During the first year of the project, community policing was analysed from different points of view (sociological, technical, legal and ethical) in order to start from a solid baseline for the development of the project.
Many use cases and scenarios have been considered, in order to find the best suitable for demonstrating the validity and the potential of TRILLION in its application domain. Legal and ethical issues were also explored in details, with a focus on the regulations in force in each nation of end-users involved in the project.
Following the identification of requirements and the selection of use cases and scenarios, the design on the TRILLION platform and the development of prototypes followed, with this work carried out mainly during the second year of the project. A user centric, privacy – by design approach described in the DoW of the project has been followed, with the provision of early prototypes, evaluation and feedback by end users, and lab testing of prototypes guiding the implementation process, and contributing to the improvement of usability of prototypes.
The release of the TRILLION platform has been done through the gradual availability of platform’s features, available for pilot testing in two pilots (alpha and beta), involving real users, both of which provided valuable feedback for fine tuning. This pilot based evaluation was implemented during the last year of the project, contributing to the dissemination of project’s results and involving stakeholders, and setting the basis over which exploitation plan has been conceived.
In parallel to the technical and evaluation, dissemination work has played an important role in the project. Dissemination activities involving making stakeholder community (both LEAs and citizens) aware of existence, capabilities and potentials of TRILLION, as well as participation in events announcing and presenting the results of the project to citizens have taken place. A dissemination strategy defined in the first year of the project was realised during the 3 years duration of TRILLION, through the participation to events and workshops on citizens security, communications with projects related to community policing, publications and active participation on social media through dedicated profile pages. Moreover, as the potential of the platform unveiled during the project’s lifetime, dissemination actions have shifted gear, trying to effectively respond to the dissemination needs of research results. In this context, participation in clustering events, use of practical tools and application (such as the TRILLION button), presentations in large public events (CES 2018, European Researchers’ night) have been implemented, with actions covering electronic and traditional media (newsletters, TV, Social media).
