RICERCA ITALIANA     

Media Integration and Communication Center

Università degli Studi di Firenze

Abstract

The recent advancement and spread of information and telecommunication technologies, the development of Internet as a global network infrastructure, create competitive opportunities in development of new services and products based on multimedia information and on its communication and broadcast. Notable examples include e-commerce, education instruction and training, television, editing and publishing, management of cultural heritage, personal communication and info-mobility services. This process is expected to rapidly evolve. Directing the exploitation of these opportunities according to the general interest requires a joint evolution of institutional juridical instruments, at different territorial levels of regulation, which takes into account constraints and perspectives of technological evolution.



The novelty of Internet, its rapid growth, the complexity of technological juridical and social issues that it raises, its international scale, the different interests that it involves, require an inter-disciplinary investigation approach. In this context , the actual technological transfer from research to enterprise passes through convergence and integration of multiple areas of know-how, addressing not only technological-scientific aspects (related with telecommunication networks and applications for processing and presentation of multimedia information) but also the methods for the evaluation of the actual impact of technologies on>>>

Principal Investigator

Vito CAPPELLINI Università degli Studi di FIRENZE

International Relationship

The Center will cooperate in the development of research activity with national research centers, enterprises and institutions, as well as with international research centers. This will include the exchange of researchers, the joint development of research projects and finalized studies, the cooperation in the development of prototypes and pre-competitive applicative solutions.



In particular, the cooperation will involve those institutions that have since now an established contact or agreement with the individual groups of research leaded by the Center proposers. These presently include:



1/7) Centers of the University of Florence

- Centro Studi Telecomunicazioni presso il Dipartimento di Diritto Pubblico. Rif: Prof.Paolo Barile;

- Master in Multimedia, Università degli Studi di Firenze, RAI, Mediateca Regionale Toscana, Firenze. Rif: Prof.Alberto Del Bimbo.



2/7) National Research Centers

- CRE - Centro Ricerche in Ergonomia (Università degli Studi di Firenze, Università degli Studi di Siena, ASL Empoli, ASL Firenze, ASL Siena, Regione Toscana, Firenze, Italia. Rif: Dott. R. Tartaglia.

- ITIM - Istituto per le Tecnologie Informatiche e Multimediali, CNR, Milano, Italia. Rif: Dott. A. Della Ventura.

- CNIT Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni, Parma, Italia. Rif: Prof. Giancarlo>>>

Research Objectives

The activity of the Center is coordinated by a Scientific Committee, with a Scientific President, a Director, and a Control Committee.

1/4) The Scientific Committee steers the major directions on which the Center develops its research and fosters for specific project proposals. Every year, the Committee selects a number of specific projects that will be funded in the subsequent year.

The Committee is formed by experts with recognized competence in the different disciplines of activity of the Center, coming from the academia and from the enterprise context. Specifically, the Committee is comprised of six academic members coming in equal number from the three areas of Telecommunications, Information Engineering, and Juridical Studies, and of an equal number of members coming from productive structures and institutions that will formally join the center. Members last three years and can be re-appointed.

2/4) The President of the Scientific Committee is elected among the members of the Committee, with the charge of calling the meetings and coordinating the activity of the Committee. The President lasts three years and cannot be re-appointed. For each project funded by the Center, the Director appoints a Project Director among the experts in the disciplines addressed, with the delegation of managing the personnel allocated to the project and with the responsibility to carry out the project according to planned objectives and time and>>>