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PSC Europe Forum first Assembly Meeting 21st and
22nd May 2007 in Chamber of Commerce in Luxemburg

• 1st day
• Welcome by EU Commissioner
• Viviane Reding
• Panel of Keynote Speakers from
• all Stakeholders
• Constitution of the PSC Europe
• Forum
• Introductions to PSC Europe
• Workshops
• Networking Reception

• 2nd day
• Keynote Speakers
• Parallel Workshops on Key Public
• Safety Communication Issues
• Workshops Conclusions
• Closing and Next Event

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Detailed Program 21st May 2007
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Detailed Program 22nd May 2007
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Workshop 1 on Operational Interoperability
Challenges Chairman Walter Legrand, EADS Secure
Networks

• The following issues will be addressed
• How can the required consensus and strong
  political support be ensured?
• How can Europe obtain an agreement on different
  TSO contents (such as event
• dictionary, missions, codes, etc)?
• Which organization can assist in building such
  agreement?
• What other information do users want to define
  commonly in the different phases
• of an emergency and disaster cycle?
• What is missing?
• How does it fit in a global European information
  model?
• What are the gaps?
• How can US work be introduced, adapted?
• Do the selected scenarios allow validation in
  line with the work done by ETSI
• EMTEL and MESA?

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Workshop 2 on Broadband Challenges in
Europe Chairman Vania Conan, Thales

• The following issues will be addressed
• What are the key services users expect from
  Broadband?
• Which scenarios (operational, functional,
  technology independent) would exemplify
• these services best?
• Can we define some common EU picture?
• What are the process/options for influencing the
  standards/specification work
• Is it sufficient to use present technology?
• Can we assemble it with existing IT/Com
  infrastructures?
• Are there scenarios that would be satisfied,
  others not?
• If new technology is required what should be the
  role of ETSI (MESA, EMTEL, new
• tools?

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Workshop 3 on Terminology Chairman Felipe
Fernández, Universidad de Politécnica de Madrid

• The following issues will be addressed
• Public safety terminology and acronym
  definitions are drawn from many sources.
• These include communication technology,
  information technology, emergency
• systems, safety systems and civil protection
  services. Its terminology has in many
• cases developed in an unstructured manner with
  proliferation into multiple terms,
• some with overlapping, alternative, or even
  ambiguous meanings. This situation
• can be a source of confusion to both authors
  and readers of publications on PSC,
• and a cause of difficulty in translation into
  other languages
• Having gathered and considered all the relevant
  information, suggestions and
• references on this subject, PSC Europe will
  propose a PSC Europe Terminology
• Lexicon, which will be continuously displayed
  on PSC Europe web-site, and put
• before the Forum for discussion and future
  endorsement

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Workshop 4 on Public Safety Communication
Policy Chairman Gordon Gow, University of Alberta

• The following issues will be addressed
• An effective public policy framework is one that
  will ultimately save lives through
• better public safety communications systems and
  practices. PSC Europe Forum is
• an occasion for gathering data on user needs,
  for technology road mapping, and
• for undertaking market study reports. Together,
  these activities can drive forward a
• public safety communications policy agenda that
  can fulfil the promise of new
• technology for the PSC community across Europe
  and around the world
• The workshop will present a concept paper based
  on a preliminary review of
• published documents by PSC organizations and
  related policy studies. The aim of
• the workshop will be to discuss these findings,
  to place them in a European
• context, and to further specify directions for
  follow-up research in a Discussion
• Paper, possibly under a Policy Working Group.
  This Discussion Paper would then
• provide the basis for subsequent meetings and
  research activities leading to the
• creation of a Policy Roadmap

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Workshop 5 on Satellite for Emergency
Communications Chairman Matteo Berioli, German
Aerospace Center

• The following issues will be addressed
• The use of rapidly-deployable broadband and
  portable satellite system (to replace
• existing narrowband solutions in the first
  hours after a disaster)
• The transition of the satellite solutions from
  the very first hours and days after an
• emergency up to the re-establishment of a
  permanent wireless telecommunication
• infrastructure
• Identify the need and developing of
  telecommunication standards to support this
• (e.g. coordination with ETSI SES/SatEC working
  group)
• Allocation of satellite capacity to be made
  available to national governments in
• case of disaster events, and potentially
  dedicated European satellite capacity for
• this purpose (coordination with ESA is
  foreseen)
• Support Tampere Convention, assure that
  satellite activities are in line with the
• Convention
• Regulatory and licensing recommendations on the
  use of satellite and terrestrial
• frequencies in case of emergency

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Workshop 6 on Emergency Telecommunications for
Citizens Chairman Olivier Paul Morandini, EENA

• The following issues will be addressed
• Standards concerning the geographical coverage
  of emergency telecommunication service within the
  EU (i.e.
• no black non-covered spots because of network
  unavailability) as well as the coverage by all
  citizens including
• disabled users. Users should be aware of the
  possibility or not to call the emergency number
  from an area not
• covered by a network, before entering this
  area
• Multiple emergency numbers should progressively
  be abolished and replaced by the single European
• emergency call number, like 112. Experience in
  many EU countries and the US has shown that one
  number is
• better than many
• Emergency call centres should be able to reply
  to calls within a minimal time, to be established
  as a standard at
• EU level. They should be able to handle calls
  in several EU languages and to transfer calls to
  the appropriate
• (emergency or non emergency) services without
  interrupting the communication with the caller
• Operators of emergency call centres should reply
  and handle calls on the basis of commonly
  established
• standardised protocols ensuring the efficient
  and prompt identification of the emergency and
  the timely
• expedition of help
• Enforcing of caller localisation should be
  implemented in a transparent way and without
  violation of citizens
• privacy, according to EU legislation in force
• Commonly agreed standards at EU level should be
  established for the maximum arrival time on the
  spot of the
• emergency in urban and rural areas as well as
  for the quality of help offered by emergency
  services to the

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Workshop 7 on Harmonized Multi Distribution of
Warning Messages Chairman Mark Wood, CEASA

• The following issues will be addressed
• If we want to reach citizens with an important
  warning message or advisory, we
• need to use a method that will be intrusive
  and all pervasive
• Cell Broadcasting is a very powerful tool for
  the initial warning, it is pervasive
• throughout society and the fact that it rings
  the phones bell means that it is
• intrusive. This is an excellent attention
  getter
• Accordingly we need to have technical middleware
  which can distribute authorized
• messages over several different systems
  technologies. However this technology
• will need to be programmed with rules so that
  abuses by unauthorized sources
• cannot hijack the system for spamming or cyber
  terrorism. Accordingly there needs
• to be a rigorous regime of Trust Protocol
  Boards, stakeholders including
• government and network operators, deciding who
  can say what and where
• The proposed workshop will launch the idea to
  set up of national Trust Protocol
• Boards, and a network of Message service
  Brokers to administer the agreements
• of the boards

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Workshop 8 on Operational Scenarios in Public
Safety Communication Chairman Milt
Statheropoulos, NTUA

• The following issues will be addressed
• Operational scenarios, in order to have
  functionality and effectiveness, need to be
• relevant to todays world situation and have
  to be real tools for those that they
• need them most - the end users. They must have
  technological substance and
• strong impacts in improving existing
  methodologies
• The aims of the workshop will be to discuss
  and prepare guidelines for collection
• and development of operational scenarios with
  emphasis on communication
• issues, to standardise in a simple, functional
  and well understood way their
• development so as to prepare a library of
  scenarios with the capability of updating
• The format of the collection and development
  will be open to discussion. Scenarios
• may include events described with strong
  scientific background, definitions of
• participants and their roles, identification
  of functional requirements and existing
• network technologies and solutions in
  interoperability issues. Running these
• scenarios is expected to result in proposals
  for potential enhancements
• The forum will also serve as a platform for
  discussion in regard to the
• harmonization of different legal systems
  relevant to disasters

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Workshop 9 on Security and Access
Rights Chairman Kevin Robson, BAPCO

• The following issues will be addressed
• Terminology and trust are key disablers to
  information sharing. But what are the
• other obstacles to information access that
  still exist, and how might they be
• overcome?
• Why are security levels non-standard and should
  they be defined by role or by the
• possible impact of an information sharing
  transaction?
• Who decides?
• Is data ownership still a significant issue, and
  who is legally responsible for
• subsequent action once disparate sources of
  information are collated, analysed
• and new conclusions drawn?
• These questions are not meant to be all
  encompassing they merely reflect a small
• number of the issues associated with
  authorisation, authentication, security and
• access, which for the most part are being dealt
  with on an ad-hoc basis by
• individual projects rather than through the
  adoption of cohesive or standard
• approaches. To make progress we must identify
  and own the problem, and
• together identify pragmatic solutions

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Workshop 10 on Public safety Communication
Research Chairman Adrian Boukalov, University of
Luxembourg

• The following issues will be addressed
• Vision of Future Public Safety Communications
  (PSC) Technology. Industrial,
• user, regulator and market perspective
• The key elements of PSC Technology Development
  Road Map
• What are the most important research issues to
  be addressed by future
• research programs ?
• Integration of Research efforts at European and
  International levels
• Cooperation between IST projects in the area of
  PSC
• Do we need a European Technology Platform for
  public safety
• communications ?
• Establishing of Safety Research Initiative (SRI)
  Work Group and Steering

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Workshop 11 on Spectrum Harmonization Chairman
Jeppe Jepsen, Motorola

• The following issues will be addressed
• Public Safety organisations have limited
  spectrum set aside for their
• mission critical voice and data needs in
  380-400 MHz band. National
• networks across Europe are either operational
  or in the process of being
• established
• Organisations are now requiring higher data
  capabilities and access to
• more spectrum is a requirement
• Work in CEPT have identified opportunities for
  wide band spectrum around
• 380-450 MHz, but is availability realistic?
• Work in CEPT have identified requirements for
  local area adhoc networks
• for Disaster Relief efforts in 4,9 5,9 GHz.
  Is Disaster Relief too limited
• an application?
• Public Safety organisations have an opportunity
  with the digital dividend can we

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Workshop 12 on IP Based Public Safety
Communication Chairman Jim Bound, IPv6 Task Force

• The following issues will be addressed
• The IP-based Safety Initiative (ISI) seeks to
  define the roadmap for the
• deployment of advanced broadband applications,
  related radio technologies and
• modern IP-based system architecture. The
  benefits of IP-based services (and
• specifically IPv6-based) are numerous
•       Cost savings in deployment of public safety
  networks
• Proliferation of innovative safety products
  (networked RFID, Sensors)
•      Interoperable IP capable networks
  nation-wide and worldwide
•       Enablement of Trusted End-to-End IP based
  Network Security
•      Enablement of IP based Network Management
• Enablement of IP based Seamless Network and
  Node Mobility    
•       Enablement of Next Generation Network
  Application Services to Users
•       Common open standards communication
  protocol to support multiple
• wireless networks configuration and
  integration (e.g. Sensor, Link, Internet)

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