Received 19 million grant for radically innovative project
Big Data & Emerging Technologies research group at Vestlandsforsking, Sogndal received the Research Council of Norway grant to address increasingly complex social cyber security challenges. The project aspires to the convergence of a set of ICT enabling technologies in the areas of artificial intelligence, big data and social media analytics, and semantic technologies, to tackle increasing societal vulnerability and cyber-social threats challenges associated with the digitalisation of society.
The project Violence-inducing Behavior Prevention in Social-Cyber Space of Local Communities , a large-scale interdisciplinary research project, addresses a very important societal challenge and will have immediate and direct real-world impact. The project tools and technology can make authorities better able to implement strategies and campaigns to counteract actions that can lead to hatred and violence.
For this call, a total of 98 applications were submitted, and only seven of these were successful.
This was excellent news! The project will build a strong partnership between researchers and authorities for keeping people safe by enabling public safety agencies and community services to access and examine violence-inducing behaviours in online social platforms and the associated user-generated content online bringing significant advantages to their operational capability. I am really excited about the collaboration with our esteemed partners and stakeholders, says professor Rajendra Akerkar, the project manager.
The project consortium includes three partners from Norway and one international partner from the USA with complementary expertise covering all aspects of the project.
The time frame for this research and innovation project is four years, starting in 2022 and ending in 2026.
The project team:
Rajendra Akerkar and Hoang Long Nguyen, Western Norway Research Institute
Hemant Purohit, George Mason University
Sule Yildirim and Mohamed Abomhara, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Carol Azungi, NLA University College