NSAI Interest Group established

On September 12, 2014 NSAI at its Dublin Headquarters held inaugural meeting of Interest Group to co-ordinate national standardization for societal and citizen security.
Pictured above at inaugural meeting of Interest Group (left to right): Dr. Ian Cowan, NSAI; Mr. Tom Flynn, Saadian Technologies Ltd (Convener); Mr. Dudley Dolan, Q-Validus Ltd, Nova, UCD; Mr. Stephen Purcell, Future Analytics Consulting.
A number of collaborative research projects within the European Commission’s Seventh Framework and Horizon 2020 research programmes which include Irish participants have signalled the importance of standards development as a concomitant to research in order to facilitate development and workability of any innovative solutions; examples are: COBACORE – COmmunity BAsed COmprehensive Recovery,
DESTRIERO – A DEcision Support Tool for Reconstruction and recovery and for the
IntEroperability of international Relief units in case Of complex crises situations, including CBRN contamination risks,
S-HELP – Securing Health.Emergency.Learning.Planning – Development of Decision Support Tools for Improving Preparedness and Response of Health Services Involved in Emergency Situations, and
SECTOR – which addresses the area of a secure European common information space for interoperability of first responders and police authorities.

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