WP 6 : Accountability, responsibility and transparency in an enlarged Europe

This section's articles

• e-Security and National Parliaments: Digitised Citizens and Accountability

  6 May 2009, by Lodge Juliet, Mayer Terry
  This paper provides an overview of some key documents relating to the highly controversial subject of digitising citizens through the introduction of identity cards and biometric passports.

• E-security and National Parliaments

  6 May 2009, by Lodge Juliet
  National parliaments’ and the European Parliament’s powers vis-à-vis pillar III and related matters of judicial, police and migration cooperation have been progressively augmented. The draft Reform Treaty constitutionalises further reinforcement especially of (i) the European Parliament’s control powers, and (ii) the time granted for deliberation to national parliaments in respect of EU draft legislation.

• Accountable and transparent e-security - the case of British (in)security, borders and biometrics

  22 April 2009, by Lodge Juliet, Sprokkereef Annemarie
  This paper examines the British approach to using biometrics for ‘security’ and verification of identity purposes. It begins by outlining the Government’s roll-out of biometric ID documents, examines some of the criticisms of the Information Commissioner, and scrutinizes the use of biometrics in schools. It concludes that technologies for security exacerbate insecurities and that digi-governance requires a rethink if informed consent, accountability and legal remedies are to be credible.

• Interview data

  22 April 2009, by Lodge Juliet
  This document explains why interview data is not accessible to the public.

• E-borders, Citizens and security : European Cross-Border Collaboration

  22 April 2009
  This seminar convened with end-users of technologies designed to improve security and to facilitate cross-border information exchanges. The seminar opened with a speech by the European Minister Caroline Flint. Police and others involved in combating cross border crime both with partner organizations and with detecting and apprehending international criminals inside their own borders discussed many of the ways in which loopholes are exploited. Attention was drawn to trafficking and to the misuse of the internet, public unawareness about how to protect themselves using e-information exchange, and crucially how to educate the young about the perils of web use, especially of social networking sites. Challenge was presented with attention on issues of ensuring public accountability, secure architectures, migration and policing being of particular interest.

• Accountable and transparent e-security : Austria – a role model for the EU ?

  22 April 2009, by Lodge Juliet, Nagel Daniel
  This paper explores the adoption of ICTs for the administration of government. It focuses on the way in which Austria, a European champion in ICT roll-out, communicated the purposes of ICT enabled administration using e-identification for citizens and how this differs substantially from that of the (in)security discourses in the UK. The emphasis on credible trust, interoperability and accountability. The paper argues that the impact on government and citizens of using ICT administration for different, potentially linked purposes is risky as well as beneficial and requires deep security built-into the systems.

• Practitioners and end-users on Security and borders: realizing the common consular space

  21 April 2009, by Lodge Juliet
  This document sets out the main objectives of meetings and consultations with end-users of ICT enabled applications for border control and information sharing within administrations in one state, within public-private partnerships and across state borders. Particular attention is paid to issues of fraud, data misuse, and the roll-out of a common consular space.

• eborders Consultative Meeting on European Cross-Border Collaboration

  21 April 2009, by Lodge Juliet
  This document summarises a meeting where Challenge was presented to the financial sector primarily concerned with combating fraud by promoting cooperation in a regional setting across agencies that do not normally easily share information within their own organizations, across organizations in the region, or with counterpart organisations in other EU member states. It showed that there was a lot to be learned from information sharing and from accessing the kind of analyses produced by Challenge researchers to inform policy and initiatives being taken on the ground to give effect to government/EU policy.

• Credit crunch to increase fraud, experts warn

  21 April 2009, by Seone Perez Francisco
  This summarises a seminar convened with police, fraud and private agencies concerned with the management of crime across jurisdictions and states. It examines th nature of fraud, different crime patterns resulting from successful applications of the European Arrest Warrant and discussed the rich resources available through Challenge to those at the chalk-face wanting to discover more about the EU’s initiatives and actions to combat crime and cross-border criminality.

• Transparency and Mobility beyond Borders

  21 April 2009, by Lodge Juliet
  This document provides an overview of an innovative meeting with EU ambassadors to discuss aspects of border management in the EU as the prospect of creating a common consular space and sharing some visa services becomes a reality.

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