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Proposal
full title
Computer Aided Risk Management
Proposal
acronym
CARiMan
Proposal number
003854
Date
of preparation
15.
October 2003 at 17.00
Type
of instrument
Network
of Excellence
1.
Specific programme :
Integrating and strengthening the European Research Area
2.
Activity : Thematic priority area: Information Society Technologies
3.
Call title : Call
2 of the IST priority
4.
Call identifier :
FP6-2003-IST-2
5.
Date of publication :
17 June 2003
6.
Closure date : 15.
October 2003 at 17.00 (Brussels local time)
Strategic
objectives
IST-2002-2.3.2.9
Improving Risk Management
LSH-2002-2…
Combating,
cardiovascular disease, diabetes and rare diseases
CITIZENS-2002…
Citizens
and governance in a knowledge-based society
Proposal
abstract
The
aim of the Network of Excellence CARiMan is
to exploit the advances in IST in order to establish a complete framework of
research, development, validation and dissemination of approaches related to
demanding issues of Computer Aided
Risk Management.
The core of this framework is the proposed Computer Aided Risk Management
System (CARiManS) and its distributed operation, exploiting secure
communications over the Internet and exploring communication on the GRID.
The
benchmark applications for testing and validating the CARiMan concept in
the first 18 months include Risk Monitoring for analyzing, evaluating and
predicting. Other Risk Scenarios will be studied along the duration of the
Network of Excellence. Specialized features of the project include the knowledge
extraction by interpretation of the monitored signals, the knowledge aggregation
from the experts and the representation and distribution of this knowledge.
To efficiently implement its multidisciplinary goals, the proposed Network of Excellence will bring together a range of excellent European expertise related to Risk Management and IST. The integration into a distributed, web-based Network of Excellence will allow for dissemination of information, discourage overlap of efforts and offer training for users, both in Europe and worldwide.
The
aim of the CARiMan Network of
Excellence is to create the framework for the development of next-generation
Risk Management Systems, by integrating IST technologies in all aspects of
user-computer communications from direct personal communication to emergency
handling. More specifically, the scientific
and technical objectives of
CARiMan are research activities for a new concept of Risk Management Systems for
emergency management and monitoring of situations. The CARiMan systems are
designed around the concept of Computer Aided Risk Management Systems (CARiManS)
and Computer Aided Teaching Systems (CATS), all integrating Knowledge Management
(KMS) functionalities.
In
such a way, CARiMan contributes directly in realising European policies for the
creation of a ‘knowledge society’, as agreed at the Lisbon and Stockholm
Councils. Knowledge Management Systems (KMS) are specifically targeted for the
recognition of monitored signals and of possible risk situations; web
technologies are used for the communication and distribution of the knowledge.
Network and distributed computational technologies are used for communication
between remote sensors and pre-processing units, CARiManS and Knowledge
Management Systems, and for communication among users, emergency situations,
Risk Managers and researchers. "Risk management is one of those things that
people don't know they need until they need it."
Topics
covered in CARiMan:
·
Understanding
potential problem areas
·
Managing
your issues
·
Formulating
a strategy
·
Developing
a crisis and risk plan
·
Selecting
and training crisis teams
·
Controlling
a crisis
·
Monitoring
future preparedness
·
Risk
Management as prevention of damage.
·
Risk
Management as a theme of corporate governance.
The
CARiMan NoE will aim at
fundamentally redefining the approach that the Office of Environmental
Management uses to conduct cleanup. This new approach would change the current
approach, one that’s based on compliance with hundreds or thousands of
individual and independent requirements and actions, to one that is based on
risk based end states, and a clearly defined and coordinated path forward. This
approach, “begin with the end in mind”, will result in a new way of
assessing and undertaking cleanup activities and how we plan and prioritise our
actions. Development and implementation of this approach will require extensive
interactions with local and national stakeholders, regulators and the National,
European Departments.
The
European Union has chosen to take a leading
role in promoting sustainable development on a global scale, and has been at
the forefront in setting up the international agenda in recent years. At global
level, important decisions were taken in 2002 through the launch of the Doha
Development Agenda, the Monterrey Conference on Development Assistance and the
World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg last August. But
decisions must now turn into delivery.
In
June 2001, the Göteborg European Council agreed a strategy for sustainable
development that completed the Union’s political commitment to economic and
social renewal, added an environmental dimension to the Lisbon strategy and
established a new approach to policy-making. It highlighted unsustainable trends
posing a threat to the Union’s quality of life. These included concrete issues
like environmental and educational ones.
As
European citizens become accustomed to information society services which offer
flexible, individualised interaction independent of place and time, they will
place new demands on services offered by the public sector and on their
participation in decision process. That means that they will demand immediate
response of the public sector to a crisis situation.
Crisis
Management
means the managing of operations during the actual crisis in the midst of the
event to the degree that the events can be managed. However, it may also mean
the management of the organisation before, during, and after the crisis. Crisis
Management is not a mechanistic action of rules, procedures and physical action
by an organisation. It consists of a full range of thoughtful processes and
steps to anticipate the complex nature of crisis - real and perceived.
Decision
makers use the scientific information only occasionally. In the moment of
crisis, the selection of experts is done who activate, usually, in closed
groups. The quality of provided conclusions is limited to the competence, the
experience and subjectivism of the team members. The access to the information
of decision makers is very limited. Even if after the decision was made, the
opinion of the experts is made public, the eventual expert critics are belated,
therefore less handy. Decision makers don’t have access to a “real time”
data base. There is no feedback of scientific
strategy; it means that this is made by political criteria, without science to
influence actively the political decision at the time of its preparation.
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