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Representing Prof Mike Walker
Director of Global R&D, Vodafone Group, &
Vice Chairman of Mobile VCE

“2020 Vision: Enabling the Digital Economy” is the paper produced by Mobile VCE's Industrial Member Visions Group and which has shaped new programme. Reflecting industry input from Europe, Asia and America, and from across the value web, we see a future where users' needs are met seamlessly, transparently and intuitively, a world where “It Just Is”. Technology to support IJI will transform business processes, commercial models and personal lifestyles.

Beyond the Mundane: Advanced user interaction – with devices, contextual information, personal environment – that have the potential to stimulate and enable completely new markets for personal lifestyle support services.

Designing IJI Networks in a Future of Unpredictable Service Requirements - Harnessing agile, dynamic and self-evolving networking technologies, to deliver unforeseen and, at times, apparently conflicting demands of users and operators (tussle), multiple different business models and the right user experience at the right cost point.

Reducing Energy and Opex: Significant reductions in the total power consumption of radio access networks, through Green network architecture and radio techniques which span the protocol stack, to collectively address the aspiration of 100x power reduction

UK research in this field is world leading – and EPSRC’s Strategic Partnership with Mobile VCE is engaging an Industry sector with the technology that deliver huge economic impact. ICT technology is the enabler of the Digital Economy - Mobile VCE’s industry members and this programme truly can make a difference.

At a time when industry research budgets are under economic pressures, Mobile VCE’s unique operating model offers companies major financial leverage, enabling them to maintain engagement in significant strategic research at low cost – ensuring the future, sharing costs, finding new partners, people and expertise.

The strategic role of ICT technology is recognised by Governments worldwide, evidenced by the recent interim report on Digital Britain. The UK is taking positive action to build upon and exploit its world leading academic research, and Mobile VCE's industry collaboration mechanisms to accelerate the economic benefifits of this transformative technology.