PRoTECT Web conference 3: How can technology protect public spaces and soft urban targets?
PRoTECT – a project co-funded by the European Union’s ISFP programme, aims to strengthen local authorities’ capabilities in the protection of areas in public space that could potentially be soft targets for terrorism. By applying an overarching concept where tools, technology, training and field demonstrations will lead to enhanced situational awareness and improvement of a direct response before, during and after a terrorist attack, the project seeks to ultimately strengthen security in public spaces.
In order to promote the exchange of experiences, the European Forum for Urban Security (Efus), in the framework of PRoTECT, is launching a series of web conferences on the protection of public spaces and soft targets. The aim of these online sessions is to discuss and raise awareness of the role of local authorities in the protection of public spaces, as well as to propose tools to support them in this endeavour.
The third web conference will discusses the issue of how can technology protect public spaces and soft urban targets?
New technologies offer opportunities to better protect public spaces. These include ICT (for communicating, storing, analysing and protecting information), Sensors (for detection, identification, localisation, tracking), Actuators (for warning, intercepting, eliminating), Physical (for controlling access, impeding an attack, protective materials), etc.
This session will discuss the existing technologies as well as the opportunities and challenges that local authorities face when they decide to adopt them. What are the most widely used technologies for the protection of public spaces? What type of risks do these technologies address? What is the objective of these technologies (prevention, facilitating intervention ….)?
Date: 28 April 2021
Time: 14:00 CET
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