A New Symbiotic Relationship with Industry to Keep our Cities Safe
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In order to keep our cities safe from organised crime, state actors and those who would attack us because they ‘just can’, we argue that we need to nurture different relationships with industry, symbiotic relationships. We recognise that law enforcement and industry have different drivers but equally have shared interests and can, if the relationship is built upon ethical foundations, ensure both parties, and ultimately the public, benefit. We explore why this is important and offer specific suggestions as to how it may be achieved. Data meets Visualization – Towards a Safer City Wolfgang Mueller-Wittig N/A N/A What makes a city safer? The Economist Intelligence Unit just released its Safe Cities Index 2015 with three Asean metropoles ranking on top. Here the handling of safety-related aspects as cyber security, health security, infrastructure security as well as personal safety and their impact to a better quality of a life are playing an important role. With more people moving to urban areas the integration of data from various sources, intelligent analysis and generation of meaningful visuals open up the opportunity to create a collaborative forum for all stakeholders with enhanced situational awareness for better planning and decision making in a complex urban environment. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: The Duality of Smart and Safe City Development Paul Wang N/A N/A Urbanization is driving economic growth and cities are embarking on strategic initiatives to be on this “smart & safe city” bandwagon. To sustain such ambitious goals, national and local government are embarking on various “living laboratories” to work closely with the private investors to establish a vibrant eco-system where new technologies and solutions are created for the needs of the city. These good success stories reinforce the virtuous cycle of a sustainable smart and safe city development. The adversaries are also embarking on a technology race where they too, leverage on high technology to achieve their goals. Sophisticated cyber-attacks, high-tech terrorism, activists’ mobilization via social media are some examples where we see a “Professor Moriaty vs. Dr Watson” shoot-out. Social terrorism has become a concern. Terrorism is no longer a remote concept happening at some distant, conflicting regions. Self-radicalization is happening around us and this poses strenuous challenges to the law enforcement agencies. The software of any smart and safe city is in the social fabric. The interplay between technology and social policy development should heighten citizenry engagement. The new wave of safe and smart city development is about building trust in private-public collaboration, digital asset and digital access.