scholarly journals Možnosti implementace nových technologií do komunikačního rozhraní simulátoru na podporu řešení krizových situací

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-53
Author(s):  
Jiří Barta ◽  
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Jiří Kalenda
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Crisis Management ◽  
Crisis Communication ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Crisis Preparedness ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Simulation Tools ◽  
The Public ◽  
Form Part

The number of anthropogenic and natural disasters is growing and their impacts increase pressure on prevention and crisis preparedness in the public and private sectors. Exercises of the crisis management authorities, which test and verify both plans and capabilities, form part of the crisis preparedness. The article deals with the preparation and application of crisis preparedness training using software and simulation tools. The next part of the article focuses on the training of the crisis management bodies, describing all preparation and implementation phases. Simulation has a great impact on preparedness due to the possibility to test and verify plans and capabilities of included bodies, identify deficiencies and create an environment for improvements. The results of the exercise were applied in an evaluation that detected problems in the use of new technologies and crisis communication.

scholarly journals Vývoj komunikačního prostředí simulátoru na podporu řešení krizových situací

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 60-67
Author(s):  
Jiří Barta ◽  
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Jiří Kalenda
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Crisis Management ◽  
Crisis Communication ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Crisis Preparedness ◽  
Real Situation ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Simulation Tools ◽  
Form Part ◽  
Considerable Impact

Exercises of the crisis management authorities, which test and verify both plans and capabilities, form part of the crisis preparedness. This article deals with the preparation and implementation of the exercise of crisis management authorities in the Czech Republic. The first part of the article deals with the preparation and putting into practice of crisis preparedness training using software and simulation tools and selected modules, tested at the gas supplies breakdown of large scale. Next part of the article focuses on the training of the crisis management bodies, describing all preparation and implementation phases. The results of the exercise were applied in an evaluation, which detected problems in the field of crisis communication. The exercises tested a simulator, which is being developed. This simulator allowed to record communication and thereby to create conditions similar to the real situation. Simulation has a considerable impact on preparedness due to the possibility to test and verify plans and capabilities of included bodies, identify deficiencies and create an environment for improvements.

scholarly journals Automating security infrastructures: Practices, imaginaries, politics

2020 ◽  
pp. 096701062093351
Author(s):  
Nathaniel O’Grady
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Emergency Communication ◽  
Private Companies ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Critical Security Studies ◽  
Private Organizations ◽  
Automated Technology ◽  
Security Infrastructure

This article contributes to emergent debates in critical security studies that consider the processes and effects that arise where new forms of automated technology begin to guide security practices. It does so through research into public Wi-Fi infrastructure that has started to appear across the globe and its mobilization as a device for warning the public about emergencies. I focus specifically on an iteration of this infrastructure developing in New York called LinkNYC. According to the infrastructure’s operators, the processes that underpin emergency communication have gradually become ‘automated’ to accelerate LinkNYC’s deployment during crises. The article pursues three lines of inquiry to explore the automation of security infrastructure, in turn making three correspondent original contributions to wider debates. First, it unpacks the real-time analytics and platform-based data-sharing techniques cultivated to automate emergency communication. Here, I expand understanding of the new forms of automation now integrated into technologies harnessed for security and their practical effects. These forms of automation, I demonstrate secondly, are situated by those governing into wider imaginaries concerning the transformative promise automation bears. I argue that the proliferation of these imaginaries play a crucial role in justifying and dictating the enrolment of new devices into security. Third, it explores how automation affords private companies the opportunity to exercise discretionary decisionmaking that changes how and when infrastructure should operate during emergencies. Developing this argument, I add new dimensions to debates regarding the political ramifications associated with automation by claiming that automation redistributes authority across the public and private organizations that increasingly coordinate in bringing new technologies to bear in the security domain.

scholarly journals Monetary Surrogates:the Looking Glass of Modern Regulation

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 204-207
Author(s):  
D A Pechegin
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Exchange ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Criminal Responsibility ◽  
Federal Law ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Exchange Transactions

«Current legislation of the Russian Federation establishes a variety of currency restrictions, which are a set of rules established by the state, designed to protect the national currency to affect the behavior of participants in foreign exchange transactions by imposing prohibitions or additional encumbrances on certain foreign exchange transactions». One of the such rules is the provision of art. 27 Federal Law No. 86-FZ of 10.07.2002 «On the Central Bank of the Russian Federation (the Bank of Russia)», according to which the introduction in the territory of the Russian Federation of other monetary units and the issuance of monetary surrogates are prohibited. Meanwhile, the current legislation does not establish any liability for the issuance of cash surrogates. Moreover, new technologies are increasingly being introduced into our lives and are constantly inf luencing the legal environment in which we are currently surrounded. Much attention today is focused on the topic of cryptocurrency and the use of blockchain technology in the public and private sectors. Currently, both professional and non- professional participants are increasingly discussing various aspects of the use of cryptocurrencies in a particular state. The article analyzes urgent issues of the circulation of money substitutes, identifies the prospects of establishing criminal responsibility for the issue and circulation of money substitutes, etc.

scholarly journals Crisis, Communication, and Canadian Hospitals: An Analysis and Evaluation of Risk Preparedness and Crisis Communication Efforts of Ontario Hospitals

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian Dobosz
Keyword(s):  
Crisis Management ◽  
Crisis Communication ◽  
Strategic Communication ◽  
Crisis Response ◽  
Communication Process ◽  
Crisis Preparedness ◽  
Analysis And Evaluation ◽  
The Past ◽  
Risk Preparedness

Background While hospitals are complex and unique organizations, they are not often the subjects of crisis communication research.Analysis Through an analysis of each stage of the crisis communication process (preparedness, execution, and post-crisis), this study seeks to analyze and evaluate the crisis response of Canadian hospitals from a strategic communication perspective.Conclusions and implications This study reflects the findings of similar research in the field, confirming that hospitals in Ontario are indeed more prepared to face issues and crises that they have faced in the past. This study also demonstrates how integration between crisis communication and operational crisis management helps to foster a robust crisis preparedness strategy and a unified crisis response. Contexte Bien que les hôpitaux soient des organisations complexes et uniques, elles ne font pas souvent l’objet de recherches en communication de crise.Analyse En examinant chaque étape de la communication de crise (préparation, exécution, bilan), cette étude cherche à analyser et évaluer, par l’entremise de la communication stratégique, comment les hôpitaux canadiens répondent aux crises.Conclusion et implications Cette étude, à l’instar d’études comparables menées dans le domaine, confirme que les hôpitaux en Ontario sont mieux préparés pour gérer des problèmes et des crises qu’ils one déjà eus à gérer. L’étude démontre en outre qu’en associant la communication de crise et la gestion de crise opérationnelle, on peut développer une meilleure stratégie de préparation aux crises et assurer une gestion mieux coordonnée de celles-ci quand elles surviennent.

scholarly journals Crisis Communication

Communication ◽  
2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth Lachlan
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Risk Communication ◽  
Crisis Communication ◽  
The Other ◽  
Communication Process ◽  
Audience Response ◽  
Communication Management ◽  
The Public ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Organizational Crises

In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, scholars from the fields of journalism, communication, management, and psychology paid increased attention to communication efforts that take place before, during, and after organizational crises and other events likely to instigate negative reactions on the part of the public. This subset of communication has come to be known as crisis communication—the construction and dissemination of public messages in the event of organizational incidents, natural disasters, accidents, and other incidents likely to induce fear, anxiety, or unrest. Crisis communication is often delineated from risk communication in that crisis communication deals specifically with events that have taken place as opposed to the risk of events occurring in the future. Given that crisis communication has emerged from several academic traditions, numerous approaches to the study of these messages and their effectiveness can be found in the extant literature. Each of these approaches sheds insight on a particular aspect of the crisis communication process, such as the actions inside an organization, audience response, message construction, or stakeholder relations. This bibliography attempts to capture key works across all of these traditions and is divided into several components. A list of key overview texts is presented along with information regarding journals in which much of the essential scholarship in the field can be found, a series of studies defining the parameters of the field is included, and essential studies in the field are discussed in two sections. One section presents studies that examine crisis communication from several leading methodological perspectives, the other the key studies concerning the prevailing theoretical perspectives in the field.

Flexibility of Work in the Public and Private Sector in Slovenia

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatjana Kozjek
Keyword(s):  
Structural Changes ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Economic Recession ◽  
Public Organizations ◽  
Labor Costs ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Private Organizations ◽  
Internal Mobility ◽  
Public And Private Sector

Discussions about flexibility of organizations in the field of work are more frequent in the recent years, mostly as a result of the economic recession. Structural changes and globalization have had a severe effect on both, organizations and employees. Therefore, organizations must remain flexible to respond to unexpected changes to the area of demand, as well as adjust to new technologies and other influences. Organizations implement various measures to increase their flexibility of work and timing of work and internal mobility of employees or in the field of wages and labor costs. The article presents results of the research which examined whether there are differences in the flexibility of organizations in the field of work between employees in the public and private sectors in Slovenia. The results showed that private organizations enabled internal, numerical, functional and locational flexibility more often than public organizations. The most flexible among public organizations are public agencies and institutions.

scholarly journals The Transformation of Public TV Companies into Digital Services at the BBC and RTVE

Comunicar ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 18 (36) ◽  
pp. 87-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mercedes Medina-Laverón ◽  
Teresa Ojer-Goñi
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Public Companies ◽  
The Public ◽  
Media Companies ◽  
Public Media ◽  
Public Broadcasting Service ◽  
Nuevas Tecnologías ◽  
Public Tv

Some authors question the existence of public television companies in the new environment of digitalization, Internet proliferation, growing competition and audience segmentation. However, others believe they should act as a driving force in the process of convergence and even that the new media present an opportunity to redefine the public broadcasting service (PBS) remit. The current challenge for the public media companies is to deliver their content through the maximum number of devices, not only via television sets but also broadband and mobile devices. Over the years, the BBC has adapted to new market situations and has implemented solutions that have been adopted by other public and private broadcasters around the world. The objective of this article is to show how the BBC has taken up the leadership of transforming public TV companies into online services in order to maintain market share; and how it has influenced Spain’s public TV broadcaster, RTVE. The methodology is based on internal and external documents of both corporations, and the findings are complemented by interviews with online service managers at RTVE. We conclude that these public companies have adapted their activities to the new technologies and have developed interactive services to reinforce their public service mission.Algunas voces cuestionan la permanencia de las televisiones públicas en el nuevo entorno digital, caracterizado por una mayor presencia de Internet, más competidores y la fragmentación de la audiencia. Sin embargo, hay otros que creen que deberían actuar como una fuerza motriz en el proceso de convergencia e incluso que los nuevos medios representan una posibilidad de redefinir la misión de las televisiones públicas. El reto actual de las corporaciones públicas es proporcionar los contenidos a través del mayor número de soportes posibles, no solo a través de la televisión, sino también a través de Internet y dispositivos móviles. Un rasgo de la BBC es haberse adaptado siempre a los cambios del mercado y muchas de sus soluciones han sido transferidas a otras empresas de comunicación tanto públicas como privadas de todo el mundo. El objetivo de este artículo es mostrar cómo la BBC es uno de los modelos en los que las empresas televisivas se han fijado para transformar sus servicios digitales a fin de mantener su existencia en el mercado, y conocer cuál ha sido su influencia en la televisión pública española RTVE. La metodología empleada radica en el análisis de los documentos internos y externos de las compañías y entrevistas realizadas a los responsables de los servicios digitales de RTVE. Las conclusiones apuntan a destacar que estas compañías han adaptado sus actividades a las nuevas tecnologías y han desarrollado servicios interactivos como refuerzo de su misión de servicio público.

scholarly journals Methods of Covid-19 Crisis Management in the International Tourism and Civil Aviation Transport

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-133
Author(s):  
Jindřich Ploch ◽  
Monika Palatková
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Crisis Management ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Air Transport ◽  
Civil Aviation ◽  
International Tourism ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Creative Commons

Tourism and air transport are among the sectors most affected by the Covid-19 crisis. The pandemic lasting more than a year is reflected in short-term effects in both sectors, but there are also severe long-term consequences. National authorities will have to set recovery plans following the relevant policies and encompass international cooperation with public and private entities. The article aims to identify the methods and procedures that can be implemented, which can mitigate the consequences of the crisis and initiate the renewal of international tourism and air transport in particular. The paper's methodology is based on current statistical data and strategic documents at the national and international level represented by the international organizations (esp. UNWTO, WTTC, IATA, ICAO, ECAC). The focus is on the crisis management of the public sector entities in terms of the definition and implementation of reconstruction strategies, on private sector stakeholders, on the interconnection of the tourism and the air transport sectors, and cooperation in the international environment. Methods and tools for the renewal of both sectors are based on a strategic approach of the public sector, support for the introduction of new business models in the private sector, change in the product and marketing mix, digitization, innovation, and education. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

scholarly journals Enabling Smarter Cities with Operations Management

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ho-Yin Mak
Keyword(s):  
Operations Management ◽  
Data Analytics ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Potential Contribution ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Energy Transportation ◽  
Exciting Area

Recent development of new technologies and data analytics has unleashed the so-called smart city (SC) movement, which has been transforming the ways that cities (and their services) operate. This movement is in line with the operations management (OM) community’s pursuit of innovative research questions, and part of our community has already started working on this exciting area of SC OM. In this article, we shall discuss (i) the potential contribution that OM can make to the SC movement, that is, how OM research may help inform discussion and decision making in the public and private sectors. In particular, the core principle of making cities smarter is in line with the OM literature. We then discuss (ii) how and why SC operations can be an interesting topic that possibly expands the scope and depth of OM theory, through drawing links to the existing and new streams of OM literature. Finally, we present (iii) a few promising research directions and examples, in domains such as energy, transportation (mobility), and retail.

Human Rights and Technology: New Challenges for Justice and Accountability

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 223-240
Author(s):  
Molly K. Land ◽  
Jay D. Aronson
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Public Service ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Face ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Fact Finding

This review surveys contemporary challenges in the field of technology and human rights. The increased use of artificial intelligence (AI) in decision making in the public and private sectors—e.g., in criminal justice, employment, public service, and financial contexts—poses significant threats to human rights. AI obscures and attenuates responsibility for harms in ways that undermine traditional mechanisms for holding wrongdoers accountable. Further, technologies that scholars and practitioners once thought would democratize human rights fact finding have been weaponized by state and non-state actors. They are now used to surveil and track citizens and spread disinformation that undermines public trust in knowledge. Addressing these challenges requires efforts to ensure that the development and implementation of new technologies respects and promotes human rights. Traditional distinctions between public and private must be updated to remain relevant in the face of deeply enmeshed state and corporate action in connection with technological innovation.

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