  The FuturICT project is a response to the European Flagship Call in the Area
of Future and Emerging Technologies, which is planning to spend 1 billion EUR
on each of two flagship projects over a period of 10 years. FuturICT seeks to
create an open, global but decentralized, democratically controlled information
platform that will use online data and real-time measurements together with
novel theoretical models and experimental methods to achieve a paradigm shift
in our understanding of today's strongly interdependent and complex world and
make our techno-socio-economic systems more flexible, adaptive, resilient,
sustainable, and livable through a participatory approach.
