By studying a carefully selected subset of Challenge 1 projects the most popular socio-economic challenges are identified and a consolidated overview and classification of Future Internet stakeholders is presented. Furthermore, the way these stakeholders can interact, by exploiting selected Future Internet technologies to advance their economic interests, is analyzed. These interactions are examined by performing the first steps of a tussle analysis methodology, which is motivated and described in detail.

It turns out that Cloud computing receives the highest interest out of 16 socio-economic challenges of the Future Internet, followed by Privacy and data protection, Security of communications, Internet of things, and Online identity.

Furthermore, we observe that the technologies proposed by the profiled research projects increasingly blur the distinction across stakeholders and, at the same time, promote collaboration across different stakeholders resulting in more complex value chains/networks.

We also identify that several projects study interactions between stakeholders that can be categorized into a limited number of groups, such as network security, controlling content/service delivery and responsibility for agreement violation, among others.

Overall, the tussle analysis method is perceived to offer projects a structured approach to identify, communicate, and address socio-economic aspects of their research and the relevant impact of their developed solutions, the sustainability of their adoption, etc.

In the second part of the report we consider the managerial and technical feasibility and other socio-economic challenges of high-speed Internet accounting in a world of increasing volumes of real-time communication. Two frameworks are proposed to assess socio-economic demand drivers of high-speed accounting, and a stress-field between those is presented.