Descrizione del progetto
Previsione strategica nella definizione delle politiche di applicazione della legge
L’emergere di tecnologie dirompenti come l’IA e la realtà virtuale pone delle sfide agli operatori addetti all’applicazione della legge e alla sicurezza civile che sono chiamati ad anticipare i progressi tecnologici, a identificare le potenziali minacce e a trasformarle in opportunità. Sebbene la previsione tecnologica sia una soluzione praticabile, è indispensabile non affidarsi esclusivamente ad approcci basati sulla sorveglianza tecnologica. Il progetto AHEAD, finanziato dall’UE, stabilirà un quadro di previsione della sicurezza civile sostenibile e basato sulle capacità, adottando un approccio globale a 360 gradi. Il quadro sarà testato con l’obiettivo di offrire linee d’azione pratiche che possano aiutare i decisori e i responsabili delle politiche a livello sia europeo che nazionale. In definitiva, il progetto mira a integrare in modo più sistematico la previsione strategica nel processo di elaborazione delle politiche.
Obiettivo
With the rise of potentially disruptive technologies such as artificial intelligence and virtual reality, a particular challenge has emerged for LEAs and other civil security practitioners. Tasked with fostering safe societies and protecting European citizens from new forms of criminality, they need to pre-empt technological evolutions, turning potential threats into opportunities, and anticipate the operational future of policing.
Technology foresight is one possible anticipatory process. However, pure technology watch-based approaches are not helpful for decision-making if not embedded in a qualitative assessment of threats and capabilities. Hence the need to move towards a comprehensive foresight framework which is the rationale behind AHEAD.
Standing for TowArd TecHnological ForEsight for IncreAseD Security, AHEAD is a LEA-led project which will adopt a 360-degree approach accounting for megatrends but also contextual elements (i.e. legal, ethical, societal and economic) to design and operationalise a sustainable capability-based civil security foresight framework. Tested through iterative Foresight Exercises addressing the five Destinations of the Horizon Europe Cluster 3 (Fighting crime and terrorism, Border management, Resilient infrastructure, Increased cybersecurity and Disaster-resilient society), this framework will be tailored to the needs of civil security practitioners to generate “evidence-based” capability roadmaps.
Such roadmaps will translate the foresight process’ outcomes into concrete courses of actions to support decision- and policy-makers at EU and national levels when deciding on strategies and policy actions in the field of civil security, including the programming of security research and innovation investments. By enhancing a forward-looking culture in civil security, AHEAD will contribute to the strategy put forward in the European Commission's Foresight Agenda to embed in a more systematic way strategic foresight into policy-making.
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