The ECOSPACE project is making progress on the realisation of Interoperable Collaborative Working Environments (ICWE) as a promise about having a kind of mobile phone GSM standard communication protocol for collaborative tools that they could interact with each other in order to better serve the users.

The motivation is to have collaboration tools interacting with one another in a simple way as it is for people when they are giving a phone call or sending an email. It is in fact a standardised communication protocol that makes them transparently interoperable in such a way that users do not need to worry about what mobile phone or emailing tool others are using and whether they are compatible.

Take a look at the updated ECOSPACE project webpages!

There will be soon an official announcement about the standardisation activity regarding the ECOSPACE contributions (CERA, BCS, CoCoS, SIOC++, D2C) to the ICOM TC at the OASIS.

ECOSPACE was running an OCA (Open Collaborative Architecture) labelised demo about interoperable collaborative environments at the ICT2008 exhibition in Lyon last November in order to demonstrate the ICWE approach and feasibility.

Take a look at the Living Labs Corner stands in the ICT2008 Exhibition!