ARTICONF

Project name and Acronym

ARTICONF - smART socIal media eCOsytstem in a blockchaiN Federated environment

Project Code

825134

Call

ICT-28-2018 Future Hyper-connected Sociality

Financing Program

H2020

Promotor/ Coordinator

Universitaet Klagenfurt

Consortia Partners

MOG Technologies | Universiteit Van Amsterdam | The University of Edinburgh | University For information Science and Technology | Agilia Center SL | bitYoga AS | Towards io Ltd

Duration

36 months

Total Eligible Costs (€)

4.166.877,50

EU Grant Amount (€)

4.166.877,50

Main objective

Social media platforms are key technologies for next generation connectivity. Social media platforms have the potential to shape and mobilise patterns of communication, practices of exchange and business, creation, learning and knowledge acquisition. Typically, social media are centralised platforms with a single proprietary organisation controlling the network. This poses critical issues of trust and governance over created and propagated content. This is particularly problematic when data breaches are a regular phenomenon at the hands of centralised intermediaries. To address this, we need innovative solutions at the user level (i.e. that of consumers, prosumers, and businesses) and at the level of the underlying social media environment. This will facilitate global reach, improved trust, and decentralised control and ownership. ARTICONF researches and develops a novel set of trustworthy, resilient, and globally sustainable decentralised social media services. ARTICONF addresses issues of trust, time-criticality and democratisation for a new generation of federated infrastructure, to fulfil the privacy, robustness, and autonomy related promises that proprietary social media platforms have failed to deliver so far.

Objectives

Objective 1: Simplify the creation of open and agile social media ecosystem with trusted participation using a two-stage permissioned blockchain;
Objective 2: Automatically detect interest groups and communities using graph anonymization techniques for decentralised and tokenized decision-making and reasoning;
Objective 3: Elastically auto scale time-critical social media applications through an adaptive orchestrated Cloud edge-based infrastructure meeting application runtime requirements;
Objective 4: Enhance monetary inclusion in collaborative models through cognition and knowledge supply chains.

Work Packages

Work Package 1: Project management and communication.
Work Package 2: Requirements analysis and platform design.
Work Package 3: Trusted and decentralised social media interfaces and tools.
Work Package 4: Adaptive infrastructure provisioning in federated social media ecosystem.
Work Package 5: Semantic self-adaptive framework and distributed decision making.
Work Package 6: Collaborative knowledge based aggregation, cognition and analytics.
Work Package 7: Dissemination and exploitation.
Work Package 8: Ethics requirements.