"Societal Security R

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"Societal Security RDPerspectives,
Conclusions and Recommendations from Workshop of
July 1st 2010

• Purpose of the workshop
• To assess the current status of the Societal
  Security strand in the ESRP
• To look at the current issues from the
  perspective of Industry, Social Science the
  Citizen
• To identfy the next steps future needs of
  Societal Securty research.

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Research needs in Societal Security How to
make the voice of the citizen heard

• Industry (Jean-Marc Suchier)
• Use the common criteria model for privacy
  protection
• Industry fully supports the privacy and data
  protection regulations
• Industry willing to work with European and
  National regulators to put in place such an
  approach
• Social Science (J. Peter Burgess)
• ethical review vs. analysis of societal impact
• measurement of efficacy of Security Research is
  required
• how can the efficacy of Security Research be
  measured?
• Making the citizen heard in security research
  (Ian Brown)
• Little or no engagement of the citizens or their
  democratic representatives
• Appropriate oversight by EDPS, LIBE, FRA etc.
• Assessment of Societal impact should start when
  topics are being proposed,

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Conclusions following parallelsessions (1)

• Security research in support of Societal
  resilience and Trust
• Better understanding of group behaviour in crisis
  situation
• Better understanding of (security) knowledge
  acquisition (and its impact on political
  decision making)
• Better understanding of security-relevant
  learning processes (lessons learned)
  individual collective gaming
• Better understanding of the role of community
  leaders (vs. official / governmental
  authorities) and the impact on cohesion and
  individual behaviour

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Conclusions following parallelsessions (2)

• Ethical and human rights aspects of security
  research
• ethics as self-regulating (human rights transform
  ethics into law)
• the importance of proportionality
• the role of privacy by design
• clearer messages are needed from the ethical
  reviews of projects

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Overarching conclusions from Open Plenary
Session

• Conclusions
• The Societal and Technological aspects of
  Security Research should be integrated more
  effectively
• Need to have more (political-related) research on
  implicit understandings, e.g. under what
  conditions Europe will be secure
• We need greater engagement with the citizens and
  their democratic representatives to enhance the
  security of society
• We need greater transparency and accountability
  to the European people in order to engender trust
  
• Ethical Review and Societal Impact are not
  synonymous
• Assessment of impact should start at the level of
  work programme, not at the selection of projects

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Workshop recommendations Next Steps

• Recommendations
• Greater participation of citizens as the
  end-users (recipients) of Security Research
• Develop a set of criteria for an ethical prism
  include a societal impact assessment which
  reflects that prism in all projects
• Initiate the societal assessment ethical review
  during the development of the work programme
• Promote the use of the common criteria model to
  ensure privacy compliant products (certification)
• Set up a dedicated, interdisciplinary platform
  for social, ethical security experts to support
  the development of the Security Research
  Programme

The tension between European scientific
excellence and European principles of civil
liberties and human rights finds its expression
in the European Security Research Programme
J. Peter Burgess