Towards a Governmental Platform for Citizen Safety and Crisis Management Using Advanced Mobile Technologies  

Burja, L., Mazare, D., and Tanase, M.

The exponential development, which the mobile communications market has experienced in the past years, gives us the technological means to imagine new ways of addressing main concerns of our society, such as citizen’s safety, crisis situation management and communication between authorities and citizen in situations varying from natural disasters to terrorists attacks. In this context, this project intends to use modern mobile technologies as means to obtain additional control in crises situations, thus contributing to a more secure society.
The project will implement a technological platform, placed under government control, which offers key services for emergencies management, such as services for quick information and alert dissemination to people, collaboration and coordination services between intervention teams and members of the same team, information aggregation services and personal assistance services in distress situations. Mobile devices are used as both the source and the destination of critical information.

Keywords: mobile devices, citizen safety, crisis management.