Procuring Innovation to enable a pan-European broadband mobile system for PPDR
Lead by: Monika Buscher, Male Lujan Escalante, Luke Robert Moffat
Public Safety Communications Europe (Brussels, Belgium), Leonardo (Italy), Vodafone (Portugal), Lancaster University. For a full list of stakeholders see here
BroadWay comprised a consortium of tech developers, academics, and emergency response practitioners, to lead a formative practitioner evaluation of a new 5G broadband network for emergency response across Europe.
IsITethical?Exchange designed processes and spaces to connect developers with emergency responders (fire brigade, police force, ambulance responders, coast guards, public health practitioners and so on) who may use their 5G technology. Together we developed smart criteria and KPIs, that will be used by Broadway to test all the tenders. We also worked closely with the practitioner evaluation team of the other consortia
The work focused on facilitating circumspect reflection and knowledge exchange processes in which practitioners articulate features that are really essential for them, and developers could articulate their design in terms of the human and policy related constraints of usability.
This work started during the constraints of covid, and it is the first time we designed this kind of work remotely, so part of the challenge was how to develop collaborative tools and activities for this setting. We sent materials by post, and designed 3 playful activities that allowed participants rehearse dialogues.
See more about BroadWay here
Publications
Luján Escalante, M. A., Moffat, L., & Büscher, M. (2022). Ethics through design DRS2022 available here