The Structure of Intelligence, The intelligence informations management needs of an NGO operation in the light of the MIP interoperability data model

During the establishmen of an NGO Maritime Rescue Service (MRS)in the Lake Albert region in Uganda, the intelligence information management (IM) needs of the operation cere compared with earlier IM experiences of a combined peace keeping mission. This paper describes the MRS oparation IM needs. Furthermore, the Joint Command and Control Information Exchange Data Model (JC3IEDM) is introducea as the reference information model for combined military operations, and the possibility to apply that same, or a similar, data model for the structuring of the IM for both types of operations is discussed

The Swedish port security network - An illusion or a fact?

One and a half years after the implementation of the ISPS code in Swedish ports there is still much work to be done. Port security covers so much more than technical and instrumental issues. The manners in which perceptions of threat are defined and constructed are also of central importance in understanding the rationale of working with port security. Alongside with the development of regulations, new technological tools and instrumental procedures efforts have to be put into the understanding the processes connected to their implementation. Even though the world, through the globalisation, is becoming smaller in many perspectives there are always local contexts to take into consideration. No matter the magnitude and the devastation at the epicentre of an event, the effect will be regarded differently as the shockwave decreases over time and distance in space. This article shows some of the problems related to the implementation of international regulations, in this case the implementation of the ISPS code in Swedish ports. It high-lights the relations between important actors involved, the possibilities of a Port Security Network and the effects of weak links between the actors within the network

Service, Regulations, and Ports: An Actor-Network perspective on the social dimension of Service-Dominant Logic

Something has happened in the field of Service Studies. With the introduction of what has been called Service Dominant Logic a large proportion of the established theories related to service as a phenomenon has been challenged. From previously having been defined as something different from the tangible things we buy (goods); i.e. a residual, service defined out of what service is not, the new line of thought reversed the entire goods dominant logic stating with service as the point of departure, and also that service is one of the fundamental building blocks of society. In a sense service is regarded as the glue that holds society together constituting something that can be described as a new “sociology of service”. This is a big claim for a theory that originates, not only from the field of business, but from the field of marketing within the business field. The same year that Service Dominant Logic was introduced, 2004, a new set of regulations was introduced within the international shipping industry. As a reaction to what was defined as an increased threat from international terrorists measures were taken to decrease the risk of attacks on board ships and in ports. This thesis pairs these two events, the introduction of new regulations in Swedish ports and the new theory of service, in order to analyse the usefulness of the principles of Service Dominant Logic in a complex service process that is in flux in both time and space. I will in this thesis argue that, even though there are certain qualities in Service Dominant Logic, it lacks some fundamental things – first and foremost a language to cope with the vast complexity that is under scrutiny, but also that it might be to all-inclusive to be useful outside a philosophical discussion about the development of theories

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