The FIspace Foundation Heritiana Ranaivoson Dissemination and Exploitation Manager iMinds

What do we have? END-USERS ICT COMPANIES RESEARCH CENTRES Large Small Universities Public Administration Retailers Logistics Farmers Supermarkets

How de we organize? END-USERS / COMMUNITIES ICT COMPANIES RESEARCH CENTRES Large Small Universities Public Admi. Retailers Logistics Farmers Supermarkets Neutral / Rotating Chairperson FIspace Foundation BOARD

Envisaged governance structure Phase III Maintenance Experimental Environment Commercial Environment BOARD FIspace Foundation FIspace Lab with open specification platform FIspace Commercial Instance [by a consortium member] FIspace Commercial Instance [by a third party] Ownership

Objective of Foundation: Guarantee that the instances are: 1.Not dominated by any single organisation and is affordable and robust – but also available commercially, meaning that companies that exploit FIspace must earn a rate of return 2.Structured and standardised 3.Available for new ecosystems 4.Instances that are compatible by a dispute resolution process 5.FIspace continually grow and evolve This can be done by: Ownership (of open specification [move to standards] and governance) In an open source attitude (like Linux or W3C) As independent organisation that organises FIspace stakeholders

Activities of the Foundation 1.Manages the components and standards in Fispace communication 2.Grant the FIspace trademark/product (FIspace certification) 3.Markets the principles of FIspace to establish new ecosystems and get new parties on board 4.Resolves disputes between parties using FIspace standards and components 5.Agrees on the expansion of the FIspace functionalities and includes new standards and components in new releases

FIspace Foundation Phase 3 projects FIspace project Commercial Instances M24 (April 2015) M42 (September 2016) FIspace Lab Roadmap

Questions?

Potential revenue streams FIspace App Store My FIspace Develop Apps Pre-configure Configure & Use Systems One or more commercial FIspace Platform(s) App developerBusiness Configurator End User Advertiser Access fee Use Fee Access fee (e.g. CargoSwApp) Pay for app use (e.g. Spraying Advice) Sponsored app FIspace Foundation

FIspace Knowledge Transfer Components (Functional view) Facilitation (WP500) Technical Team A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Phase 3 applicants Phase 3 developers Accelerators

FIspace Knowledge Transfer Components (Tools view) Facilitation (WP500) Technical Team A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Phase 3 applicants Phase 3 developers Accelerators

Why a Foundation?

Balance in the Foundation For the commercial exploitation we have to balance interests in the current consortium. Business companies like K+N and Kverneland (see “10 commandments” in extra deliverable ): – Should not be killed in product portfolio development in 1 IT company or 1 consortium – Want not to be locked in by one product but want one neutral platform on standards and competition in services like hosting IT companies like ATOS or LimeTri have showed some interest to commercially exploit different instances on their own

How to set up the Foundation It will be based in The Netherlands Should be done in the next months. Draft version of statutes are already available. Document do be signed to transfer the IPRs to the Foundation is also available. Software is developed as Open Source.

Next Steps  Call in FIspace Foundation TaskForce for board members of the Foundation.  Sign the statutes with a notary  Detail Foundation activity plan 2015 and 2016  Sign the “IPRs handover” document of IPR from technical partners to the Foundation.  Store the open source IPR on the website of the Foundation  Sign contract between the FIspace Foundation and the companies regarding FIspace instances

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