Welcome

Welcome to the website of OPAALS (Open Philosophies for Associative Autopoietic Digital Ecosystems), a multi-disciplinary network of research excellence for developing the science and technology behind Digital Ecosystems.

Digital Ecosystems represent the next generation of Internet usage. Applicable to many fields, they will perhaps have the greatest effect in enabling Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) to compete on the global stage. Based on open and low-cost peer-to-peer architectures, Digital Ecosystems represent the future of technical, social, and economic aspects of the connected world.

Brazilian government DE to headline at 3rd OPAALS conference

Sept 2009

The next public OPAALS conference will be in Brazil in the second half of March 2010. Still in the planning stages, it will be hosted within a wider ICT event. The conference will be used to launch the first results of the RTS case study, which is one of the first deployments of a Digital Ecosystem involving a substantial user base.

More details will be published here soon.

July 2009

• Phase III and Sustainability
• Interim Review Feedback
• OPAALS Devolves its Web Presence
• OPAALS Research Exchanges: Phase III Opportunities
• Abstracts of Submitted Deliverables Now Available
• Coming soon: 'Dissemination Storehouse'
• Articles
• Work Package News

January 2009

• New Integration and Coordination Team announced
• 2nd General Meeting report
• Latin American mission (EULAKS)
• Social science survey

August 2008

• Welcome from new Project Officer Florent Frederix
• Report on Digital Ecosystems at regions conference
• Summer school video available
• News and updates from each of the Work Packages

November 2007

• News of the first offical project review
• Report on the November EC Digital Ecosystems conference in Brussels
• Feature article on the integration of OPAALS disciplines
• News and updates from each of the Work Packages

June 2007

• Virtual researtch space a reality
• Digital Ecosystems repository launched
• Mathematical symmetry the key to life's computer?
• Language is the key to interdisciplinary research