On June 12 and 13, 2008 at Beaulieu 25, the PARADISO project has organized a scientific workshop who attracted around 40 experts from all regions of the world (21 countries represented, including 10 non-EU countries) sent from leading organizations specializing in the analysis of societal developments and in the ICT area, including representatives from FIRE projects and of European Technology Platforms addressing FP7 ICT Challenge 1 issues. The workshop succeeded reaching its main objective, to provide inputs to the draft version of the Reference document the project is preparing, in order to identify strategic research directions on network and service infrastructures under the hypothesis of a disruptive paradigm related to global societal developments. Presentations presented at this workshop, together with the attendee list, are available through the Events page of this web site. The panel of experts constituted for this workshop will be kept active in the next weeks and months, and further opened to worldwide stakeholders. The next key project milestone is an Open international conference to be held on January 22-23, 2009 in Brussels, where the central role ICT is expected to play in beyond GPD societies, and the leading role the EU can play in this perspective will be presented. Contact