On 26 January, a joint workshop was held, co-organised by the EU FP7 projects SecInCoRe, EPISECC, SECTOR, and REDIRNET, the Centre for Mobilities Research and the University of Lancaster in association with PSCE and under the auspices the 9th Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP) conference.
Public protection and disaster relief (PPDR) and disaster risk management are characterized by increasingly intense information sharing. Digital technologies introduce complex ethical, legal and social challenges (ELSI) around data quality, relevance and usability, privacy, data protection and sharing. This one day workshop explored challenges and opportunities by bringing together groups that work with various information sharing technologies in crisis management, including practitioners, academic researchers.
BroadMap, COncORDE, EPISECC, SECTOR project coordinators delivered the presentations of their respective projects emphasizing on how each project is addressing the ELSI requirements. SecInCore underlined that the aim of the project is to improve ELSI by searching for new practices, scenarios for real-world or virtual trainings. IMPRESS mentioned that the ELSI Cases the project managers are faced with, are relevant to sensitive Data (health data), informed consent of the patient and privacy by design and secure access.
Dr. Buscher together with other stakeholders emphasised the importance of PSCE’s work in bringing together different projects and collaborations of different stakeholders. The workshop devoted time in the afternoon for an active consultation of the participants on ‘ELSI Guidance for Information Sharing in Disaster Risk Management’. This is a community platform that is being developed, in partnership with Public Safety Europe and which will become available through PSCE website.
The full list of presentations and photos of the workshop are available here:http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/cemore/infrastructuring_drm_elsi/
