Collaborative Solutions in the Single European Electronic Market (SEEM)

Abstract

Not only will Collaborative solutions increase productivity, but, provided that a Single European Electronic Market (SEEM) is in place, they will also foster innovation as a result of the positive effects on creativity coming from interconnecting culturally-diversified working environments. Multidisciplinary research efforts into the virtualization of resources, utility-like connectivity, self-established networks of wireless sensors and actuators, and next generation of semantic web and dynamic web services are required to complete the Single European Market and achieve the SEEM. These research efforts will pave the way for achieving the strategic vision of SEEM, i.e. an electronic environment allowing seamless synchronous and asynchronous interaction between European stakeholders, and with the virtualized environment, to achieve common objectives. SEEM will lead to a reduction of the cost of interactions, an increase in trust and confidence among companies and individuals, applications easy to install, take up and use, and an empowerment of people to innovate in what they do best.