TSSG attends Irish Crisiscamp Ireland Event
Mark Roddy, a researcher at the Telecommunications Software & Systems Group (TSSG) attended the first Irish Crisiscamp Ireland event, which was organised by CrisisCommons and took place in NUI Galway on the 26th February.
The full day event was attended by both private and public organisations including technology departments, the Civil Defence, Cisco, GIS/database experts and app-developers. The event included several presentations on using technology in disaster situations as well as a discussion on a variety of technological solutions that could be used in disaster and/or emergency situations.
CrisisCommons is a global community of volunteers from technology, crisis response organizations, government agencies, and citizens that are working together to build and use technology tools to help respond to disasters and improve resilience and response before a crisis. They seek to advance and support the use of open data and volunteer technology communities to catalyze innovation in crisis management and global development. CrisisCommons has coordinated crisis event responses such at the Haiti, Chile and Japan Earthquakes and the floods in Thailand, Nashville and Pakistan. Over 3,000 people have participated worldwide in over 30 cities across 10 countries.
This event was very relevant to the on-going SOCIETIES project being carried out at TSSG which is researching and investigating how a CSS can support communities with intelligent, adaptive and collaborative features while providing mechanisms for managing multiple communities including community hierarchies and networks of communities. SOCIETIES hopes to identify the functionality necessary to support collaborative communities and support the dynamic creation and membership of a community from users’ CSSs (including their services, devices and resources). The development of the CSS concept provides an ideal basis for the deployment of autonomous context aware self-evolving communities to support collaboration in a variety of fields including that of disaster and emergency situations.
CrisisCommons actively supports CrisisCamp, a barcamp event set up in 2009, which seeks to connect a global network of volunteers who use creative problem solving and open technologies to help people and communities in times and places of crisis.
Mark Roddy, who attended the event from SOCIETIES, said that the event was very informative, “In the FP7 Societies project, TSSG are investigating how pervasive and social computing technologies can be used to leverage cognitive surplus techniques in disaster management scenarios, so it was very encouraging to see some of these techniques in action in the real world.” he said.
For more information:
Visit: Societies http://www.ict-societies.eu/
Visit: Crisis Commons: http://crisiscommons.org/
Visit: Crisis Camp: http://crisiscampireland.com/
Contact: mroddy@tssg.org
BIC Project Events-Annual Forum and the India – EU International Cooperation workshop
The BIC project, (Building International Cooperation in Trustworthy ICT), coordinated by the Telecommunications Software and Systems Group (TSSG) in Waterford Institute of Technology, has successfully organised a number of high-profile international cooperation (INCO) events in the latter part of 2011.
The BIC Annual Forum took place on 29th November 2011 in Brussels and involved discussions and agreements on the mutually beneficial research and technological development (RTD) challenges that need to be tackled globally to address the trust, privacy and security of the digital lives of citizens. Agreements were reached to work at an international level towards delivering cooperation towards solving these joint technological challenges, including the establishment of three working groups (WGs), two technical and one logistical, that would be facilitated by BIC. It would be the intention of the BIC project to additionally form longer term action groups based on the successful outcomes of these WGs to ensure implementation and take-up. The established WGs are entitled: WG1. Human oriented/citizen security; WG2. Network Information security / Cybersecurity; and WG3. Programme/funding focus/Identifying INCO communities in order to focus on how best to establish a long term strategy in International cooperation specifically in Trustworthy ICT RTD.
The results of this event have been documented in the Annual forum report available here.
Additionally, BIC also organised an India – EU International Cooperation workshop on Trustworthy ICT on 16th December 2011 during E-India 2011, which was held in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India between 14-16th December. This workshop allowed BIC to interact with many researchers that were in attendance at India’s largest ICT event. The BIC workshop was well attended and featured presentations from BIC partners as well as from Indian researchers. The presentations were followed with a questions and answers session, which involved audience participation. Audience members included, government, industry, academic and research participants.
More information on this event, including the full report can be found here.
James Clarke, Strategic EU Liaison Manager at TSSG said that the events gave a great insight into the work being carried out internationally, both from the European perspective and also from the perspective of our colleagues in the participating countries. “It was very informative to see what research our international collegues are undertaking, providing huge insights into future trends worldwide. These workshops and events are an invaluable resource for open discussions and debates, and the BIC project will coordinate several more events for the coming year”, according to Clarke.
Contact
For more information on the BIC project please contact
James Clarke : jclarke@tssg.org
For more information visit: http://www.bic-trust.eu/
FeedHenry Collaborates with RSA to Help Assure Trust for Mobile Business
Press release featured on the FeedHenry Website 28th February 2012. To view please click here
FeedHenry Collaborates with RSA to Help Assure Trust for Mobile Business
The RSA Conference 2012 took place in San Francisco on 28th February 2012 where leading-edge mobile technology providers and developers including FeedHenry collaborated with the RSA to build additional layers of security and access control into next-generation mobile solutions by integrating RSA mobile authentication technology into their products. The RSA mobile authentication technology is designed to enable innovative mobile use cases that incorporate strong security without sacrificing usability.
The rapid adoption of smart phones and tablets among consumers and employees has ushered in a new set of security and data privacy challenges for organizations. For application access, these challenges are divided into two core categories: the first is remote access to a corporate network from a mobile device and the second is ensuring trusted access to an explosion of new applications purpose-built for mobile platforms. Security and access control is a paramount concern in each of these scenarios and is being uniquely addressed with innovative new implementations of RSA authentication technologies that leverage the special attributes of mobile platforms to help authenticate mobile devices and their users.
Many developers including Appcelerator, Citrix, Good Technology, Juniper Networks, VMware and Zscaler as well as FeedHenry are set to collaborate with the RSA to implement strong authentication technology optimized for a variety of mobile use cases.
RSA is working with the following Secured by RSA Certified Mobile partners including Citrix, Juniper Networks, and VMware to provide native integration of RSA mobile authentication technology into enterprise applications and networks:
RSA mobile authentication technology integrates RSA SecurID® technology and the RSA® Adaptive Authenticatin solution optimized for mobile applications for leading device platforms including Apple® iOS, Google Android™, and RIM Blackberry® devices.
FeedHenry, a spin-out company of the Telecommunications Software and Systems Group (TSSG) and RSA have agreed to collaborate on exposing RSA mobile authentication technology from their mobile application Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution. The FeedHenry platform exposes common mobile application components to software developers and is being designed to enable easy integration of the RSA mobile authentication technology into new mobile applications.
Cathal McGloin, CEO, FeedHenry believes that working with the RSA can be mutually beneficial “While tackling a myriad of devices and managing increasingly complex mobile applications, corporate CIOs are seeking additional layers of security and user authentication and control. The integration of RSA’s authentication technologies in the FeedHenry solution will help protect organisation’s mobile app initiatives by measuring risk indicators that identify high-risk and suspicious activities. This is extremely relevant to many industries we work with such as healthcare, finance, government and retail.” He said.
Read full article here
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Contact:
For more information on FeedHenry please contact:
Mícheál Ó Foghlú – Chief Technical Officer, FeedHenry
For more information on the RSA visit: http://www.rsa.com/
Fourth Future Internet Award Competition Launched
The ceFIMS project has just launched its fourth Future Internet Award competition. The Award is presented every six months and recognises excellence in innovation among Future Internet projects and initiatives from across Europe.
Entries are invited from those whose key outcomes and/or products/services will shape the Future Internet. The winning entry will be the project/initiative judged to have the greatest potential to advance the Future Internet and whose results provide an exemplar for other innovate products/services.
Criteria
Entries will be judged on the following criteria:
- Implementations in place
- Involvement and contacts with industry & SMEs
- Innovate use of technologies
- Inclusion of local entities, citizens, communities
- Universal usability and access
- Contribution towards reducing the Digital Divide
- Societal impacts
- Environmentally friendly
- Excellence in themed areas and/or cross-domain
- Cross-regional and/or cross-national
Entries are invited from projects and initiatives that have recently delivered final results, as well as those which are currently running.
Adjudication
The Award’s Judging Panel comprises representatives from research, industry and public agencies. Each entry is scored twice by the Judging Panel, before a shortlist of entries is drawn up and a final round of scoring takes place.
Entry Forms
The two-page entry forms can be downloaded here. The closing date for receipt of entries is Friday 6th April, 2012.
The winning entry will be announced at the closing ceremony of Aalborg’s Future Internet Week, 7-11 May, 2012. This ceremony will be attended by renowned industry and academic experts, high-level members of the European Commission, and members of the local and international press.
Travel and related costs will be paid for the winning entry representative to attend the ceremony.
Click here to see past winners of the Award
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ceFIMS is an FP7 project, coordinated by the TSSG. Its main tasks are: to gather and analyse data on Future Internet research from around Europe; create a roadmap for Member State collaboration on Future Internet research; and, raise awareness of current Future Internet projects/initiatives across Europe.
Researchers get €250k for drug treatment and telecoms studies
Silicon Republic Article: 23.02.2012
Author: Carmel Doyle
The funding was announced today by the Government as part of SFI’s Technology Innovation Development Award (TIDA) programme.
Dr Willie Donnelly, head of Research and Innovation at WIT, spoke about how the institute was aware of its responsibility to ensure that its research creates both social and economic impact.
