Operationalizing Human Security

[IMPACT]

Creation of an app that supports a decentralised early warning system to promote human security, identifying different threats and opportunities and providing agile responses.

Human security is a people centred approach based on the perceptions of individuals and communities about what makes them insecure. Human security seeks to protect three basic freedoms:

• Freedom from fear: protecting people from threats directed at their security and physical integrity.

• Freedom from want: Ensure that people’s basic socio-economic needs are met, empowering them to realise their potential and pursue productive projects.

• Freedom from indignity: Upholding human rights, ensuring legal protection, the rule of law and enhancing of human welfare empowering people to make choices and seek opportunities.

These three pillars are at the heart of the Sustainable Development Goals and reflect some of the concerns expressed by economist Hernando de Soto regarding the need to strengthen the social contract between the state and its citizens.

While this concept has broad support among scholars and policy makers as a useful framework for the construction of peaceful and prosperous societies, one difficulty is how to go from theory to practice and make human security operational. Blockchain technology can provide a solution to this problem articulating people's voices and reflecting their perception of security threats at different levels.

A key challenge to address is how can security priorities be defined through an inclusive bottom up approach, which effectively aggregates the different perceptions of individuals about significant threats to their security. An additional problem is how to mobilize effective actions to manage the identified risks.

While there are some early warning systems, these tend to be very centralized, state-focused and highly bureaucratic. These factors hinder their effectiveness.

Blockchain technology can contribute to solve these problems by creating a decentralized system for identifying risks and mobilizing rapid responses. This would favor a truly collaborative approach among different stakeholders to work together in implementing quick and effective preventive strategies to uphold human security.

Similar successful experiences:

Ushahidi: An open-source software with the intent of strengthening communities, empowering users to rapidly and purposefully gather, analyze, respond and act on data and information.

ECOWARN: an observation and monitoring system for conflict prevention and decision-making developed by the Economic Community for West Africa , ECOWAS

Early Warning System of Colombia’s Ombudsman office, SAT: SAT identifies and assesses situations of risk for civilians derived from the armed conflict. It informs relevant authorities about possible massive human rights violations.

In the first phase of the project, which is the one this application referes to, there is no significant risk. Some challenges may arise related to the technological viability to develop the idea.

[FEASIBILITY]

This project is divided in five stages:

1. Strategy

Do a needs assessment and define the strategy for evolving the idea into a successful app.

• Consultation with different stakeholders (governments, civil society networks such as GPPAC, EPLO, INGOs like Peace Direct, International Alert, and others, local grassroot organizations, Universities, scholars, practitioners, business sector representatives, UN Human Security Unit, UNDP Peace and Development Advisers and other actors).
• The monthly reports will reflect the conclusions from the consultation.
• Strategy sessions
• Strategic document developed will be open and available to the Cardano community
• Validation of strategy document with different stakeholders and with the members of the Cardano community

 2. Analysis and Planning

• Viability analysis for translating the strategy into an app using the scrum methodology
• Defining use cases and capturing detailed functional requirements.

3. UI / UX Design

Work on the app’s design to deliver a good and intuitive user experience and a polished look.

4. App Development

• Define the technical architecture
• Pick a technology stack
• Define the development milestones

5. Testing

Ensure comprehensive QA testing of the app, preparation of test cases that address all aspects of app testing.

This proposal is to develop the first two stages of the project: 1) Strategy development, 2) analysis and planning.

For the development of the first two stages of this project we will require:

• Two specialists in conflict and political legal issues with more than 10 years experience. These two specialists will develop the work plan and will be in contact with the scrum cell for the technological development. Cost per month US$2.500.00X2X4: US$20.000.00

• A scrum cell contracted with a company for the development of a medium complexity app in the two initial stages of the project.

This scrum cell will have following team:

1 Product owner ; 1 scrum master; and the following developers: 1 data data engineer, 1 backend engineer, 1 part-time frontend engineer, 1 documenter and 1 professional graphic designer. It will be initially developed in android. This will have an approximate value of US14.000.00

Darynell Rodríguez Torres is an international relations specialist and a conflict prevention and conflict resolution adviser. He is the former Executive Director of the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict, GPPAC, a member-led network of organizations active in the field of conflict prevention across the world. He has broad experience conducting conflict analyses, political risk assessments and articulating multi-stakeholder processes.

He has held different positions in the public and private sectors, as well as in multilateral regional organizations. He has been political risk analyst and public policy consultant for prestigious European consultancy firms. He has written several articles and contributed to edited volumes on conflict prevention.

Some of his key areas of expertise include:

• Strategic analysis & management in complex political environments

• Public policy advocacy

• Conflict sensitive programming

• Early warning and prevention

• Stakeholders’ engagement

• Partnership brokering

• Community relations

• Dialogue processes

• Training and capacity strengthening

https://www.linkedin.com/in/darynell-rodr%C3%ADguez-torres-2b8249/

Carlos Eduardo González is a Lawyer, magister in law and management of public services and magister in public policy. He has extensive experience in the implementation of national impact projects, advisor in public policy, legal affairs, regulation and institutional relations. Manager of public policies at the territorial level and management of interdisciplinary projects. Ease and motivation for continuous learning. Leadership, public speaking, public relations and community work skills. Multidisciplinary preparation in psychology and negotiation.

linkedin.com/in/carlos-eduardo-gonzález-fernández-23b27055

[AUDITABILITY]

A number of deliverables will be set for the two stages that this project would include:

Identification of relevant stakeholders

 Number of consultations held

Conclusion report from the consultations

Strategy session held

Strategy paper developed

Validation workshops held

Viability analysis for translating the strategy into an app held

Defininition of use cases and detailed functional requirements identified.

Future phases of the project will include:

UI / UX Design, look and feel determined

Technical architecture defined

Technology stack identified

Development milestones

Sucess would include two factors:

1. Needs assessment completed
2. Plan for the development of the app defined

This is a new initiative, if successful it will have continuation.

One of the team members has been financed by fund 7.

SDG Rating

SDG goals:

Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels

Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development

SDG subgoals:

16.1 Significantly reduce all forms of violence and related death rates everywhere

16.10 Ensure public access to information and protect fundamental freedoms, in accordance with national legislation and international agreements

16.6 Develop effective, accountable and transparent institutions at all levels

16.8 Broaden and strengthen the participation of developing countries in the institutions of global governance

17.3 Mobilize additional financial resources for developing countries from multiple sources

17.6 Enhance North-South, South-South and triangular regional and international cooperation on and access to science, technology and innovation and enhance knowledge-sharing on mutually agreed terms, including through improved coordination among existing mechanisms, in particular at the United Nations level, and through a global technology facilitation mechanism

Key Performance Indicator (KPI):

16.6.2 Proportion of population satisfied with their last experience of public services

16.1.3 Proportion of population subjected to (a) physical violence, (b) psychological violence and (c) sexual violence in the previous 12 months

16.1.4 Proportion of population that feel safe walking alone around the area they live

16.10.1 Number of verified cases of killing, kidnapping, enforced disappearance, arbitrary detention and torture of journalists, associated media personnel, trade unionists and human rights advocates in the previous 12 months

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