Building upon existing and rapidly evolving technologies and architectures in the field Big Data, IoT, continuum computing, Artificial Intelligence, HCI, etc, new paradigms have emerged such as the Web3.0, the Metaverse, and the Spatial Web. These new and complementary paradigms are moving at speed light from fantasy literature to reality, and probably opening a new thread of opportunities and challenges for existing and emerging industries and our society. How does these 3 terms/paradigms...

Last August 2021 BDVA released his community position to the proposal for AI regulation supporting the idea of balancing between regulation and innovation. It is acknowledged the importance of trust and trustworthiness to boost investment and innovation. However, the cost, time, infrastructure, and knowledge needed to e.g. comply with the AI regulation may be burdensome. There is a risk that small companies, research and education organizations might not be able to easily follow and be aff...

Data is seen as the modern oil for driving economy and indeed several major actors (global companies, rich countries) are working on strategies of how to define the evolving data space. It also seems to be agreed that we are in front of a huge transformation due to the ubiquitous digitisation in all domains of life – some call it the next revolution [1]. IoT is not only part of this transformation but one of its motors with its billions of smart ...