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2	2	**PIs: Dave Roberts and Michael Fischer**
3	3	**Funder: NERC**
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7	7	At the University of Kent, we have developed software, 'iTrade', that automatically identifies illegally traded items on websites with about 90% accuracy, capable of generating new reports every 10mins. Typically the identification of cybercrime of this form involves law enforcement officers simply going through thousands of web pages by hand. iTrade goes through all these pages automatically, weighting them as more or less likely to be illegal, and presenting the most likely pages in a feed so that officers can quickly click through these to assess investigation potential, saving officers a significant amount of time. For example it currently takes experienced officers a day to assess 400 items of ivory from the antiques section of eBay; 10-15% of these items have proved to be illegal elephant ivory. The software can acquire the 400 items and extract the 50-60 most likely items within ten minutes, which can be assessed in about hour on the part of the officer.
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9		-We will investigate the establishment of a business entity such as a non-profit organisation to deploy and develop services on advice gained through the Pathfinder. This will support our potential business model, which includes donations from third parties to support enforcement activities. Marketing research under the Pathfinder award indicated that our likely clients from the non-profit sector would be very reluctant to pay a private for-profit business for the same services, as would other likely donor institutions and private individuals. A non-profit places us on the same basis as the community within which we will operate, and will encourage volunteers and contributions of time from our colleagues. The organisation's income will contribute to improving and expanding services and products, supporting related research, and expanding our data-mining services to a broader range of applications. The University would maintain its interests through representation within the organisation. [[image:WebHome@webscrape.png||style="float: right;"]]
	9	+We will investigate the establishment of a business entity such as a non-profit organisation to deploy and develop services on advice gained through the Pathfinder. This will support our potential business model, which includes donations from third parties to support enforcement activities. Marketing research under the Pathfinder award indicated that our likely clients from the non-profit sector would be very reluctant to pay a private for-profit business for the same services, as would other likely donor institutions and private individuals. A non-profit places us on the same basis as the community within which we will operate, and will encourage volunteers and contributions of time from our colleagues. The organisation's income will contribute to improving and expanding services and products, supporting related research, and expanding our data-mining services to a broader range of applications. The University would maintain its interests through representation within the organisation. [[image:WebHome@webscrape.png||style="float:right"]]
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11	11	We will develop and deploy services based on present capabilities that supply feeds of webpages rich in illegal entries that can be deployed in a variety of forms, including RSS/Atom web feeds, email, and one or more web or tablet based applications, for use by public bodies with responsibilities to enforce including the National Wildlife Crime Unit of the Police and the UK Border Force, foreign law enforcement agencies, or external private parties who operate on behalf of law enforcement organisations.
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