Dr. Márta Nagy-Rothengass Head of Unit European Commission Information Society & Media Directorate-General ICT for Sustainable Growth Ecoinformatics collaboration, Conenhagen (DK), 21/06/07 Enabling Environmental Services in Europe Through ICT Research

Overview ICT: Information and Communication technologies ICT for sustainable growth: Trends and Role ICT for Environmental Management ICT for Disaster & Emergency Management Community Instruments ICT* Policy Support Programme FP7 ICT Theme Conclusion

Is this sustainable growth? Growth Trends

Sustainable Growth Role of ICT* (I) ICT* account for approximately half of the productivity growth in modern economies offer a great potential for re-engineering society towards more sustainable economic, social and environmental patterns could possibly contribute to a lower Carbon economy through progressive dematerialisation can potentially contribute to most of the key challenges of the renewed Sustainable Development Strategy * ICT= Information and Communication Technologies

Possible contributions to the SDS challenges include: Sustainable consumption and production Energy and resource efficiency (ICT sector and beyond) Better monitoring and management of the environment Better preparedness, mitigation, adaptation to climate change, environmental threats, and disasters Extension of independent living, increase of active participation of elderly people Improved healthcare systems, conitnuous personalised care Clean mobility, virtually accident-free, efficient and adaptive Sustainable Growth Role of ICT (II)

From SDS Key Challenges to Monitoring Themes Key Challenge 1  Th.5: Climate change and energy Key Challenge 2  Th.8: Transport Key Challenge 3  Th.6: Production and consumption patterns Key Challenge 4  Th.7: Management of natural resources Key Challenge 5  Th.4: Public health Key Challenge 6  Th.2&3: Poverty and social exclusion; Ageing Key Challenge 7  Th.10: Global partnership Key objective  Th.1: Economic development Guiding Principle  Th.9: Good governance “In analysing the state of play with regard to the challenges described above, the Commission will draw on a comprehensive set of Sustainable Development Indicators (SDIs)

ICT within the “Monitoring Themes” of SD Indicators Proposals: T1: Economic Development Broadband penetration T2: Poverty and social exclusion Digital literacy T3: Ageing T4: Public health Electronic Health Record, on-line access, co-ordination tools T5: Climate change and energy ICT energy efficiency & savings share T6: Product. & consumpt. patterns On-line purchasing T7: Natural resources management Tools for co-ordination T8: Transport ICT Charging infrastructure, GPS usage T9: Good governance E-government on-line availability E-government usage by individuals T10: Global partnership

Overview ICT: Information and Communication technologies ICT for sustainable growth: Trends and Role ICT for Environmental Management ICT for Disaster & Emergency Management Community Instruments ICT* Policy Support Programme FP7 ICT Theme Conclusion

ICT for Environmental Management Environmental management in Europe is facing fragmentation and heterogenity Need to foster the emergence in Europe of a Single (integrated) Information Space for the Environment (SISE) Need to promote this approach to relevant European/International initiatives such as INSPIRE, GMES, GEOSS

Source: Sensor Web Concept (OpenGIS® White Paper) ICT for Environmental Management ICT for Environmental Management Vision (1/3) Towards a dynamic management of heterogeneous sensor networks for full situation awareness

Source: OpenGIS® White Paper, M. Botts, 2004 Towards dynamic data flows from monitoring to reporting, alert and response ICT for Environmental Management ICT for Environmental Management Vision (2/3)

… Other servers … WCS (e.g. Spot, NASA) WMS (Producer-B, Vendor-2) WFS (Producer-n, Vendor-x) Internet Interfaces Service chaining creates value-added products Client Source: InterRisk Environment, by Spacebel Towards on-demand access to and chaining of services on the Web ICT for Environmental Management ICT for Environmental Management Vision (3/3)

Overview ICT: Information and Communication technologies ICT for sustainable growth: Trends and Role ICT for Environmental Management ICT for Disaster & Emergency Management Community Instruments ICT* Policy Support Programme FP7 ICT Theme Conclusion

ICT for Disaster & Emergency Management Anticipation of crisis situations is limited by the absence of an Single Information Space for the Environment (SISE) and the heterogeneity of potential disasters Response to crisis situations is limited by weak preparedness, lack of interoperability among involved organisations, inadequate early warning Need to foster a pan European infrastructure aiming at reducing impact of natural and man-made disasters including coordination through a Public Safety Communication Forum an EU-wide emergency telecoms spectrum policy

Response Dispatching of resources Emergency telecom Situational awareness Command control coordination Information dissemination Emergency healthcare Disaster Management Cycle Prevention and Mitigation Hazard prediction and modeling Risk assessment and mapping Spatial Planning Structural & non structural measures Public Awareness & Education.. Preparedness Scenarios development Emergency Planning Training Alert Real time monitoring & forecasting Early warning Secure &dependable telecom Scenario identification all media alarm Post Disaster Lessons learnt Scenario update Socio-economic and environmental impact assessment Spatial (re)planning Recovery Early damage assessment Re-establishing life-lines transport &communication infrastructure Disasters

Disaster risk reduction FP6 projects EU-FIRE Acoustic sensor EU-FIRE Acoustic sensor OASIS Operations, C3 ORCHESTRA Architecture ontologies ORCHESTRA Architecture ontologies CHORIST emergency communications WIN Information services WIN Information services SANY In-situ monitoring OSIRIS crisis monitoring WISECOM satcom WISECOM satcom U2010 PSC& IPv6 Dyvine Visual sensors Dyvine Visual sensors InterRisk Marine risks InterRisk Marine risks WINSOC advanced sensors WINSOC advanced sensors SCIER Sensor fusion SCIER Sensor fusion STARRS Search& rescue STARRS Search& rescue Stream Humanitarian Stream Humanitarian MONITORING SYSTEMS INFORMATION SYSTEMS PUBLIC SAFETY TELECOM Command Control Coordination EUROPCOM UWB EUROPCOM UWB MITRA transport MITRA transport INTAMAP Automated mapping INTAMAP Automated mapping ERMA Alert Euritrack Illicit trafficking Euritrack Illicit trafficking Warmer Water monitoring Warmer Water monitoring DEWS Tsunami

Overview ICT: Information and Communication technologies ICT for sustainable growth: Trends and Role ICT for Environmental Management ICT for Disaster & Emergency Management Community Instruments ICT* Policy Support Programme FP7 ICT Theme Conclusion

Sustainable Growth A panoply of converging instruments To devise and implement adequate European policies To raise awareness and deploy ICT-based solutions for environmental sustainability To support RTD on next generation of ICTs contributing to sustainable growth AN OVERALL STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK FOR COMMUNITY ACTION

ICT – Policy Support Programme Work programme 2007 Two Thematic Networks supporting Sustainable Growth 1.ICT enabling Environmental management interoperable environmental information infrastructures to monitor the environment and respond rapidly to emergencies/disasters 2.ICT enabling Energy efficiency smart buildings, industrial processes, working practices, distributed power grids

AIMS: To exchange experience To raise awareness To identifiy areas for potential future pilots To build consensus To implement plans In order to accelerate the take-up of ICT - enabled solutions by bringing together relevant stakeholders expertise facilities ICT – Policy Support Programme Work programme 2007

ICT for Environmental Management ICT for Environmental Management Expected Outcome I a)Collaborative systems for environmental management From monitoring to reporting, management, alert and response Enhanced capacity to assess population exposure and health risk Generic solutions with typical validation focus on water and air Visionary concepts, as well as evolutionary integrated systems Funding schemes: IP and STREPS WORK PROGRAMME

ICT for Environmental Management Expected Outcome II b)Coordination and Support Actions Adoption of common open architectures (INSPIRE, GMES, GEOSS) ICT research for risk reduction and disaster and emergency management Building the European Research Area in the field of ICT for environmental sustainability e)Specific International Cooperation Action ICT for environmental disaster reduction and management Development and interoperability of rapidly deployable ICT-based solutions Assessment of natural hazards and communities vulnerability For public warnings and emergency management Funding scheme: CSA Funding schemes: STREP/SICA, CSA WORK PROGRAMME

Budget & Call Information Budget & Call Information Objective Call: Reference: FP7-ICT Opening: 12 June, closure: 9 October 2007 Work programme : Published in the Official Journal on 22 December 2006 Total Community budget: 54 M€ Topics a-b-c-d: Collaborative projects: 41 M€ (minimum of 9 M€ for IPs and minimum of 20 M€ for STREP) Coordination and Support Actions: 9 M€ Topic e: Collaborative Projects (STREP only/SICA): 2 M€ Coordination and Support Actions: 2 M€ Evaluation of proposal: WORK PROGRAMME

Service #1 Service #2 Service #3 Service #4 Service #n o.s. backup Environmental management infostructure core services are about easily connecting to net-centric services Environmental management infostructure core services are about easily connecting to net-centric services All over Europe … and beyond It is primordial to progressivley enforce interoperability and facilitate the emergence of an integrated and dynamic information space for environmental management and full situation awareness in Europe Conclusion (I)

An environmental information space is not limited to the borders of the EU Need for partnership and international collaboration EC–US EPA “Implementing Arrangement on Environmental Research and Ecoinformatics” (lead in EC by DG Research) Conclusion (II) Environmental information systems Air quality management Decision support toolsUses and impact of nanotechnologies Environmental modellingSustainable chemistry and materials Environmental and sustainability indicators Environmental technologies Environment & health (since 9 February 2007)

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