(Via Doors of Perception)

SWAMI, which apparently stands for “Safeguards in a World of Ambient Intelligence,” is a EU-funded project, now working on a set of deliverables to forecast, forewarn, and suggest policy options for the coming era where everything is intelligent, nothing works quite right, and nobody knows why:

Project Summary

This project aims to identify and analyse the social, economic, legal, technological and ethical issues related to identity, privacy and security in the forecasted but not yet deployed Ambient Intelligence (AmI) environment.

Work package 1 (WP1) consists of a state of the art review of existing AmI projects, studies, scenarios and roadmaps.

Work package 2 (WP2) deals with developing “dark” (adverse) scenarios, the aim of which will be to expose key socio-economic, legal, technological and ethical risks and vulnerabilities related to issues such as identity, privacy and security.

Work package 3 (WP3) develops legal and policy options which could serve as safeguards and privacy-enhancing mechanisms for Ambient Intelligence.

Work package 4 (WP4) focusses on dissimination of project results, continuously throughout the project. There are two validation and awareness-raising workshops foreseen. A final conference at the end of the project is also planned.

FP6 Project: IST Priority 8.1: Policy-oriented research (SSP): Integrating and Strengthening the European Research Area.

Start date of contract: 1 February 2005

Contract duration 18 Months