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OBD On-Board Diagnostics

OIC Open Interconnect Consortium
OS Operating System

OTA Online Trust Alliance
PaaS Platform-as-a-Service

PIN Personal Identification Number
QoE Quality of Experience
QoS Quality of Service

QoT Quality of Trust
SaaS Software-as-a-Service

SDO Standards Development Organization
SG Study Group
SLA Service Level Agreement

SNS Social Network Service
TA Trust Agent

TAMP Trust Analysis and Management Platform
TCG Trusted Computing Group

TLA Trust Level Agreement
TSB Trust Service Broker

TSE Trust Service Enabler
WAN Wide Area Network
WSIS World Summit on the Information Society

WWW World Wide Web
W3C World Wide Web Consortium

5 Introduction to Trust toward Knowledge Societies

5.1 Toward knowledge societies

At the 15th International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Plenipotentiary Conference, year 1999, the World
Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) was created to develop the information society. During the first
phase of the WSIS, the debates on the information society are mainly focused on information and
communication technology (ICT) infrastructures. The concept of knowledge societies is more all-embracing
and more conducive, which is simply “opens the way to humanization of the process of globalization.” The
notion of knowledge is central to changes of education, science, culture, and communication. Knowledge is
recognized as the object of huge economic, political and cultural stakes, to the point of justifiably qualifying
the societies currently emerging.
Knowledge is defined as a familiarity, awareness or understanding of someone or something such as facts,
information, description or skills. Knowledge is acquired through experience or education by perceiving,
discovering and learning. It can refer to theoretical or practical understandings of a subject that is implicit (as
with practical skill or expertise) or explicit (as with theoretical understanding of a subject). It can be more or
less formal or systematic.

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