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South African
ICT Research and Innovation
Programmes and
Collaboration Opportunities
for Europeans
Dr Barend Taute
Manager: ICT Contract R&D
CSIR Meraka Institute
January 2012
Broadband is coming to Africa
What characterises the ICT market?
(South) African ICT Trends that define the need for innovation:
• Penetration of Mobiles – Mobile penetration has reached 100% in South Africa - livelihood, access information and connect
• Increased Spend on Entertainment – interested in Mobile Gaming, Ringtones, Images, and other products and services that can be utilised and accessed via a mobile device;
• Companies targeting Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP) Markets – provide the most reliable source of growth in the ICT market.
• Importance of Social Issues – Poverty Reduction, Service Delivery Efficiency, Job Creation much more important than wealth creation;
• Affordability and Localisation – Technologies must be affordable and localised, as most consumers can not afford to follow the latest trends in technology
• Younger Population – This influences technology needs and requirements
From ICT Roadmap,
Dept of Science and Technology, South Africa
Who we are
What we do
Current collaboration
Vision for future collaboration
Specific areas of importance
The CSIR mandate 'The objects of the CSIR are, through directed and particularly
multidisciplinary research and
technological innovation, to foster, in
the national interest and in the fields
which in its opinion should receive
preference, industrial and scientific
development, either by itself or in co-
operation with principals from private or
public sectors, and thereby to contribute
to the improvement of the quality of
life of the people of the Republic...'
(Scientific Research Council Act 46 of 1988, amended by Act 71 of 1990)
Our line department is the Department of Science and Technology (DST)
directed multidisciplinary research
technological innovation
industrial and scientific
development
quality of life
Facts and figures: Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR, since 1945)
• 2354 members of staff • 1551 in Science/Engineering • 457 with Masters’ • 286 with PhDs • 53% of base black • 33% of base female
• Parliamentary Grant - Baseline Grant: R480m - Ring fenced: R83m
• Contract Research: R873m • Royalties: R36m • Total operating income: R1 472m
People and demographics
Financials
10 Rand ≈ 1 €
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CSIR Units and Centres
through multidisciplinary research addressing challenges in
health, energy, the built environment, the natural
environment, manufacturing and the information society
Operating Units
Biosciences
Built Environment
Meraka Institute (Information and Communication Technology)
Defence, Peace, Safety and Security
Modelling and Digital Science
Material and manufacturing
Natural Resources and the Environment
National Research Centres
National Laser Centre
Emerging Research Areas
Mobile Intelligent Autonomous Systems
Nano-technology
Photonics
CSIR Consulting and Analytical
Services
Main ICT R&D
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CSIR Meraka Institute
• Focussed on information and communication technology
• Established in April 2005
• Largest concentration of ICT Researchers in South Africa
• 247 staff and students, mainly in Pretoria and Cape Town
• Dept Science & Technology as primary stakeholder
- ICT research and development implementation
• Active R&D Collaboration
- Depts Communications, Arts/Culture, Education, Health, …
- South African universities and industry
- Africa, Europe, the Americas, Asia
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MERAKA VISION
We aim to accelerate South Africa's development towards an
information society
through our excellent research, development and innovation,
where everyone can
create, access, utilise and share information and knowledge
to their individual and collective benefit.
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Competence Areas, Research Groups and Cross-cutting Initiatives
Centre for High Performance Computing
Very Large Scale
databases
Real-Time Video Coding
Wireless Computing and
Networks
Advanced Sensor Networks
ICT for Earth Observation
Remote Sensing Research
eoApps
Speech technologies
Speech Applications
Integrative systems,
platforms and technologies
Next Generation ICT and Mobile Architectures
Internet of Things
Trusted Network
Infrastructures and Platforms
Living Labs and methodologies
Cyber-infrastructure
Networks and Media
Earth Observation Science and Information Technology
Human language technologies
& Knowledge
technologies
Knowledge Representation &
Reasoning
Enterprise Knowledge
Engineering and Management
SANReN
SAGrid
ICT for Service delivery
ICT for Rural development
Education/Mobile learning
ICT for Health
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Human Language Technologies
and Knowledge Technologies
the processing of data, information and knowledge
in natural or artificial languages
Human Language Technologies
Speech Technology Speech synthesis, machine learning and automatic speech recognition
GOOGLE VOICE – South African language added
Speech Applications Speech dialogue systems, application discovery
Knowledge Technologies:
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Domain representation through ontology engineering and reasoning, description logics.
Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research - joint venture with the University of KwaZulu-Natal
Enterprise Knowledge Engineering and Management With special focus on human factors issues
Lwazi Project
• Automatic Speech Recognition: – achieving speaker-independent accuracies of
greater than 80%
• Text To Speech: – Natural-sounding for all official South African
languages
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Networks and Media
Wireless Computing and Networks
Wireless mesh networks, cognitive radio and smart antennas for energy-efficient wireless communication networks
Real time video coding
Source coding and processing of video for real-time delivery over IP-networks
Advanced Sensor Networks
Applications in extreme and hazardous environments and platforms for decision and action on metropolitan service delivery.
enable ubiquitous networking and broadband
benefits over resource constrained environments
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One example shared with the African
continent:
Wireless Networks and Broadband for All
Connecting the unconnected in the rural regions of the world
requires
“exceptionally efficient and energy aware” and “predominantly self managing” and “low
cost” “wireless backhauls”
that can utilize
“heterogeneous link layer technologies” of “integrated network providers” as
necessary.
Broadband for All in Rural Areas
Installation of Do-It-Yourself kit for wireless communications
Typical landscape in rural South Africa
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Earth Observation Science and IT
Research Development and Innovation using Earth
Observation to monitor, detect and manage wide area
societal challenges
ICT for Earth Observation – open source based software architectures, middleware and spatial databases for collection and analysis of spatial data from remotely located sensors to solve wide ranging earth observation problems
Remote Sensing Research – research into advanced processing techniques of satellite and remotely sensed images and signals to solve earth observation problems
eoApps – prototyping and development of automated earth observation applications and services to meet market needs
Environment Urban Monitoring Fire
Automatic Fire Information Service
AFIS II (www.wamis.co.za)
Currently • National Control Grid Staff
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Integrative systems, platforms
and technologies Extending the reach of ICT, enabling the inclusive
use of ICTs and supporting national priorities
through capabilities in Software, Web, Mobile, Cloud
Computing, Networking and Hardware technology
Next Generation ICT and Mobile Architectures Dependable scalable robust future proof architectures and solutions to enable an inclusive information society
Internet of Things Engineering Group Cloud computing for large scale computing & data manipulation combines with input & output modalities including “smart” devices, sensors and tags
Trusted Network Infrastructures and Platforms Network infrastructures with built-in security, dependability and privacy to support complex distributed systems and transactions.
Living Labs and methodologies User driven innovation and real world validation of technology
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Cyberinfrastructure
coordinated aggregation of software, hardware and
other technologies as well as human expertise to
enable discoveries in science and engineering
and combining disparate resources to provide
an advanced integrated
computational and data infrastructure
Centre for High Performance Computing – Flagship supercomputing initiative including fastest supercomputer in Africa (TOP500 listed). Reconfigurable computing, importing codes, building capacity
SANReN – 10Gb/s National research network will soon connect 200+ facilities
Very Large Scale databases – emerging area dealing with hosting of very large scale data sets in different domains
SAGrid – middleware enabling collaboration; Infrastructure as a Service; Authorisation & Authentication Infrastructure
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Centre for High Performance
Computing (CHPC)
Flagship projects
• Computational Space Physics and Astrophysics
• Large-scale simulations of energy storage materials
• Regional Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Modelling / Environmental and Geographical Science
• A South African High Performance Multi-physics Computational Fluid Dynamics Solver
• Electromagnetic Computer Simulation for the MeerKAT and Square Kilometre Array (SKA)
• Modelling HIV-1 evolution
• Modern South African Astronomy and Cosmology: Confronting the Simulated and the Observed Universe
• Monte Carlo simulations of technological tools for quantum information processing and communication
• Nuclear Collisions and Data Grid for the Physics Community
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International R&D Collaboration
ICT Multinational Cooperation programme: SAP Research – technologies for emerging economies
Microsoft – enterprise development, innovation competition
Nokia and Nokia-Siemens networks
Intel, Dell – collaboration on future HPC architectures
Google – Voice search in local languages (Google Voice)
Collaboration with multilateral and donor organisations World Bank (InfoDev funded mLab SA)
UNICEF
Growing African ICT research collaboration
European Union Projects - FP7 ICT theme
EuroAfrica-ICT
Supporting policy dialogues and strengthening cooperation between Europe and Sub-
Saharan Africa on ICT Research
EuroAfrica-P8
Supporting policy dialogues and cooperation with Africa to enhance ICT cooperative
research links between Europe and Africa in the framework of the “Africa-EU Strategic
Partnership 8 on Science, Information Society and Space
IST Africa
Regional Impact of Information Society Technologies in Africa
VOICES
VOIce-based Community-cEntric mobile Services for social development
EO2HEAVEN
Earth Observation and Environmental Modelling for the mitigation of Health Risks
OSIRIS
Towards an open and sustainable ICT research infrastructure strategy
BIC
Building international collaboration on trustworthy ICT
ProbeIT
Pursuing Roadmaps and Benchmarks for the Internet of Things
PAERIP
Promoting African-European Research Infrastructure Partnership
COST Actions: IntelliCIS – Intelligent Monitoring, Control & Security of Critical Infrastructure
Systems
Current/previous ICT collaboration with France
• SigmaOrionis: EuroAfrica-ICT and EuroAfrica-P8 projects (FP7)
- Euro-Africa ICT networking events and research priorities
• FSATI – French South Africa Technology Institute
- Tshwane Univ of Technology and Cape Peninsula Univ of Technology
- ESIEE (Paris), Univ Paris-est Creteil (UPEC), Univ of Versailles Saint-Quentin
(UVSD)
- M and PhDs, student co-supervision
• SAFeTI – SA France ICT Network Programme (2006-2010) – R2,6m
- French Embassy + Dept Science and Technology, South Africa
- Workshop + call for proposals.
- INRIA, CNRS, AVOIR, ESIEE, IRD, … interactions
• Building International Collaboration in Trustworthy ICT (BIC), FP7
- Prof Michel Riguidel, Telecom Paristech
• Future Internet Research
- FP7 ICT 2012 - two joint proposals submitted
• French coordinators: InterInnov, Inno-group
Vision for ICT R&D Collaboration with EU
• Priority areas
- DST ICT Roadmap
• Basic and Applied
- “Curiosity” + “demand driven” innovation and impact
• Basis
- Mutual Strength & Mutual Interest
• Partnering
- EU and SA universities, research organisations & industry (PPPs)
• Exchanging scientists
- Bilateral agreements, HCD, joint projects, joint supervision
• FP7 mechanisms
- Currently more Coordination and Support Actions
- Future more Collaboration, People, Capacities
• Including African partnerships
• Variety of instruments
- Institution ↔ Institution, Bilateral agreements
- Research Chairs, National Research Foundation
- Technology Innovation Agency, THRIP, SPII (industry involvement)
Specific Proposed Collaboration Areas
• Future Internet Research
• Internet of Things
• Advanced Sensor Networks
• Wireless technologies
• Smart Living for All
• Cybersecurity / Trustworthy ICT
Future Internet, Wireless, Sensors, Networks
Future Internet
• South African and African challenges wrt Future Internet research:
• broadband access and services to large rural populations and other
under developed areas - this includes:
• services innovation and user driven innovation, trust in services and
end-to-end services
• enhancing service delivery at local government delivery through
smart city applications
• enhancing the robustness, energy efficiency and reducing the carbon
footprint of physical infrastructure
• critical infrastructure protection
• enabling industrial competitiveness through interventions in
manufacturing sector
• hosting global science projects (such as SKA – Square Kilometer Array)
and integrating Africa in the global science community
• lowering the cost of logistics and enhancing reliability through the Internet
of Things
The SANReN network as a Future Internet
Research (FIRE) test-bed - Dr Colin Wright
• Largest and fastest network in Africa - 1 million users on
completion of phase II
• SANReN is IPv6 ready
• Future SANReN superfast research class networks, free to
users, accessible anywhere any time (including roaming, indoor
wireless, outdoor wireless and mobile through LTE)
• Requires some technical breakthroughs
• Collaboration between the NREN and Mobile operators
• Interconnection of major scientific infrastructures such as
• the Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC)
• Science projects like SKA, SALT etc.
• The SANREN networks, user base and dark fibre metro rings
represent physical infrastructure that can be leveraged for
experiments
Internet of Things Testbed (Dr Louis Coetzee)
• Developing a "landscape" report of IoT in South Africa to identify the most
likely applications using wireless connectivity and Living Labs
• IoT – Challenges:
– Number & heterogeneity of devices
– Information explosion, trust, security & privacy
– Importance of meta-data and business models
– Development of standards, interoperability, open architectures
• Our Activities:
– Developing reusable technology building blocks & platforms:
• BeachComber – protocol agnostic combiner (People & Things)
• ThingMemory – cyber representation of the Thing
• Visualization – view into IoT
– Demonstrating IoT application in different domains:
• Energy conversation & load optimization (M2M)
• Build environmental control and inclusion (P2M)
• Information dissemination to society (M2P)
• Natural environment and societal impact (Carbon, water pollution)
• Smart enabling environments
Emerging Economies Path to Future Internet :
Heterogeneous Wireless Access Technologies
Dr Fisseha Mekuria
We developed a wireless mesh network platform with full support for
IPv6. Edge networks based on IPv4 are interconnected over the core
IPv6 network.
Next Generation Broadband Heterogeneous Wireless Network
Research Test-bed Crucial in the National Research Strategy:
R&D in Next Generation Radio Network Technologies:
o Software Defined Radio, Cognitive Radio Networks: Dynamic
Spectrum Allocation, White Space Tech. (WST): IEEE 802.22.
o Intelligent & Dynamic Spectrum Allocation – ICASA
o Coexistence of Heterogeneous Wireless Networks & IoT.
o Secure & Energy Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks (ASN).
o Intelligent Digital Services Node & Set Top Boxes – Dept of Comms
Test-bed facilitates Improved Collaboration for/with:
Postgraduate HCD & R&D capacity building
o SA & International Universities, Research Institutes.
o Regulatory & Standards Bodies
Antenna Mast Base Transceiver
Station (BTS)
Reconfigurable Radio
Base Station (Proposed)
Research in Cognitive Radio
Networks, (Existing).
Dynamic Spectrum Allocation
White Space Technology,
SANREN
Internet
Wireless Sensor Networks (M2M,
Energy Efficient & Smart Adhoc
Sensor Networks) (Emerging)
Energy & Spectrum Efficient
Wireless Mesh Network
(Existing)
Next Generation Wireless
Networking
(e.g. White Spaces, Femto-cells,
Cellular – 4G, LTE, WiMAX)
(Co-existence)
Next Generation Wireless Technology Research Infrastructure - NRF-RISP proposal
Gateway
& High Speed Router
Intelligent Set Top Box
DTT (DSN Flagship)
CHPCPartner
Institutions
Cloud Services
GLSD,WST
Cloud Services
GLSD,WST
Integrating next-generation network technologies with the mesh
networks in order to realise Future Internet infrastructures in rural areas
Advanced Sensor Networks – setting up an ASN Centre
• Creating local solutions with multi-disciplinary domain and technology
experts.
• Core technologies: very large databases, information security,
artificial intelligence, modelling and simulation, high performance
computing, geomatics, sensor development
• Technology drivers: increased computational power, enhanced
networking, reduction in size and power utilisation, availability of
sensors and actuators, connectivity added to more objects
• Market opportunities:
- Electricity Grid – bidirectional power flow, dynamic routing,
demand side management by users, innovation ecosystem
- Pipeline Network – underground monitoring
- Underground mine safety improvement
- Green economy – effective monitoring, verification and control
technologies for various carbon reduction measures, pollution
monitoring
• Local partners
- Univ of Pretoria + Eskom, TUT, CPUT, ..
Proposed New Flagship Initiative: Smart Living for All
• R&D of “smart” technology for the
built environment, energy
infrastructure and the natural
environment.
• Extract meaningful intelligence
• Improve efficiency, cost, safety,
planning, management, service
quality, forecasting
• Real life environment, Living Lab
methodology
• Collaboration with experienced
partners internationally
SENSE
UNDERSTAND
CHANGE
IMPLEMENT
•Cybersecurity
Reality - Malware receiving sites
Microsoft Security Intelligence Report Vol. 10, Jul-Dec 2010
Copyright CSIR 2011
Canada US Korea Japan Australia EU
Security, Privacy & Trust in
Global Networks and Services
Partners Coordinator: Jim
Clarke, Waterford
Institute, Ireland (2011 – 2014)
http://www.bic-trust.eu/
Trustworthy ICT Research Topics from BIC Workshop in
South Africa, Aug’11
1. Trust management for techno-socio business ecosystems in the
context of emerging economies
- Technology + community controls
2. International cyber security research – African perspective
- Could Africa become home of the world’s worst cyber pandemic?
- Role of ISPs, communities, sector based alliances, data exchange
3. Financial infrastructure protection
- eBanking, data exchange, Computer Security Incident Response
4. Law enforcement approaches to deal with cyber crime
- Cross-border investigations and prosecution
5. Getting ready for Trust and Security in the Future Internet
- Physical/virtual integration, public-private partnerships
Emerging Economies USE CASE EXAMPLES
Mobile Services Platform for Very Small Enterprises (VSE) in Emerging
Economies
Thank you
Contact details: Dr Barend Taute Telephone +27 12 841 4063 Email [email protected] Web www.csir.co.za