Jesus Cano

New tools for e-justice: legal research available to any citizen

New tools within the e-Justice field are emerging helped by advances in technology as well as the social changes given by the Information & Knowledge Society, but the judiciary is often considered as a conservative field, traditionally very formalized and pre-established, where legal actors have rigid roles to interact. Electronic justice is an essential part of e- Administration within the justice field for shaping a modern public administration of justice, and openness in public services is becoming more and more a key concept. In this paper, we show a projection of these concepts in a new software introduced as a real case, deployed and put into operation in a court of last instance. A closer and more citizen-centric approach has been the starting point for development and can be a model for promoting research in e-justice for all audiences, experts and amateurs. This work provides an innovative vision of e-justice ICT based on the concept of closer to citizens as a key element in the development of ICT in legal issues. For this purpose the factors that make electronic justice is introduced, putting in context the research in the legal field and how a more open justice with the citizen as the first requirement for a judicial system can be considered. Finally a real implementation is presented.

Bringing an engineering lab into social sciences: didactic approach and an experiential evaluation

In this work we explore the challenge and experience of developing skills that are typical of information and communications engineering but linked to cybersecurity in an unusual academic context within the branch of social sciences, specifically for law and criminology students. We examine the prior assumptions regarding the technical issues evaluated, the result of putting the designed laboratory into practice, and also student satisfaction with the experience. The engineering skills-based experiences should be incorporated transversally into other subjects of non-technological sciences. Our research contributes experience along these lines, and inspires confidence in this respect for the new and ever more digitally native batches of students.

A smart city model based on citizen-sensors

This paper presents a model of conceptualization of the citizen as sensor in the design of digital architectures of smart cities now emerging. To do this, the elements involving this framework, particularly electronic participation and urban digital democracy, interoperability and open data is discussed. All this is articulated through a triangle that can help define the context of analysis and development of complex systems in Smart cities based on common artificial sensors.

Laboratories as a service integrated into learning management systems

This work presents the integration of remote laboratories, viewed as a set of services, into Learning Management Systems (LMSs). Remote laboratories are nowadays essential at distance learning, since students are not able to use face-to-face traditional laboratories. These remote laboratories can be employed by faculty within virtual classrooms, so that students can carry out their on-line experiments from anywhere and at any time. Therefore, the services provided by a remote laboratory must be integrated into the LMS, in order to be used during the learning process of students. In particular, the Moodle platform has been employed for achieving our purpose of integration.

A distributed laboratory architecture for game based learning in cybersecurity and critical infrastructures

This paper shows a design based on distributed architectures for a remote laboratory to learn cybersecurity and infrastructure protection systems. Distributed architectures, especially those supported by virtualization and cloud computing, along with other emerging technologies such as Game-based Learning (GBL), currently are a hot trend in educational and professional fields. Around this idea, a key is the concept of educational piece as meaning an element of instructional design where is including a suitable game. Therefore, each piece is characterized. These points among others allow us to plan the game-based lab design and to determine most appropriate time for each learning activity. Eventually, a game-piece-based architecture is able to deploy a kind of laboratories on cybersecurity and critical infrastructures, but that can be generalized for educational activities in other fields. This method provides a coherent reasoning to learning objectives and enough flexibility within a teaching program. In order to get a consistent and effective overcome, a laboratory implementation requires nowadays communication systems, hosts, some virtualization or cloud services, particularly for remote learning, but even for improving the traditional computer classrooms.

SCEPYLT: An Information System for Fighting Terrorism

A safety-critical software system called SCEPYLT provides an information solution for a field traditionally not computerized: explosives and their associated risks in handling, storage, transport, and use. SCEPYLT is a model for cooperative distributed systems engineering projects, synchronized over multiple databases.

Developing Metacognitive Skills for Training on Information Security

This paper aims to describe a change in teaching practice of information security in college by presenting metacognitive aspects. From a constructivist view, students have to find a way for themselves and teachers have to serve as guidance in that teaching-learning process. Here we show some strategies in a framework to achieve in the field of cybersecurity based on our experience.

Security and interoperability in e-Government principles, challenges and experiences

Governments are intended to make use of modern information technology to better serve society, with the help of good principles as effectiveness, efficiency, transparency, openness and accountability. Facing electronic government projects that involve a number of partners, even other public agencies including at the international level, introduces important technological and organizational challenges. But what if the goal is the personal safety of citizens? A maximum of security experts is to make information security to be present in the process of design and development. But according some experiences, that is in mind. As a result, it could be found the heart of the process to build projects may find it in managing collaboration and sharing work. When introducing technology to intercommunicate and organizational collaboration, it might seem that the traditional concept of interoperability is no longer valid. This talk takes a walk by a number of cases and experiences related to the security of citizens.

Work in progress: On the improvement of STEM education from preschool to elementary school

One of the key competences for Europe in the 21st Century is the technological competence understood as an instrument for development, aimed at encouraging society to use and like science. This competence can only be fully achieved by using practical experiments, which present use cases in a realistic, creative, and revolutionary way. This paper presents our work on the development of practical experiments in the context of several pre-university levels, from pre-school to elementary school, aimed at enhancing the appeal of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) among students.