• skabe IT baserede mekanismer for at fange og sprede ideer og resultat blandt samfundets alle medborgere
• demonstrere gode applikationer i det opvoksende digitale samfundet med deltagelse av slutbrugerne

• nye tjenester må specificeres og testes i virkelig miljø
• nye applikationsspecifikke artefakter (hardware og software) må designas, prøves ud og evalueres
• generella system för hantering av forsklellige tjenester må udvikles og testes baseret på tilgængelig og kommende standards samt næste generation IT værktøj
• infrastrukturer i form av basnet må byggas ud for at man skulle kunne gøre storskaliga tester.

Key concepts in DDN activities

• collaboration with international developments within the area
• find well defined application areas that can continue to develop
• invest in basic infrastructure (high cost)
• to some extent regard DDN as a big laboratory.
• user services are seldom defined. Creative participatory design process with incremental prototyping for idea capture, communication, implementation and evaluation
• active spread of R&D results via interactive demonstrators on WWW.
• define scenarios, themes and metaphors from user perspectives. Define user roles and demonstrator objectives.
• develop and integrate applications in close relation to defined scenarios and themes
• provide state of the art enabling IT for implementation of new services.
• provide mechanisms for open insight, feed-back, quality assurance and knowledge transfer in ongoing projects. (also public)

Discussions

• AAU expertise
• who are receivers of results
• general ideas on stable and extendable solutions
• applications that vare of research interest
• .....