PhLic: Nordic Safety and Security (2009-2013)

Society’s security, protection and preparedness is today a high priority subject, in Sweden as well as abroad. The Nordic Security and Safety (NSS) project aimed to make the Norrbotten/Västerbotten region of Sweden prominent when it comes to development of products, services and means related to safety, and
risk- and crisis management.

The project was a collaboration between Luleå Tekniska Universitet (LTU), European CBRNE Centre vid Umeå universitet (UmU), Totalförsvarets forskningsinstitut, (FOI), Vägverket, Banverket, Försvaret (I19), Västerbottens läns landsting (VLL), Länsstyrelsen i Norrbotten, Räddningstjänsten i Boden och Luleå, Bodens Kommun, LKAB, SSAB, Vattenfall, Skanska. It was financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the County Council of Norrbotten.

I carried out research for my licentiate thesis in NSS project, my contribution was towards developing a socio-technical process view of secure communications during emergency response (police, firefighters and fire engineers, as well as ambulance personnel). I carried out my research as a qualitative case study, where data was collected through interviews with personnel of said institutions.

Thesis: Hartikainen, H. (2013). Secure emergency communications of emergency responders: a case study of Kemi municipality in Finland. Licentiate thesis, Luleå University of Technology.

Related publications

  1. Harnesk, D. & Hartikainen, H. (2013). “Multi-Layers of Information Security in Emergency Response.” Using Social and Information Technologies for Disaster and Crisis Management, edited by Murray E. Jennex, IGI Global, 2013, pp. 67-83. http://doi:10.4018/978-1-4666-2788-8.ch005
  2. Hartikainen, H. (2012). Information security in hierarchical and ad-hoc emergency organizations : differences in communication challenges and training needs. Norsk Konferanse for Organisasjoners Bruk Av Informasjonsteknologi : NOKOBIT 2012, 105–118. Retrieved from http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-40643
  3. Harnesk, D., & Hartikainen, H. (2011). Multi-Layers of Information Security in Emergency Response. International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (IJISCRAM), 3(2), 1-17. http://doi.org/10.4018/jiscrm.2011040101
  4. Hartikainen, H., & Harnesk, D. (2009). A review of secure emergency communications : technical and organisational aspects. Proceedings of the 32nd Information Systems Research Seminar in Scandinavia, IRIS 32, Inclusive Design. Retrieved from http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-27190