Martin Cauchi Inglott, CRIMARIO Project Director, introduces the SHARE.IT interoperability framework.

Today, I’d like to introduce you to the SHARE.IT interoperability framework. As you are aware, CRIMARIO is a European Union-funded maritime capacity-building project with a focus on information exchange. During CRIMARIO’s inception phase, the project noted that there were a number of independent information exchange systems being employed by regional Information Fusion Centres across the Indo-Pacific. The problem is that these different systems are unable to interconnect with one another; therefore, in partnership with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and Regional Information Fusion centres in Madagascar, Singapore, and Peru, we embarked upon the SHARE.IT interoperability framework, together with partners from the Pacific, India and the Gulf of Guinea. We have already conducted two major conferences and have developed software which allows the translation of different IT languages so that the different information exchange systems can communicate with one another digitally and securely. The future is exciting as we now move towards embracing other countries with active interests in the Indo-Pacific to join the SHARE.IT interoperability framework, so together, we can develop a network through which all the different systems can exchange information with one another digitally and securely.