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The benefits of SAFIR        
> The Safir context
   

Modern democracies are facing a growing number of information challenges, including:

  • How to inform citizens
  • How to offer an equal opportunity to both Internet literate & Internet illiterate citizens
  • How to provide access to existing data
  • How to maintain these data, and keep them up to date
  • How to collect information in an efficient and easy way
  • How to demonstrate that the administration is really servicing the citizens

At the same time, governmental services, such as field employees, police, fire brigades, civil protection agents at all levels (national, regional, municipal) are facing a similar problem when operating in the field.

> Safir objectives
   

The primary objective of SAFIR is to give each European citizen an equal opportunity to access, update and manage existing authorized content through common easy-to-use devices by the means of the most obvious and simplest human interface: voice and graphics.

It will also allow civil servants to gather, update and manage information in the field by using voice activated mobile devices.

> The benefits of Safir
   
  • Administrative paper based work will be decreased
  • Work flows and work methods of public bodies will be improved
  • General efficiency will increase
  • The digital divide will be decreased
  • Governments will interact more closely with their citizens
  • Europe will better be positioned in the race for a user-friendly "Knowledge Society"

> The Safir project consists of
   
  • Analysis of the gap between proposed IT solutions and potential administration and user benefits
  • The development of the techniques and methodologies to allow multimodal access with auto adaptation of the devices to the users
  • The definition of the generic needs of an e-Government interface and extract the relevant information to create a generic e-Government "domain" for the natural language layer of SAFIR
  • The development of the technique and methodologies to easily build and maintain content by multimodal means (voice + graphics)
  • The development of the techniques and methodologies to tackle with multiple language content

User pilots will prove and enrich the developed techniques and methodologies; these pilot users will be the early adopters preparing for future dissemination strategy, in different sub-domains:

  • Citizens
  • Municipal employees
  • Fire brigade and civil protection
  • Police and civil security organizations

Results will be techniques, softwares and procedures to enable up to date data to be used by citizens and special users, including multimodal automatic adaptations and preferences, in a multilingual Europe.

Equally new methodologies based on those techniques will allow specific classes of workers (civil protection, police, regional government, policy-makers, …) to increase the quality of data and services to the citizens by immediately accessing the digital chain in the field.

Pilots with various early adopters from European Regions (Brussels, Vratsa, Walloon, …) will ensure the practical dissemination of the SAFIR results while international cooperation is already planned and scheduled.

> SAFIR Project Web Site
   

Powerpoint presentations from the press launch, press releases, photos, … are available on this website

European Commission eGovernment website & contact:
http://europa.eu.int/egovernment_research
SAFIR Project Officer: Tiziana.ARCARESE@cec.eu.int

> Press Contacts
   

IBM
Philippe Borremans
PR Manager
tel: +32.2.225.2773
philippe_borremans@be.ibm.com

Voice-Insight
Charles Kemper
CEO
tel: +32.2.529.5812
press@voice-insight.com
www.voice-insight.com

> European Public Relation
   

CGP Europe
Charlotte Gutman
Founder & Managing Director
tel: +32.2.375.2100
charlotte@cgpeurope.com
www.cgpeurope.com

 

 

LEM & Co
Yossi Lempkowicz
Managing Director
tel: +32.2.375.8892
yossi.lempkowicz@skynet.be

 

 
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