Business Service Platform for Public Safety and Food Security

Although, many projects for public safety have delivered useful, innovative results, not all of their results are used on the long term, often because of inadequate business models. By investigating critical risk use cases concerning technological hazards in Belgium and food security in Senegal, the study aims to demonstrate that a “global” approach brings significant benefits, compared to traditional segmented approaches that impede the construction of viable business models. The Study has selected two different risk scenarios in two continents. The first scenario concerns Belgium, where, for centuries, industrial activities have developed in the middle of a dense population, raising critical concern about the risks for the citizens, e.g. accidents in a factory, ground instability caused by ancient mining and quarry activities. The second scenario addresses the tremendous challenge that low agricultural productivity and risks on the yield (weather, pest, losses) put, in Senegalese municipalities, on the local authorities, who often lack of reliable local information for anticipation and decision-making. Targeted users’ communities: local authorities (municipalities), the regional and national institutions in charge of risk prevention, mitigation and intervention, and the first responders of the Civil Security services. The stakeholders involved in the production (e.g. industrial enterprises and engineering companies in Belgium, farmers and suppliers of inputs for agriculture in Senegal) and in the services (e.g. experts, financial institutions) are also targeted as they are consumers of added-value services generating potentially significant revenues.