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The third meeting of the Horizon 2020 Future Internet Forum took place in Brussels on 28 June 2017.

The meeting was dedicated to the Next Generation Internet Initiative (NGI), focusing on the follow up of the three main actions: Select a national NGI Contact Point and assign their role; Populate the NGI interactive map and carry out the relevant stakeholders to register for; Organise an NGI workshop until the end of 2017.

The European Commission will launch soon a call for tenders for a service contract of a maximum value of EUR 50.000 (fifty thousand). This publication is made pursuant to Article 124.1 of the Rules of Application of the Financial Regulation that provides for an ex-ante publication on the Institutions' websites of contracts with a value up to 135.000 EUR.

Bruno Kessler Lecture by Roberto Viola, Director-General for Communications Networks, Content & Technology at the European Commission.

A sneak preview of the first findings of the ongoing Study on 'Cross-Cutting Business Models for the Internet of Things (IoT)' will be presented at NET FUTURES 2017 conference. The study examines how firms can adopt a cross-cutting approach to enter the IoT market and entails recommendations to help lower the barriers organisations face in their efforts to achieve this.

The European Commission endorsed the Croatian EUR 101.4 million Broadband funding scheme. The Next Generation Network (NGN) Broadband Plan is in line with EU State Aid rules. The scheme aims to provide fast internet access where it is currently not available, in particular in rural areas.

The Next Generation Internet should be free, open and more interoperable. The European Commission is now searching for potential relevant stakeholders to be part of the NGI ecosystem and help to shape the internet of the future.

The Next Generation Internet should be free, open and more interoperable. The European Commission lays the basis of this futuristic vision and leads the way.

The European Broadband mapping project is developing a mapping application that will provide a georeferenced overview of the quality of fixed and mobile broadband services across Europe. The project gathers data from both national, public as well as private, international initiatives. A third workshop is being held to discuss with regulatory bodies and experts preliminary findings from a cross-country and cross-initiative comparison of connectivity data and to consult on mapping methodologies. So far more than 150 stakeholders have been involved in this project.

Funding and technical difficulties are known issues for enabling high speed connectivity in rural areas. However, it is also a difficult task to get the end users on board with the programme. Group Multiplay accepted the challenge for the deployment of high speed connection in the Opolskie province in southern Poland.

The first Thematic Groups Meeting of the BCO was organised on 15 and 16 May in Brussels.