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In the frame of the National Conference of Civil Registries of the Republic of Argentina, held in Tierra del Fuego (Ushuaia) in 14-16/05/2014, UBITECH was invited, as the sole contractor and implementer of the RENAPER Secure Data Exchange Platform, to give a live demo of the federal platform, to present the current status of the provinces joining it, as well as to discuss with the provinces´ representatives any requests or possibilities for expanding its current functionalities.

Until the date of the national conference the provinces of Neuquen, Formosa, Tucumán and Corrientes had actively joined the federal platform, while, in the frame of the conference activities and discussions, all the other provinces decided to actively join and participate in the RENAPER Secure Data Exchange Platform – representing and covering almost the whole population of the Republic of Argentina.

Currently, UBITECH is in the process of investigating and negotiating a set of additional functionalities that can further enhance specific aspects of the federal platform of RENAPER.

UBITECH participated and submitted a proposal in the FI-STAR Open Call for additional Project Partners that has been launched in September 2013 with deadline on 20 November 2013. After the evaluation of the 83 proposals received (from 21 countries and 115 proposing organizations) by independent experts, which included off-line evaluations and physical consensus meetings, UBITECH has been invited for negotiations and inclusion in the FI-STAR project consortium.

Continue reading UBITECH wins the FI-STAR Open Call for additional Project Partners and becomes a full consortium member

UBITECH organised and hosted the Athens kick-off meeting of the DISYS research project, officially started on March 1st, 2014. The project is partially funded by the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF) (Grant Agreement No 1621-BET-2013) and runs in the period March 2014 – July 2015.

DISYS project aims to study, design and develop an intelligent system for personalized dietary recommendations, which will take into account the nutritional profile of the consumer and selected health indicators (e.g., blood sugar levels, blood pressure, etc.) and will propose “healthy” meals to the consumer which can be consumed in a restaurant.

UBITECH participates in the design, technical specification and implementation of the Nutritional Profile Layer, integrating the business logic required so that the consumer can introduce self – reported personal data such as eating habits and basic medical information (e.g. allergies or conditions like diabetes), which are mapped to the DISYS Semantic Model. UBITECH participates in the implementation of the nutritional profile of the consumer, based on which the dietary recommendations will rely. The Nutritional Profile Layer also integrates the business logic required amongst others for the nutritional analysis of dietary menus and the mapping of this information to the DISYS Semantic Model.For more information, please visit the project’s website or contact us.

Source: http://www.gsrt.gr/Financing/Files/ContentFiles322/katalogos_protaseon.pdf

SEVT with the support of UBITECH organized on 28th of March 2014 in Athens, a workshop to present the Linked2Media platform to its members. The concept of the workshop was to have a small number of companies in order the participants to really test the platform.

After a short introduction of the Linked2Media Research for SMEs Associations project (that is partially co-funded by the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Commission under the Grant Agreement FP7-286714), the research engineers of UBITECH have performed a short demo of the Linked2Media platform and allowed the real testing of it by the participating Greek food companies’ representatives. In total we had 8 participants coming from 6 companies: Nestlé Group, G. Kallimanis S.A., EZA Hellenic Breweries of Atalanti S.A., MANDREKAS S.A., Mondelez Greece (ex Kraft Foods) and JOTIS S.A. Related material can be found here.

Sources:
– http://www.sevt.gr
– http://www.linked2media.eu/?q=node/66

UBITECH has joined EC VP Neelie Kroes during the opening of the 2014 Future Internet Assembly, on March 18th, at Megaron Athens International Conference Center. VP Kroes has delivered a FIA2014 opening keynote speech, after which she met with selected Greek start-ups & entrepreneurs – including UBITECH’s R&D Director Dr. Panagiotis Gouvas – for a “Meet and Greet” closed session.

During the closed session, UBITECH’s Panagiotis Gouvas has argued for the adoption from the European Commission of a branding, certification and global promotion mechanism for software solutions produced by the European software industry, as a vehicle for strengthening the competitiveness and leveraging the visibility of the European software vendors (especially SMEs).

UBITECH has participated in the Pre-FIA Workshop entitled “From data services to cloud services: concepts, applications and visions”, which took place at the Megaron Athens International Conference Center on Monday, March 17th, 2014. The workshop looked at a future of industrial leadership reached with the key enabling technology of Cloud Computing. A future in which a multi-cloud ecosystem exists, within which enterprises’ IT environments are transformed into a matrix of interwoven infrastructure, platform and application services delivered by multiple providers.

Academic and industrial stakeholders from various ongoing cloud computing projects (Broker@Cloud, GloNet, PaaSage, Cloud4SOA, PaaSport) presented the latest developments in the field and discuss about concepts, applications, and visions that will shape future multi-cloud enterprise ecosystems. In particular, our R&D Director, Dr. Panagiotis Gouvas has introduced concepts and opportunities on applications on multi-clouds based on our experiences from the PaaSport FP7 co-funded research project.

Source: http://www.fi-athens.eu/program/workshops/data-services-cloud-services-concepts-applications-and-visions

The Secure Data Exchange Platform implemented by UBITECH for the “Registro Nacional de las Personas” (RENAPER) of the Ministry of Interior and Transport of the Republic of Argentina has been tested and piloted in four provinces of the Argentinian Republic, namely Neuquen, Tucumán, Corrientes and Formosa, during March and April 2014. The successfully executed test cases included the exchange of digitally signed birth, marriage and death certificates, allowing the functional evaluation and acceptance testing of the electronic platform and the familiarization of the provincial public servants with the platform’s digital formats, services and functionality.

Going a step further, the Province of Neuquen, due to the advanced stage of digitization of its civil status records and the sophisticated provincial interconnection plan, has achieved to utilize the electronic platform for exchanging digitally signed certificates between the province and other provincial or federal legal entities requesting civil status documents from citizens.

Continue reading RENAPER Data Exchange Platform implemented by UBITECH allows the secure interchange of Civil Status Certificates among the Provinces of the Republic of Argentina

The Federation of Hellenic Food Industries (SEVT) in collaboration with UBITECH performed a demonstration of the Linked2Media platform in the margins the conference “Research and Innovation to foster the competitiveness of the European Agri-Food and Seafood sectors”, which was organized by the Greek Presidency of the Council of the EU together with the Directorate General for Research and Innovation of the EC (DG RTD) in collaboration with the Federation of Hellenic Food Industries (SEVT) and the European and the Hellenic Technology Platform “Food for Life”. The conference held in Athens, on 10 – 11 March 2014. The conference aimed to discuss research and innovation as valuable tools for fostering the competitiveness of the European food sector and for promoting healthy and safe diets among Europe’s citizens.Related material can be found here.

UBITECH has participated in the Athens kick-off meeting of the PaaSport research project, officially started on December 1st, 2013. The project is partially funded by European Commission under FP7 Research for SME Associations programme (Grant Agreement No 605193) and runs in the period December 2013-November 2016.

The PaaSport project, fostering the creation of a “semantically-enhanced marketplace of interoperable platform-as-a-service offerings for the deployment and migration of business applications of SMEs”, focuses on resolving the data and application portability issues that exist in the Cloud PaaS market through a flexible and efficient deployment and migration approach.

UBITECH has introduced in PaaSport the concept of “Semantically Interoperable PaaS Solutions”, as Cloud PaaS systems and offerings with the ability to overcome the semantic incompatibilities and communicate, referring to the ability of applications and their data to seamlessly be deployed on and/or migrated between Cloud PaaS offerings that are using the same technological background but different data (information) models and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). Moreover, the role of UBITECH in PaaSport aims at the implementation of a set of CAMP-compatible adapters for PaaS platforms that handles mainly the deployment, undeployment, start, stop and migration of an application on a selected PaaS offering. Finally, UBITECH will utilize the corporate Cloud infrastructure, comprised of an openstack and a cloudfoundry deployment, for the support and execution of value-added demonstrators and scenarios proving the business benefits of the PaaSport concepts and tools.

Source: http://paasport-project.eu/

UBITECH has participated in the kick-off meeting that took place in Athens of the LinDA research project officially started on December 1st, 2013. The project is partially funded by European Commission under FP7-ICT research programme (Grant Agreement No 610565) and runs in the period December 2013-November 2015.

The LinDA project, entitled “Enabling Linked Data and Analytics for SMEs by renovating public sector information”, addresses one of the most significant challenges of the usage and publication of Linked Data, the renovation and conversion of existing data formats into structures that support the semantic enrichment and interlinking of data. The set of tools provided by LinDA will assist enterprises, especially SMEs which often cannot afford the development and maintenance of dedicated information analysis and management departments, in efficiently developing novel data analytical services that are linked to the available public data and enterprise data.

The role of UBITECH in LinDA aims at the implementation of libraries and applications for end-user – driven Linked Data Analytics and Data Mining, based on existing Java-based components (like Weka and Java ML) extended to point to RDF as source format, specifically targeted to leverage the potential of Linked Data sources, especially in terms of pattern and link analysis. Moreover, UBITECH will support the end-user SMEs for the adoption and deployment of the LinDA solutions as well as the enrichment of the LinDA visualisation applications library for the business intelligence & management consultants market, the environmental sector and the media industry.

Source: http://linda-project.eu/?p=46