MILLION: Multimedia Interactive Leading Life-giving Initiative On Net

Contract Information

Programme:	FOURTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME
Programme Acronym:	ESPRIT 4
Contract Type:	NO CONTRACT TYPE
Start Date:	1995-10-01
End Date:	1997-09-30
Contract No:	20772
Role for TUC/MUSIC:	Contractor
Funding for TUC/MUSIC:	105000.0 Euros
Principal Investigator for TUC/MUSIC:	Stavros Christodoulakis

Project Information

Project Description

The MILLION project aims to realise a consumer-oriented system for developing the tourist potential of European cities by providing communications-based services to a significant sample of people of some geographic areas and by giving visibility to the tourist offers of involved areas to the largest possible community of networked users: the Internet. MILLION assumes as a starting point the phenomenon of civic networking, in progress in several cities in the EU (as in Bologna and in Venice), and aims at building a system which makes possible to pass from giving civic information for free to the citizens to giving services for payment to the consumers, first of all in the tourism field.

Communication services to be provided can so be grouped into two main categories:

• information services given by agencies promoting tourism and by Local Authorities for free;
• information and transaction-based services, given by private providers for payment.

The whole application will be developed as an enhanced and integrated World Wide Web application on standard platforms using both existing and new hardware and software technologies.

Access through advanced presentation systems with integrated tools will be available on all major industry-standard platforms and mobile devices such as Personal Digital Assistants.

From the technical standpoint, the Consortium will address the following state-of-the-art issues with regard to the WWW environment:

• dynamic link toward relational databases
• electronic payment
• wireless use of WWW browsing on PDAs
• voice services.

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Project Consortium

	N/A INTRACOM S.A.	EL
	Venis VENIS - INFORMATICA E SISTEMI S.p.A	ΙΤ
	TCI Touring Club Italiano	ΙΤ
	Venice Municipality of Venice	ΙΤ
	DIGICASH DIGICASH b.V.	NL
	N/A COMUNE DI BOLOGNA	ΙΤ
	Omega Omega Generation	ΙΤ
	N/A Municipality of Chania	EL
	N/A FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM INFORMATIK AN DER UNIVERSITAET KARLSRUHE	DE
	gFormula GRUPPO FORMULA S.p.A.	ΙΤ