1. The general framework | 2. The 3rd Research Plan for Catalonia (2001-2004)

2.4.2.6. Information society

Actions in this Selected Area which covers a wide range of multidisciplinary themes, are the responsibility of all Government Ministries of the Generalitat and will be co-ordinated by the Secretariat for the Information Society at the Ministry of Universities, Research and the Information Society.

Objectives

• Developing infrastructures and communications networks, both fixed and mobile, allowing inter-modal access to broadband services. Promoting the development of a new generation of systems of mobile and cordless communications applicable in various fields.
• Furthering R&D activities in the fields of micro-electronics, opto-electronics, nanotechnologies, radio-frequency and microwaves.
• Promoting development of natural language technologies to improve interaction with services. Systems for a multilingual society. Promoting technology and tools to stimulate the creation of multimedia content.
• Developing computer security systems to ensure secure communication and stimulate the introduction of electronic trade and access to public services.
• To improve Catalan Government service provision by extending the use of ICTs.

Information system. Systems of organisation, management and exploitation of sources of non-structured, multi-modal and multilingual information. Tools for semantic, multimedia and multilingual research. Techniques of personalisation. Systems of social attention.

Communication networks. Safety. Personalised access to communication services by means of heterogeneous network access. Portability of services, especially broadband services, via any sort of network access. Service quality standards. Network security. Advanced technologies for validation and security of electronic transactions. Technologies for data authentication, confidentiality and protection. Techniques and systems for prevention of unauthorised access to information systems and copyright infringements.

Generation of content. Audiovisual and multimedia publication systems and tools. Generation of content from multimedia and other databases. New technologies and new models for education and training. Technologies for personalisation of content production.

Speech technologies. Multilingual design of web sites. Automatic translation systems for written and spoken language. Development of interfaces between natural languages and knowledge society applications and services. Semantic access to the web. Methods of structuring digital contents and indexing based on content analysis.

Supercomputation. High speed, high capacity computer systems. Maintenance of high capacity computing, information processing and communication infrastructures. Distributed systems architecture. Computer vision systems. Application sharing and interaction, geographically distributed resources. Software engineering.

Optoelectronics. Technology and architectures for managing totally optical networks. Systems of inter-operation of core optical networks with the various access networks. Advanced devices and optoelectronic sub-systems.

Microelectronics. Intelligent sensors and advanced high-quality visualisers. Micro-electromechanical circuits and systems (MEMS). Multi-sensor systems. Advanced storage devices. High-speed devices with high energy efficiency.

Nanotechnologies. Development of technologies to manufacture, install and utilise complex dimension systems ranging from the atom up to 100nm.Molecular electronics and quantum computation. Application of high-capacity sensors.

Radio frequency. Advanced systems and technologies for radio frequency and microwaves. Techniques for measuring and modelling. Integrated monolithic circuits of microwaves. Super conductivity applications in radio frequency. Techniques of expanded spectrum. Miniature and multi-band antennas.

Tele-detection and geo-matics. Advanced systems of radiometry and tele-dectection. Advanced geographic information systems. Lidar systems. Advanced systems for radio navigation and radio positioning.

Management and public services. Possible repercussions of the new technologies of the knowledge society. On-line management. Impact of the new technologies on the political organisation of Catalonia.

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