Portability is the general characteristic of being readily transportable from one location to another.
Software portability: Portability is one of the key concepts of high-level programming. Portability is the software codebase feature to be able to reuse the existing code instead of creating new code when moving software from an environment to another. The process of reprogramming software to run on a platform it did not originally is called porting. [Source: Wikipedia]
Portability is addressed in the ICT work programme 2011/12 (p. 16, 56, 58, 114) under the following challenges/objectives:
> Challenge 1:Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
Objective ICT-2011.1.2 Cloud Computing, Internet of Services and Advanced Software Engineering
a) Cloud Computing
c) Advanced software engineering
> Challenge 4: Technologies for Digital Content and Languages
Objective ICT-2011.4.1 SME initiative on Digital Content and Languages
c) Sharing language resources
Objective ICT-2011.4.2 Language Technologies
a) Multilingual content processing
Objective ICT-2009.10.2 EU-Russia Research and Development cooperation
