Success in Cooperation

Technology developments and user requirements are driving change in mission critical communications

around the world. The programme theme for 2023 will focus on the ever increasing importance of collaborating and sharing knowledge between organisations, sectors, verticals and nations, to keep advancing the field of critical communications.

The Kainuu Rescue Services – KAIPE – operate in the Finnish province of Kainuu. Kainuu is a large provice and sparsely populated. It is bigger that the whole country of Slovenia, which has more than 2 milion inhabitants, while Kainuu has less than 80,000. Kainuu has snow coverage typically from November to April, while the forest fires period is during May to July.

In recent years, public policy makers leverage large amounts of policy-related digital data that are generated through different channels (e.g., e-services, social media) to realize a shift towards data-driven evidence-based policy development. The advent of Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) holds the promise to facilitate and accelerate this shift, through easing and automating the processing of large datasets, while helping policy makers to identify unique, yet previously hidden, policy development insights. Neverthteless, the use of AI for public policy development is also associated with significant technical, political and

regulatory challenges. This paper discusses these challenges and suggests a range of technical and technological solutions for overcoming them. The latter solutions include a reference architecture and a blueprint data mining process for AI-based policy making, along with AI algorithms that alleviate AI bias and boost transparency and explainability. Moreover, the paper presents the practical validation and use of these technological building blocks in real-life public policy making cases.

Part of regional communication of project activities. KAMK presented the DECIDO project, its activities and accomplishments so far.

The project was presented as a means for evidence based policy making to address local civil security needs.

SUSTAINABLE CITY’s General Manager, Mr. Ioannis Georgizas, participated in the Green Investment Day Conference, which was held on 20th of July 2022 by AEnergy. He briefly presented the DECIDO project mentioning its objectives and the Greek Pilot.

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With an important speech, which focused on “Financing Opportunities for Actions that will mitigate Energy Poverty at the level of Small and Medium-Sized Municipalities”, our General Director of Sustainable City Network, Mr. Ioannis Georgizas, participated in the Green Investment Day Conference held on 20 July 2022.

Making a brief overview starting from Sustainable City’s foundation day, Mr. Georgizas presented the development of the Network over the years and mentioned the DECIDO Project in his speech as an important project that helps local authorities and civilians.

Link to Mr Georgizas speech: https://youtu.be/qVlpJI9gfyA?t=420, SUSTA site post: https://www.sustainable-city.gr/latest-news-gr/imera-prasinon-ependyseon.html

One of the precautionary measures is to assist residents in evacuation centers, which will be set up by order of the competent authority if necessary. The evacuation centers are designed to provide temporary protection and assistance to the population of the area when needed. They may be needed, for example, in the event of long disturbances in the distribution of electricity or water.

The presentation also included a functional exercise and is attended by residents of all ages.

Fire Officer Days and Preparedness Seminar

The Fire Officers’ Day program itself addresses the national strategic goals of the rescue service, considers the importance of personnel well-being and involvement in the organisation’s performance, and provides an overview of the preparation of welfare areas in the day’s burning topics.

Fire Officer Days and Preparedness Seminar

The Fire Officers’ Day program itself addresses the national strategic goals of the rescue service, considers the importance of personnel well-being and involvement in the organisation’s performance, and provides an overview of the preparation of welfare areas in the day’s burning topics.

Public authorities need innovative tools to develop better evidence-based policies. Citizens and Business should be involved in this process to better inform policy-making and to increase the trust in the authorities and the policies acceptance. Shared data, analytics and cloud improve policy making at all levels, national and local.

The main objective of this session is to bring together the 5 projects (PolicyCloud, AI4PP, Decido, DUET, Intelcomp)funded by the DT-GOV-12 call to share their experiences in the public sector. We also aim to increase the collaboration between the EGI researchers and the public authorities in the decision making with the use of research data and advanced tools for the benefit of society.