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The Transnational Digital Government Research Project An IT system for transnational collaboration on border control
Presenter: Charles McSweeney MSc.Chair, Information Technology Department, UB
Chair, Belize National Observatory on DrugsOn behalf of
TDG Team: Belize, Dominican Republic, US
The University of Belize & the National Drug Abuse Control Council
Belize Gateway to Paradise – Yoh betta Belize it
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TDG
Transnational digital government • collaborative government processes that use
Information Technology to help address national , regional or global problems
• This research is aimed at demonstrating IT solutions that can be used by countries to find, notify and receive allowed transnational information about suspicious and/or dangerous individuals who cross borders
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Participants and funding
University of Belize
CMU, NCSU U. ColoradoU. FloridaU. Mass.
PontificiaUniversidad Católica Madre y Maestra
Belize
Organizationof American
States
USA Dominican Republic
Universities
AgenciesMinistry of
Health
NationalDrugCouncil
Funded by US National Science Foundation (5/02)
• NSF funds basic research, not development
• agencies responsible for infrastructure & staff time
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Broad Context
• OAS Multilateral Evaluation Mechanism (MEM)
• Specifically the MEM indicator that deals with Displacement • The movement of persons and the effect of drug
trafficking and drug related activities across borders
• Project comes as a direct result of the MEM requirement
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The TDG team University researchers and staff members from OAS and
agencies in the US, Belize and Dominican Republic• Carnegie Mellon University (J. Carbonell, V. Cavalli-Sforza)
• North Carolina State University (A. Anton, Q. He)
• University of Belize (C. McSweeney)
• U. of Florida (J. Fortes, S. Su, A. Matsunaga, M. Patil, M. Tsugawa)
• University of Colorado (R. Cole, W. Ward)
• University of Massachusetts (D. Towsley, W. Chen)
• U. Pontificia Católica Madre y Maestra (L. de Brens, J. Ventura, P. Taveras)
• OAS CICAD (B. Piñeres)
• National Drug Abuse Control Council (Belize) (O. Brooks, Immigration - G. Murillo)
• Consejo National de Drogas (Dom. Rep.) (M. Herrera, A. Bautista)
• Agencies in Belize and Dominican Republic
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Why remote border control?
The participating countries considered this critically important• Border control addresses the influx of
immigrants, assists in identifying suspicious travelers, assists in the protection of the sovereignty of countries, provides valuable information for the inter-national collaboration
Tracking movements of traffickers and terrorists requires sharing information across countries• Presents research and execution challenges
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Why Dominican Republic and Belize Wonderful similarities
• Caribbean
• Land-locked borders with a country with which “differences” exist
• Air, water,land drug trafficking possibilities Challenging differences – great for
research• Language
• Culture
• Protocols
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Research goals of the project
To advance the state-of-the-art of: spoken dialogue systems, machine translation, collaborative information management,network performance optimization, and software requirements in the context of a specific TDG process – the MEM.
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Collaboration Portal
US
(OAS)
*SMSC *SMSC
DR Belize
ETR Server
Event Server
Translator
Dist. QP
DB
DBMS
ETR Server
Event Server
Translator
Dist. QP
DB
DBMS
Internet
Point of entry
Point of entry
Stations with Conv. Interface
Stations with Conv. Interface
AgenciesAgencies
People People
Event Registration and Discovery
Query
Event Notification and Data Delivery
Post events
Post events
query query
Data entry
Data entry
Cell phone notification Cell phone notification
*SMSC: Short Message Service Center
Prototype System
A first system design
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Conceptual view
Internet(Belize/Dominican Republic/OAS/USA)
DominicanRepublic Belize
Español English
superdr superbe
Dialogue ServiceDialogue Service
Translation Services
Query ProcessorService
Query ProcessorService
Translation Services
Database Service
DominicanRepublic
Belize
Database Service
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Distributed Query Scenario
Internet(Belize/Dominican Republic/OAS/USA)
DominicanRepublic
Belize
Español English
superdr superbe
Dialogue Service Dialogue Service
Belize
Query ProcessorService
Translation Services
Database ServiceTranslation Services
Database Service
Result
DominicanRepublic
Result
Query
Query
Query ProcessorService
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Event Filter Installation
Internet(OAS/Belize/US/Dominican Republic)
DominicanRepublic
Belize
superdr police
SuscripciónArrestPEntry
Event Register
Subscription + Event Filter Specification
SubscribeEnter Arrest Record
Event Server
Event Publication andSubscription Registry
Translation Service
Event Server
Translation Service
Notification
Register EventsEventDescriptionCountryTemplate
Arrest RecordLanguageDefendantWitnessVictim
Event-Trigger Scenario
Post Arrest
director
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Internet(OAS/Belize/US/Dominican Republic)
DominicanRepublic Belize
superdr superbe
Fill Port of Entry Form
Register EventsEventDescriptionCountryTemplate
Forma de llegada
Alert
Watch-List Scenario
Response
Check
Wat
ch-L
ist
director
DominicanRepublic
Database Service
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Watch list alert
Upon border crossing by individual on a watch list, interested parties (who subscribed to the event) are automatically notified • Person who posted the event is also notified
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Translation at work Multilingual processing uses “in the
background” a translation service
• A real-time view of translation at work
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Dialogues instead of forms Examples of the dialogues that are possible when forms
are replaced by conversational interfaces
• A real-time view of the system at work
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What is the date of entry for rosa perez?dateofentry: 2002-11-08
What is her passport number and date of birth?passportno: 44871849dateofbirth: 1963-06-21
What about mingo garcia?passportno: 2676356dateofbirth: 1962-10-02
What are his nationality, passport number and occupation?nationality: USApassportno: 2676356occupation: IMMIGRATION OFF
Dialogue Examples
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Ongoing work
Further development and integration of the different software components of the system
Collection of language data for Belize and Dominican Republic
Field-testing and evaluation of system
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The big vision System extended to the entire
hemisphere Good quality of service Sharing of resources of all kind
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Thank you so much for not leaving,yawning and throwing
objects.
Questions??
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Examples of queries Get the passport number, last name, first name, nationality and
date of entry of all those people who entered the country after ‘01-Jan-2003’ and whose nationality is ‘USA’.
Get the passport number, name, date of entry, port of embarkation and purpose of trip for the people who came from Chicago or from Boston for business after ‘01-Nov-2003’.
Get the passport number and name of the lady who had a tattoo on her arm and who departed after 15-Jan-2003.
Get the passport number, name and comments for all the people who appeared nervous when they entered the country.
Get the name, arrival information, departure information and purpose of trip for all the people who entered the country after ‘01-Jan-2003’.
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El viajero se veía nervioso y tenso.Traveler appeared nervous and tense.
El viajero se presentó en la frontera sin documentos.Passenger, presented himself at the border without documents.
Hablaba francés.Spoke French.
El viajero no entendía español.The traveler not understood Spanish.
No quería contestar a nuestras preguntas.Not wanted answer to our men questions.
Translation Examples
Woman appears nervous.La mujer parece nerviosa.
Claim to be students studying archeology.Afirman ser estudiantes, que estudian arqueología.