Interoperability Challenges to Public Security and Information Sharing

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Interoperability Challenges to Public Security
and Information Sharing

• 6th Annual International Public Safety /
  Counterterrorism Conference
• International Cooperation through Private /
  Public Partnerships
• Québec City, Québec
• April 23, 2007
• Doug Dalziel
• A/Director General
• Public Safety Interoperability Directorate
• Public Safety Canada

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The Public Safety Canada Portfolio
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Public Safety Interoperability

• Within the federal domain alone, public safety
  interoperability involves no fewer than 26
  departments and agencies
• Public safety interoperability crosses many
  business lines, jurisdictions and domains
  including
• Provincial/Territorial/Municipal emergency
  preparedness functions
• First responder radio communications
• Public health emergencies
• National security issues
• Policing, courts and corrections
• Privacy and security of information
• Transborder data-flows
• Transportation security

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Defining Public Safety Interoperability

• An environment where people, processes, and
  organizations collaborate to share the required
  information with the right individuals at the
  right time.
• The capacity for, and effective management of,
  information sharing among organizations having
  public security responsibilities.
• Key elements
• compatibility of information sharing / management
  and information technology systems
• alignment of / between information sharing
  programs and activities
• consistency and effectiveness of management
  structures / mechanisms / processes involved in
  information sharing

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Coffee Maker as Metaphor for Perfectly
Interoperable Information Sharing
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Information Sharing / Flow FINTRAC Example
Source FINTRAC Annual Report 2006
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Interoperability Barriers Past Studies

• IJIS Discussion Paper (2000)
• A Federal Perspective on Barriers to Information
  Sharing in the Criminal Justice System
• Systemic Barriers
• Cultural Barriers
• Technological Barriers

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Other Known Interoperability Challenges

• Assumptions re the cohesiveness of public
  safety as a single community or enterprise
• Horizontal initiatives shared accountabilities?
• Skill sets, corporate memory, and receptivity of
  stakeholders momentum
• Complexity

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Embracing Complexity an Example
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Embracing Complexity a Further Example
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Embracing Complexity Cross Border Radio
Spectrum Management
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Emerging Interoperability Challenges

• Absence of a Shared / Achievable Vision
• How to create Vision?
• as an end state?
• agreed components?
• agreed process and interim products on the road
  to a more interoperable environment

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A Vision of Public Safety Interoperability - in
Brief
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Emerging Interoperability Challenges

• Maintaining the Right Governance
• Well-managed initiatives within an overarching
  framework
• Coordination efficient and effective use of
  resources and technologies
• Recognizing / rewarding new technologies and
  approaches to information-sharing support derived
  from communities of interest

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Emerging Interoperability Challenges

• Achieving an Agreed Priority-Setting Process
• Needed
• as part of overall political priority-setting
  process and overarching framework
• as value management ranking of existing and
  prospective projects
• to determine earned value of individual
  investments

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Emerging Interoperability Challenges

• Achieving Trust
• Interoperability a complex issue with simple
  drivers
• Moving forward with a well-defined structure and
  governance
• Success comes only with the support of the
  organizations that deliver the programs
• What really matters putting the tools in place
  to facilitate and promote public safety

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In Conclusion What Role the Private Sector ?

• Vision / Definition - as community of
  interest (source
  of technical expertise)
• Momentum / - as political lobby
• Governance
• Priority-Setting - as provider of best
  practice

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Doug.Dalziel_at_ps-sp.gc.ca