Public Safety Communication Europe Forum PSCE www'psceurope'eu

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Public Safety Communication Europe Forum
(PSCE) www.psc-europe.eu

• EMCOM 2009 Manfred BLAHA
• Heviz Relations Communications Officer
• PSCE
• manfred.blaha_at_gmx.net

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Introduction Why PSCE?

• Interoperability problems
• Public Safety is traditionally considered as a
  national priority by EU member states
• New standards and technologies
• various / competing / complex
• need of raising users awareness
• need of educating users
• Large EC investment in RD in public safety with
  need of coordination between IST projects
• Need to consolidate European user requirements
  with the view to identify and assess long term
  technical solutions valid European wide

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PSC Europe Forum mission

• The mission for the Public Safety Communication
  Europe is to foster, by consensus building,
  excellence in the development and use of public
  safety communications and information management
  systems, to improve the provision of public
  safety services and the safety of the citizens of
  Europe and the rest of the world

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PSCE objectives

• Achieve consolidation of published user
  requirements
• into a high level European User Functional
  Specification
• Improve public safety services in the medium to
  long term by the development and  promotion of a
  Road Map for future technological development
• Advise policy makers, regulators and standard
  making
• bodies and improve international
  inter-operability
• Maintain EU leadership in specification and
  provision of public safety and civil
  protection communications and
• information management systems

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PSC Europe Forum Tasks

• Inform about, consolidate and validate user
  requirements
• Raise awareness on technical solutions under
  development
• Identify non-technological issues
• Propose a RTD agenda (the Roadmap)
• Contribute to standardization activities (e.g.
  interoperability of selected technical solutions)
• Initiate discussions through working groups on
  main public safety communication topics, leading
  to conclusions and recommendations to be followed
  up, expanded and approved by the Forum

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to break through the Technical maze
Reach the Reward ofInteroperable Systems
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with the PSC Europe Forum Members Summer 2009
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from different Countries of Europe and
beyong Members from 49 Countries
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A transparent management structure
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PSC Europe Forum Appointed Working Groups

• WG 1 Operational Interoperability Challenges
• WG 2 Broadband Challenges in Europe
• WG 3 Terminology
• WG 4 Public Safety Communication Policy
• WG 5 Satellite for Emergency Communications
• WG 6 Emergency Telecommunications for Citizens
• WG 7 Authority to Citizens Emergency
  Communications

• WG 8 Operational Scenarios
• WG 9 Security
• WG 10 Public Safety Communication Research
• WG 11 Spectrum Harmonization
• WG 12 IP Based Public Safety Communication
• WG 13 Government Public Safety Initiative
• WG 14 Victims Safety Initiative
• WG 15 PSC Europe Forum Rules and By-laws

PSC Europe Forum Working Groups
WG 1
WG 2
WG 3
WG 4
WG 5
WG 6
WG 7
WG 8
WG 9
WG 10
WG 11
WG 12
WG 13
WG 14
WG 15
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PSC Europe Forum Assembly Meeting

• PSC Europe Forum is now registred in
• Brussels, Belgium
• PSC Europe Forum Statutes is finalized
• PSCE Board Resolution adopted on the 21th of May
  2009
• The PSCE Board members at its meeting held in
  Prague on the 21th of May 2009, unanimously
  decided that all individual members of PSCE would
  automatically become members of PSCE Aisbl as
  soon as PSCE will be officially registered as an
  international association under the Belgian law.

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Membership

• Payment entities (Institutional members)
• Voting rights
• Non-payment individuals
• None-voting rights
• Advantage
• Wide audience/ membership
• Challenge
• If PSCE fails to work on consensus, individual
  members may lose out and leave
• Commitment to become institutional members is a
  must for PSCE to be sustained financially

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Partnership

• PSCE is not to compete, but to complement

• One purpose is to avoid duplication and
  repetition.
• Discussions on partnerships are at early stages
• ESA
• TETRA Association
• NPIA
• In addition to formal partnerships, it will be
  useful to collaborate on specific items
• Spectrum
• Sharing of best practices

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Awareness

• Wide international distribution of membership

• Traditional actors to a large extent Western
  Europe
• PSCE distribution wider
• Advantage
• Potential for wider user requirements
• Credibility to more governments
• Challenge
• All members have to be included in the consensus
  process.
• The output has to be relevant, and not without
  teeth.
• Outputs may be context specific.

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• Better together
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• working for best
• Public Safety Communications
• for our citizens
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• PSC-E

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