https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2012-01685-0
Editorial
Introduction: The FuturICT knowledge accelerator towards a more resilient and sustainable future
ETH Zurich, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
Received:
1
August
2012
Revised:
9
October
2012
Published online:
5
December
2012
The FuturICT project is a response to the European Flagship Call in the Area of Future and Emerging Technologies, which is planning to spend 1 billion EUR on each of two flagship projects over a period of 10 years. FuturICT seeks to create an open, global but decentralized, democratically controlled information platform that will use online data and real-time measurements together with novel theoretical models and experimental methods to achieve a paradigm shift in our understanding of today’s strongly interdependent and complex world and make our techno-socio-economic systems more flexible, adaptive, resilient, sustainable, and livable through a participatory approach.
© The Author(s) 2012. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com
