Next-Generation Internet application center in San DiegoSan Diego 20 September 2001 CommerceNet has chosen the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), as one of two institutions to host its Next-Generation Internet (NGI) Application Centers. The NGI Centers will promote the development, incubation, and demonstration of new business and consumer applications that will take advantage of the evolving Internet.
The Southern California NGI Center (CalNGI) at SDSC, in collaboration
with the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information
Technology (known as Cal-(IT)2), will focus on applications in the areas
of telemedicine, telemanufacturing, wireless networking, network and
application performance measurement, distance learning, Web marketing,
peer-to-peer networking, and high-performance distributed computing.
The University of California, Berkeley will host the Northern California
NGI Center, in collaboration with the Center for Information Technology
Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) and the Fisher Center for
Information Technology and Marketplace Transformation (CITM) in the Haas
School of Business.
Through a partnership with the California Technology, Trade and Commerce
Agency's Division of Science, Technology, and Innovation, CommerceNet
has granted $700,000 to the universities for the start-up and operating
costs of the two NGI Centers. These Centers will provide a collaborative
environment designed to accelerate the development of eBusiness
applications, encourage new Internet-related start-up businesses, and
test new NGI infrastructure services. CommerceNet expects that between
25 and 40 small businesses will use the Application Centers during the
next year, and that each Center will work with a minimum of eight to 10
development projects annually.
CommerceNet has a two-part initiative within its NGI Application Program
to further the development of the Next-Generation Internet. In addition
to funding the NGI Application Centers, CommerceNet is awarding grants
ranging from $100,000 to $300,000 to companies and individuals
developing NGI applications. The grant recipients will use the Northern
California Center and Southern California Center to develop, test and
showcase their NGI applications.
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