Whether a challenge is frontline, operational or strategic, our work helps organisations understand fast-moving technology and act on it with confidence — to protect citizens, both children and adults, as well as members of the security and emergency services.
Testing wastewater for Covid 19. Advice on wastewater testing strategy for England, including a review of potential technical capabilities (sampling, locations, data analysis, market forces) and the ethical implications of testing wastewater.
Identifying the elements of an images. Undertook a technology horizon scan to identify current and emerging technological options for using computer vision to identify an element image. Concept development for Counter Terrorism Policing. Identification of illegal content in key files. Evaluation of current available solutions; creation of dedicated new solution.
Verification of Children Online. Examined available and emerging technology solutions for organisations to identify or estimate the age of online users, including biometrics and behavioural analysis tools.
Automated moderation of online content. Analysis of tools and methods used by online media owners to moderate user-generated content, including the important part that human moderation plays.
Translation of nonverbal online communication. Evaluation of the potential for existing and emerging content translation and analysis tools to be used to uncover hidden meaning in messages containing nonverbal communication, including emoticons, emojis and memes.
Evaluation of current knowledge management processes. Review of prototype tool being developed by a third party. This project was underpinned by an examination of how commercial businesses manage information dissemination and sharing.