Mr. James Clarke is the EU Strategic Liaison manager at the Walton Institute for Information and Communication Systems Science (formerly Telecommunications Software and Systems Group) of Waterford Institute of Technology in Ireland. Since January 2020, he is the coordinator of the NGIatlantic.eu project, which is supporting open call NGI projects between the EU and the United States of America. The project is supporting the results of NGI solutions being experimented on EU – US platforms, in order to shape the development of a global yet more human-centric Internet, which is the principal goal of the NGI initiative.