{"id":5455,"date":"2021-06-12T15:09:39","date_gmt":"2021-06-12T14:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/cemore\/events\/are-we-ready-for-it-exploring-societal-readiness-for-ppdr-innovation-30th-june-2020\/"},"modified":"2021-06-12T15:09:39","modified_gmt":"2021-06-12T14:09:39","slug":"are-we-ready-for-it-exploring-societal-readiness-for-ppdr-innovation-30th-june-2020","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/cemore\/events\/are-we-ready-for-it-exploring-societal-readiness-for-ppdr-innovation-30th-june-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Are we ready for IT? Exploring Societal Readiness for PPDR Innovation 30th June 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Is Society Ready for IT? Or is IT Ready for Society? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Exploring Societal Readiness for PPDR Innovation<\/p>\n<p>30th June 2020, PSCE Conference<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary Call for Participation (more detail soon here)<\/p>\n<p>Public Protection and Disaster Response (PPDR) is changing radically. Three trends are coming together to drive this. Firstly, PPDR practitioners are faced with more frequent and more intense disasters as we enter an era of climate crises. Secondly, a new generation of emergency service professionals is entering the workplaces, and they bring high skills and high expectations for digital augmentation. Thirdly, innovation in digital technologies from Artificial Intelligence to the Internet of Public Safety Things, automation and robotics, and mobile broadband networking is gathering pace. However, as Prefet Guillaume Lambert, Head of the French Public Safety Broadband Network Programme at the French Interior Ministry observed at the last PSCE Conference in Paris, while the technologies might be ready, the public is not ready for these innovations. We need to convince them.\u00a0This workshop explores questions of, and approaches to, \u2018societal readiness\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>We are developing a critical approach to the concept of \u2018Societal Readiness Levels\u2019, acknowledging that \u2018convincing the public\u2019 demands sound arguments. Rather than seeing \u2018societal readiness\u2019 as a matter of society getting ready to \u2018take\u2019 innovations, we are asking what design can do to meet the requirements of society. How ready are our technologies for society? To what extent do they support social and material practices, complex socio-technical systems with histories, cultures, and path dependencies, societal values and civil liberties? How high do our innovations (in technologies, policies, organisational structures, emergency plans and planning processes) score on a scale of \u2018Societal readiness Levels\u2019 (SRL)? And what can be done to raise their SRL? This is both a substantive and a methodological question, because designing for society translates into a need for designing with society. As a result, this workshop also asks how we can develop better methods for engaging citizens in innovation in PPDR.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Topics to be discussed at the workshop include (but are not limited to):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Studies of change in PPDR, e.g. towards net-centric approaches, with a focus on citizens and publics<\/li>\n<li>Experiences from and studies of implementations of innovations focused on public perceptions and public engagement<\/li>\n<li>Methodologies for co-design in PPDR that engage citizens<\/li>\n<li>Studies of public perceptions of PPDR innovation, including NGO, such as civil liberty groups<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We welcome contributions from NGO and civil liberty groups, community groups and citizens, academics, practitioners, SME and industry, policy-makers, government authorities. Please submit an abstract of your presentation (or demonstration of prototype \u2018solutions\u2019) (1000 words max) to <a href=\"mailto:secretariat@psc-europe.eu\">secretariat@psc-europe.eu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Deadline for submissions: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 20th\u00a0April 2020<\/p>\n<p>Notification of Acceptance: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 4<sup>th<\/sup> May 2020<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Early Bird Workshop Registration Fee (ends 13<sup>th<\/sup> April 2020):\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 TBC<\/p>\n<p>Workshop Registration Fee after 13<sup>th<\/sup> April 2020\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a3200<\/p>\n<p>Full PSCE Conference Registration fee (Workshop included):\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 TBC<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The workshop will combine practitioner, researcher, and industry presentations with \u2018unconferencing\u2019 creative interaction formats and prepare an instant journal for the PSCE Conference delegates.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions, please don\u2019t hesitate to contact us <a href=\"mailto:secretariat@psc-europe.eu\">secretariat@psc-europe.eu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Image Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/15464637@N03\/36186029053\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;5G Security&#8221;<\/a> <span data-v-4370462c=\"\">by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/15464637@N03\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">jyrki huusko<\/a><\/span> is licensed under <a class=\"photo_license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/?ref=ccsearch&amp;atype=rich\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CC BY 2.0 <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is Society Ready for IT? 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