In Brussels, exploding bombs, and in Milan close the software … – Linkiesta.it

And the crucial point it is that this information, in our cities, already exist. They just have to be related to each other. Why in Smart Ciber were involved, with difficulty, all the main municipal of Milan and Lombardy Region : A2A, Atm, Amsa, Northern Railway, Sea, MM as well as the State Railways. All jealous guardians of their autonomy. “It took months of discussion forums because these partners decide to cooperate. Milan City Council took care of the governance , but there are around all the infrastructure in the field of energy, transport, airports, railways, health care system. Each of these has crucial information that often does not want to share. ” And the paradox is that many of these giants, public or semi-public, also have their own “crisis room” or “Central risks,” according to a security model made its own – “federalist” until the climax – which increases costs and often reduces efficiency. “Because the information sharing is a contemporary slogan with which all fill your mouth but that, too often, remains a dead letter.”

The theme of collaboration between different agencies is a mantra that repeat for years two types of experts: those ones of counterterrorism and anti-money . Unheeded. But the problem is not only Milan and even Italian only. Smart Ciber was tested simultaneously in three other European cities, in addition to Milan: Rotterdam , Budapest and Varna in Bulgaria. Even in these three cases we are serving continental difficulty: the two cities of Eastern Europe are faced with aggressive national security policies that are spreading in the area of ​​the continent, especially based on repression, through the massive use of forces order, and tightened controls on the borders.

in Rotterdam, on the contrary, the project has however seen a better fate: the Smart Dutch Ciber has been implemented at national level because there was already a GIS georeferenced system – Geographic Information system – to monitor the classic emergencies and accidents, but it is spreading to other types of “disasters” related to the world of subversion and radicalization , thanks to the technological contribution of Italian research group.

at the level of other European cities and capitals all are being organized on GIS systems, because this is the prevailing line. The theme of the “incubators of radicalization” – understood as actual physical locations of our cities, not just the virtual radicalization, “on the web”, which so attracts the attention of the press and observers. Despite the openings in this sense “the real tragedy,” closes Professor Lombardi, “is that no one shares information. Who speaks for European intelligence today speaks of a dream . The intelligence responds to national governance and if the political will is not to cooperate, then the information sharing remains a chimera . “