Think-Trust

What is Think-Trust?

Think-Trust (FP7-216890) is a project funded by the European Commission's 7th Framework Information Society Technologies (IST) Programme, within the Unit F5 ICT for Trust and Security. It is investigating Trust, Security, Dependability, Privacy and Identity from ICT and Societal Perspectives.

Think-Trust is a Co-ordination Action (CA) project. It started on January 1st 2008, receives funding of 580,000 Euro and has a 30-month duration.

What is the project's strategic position?

Please click here for a presentation on the strategic coordinating role of Think-Trust.

What is Think-Trust's overall objective?

As the Information Society continues to develop and to grow, there is a very strong need to develop "smart", i.e. intelligent and user-friendly, ICT security environments that take full account of the values of liberty, democracy and privacy in our societies, while providing necessary Trust, Security and Dependability.

Think-Trust will begin the process of mapping or modelling these new ICT environments with the goal to define new areas of work in ICT Security Research, further EU's strategic thinking and positioning in the field, and influence the subsequent ICT technology developments in the coming years. For this, Think-Trust has set up an ICT Security Research Advisory Board (RISEPTIS) that will bring together the opinions and requirements of a comprehensive range of stakeholders with regard to trust, security and dependability issues in emerging ICT environments.

What is RISEPTIS?

RISEPTIS is a high level Advisory Board, established by the Think-Trust project. The acronym comes from Research and Innovation for SEcurity, Privacy and Trustworthiness in the Information Society.

What is the goal of RISEPTIS?

The overall goal of RISEPTIS is to provide visionary guidance on policy and research challenges in the field of security and trust in the Information Society.

Specifically, this goal will be achieved by formulating recommendations on:

Policy environment - The development of coherent legal and administrative frameworks, operational environments, and human behaviour relating to security, privacy and confidence, in view of the technological changes leading to and arising from the future Information Society;

Research Agenda - Future European research and development that can facilitate the creation of an Information Society that will be secure, whilst respecting freedom and privacy of its citizens, with due attention given to the ICT infrastructures, networks, services and applications.

RISEPTIS is supported in its mission by two expert Working Groups (WGs) that have been defined under its guidance, with the aim of providing and/or expanding on specific areas of expertise, as needed.

How will RISEPTIS disseminate its recommendations?

Think-Trust will publish two Interim and one Final Recommendations Reports during its lifecycle. The Interim Reports will be released at M15 (April 2009) and M21 (October 2009), with the Final Report coming in M30 (June 2010). Each will include annexes on the project's Working Groups.

The Final Public Report will also be released in June 2010; and will be completed by the RISEPTIS Editorial Board.

Think-Trust has also produced an Outreach Plan, in which it's dissemination activities are outlined.

Who is on the RISEPTIS Advisory Board?

RISEPTIS is composed of leading key scientific, industrial and policy actors, listed below, from a spectrum of relevant research disciplines and interests; together with representatives of ICT users. A full list of RISEPTIS members is provided.

What is the function of the project's Working Groups (WGs)?

The goal of the Working Groups is to contribute to the preparation of the high-level report described above; that is the ultimate objective of the project and the RISEPTIS AB. Furthermore, these WGs will serve as the main vehicles for further discussing the common cross-issues that were identified at the Bled Conference with other research communities working in the field of the Future Internet.

What specific areas does each WG address?

WG1: Security and Dependability in the Future Internet

This WG will discuss conceptual and implementation aspects across the spectrum of multi-layered network and services infrastructures including technological evolution and scalability and layering required for polymorphic networks, physical, virtual, service, and others.

WG2: Privacy and Trust in the Information Society

WG2 will discuss issues that are relating to the so-called user-centricity paradigm, where the users are given adequate tools to safeguard their privacy and protect their personal data and assets. This comprises: conceptual, implementation and tradeoffs within Human/machine/device ID (+ multiple personas) management; Data collection, data storage, data access and data protection rights for businesses and consumers; Usage facets: authentication, privacy, confidentiality; Personal privacy versus societal and national needs; and underlying standards and regulatory issues.

More information on the WGs and full membership list.