www.eurotechies.eu : How To Securely Manage Your Digital Identity
- Pictures of the event @ www.facebook.com/dimeproject
- Video of Fabian Hermann's presentation.