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MOSQUITO Project IST 004636 | Thursday, 20 November 2008 |
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The number of teleworkers in Europe has doubled over the past three years to over 20 million, and it is predicted that teleworking penetration in the EU will reach 28.8 million in 2005 - over 10% of the labour force. However, to achieve this growth, it is essential that these workers have access to easy-to-use and secure business applications able to work in ubiquitous computing environments.
Since a large part of the workforce in the future will be mobile, supporting mobile workers is supporting the socio-economic development of Europe as spelt out in the Lisbon declaration that Europe should become the most competitive knowledge-based economy in the world by 2010. And a particularly important segment of the teleworking market is the mobile professional such as travelling executives, consultants and sales representatives.
In today's businesses, sensitivity to the needs of customers, closeness to their demands and tight relations with customers' daily operational business processes is essential for success. This is why marketing, sales and production companies send out their mobile work forces in order to be as close to their customers as possible, if not permanently on their sites.
However, this world is still characterised by obstacles such inadequate communication facilities, incompatibilities between applications, and system boundaries that actually hinder interoperability between clients' and customers' systems more than they support it. This is equally true for security mechanisms that are insufficient, meeting neither the requirements of users nor of their clients - for example, when data is being used on systems that do not belong to the owner of the data. And there are myriad other questions concerning the enforcement of authorisation, data consistency and unpredictable on- and off-line situations.
This is the problem domain from which MOSQUITO’s vision is derived: ensuring easy-to-use business applications security for mobile workers in ubiquitous computing environments. |
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