NetworldEurope Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda 2022

NetworldEurope, the European Technology Platform for Communications and Services, is one of the institutions that aims to address the challenges brought by this increased intertwining of ICT and society. In this context, NetworldEurope has built a Strategic Research
and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) for communications and services. We envision an establishment of a foundational basis for communications and services, on which other sectors can rely to plan their evolution and the deep transformational aspects that ICT will bring into the society at large.

This white paper is the first of two parts. This consists of a simplified, higher level vision of our technological roadmap, with an additional deep section providing simplified metrics tables that identifies reference specifications for technology at different times (referred as nodes) and expected technological features associated with those nodes. A second part, in a companion document, is the technical annex, provides a deeper reaching discussion on the technologies we envisage as key for the future, under the overall scope of ICT.