International Co-operation in Trustworthy,
Secure and Dependable ICT infrastructures

Waterford Institute of Technology is a publicly funded third level institute in the South East region of Ireland with 6,400 full-time students and 4,550 part-time students. Founded in 1996, the Telecommunications Software & Systems Group (TSSG) is the largest research group in WIT working on a range of nationally funded and EU-funded research programmes and projects, as well as direct commercial consultancy and development. Security competence is becoming a key horizontal theme for the whole TSSG group, in much the same way the European research work programme and Technology Platforms for FP7 are developing. Initial work within TSSG was on telecoms network management, but this has expanded since then to include mobility, security, autonomics, software development tools, pervasive computing and multimedia.

WIT have been involved in a number of Security, Trust and Dependability projects including:
SecurIST (FP6 CA): Co-ordination project (led by WIT) elaborating the roadmap for FP7 on all aspects ICT of security, including dependability and trust including International Co-operation. Through their role in the SecurIST project, WIT were co-organisers of the succesful EU-US Summit Series Workshops as described already in the Project Motivation section, which has led to the establishment of the INCO-TRUST CA.
ESFORS (FP6 CA): Coordination project related to elaborating the future challenges for software and services trust, security and dependability. WIT also have some involvement in TSD elements of OPAALS (FP6 NoE), a network of excellence related to digital ecosystems, DBE (FP6 IP on digital business ecosystems), ENABLE (FP6 project on Enhancement of Mobile IPv6), and the security part of DAIDALOS I and II (FP6 IP on pervasive services).

Role in INCO-TRUST and related experience: WIT will lead WP1, and contribute to all other WPs, which will further the work already initiated by the EU-US Summit series workshops and create and forge links to International Partners and build new strategic alliances and carry out the Project management activities, including events organization and financial support. WIT has extensive experience in leading Co-ordination Action projects and, in particular, in the areas of Trust, Security and Dependability. This has given them a central role within this community, which will be a crucial factor to the success in their leadership of both of these Work Packages and the Co-ordination action.

Key personnel

James Clarke received an MSc in Applied Mathematics from Hofstra University in New York in 1992 and a BSc in Electrical Engineering from State University of New York in 1986. He works for the Telecommunications Software & Systems Group (TSSG) at the Waterford Institute of Technology in Waterford, Ireland. Since January 2008, Mr. Clarke is the project co-ordinator of a project within the 7th Framework Programme 7 (FP7) of research and development project entitled International Co-operation in Trustworthy, Secure and Dependable ICT infrastructures (INCO-TRUST), which is facilitating collaboration and partnerships between researchers from the EU and industrialised nations with the goal of coordinating the multiple research efforts underway in the areas of ICT Trust, Security and Dependability (TSD). Mr. Clarke is also an elected member of the Permanent Stakeholder group of ENISA, the European Network and Information Security Agency and to the steering board of the eMobility Technology Platform and leads the NEM Technology Platform Security cluster. During 2005 – 2007, Mr. Clarke worked on the IST SecurIST project (FP6-004547) and IST ESFORS project. Previously, Mr. Clarke worked for eight years at LAKE Communications in Ireland as a Project Manager involved in a number of FP4 – FP6 projects. Most recently at LAKE, Mr. Clarke worked on the IST ALBATROSS – Architecture for Location Based Applications of Third geneRation Operations Support Systems project (IST-2001-34780) and the IST DAIDALOS - Designing Advanced Interfaces for the Delivery and Administration of Location independent Optimised personal Services (FP6-506997) projects. Within DAIDALOS, he also assisted the coordinator in the project’s involvement in the IST Security Cluster activities of IST and has authored a number of refereed publications in the area of Security. From 1986 – 1994, Mr. Clarke worked for Grumman Corporation in Bethpage, New York and Melbourne, Florida. Mr. Clarke was in the Software Engineering systems design group in Grumman.

Dr. William Donnelly received his Ph.D in University College Dublin, 1989 and has been at the forefront of the European Telecommunications Management research and development industry since 1991. In 1991, he joined Broadcom Éireann Research, where he led a number of successful projects as head of telecommunications management. In 1996, Dr Donnelly left Broadcom to take up a lectureship post in Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) where he established the Telecommunications Software and Systems Group (TSSG) with colleagues. The TSSG has become one of the leading R&D centres within the European Framework programmes (FP4, FP5 and FP6), through its leadership of a large number of the IST telecommunications management R&D projects. Dr. Donnelly is currently the Head of Research & Innovation at Waterford Institute of Technology and the project Director of the IST SecurIST project. He has also been very involved in the EU-US cooperation activities from the start taking a lead role on the Programme Committee of both EU-US Cyber Trust, Security and Dependability Summit Series Workshops. Further professional details are available at: http://www.tssg.org/people/wdonnelly/