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Editor's Letter
With the increasing demand, not to mention necessity, being placed on all civil contingency responders to collaborate on information, we turn our attention to data management and data sharing this month.
One key question that data sharing raises is that of trust - knowing that whom we are dealing with and what their authority is, before they gain access to any form of (and especially mission critical data) is of paramount importance. Technology can play a major role to resolve this issue, and the importance of understanding and managing applications, such as the use of digital identities, is thus becoming increasingly important (see page 12). Furthermore, research analyst, Gartner, estimates that the role of digital identity is set to grow by 400% by 2009 underlining its usage.
Collaboration for data sharing also impacts on the command and control room, hence our continuing series on command and control (page10). This month, however we turn our attention to the impact VoIP is having.
Finally, this month, as we put this issue to bed, the advertising and editorial team are about to fly out to Madrid to visit the TETRA exhibition and conference - a full report of the event will appear on our website (www.bapcojournal.com).
Dawn Davison-Read
Editor
