ITSME, a collaboration-friendly workstation

On Wednesday, December 3, 2008, the TEC-CH programme jointly hosted a seminar with the Institute for Communication Technologies (ICT), featuring Prof. Giorgio De Michelis from the University of Milano - Bicocca. He presented a new open source initiative to develop an operating system that maximises the benefits of cyberspace, and that is sensitive to the context and interrelations of various items instead of the simple categorisations of folders and file formats. In the new interface, workstation content will be referred to as "venues" for contexts and "stories" for various formats of files. 

Considering current leanings towards open-source platforms, including big companies such as IBM and Symbian Foundation, the ITSME project presents much potential and possibilities than ever before. It is currently in the beginning of its development stage: while it may possibly be the solution for the dispersion of information and the inadequacy of file systems, its actual results remains interesting and yet to be evaluated.