Much economic and social activity involves collaboration and coordination among individuals or groups. In the rural Digital Economy, remoteness and dynamic but disparate populations drive the need for virtual communities to be supported and high service delivery costs and economic specialisation drive the need for technologies to support collaboration to enable costs to be shared and services combined.

Furthermore, limited and comparatively higher-cost digital access drives the need for users to delegate such tasks to (semi-)autonomous software systems on the network.

Our research focuses on trusted computational solutions to support collaboration and coordination among people and services. Such systems must respect the information security and privacy of individuals, businesses and other stakeholders at the same time as promoting effective teams. For example, a system to better support collaboration within clinical care teams to aid local GPs in patient care that may otherwise require time-consuming and costly hospital trips.

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