This document presents a case study on using Google Maps to report election results from the 2010 Kenyan referendum. It discusses problems with previous elections, outlines objectives to develop a geospatial approach displaying results, and methodology which included collecting constituency boundary and results data, importing it into Google Fusion Tables, and mapping the results. The results showed support for the referendum, with opportunities to reduce errors and increase transparency in releasing election data to the public online.
Upper Coastal Plain Digital Inclusion PlanRobert Hiett
The Upper Coastal Plain Digital Inclusion Plan was produced to empower all providers, community leaders, local governments, organizations, and other stakeholders seeking to solve digital inclusion challenges across the Upper Coastal Plain region with the network, tools, and information needed to reach their goals.
The Upper Coastal Plain Council of Governments region includes Edgecombe, Halifax, Nash, Northampton, and Wilson Counties, and 41 municipalities within the five-county region.
Rural Transportation Planning Trends and IssuesRPO America
Presentation by Carrie Kissel, National Association of Development Organizations, at the FTA State Programs Meeting, August 7, 2013, in Washington, DC.
Interoperable and Distributed Processing in GIS to Sustain the Development of...Forokoro Kone
Since 1992, implement decentralization reformin Mali has made it possible to empower the populations in their own development planning. Resources distribution to local authorities requires detailed information of the constraints and the assets linked to their development. Data collected on the rural area are often poorly defined, redundant or incomplete and inefficiencies for sharing due to a lack of applied standard tools. The information is too descriptive and it is difficult to extract useful one for decision making process. There is inadequate information upon which to base resource allocation decisions. The purpose of this paper is to define data, that can be collected on rural municipalities or localities and handled by GIS to make information available to decision-makers, planners and beneficiaries. The data used from Malian poverty survey performed in 2001-2002 focused on the satisfaction of basic household needs. This concept is based on meeting those who lack access to basic living needs, which generally include clean water, sanitation, nutrition, primary health services, and basic education.The method used the platform of "MapGIS IGS, IIS6, Windows Server 2003, ASP.NET and MS SQL Server 2000" to develop an application GIS Web Service. Data areintegrated to the platform and published as services. The product outputhave been tested successfully on the intranet of Wuhan Zondy Cyber in the term of interoperability and extraction of the information needed.With this tool, each local authority can be a potential collector of his own data and participates to update the database. The Web Services model of the GIS systems described provides users with the services and data they need, without having to install, learn, or pay for any unused functionalities. The extension of this standardization in all ECOWAS countries would be a great advantage regarding the sharing of geographic information between countries.
BROADBAND MAPPING/PLANNING - WI STATUS CHECKdaleschultz
Presentation to the Assembly Committee on Renewable Energy and Rural Affairs
Gary A. Evenson, Administrator
Nick Linden, Assistant Administrator
Telecommunications Division
Public Service Commission
Twenty Years of Rural Transportation Planning: Revisiting and Renewing North ...RPO America
Tim Brock, North Carolina Department of Transportation, and Matt Day, Triangle J Council of Governments co-presented on North Carolina's rural planning organizations at the 2020 National Regional Transportation Conference.
Upper Coastal Plain Digital Inclusion PlanRobert Hiett
The Upper Coastal Plain Digital Inclusion Plan was produced to empower all providers, community leaders, local governments, organizations, and other stakeholders seeking to solve digital inclusion challenges across the Upper Coastal Plain region with the network, tools, and information needed to reach their goals.
The Upper Coastal Plain Council of Governments region includes Edgecombe, Halifax, Nash, Northampton, and Wilson Counties, and 41 municipalities within the five-county region.
Rural Transportation Planning Trends and IssuesRPO America
Presentation by Carrie Kissel, National Association of Development Organizations, at the FTA State Programs Meeting, August 7, 2013, in Washington, DC.
Interoperable and Distributed Processing in GIS to Sustain the Development of...Forokoro Kone
Since 1992, implement decentralization reformin Mali has made it possible to empower the populations in their own development planning. Resources distribution to local authorities requires detailed information of the constraints and the assets linked to their development. Data collected on the rural area are often poorly defined, redundant or incomplete and inefficiencies for sharing due to a lack of applied standard tools. The information is too descriptive and it is difficult to extract useful one for decision making process. There is inadequate information upon which to base resource allocation decisions. The purpose of this paper is to define data, that can be collected on rural municipalities or localities and handled by GIS to make information available to decision-makers, planners and beneficiaries. The data used from Malian poverty survey performed in 2001-2002 focused on the satisfaction of basic household needs. This concept is based on meeting those who lack access to basic living needs, which generally include clean water, sanitation, nutrition, primary health services, and basic education.The method used the platform of "MapGIS IGS, IIS6, Windows Server 2003, ASP.NET and MS SQL Server 2000" to develop an application GIS Web Service. Data areintegrated to the platform and published as services. The product outputhave been tested successfully on the intranet of Wuhan Zondy Cyber in the term of interoperability and extraction of the information needed.With this tool, each local authority can be a potential collector of his own data and participates to update the database. The Web Services model of the GIS systems described provides users with the services and data they need, without having to install, learn, or pay for any unused functionalities. The extension of this standardization in all ECOWAS countries would be a great advantage regarding the sharing of geographic information between countries.
BROADBAND MAPPING/PLANNING - WI STATUS CHECKdaleschultz
Presentation to the Assembly Committee on Renewable Energy and Rural Affairs
Gary A. Evenson, Administrator
Nick Linden, Assistant Administrator
Telecommunications Division
Public Service Commission
Twenty Years of Rural Transportation Planning: Revisiting and Renewing North ...RPO America
Tim Brock, North Carolina Department of Transportation, and Matt Day, Triangle J Council of Governments co-presented on North Carolina's rural planning organizations at the 2020 National Regional Transportation Conference.
Financing e-services in Europe: a regional perspectiveLuigi Reggi
EU Structural Funds represent by far the main source of funding for innovation in general and for e-services in particular in the lagging regions of Europe classified into the “Convergence” objective. We explore for the first time the amount of resources dedicated to public e-Services and Information Society by elaborating European Commission data on programmed resources for the 2007-13 period. Our analysis highlighted a strong heterogeneity in the level of commitment towards e-services development both between and within countries. Such heterogeneity depends not only upon the total amount of resources available, which is connected to the degree of development of the various territories, but also upon different regional strategies.
The integration of GIS, World Wide Web and basic phones to enable easy access to poll information leading to free and fair elections is hardly used and if used, only at the demarcation level. This leads to perceived elections malpractices leading to mistrust and unacceptable results. This research involved development of a prototype that was used to bring all stake holders together in elections through information sharing. It involved customization of the Distributed Geospatial Information System (DGI) to work with basic phones. The prototype was developed using ArcGIS for Desktop in data consolidation and management, ArcGIS for Server in information dissemination, PostgreSQL as a database and Diafaan gateway as an SMS gateway. The prototype enabled an election official or an observer to send elections results or comments that were plotted on the map in form of graphs and pie charts in real-time. The prototype also enabled the citizens at large and other stake holders to send comments or report elections incidences that were also plotted on the map at the respective polling stations. The research found that all mobile phones owned by Kenyans can effectively be used with DGI applications to enable citizen and stake holder’s participations. The prototype had shortcomings, especially where some polling stations share the first name. There was need to further develop the prototype to allow addition of constituency name followed by ward name then followed by the polling station name. This will lock a given polling station in the correct constituency. Another way will be to use the polling station code.
GIS based electoral system provides efficient database and also be useful to enhance officials to conduct and manage elections. This research is aimed at using Geographic Information System based approach to monitoring election in Awka South L.G.A of Anambra State. The methodology employed in this research involves conversion of analogue map into digital map (through the process of scanning), georeferencing and digitizing, updating the study road map using Google Earth image. Other processes includes: Plotting of coordinate points, Geo-database creation and queries generations. GIS based mapping is one of the best techniques of depicting spatial data, the location the polling unit was depicted and it was noticed that there are no polling units located at around/within Ngozika and Udoka Housing units.
Achieving integration and country ownership through a data model and cooperat...MEASURE Evaluation
Presented at the PEPFAR conference on Health Information Systems Integration, Sustainability and Country Ownership (HISISCO) that took place August 9-13 by John Spencer.
The republic of Kenya comprises of eight (8) provinces now forty-seven counties. The country is located in East Africa and shares land borders with the Republics of Somalia in the East, Uganda in the West, Tanzania in the South and Ethiopia and Sudan (now South Sudan) in the North. The three largest and most influential ethnic groups in Kenya are the kikuyu, Luhya, and Kalenjins. In terms of religion Kenya is roughly split into 80% Christians while the rest are Muslims.
In Kenya, general elections are carried out every after five years where a head of state the President and The National Assembly representatives are elected. They are elected by the people. The national Assembly has about 220 members representing respective constituencies.
In the Local Governments they have the chairman and the Counselor. The counselors are all elected by the people of the state in the respective wards.
That is to say, in any given general elections, Kenyans vote for the president, the members of the National Assembly and the counselors.
Most African Electoral bodies IEBC not an exception right from their inception to date, even with latest advancements in technology, still use a primitive paper based methods during voting; this system is characterized by manual form filling to chose leaders and transfer of the information from manual data capture forms to computerized datasheets, this has led to an excessive number of mistakes making their way into the final vote counts hence leading to confusion at the time of announcing the results. The main advantage of paper-based systems is that ballot papers are easily human auditable. The disadvantages outweigh the advantages for instance the need to print ballot papers is a slow, expensive, inflexible, environmentally hostile process, visual impairments, or literacy limitations and also last minute changes to the voter register are difficult to accommodate among others.
The most difficult and extensive task a national statistical office performs is a population census, which
involves mapping a nation's population, enlisting and training a sizable number of enumerators, running a
wide-ranging publicity campaign, encouraging every household to participate, gathering personal data,
compiling a sizable amount of completed questionnaires, and analyzing and disseminating the results.
According to the report, the traditional tablet-based census method utilized by the Namibia Statistic
Agency has a number of drawbacks, including data loss and a protracted procedure. The goal of the study
was to create a web-based application to support the Namibia Statistic Agency's (NSA) present system. The
study employed a qualitative research methodology, and participants' issues and points of view were
elicited using a descriptive research design. The research's findings showed that the web-based application
for the census will cut down on the amount of time needed for data entry collecting and that the budget for
the census will fall since the web-based system will cost less overall. The report concludes by
recommending the NSA to consider employing the web-based application for its subsequent population
count in order to do away with and simplify the manual data collection process.
The most difficult and extensive task a national statistical office performs is a population census, which
involves mapping a nation's population, enlisting and training a sizable number of enumerators, running a
wide-ranging publicity campaign, encouraging every household to participate, gathering personal data,
compiling a sizable amount of completed questionnaires, and analyzing and disseminating the results.
According to the report, the traditional tablet-based census method utilized by the Namibia Statistic
Agency has a number of drawbacks, including data loss and a protracted procedure. The goal of the study
was to create a web-based application to support the Namibia Statistic Agency's (NSA) present system. The
study employed a qualitative research methodology, and participants' issues and points of view were
elicited using a descriptive research design. The research's findings showed that the web-based application
for the census will cut down on the amount of time needed for data entry collecting and that the budget for
the census will fall since the web-based system will cost less overall. The report concludes by
recommending the NSA to consider employing the web-based application for its subsequent population
count in order to do away with and simplify the manual data collection process.
Mobile, Secure E - Voting Architecture for the Nigerian Electoral Systemiosrjce
IOSR Journal of Computer Engineering (IOSR-JCE) is a double blind peer reviewed International Journal that provides rapid publication (within a month) of articles in all areas of computer engineering and its applications. The journal welcomes publications of high quality papers on theoretical developments and practical applications in computer technology. Original research papers, state-of-the-art reviews, and high quality technical notes are invited for publications.
Our broadband service sustained electoral communications for the 2012 national
elections in Burkina Faso, enabling fast and secure transfer of ballots, video
conferencing, and internet access.
Financing e-services in Europe: a regional perspectiveLuigi Reggi
EU Structural Funds represent by far the main source of funding for innovation in general and for e-services in particular in the lagging regions of Europe classified into the “Convergence” objective. We explore for the first time the amount of resources dedicated to public e-Services and Information Society by elaborating European Commission data on programmed resources for the 2007-13 period. Our analysis highlighted a strong heterogeneity in the level of commitment towards e-services development both between and within countries. Such heterogeneity depends not only upon the total amount of resources available, which is connected to the degree of development of the various territories, but also upon different regional strategies.
The integration of GIS, World Wide Web and basic phones to enable easy access to poll information leading to free and fair elections is hardly used and if used, only at the demarcation level. This leads to perceived elections malpractices leading to mistrust and unacceptable results. This research involved development of a prototype that was used to bring all stake holders together in elections through information sharing. It involved customization of the Distributed Geospatial Information System (DGI) to work with basic phones. The prototype was developed using ArcGIS for Desktop in data consolidation and management, ArcGIS for Server in information dissemination, PostgreSQL as a database and Diafaan gateway as an SMS gateway. The prototype enabled an election official or an observer to send elections results or comments that were plotted on the map in form of graphs and pie charts in real-time. The prototype also enabled the citizens at large and other stake holders to send comments or report elections incidences that were also plotted on the map at the respective polling stations. The research found that all mobile phones owned by Kenyans can effectively be used with DGI applications to enable citizen and stake holder’s participations. The prototype had shortcomings, especially where some polling stations share the first name. There was need to further develop the prototype to allow addition of constituency name followed by ward name then followed by the polling station name. This will lock a given polling station in the correct constituency. Another way will be to use the polling station code.
GIS based electoral system provides efficient database and also be useful to enhance officials to conduct and manage elections. This research is aimed at using Geographic Information System based approach to monitoring election in Awka South L.G.A of Anambra State. The methodology employed in this research involves conversion of analogue map into digital map (through the process of scanning), georeferencing and digitizing, updating the study road map using Google Earth image. Other processes includes: Plotting of coordinate points, Geo-database creation and queries generations. GIS based mapping is one of the best techniques of depicting spatial data, the location the polling unit was depicted and it was noticed that there are no polling units located at around/within Ngozika and Udoka Housing units.
Achieving integration and country ownership through a data model and cooperat...MEASURE Evaluation
Presented at the PEPFAR conference on Health Information Systems Integration, Sustainability and Country Ownership (HISISCO) that took place August 9-13 by John Spencer.
The republic of Kenya comprises of eight (8) provinces now forty-seven counties. The country is located in East Africa and shares land borders with the Republics of Somalia in the East, Uganda in the West, Tanzania in the South and Ethiopia and Sudan (now South Sudan) in the North. The three largest and most influential ethnic groups in Kenya are the kikuyu, Luhya, and Kalenjins. In terms of religion Kenya is roughly split into 80% Christians while the rest are Muslims.
In Kenya, general elections are carried out every after five years where a head of state the President and The National Assembly representatives are elected. They are elected by the people. The national Assembly has about 220 members representing respective constituencies.
In the Local Governments they have the chairman and the Counselor. The counselors are all elected by the people of the state in the respective wards.
That is to say, in any given general elections, Kenyans vote for the president, the members of the National Assembly and the counselors.
Most African Electoral bodies IEBC not an exception right from their inception to date, even with latest advancements in technology, still use a primitive paper based methods during voting; this system is characterized by manual form filling to chose leaders and transfer of the information from manual data capture forms to computerized datasheets, this has led to an excessive number of mistakes making their way into the final vote counts hence leading to confusion at the time of announcing the results. The main advantage of paper-based systems is that ballot papers are easily human auditable. The disadvantages outweigh the advantages for instance the need to print ballot papers is a slow, expensive, inflexible, environmentally hostile process, visual impairments, or literacy limitations and also last minute changes to the voter register are difficult to accommodate among others.
The most difficult and extensive task a national statistical office performs is a population census, which
involves mapping a nation's population, enlisting and training a sizable number of enumerators, running a
wide-ranging publicity campaign, encouraging every household to participate, gathering personal data,
compiling a sizable amount of completed questionnaires, and analyzing and disseminating the results.
According to the report, the traditional tablet-based census method utilized by the Namibia Statistic
Agency has a number of drawbacks, including data loss and a protracted procedure. The goal of the study
was to create a web-based application to support the Namibia Statistic Agency's (NSA) present system. The
study employed a qualitative research methodology, and participants' issues and points of view were
elicited using a descriptive research design. The research's findings showed that the web-based application
for the census will cut down on the amount of time needed for data entry collecting and that the budget for
the census will fall since the web-based system will cost less overall. The report concludes by
recommending the NSA to consider employing the web-based application for its subsequent population
count in order to do away with and simplify the manual data collection process.
The most difficult and extensive task a national statistical office performs is a population census, which
involves mapping a nation's population, enlisting and training a sizable number of enumerators, running a
wide-ranging publicity campaign, encouraging every household to participate, gathering personal data,
compiling a sizable amount of completed questionnaires, and analyzing and disseminating the results.
According to the report, the traditional tablet-based census method utilized by the Namibia Statistic
Agency has a number of drawbacks, including data loss and a protracted procedure. The goal of the study
was to create a web-based application to support the Namibia Statistic Agency's (NSA) present system. The
study employed a qualitative research methodology, and participants' issues and points of view were
elicited using a descriptive research design. The research's findings showed that the web-based application
for the census will cut down on the amount of time needed for data entry collecting and that the budget for
the census will fall since the web-based system will cost less overall. The report concludes by
recommending the NSA to consider employing the web-based application for its subsequent population
count in order to do away with and simplify the manual data collection process.
Mobile, Secure E - Voting Architecture for the Nigerian Electoral Systemiosrjce
IOSR Journal of Computer Engineering (IOSR-JCE) is a double blind peer reviewed International Journal that provides rapid publication (within a month) of articles in all areas of computer engineering and its applications. The journal welcomes publications of high quality papers on theoretical developments and practical applications in computer technology. Original research papers, state-of-the-art reviews, and high quality technical notes are invited for publications.
Our broadband service sustained electoral communications for the 2012 national
elections in Burkina Faso, enabling fast and secure transfer of ballots, video
conferencing, and internet access.
Building Spatial Data Infrastructures for Spatial Planning in Africa: Lagos e...Samuel Dekolo
Lagos is the fastest growing Megacity in Sub-Saharan Africa, with its population estimated to double in the first quarter of this century; it is expected to be the third largest urban agglomerations in the world. This growth is not without challenges, as the city is grappling with myriads of urban management problems. City planners lack the most important ingredient of land use management, which is Information. In spite of huge investment on spatial data infrastructures at the national and state levels of government, most land use planners at both state and local government level agencies are ignorant of existing geospatial technology portals and unlock the full potentials of information and communication technologies. A statewide survey of the spatial data infrastructures of the city’s urban and land use management ministry and agencies proves its pathetic state, thereby creating information gap void between urban development and intelligent management. The result is has led to a sporadic growth of slums and unplanned settlements which now accounts for over 60% of the city. To avoid an impasse, it is necessary to review the level of geospatial technologies used at the local level and recommend formidable means of integration in the decision making process. This paper examines the level of geospatial technologies and Spatial Data Infrastructure use in spatial planning agencies and barriers to implementation in the 20 local governments of Lagos State and suggests the way forward.
Spatial Database System And Visual Interface Creation For Bauchi Refuse Disp...inventionjournals
International Journal of Engineering and Science Invention (IJESI) is an international journal intended for professionals and researchers in all fields of computer science and electronics. IJESI publishes research articles and reviews within the whole field Engineering Science and Technology, new teaching methods, assessment, validation and the impact of new technologies and it will continue to provide information on the latest trends and developments in this ever-expanding subject. The publications of papers are selected through double peer reviewed to ensure originality, relevance, and readability. The articles published in our journal can be accessed online.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
NEWNTIDE, a leading brand in China's air energy industry, drives industry development with technological innovation, implementing national energy-saving and emission reduction policies. It pioneers an industry-focused multi-energy product line, adopting experiential marketing to meet diverse customer needs. The company has departments for R&D, marketing, operations, and sales, aiming to ultimately achieve "technological innovation, environmental friendliness, standardized management, and high-quality" as a high-tech enterprise integrating business and technical R&D, production, sales, and service.
NEWNTIDE boasts the most comprehensive support service network in the industry. Its earliest products cover 25 series, including split, integrated, wall-mounted, cabinet, and upright types, with over 100 diverse products. Commercial products include floor heating, air heaters, air conditioners for heating and cooling, oxidation and nitrogen air conditioners, and high-temperature heating. The products feature comprehensive intelligent technology management, cloud control technology, rapid heating technology, basic protection technology, remote control technology, DC inverter technology, and remote WIFI smart control, achieving a leading position in the industry with SMART interactive technology.
For over a decade, the company has adhered to a "people-oriented" business philosophy, strictly implementing industry 7S management, ISO9001/ISO14001 quality and environmental systems, and industry standards to ensure stable product quality and meet customers' dual requirements for product safety and environmental protection.
Leading the development of intelligence with technological innovation, NEWNTIDE has become a national demonstration base for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, awarded the "China Energy Saving Technology Contribution Award" and "China Energy Science and Technology Progress Award". The company adopts a strategy of high standards, high quality, and high-tech for key products, holding core technologies and competitive advantages. It also organizes multiple strategic support projects known as the "18 Key Operational Projects" and "18 Key Operational Strategies," driving technology project approvals with multidimensional strategic product quality modules and comprehensive practical operations to enhance the quality of all products.
Since its establishment, NEWNTIDE has always committed to providing high-quality and high-end intelligent heat pump products, serving billions of global families with the goal of creating a sustainable and prosperous environment. The development of NEWNTIDE has been supported by various levels of government and widely recognized and cooperated with by internationally renowned institutions, taking on a social responsibility of providing tranquility and happiness while enjoying the environment.
Let safe heat pumps be a necessity for a beautiful human life.
With each of the past 3 Ruby releases, YJIT has delivered higher and higher performance. However, we are seeing diminishing returns, because as JIT-compiled code becomes faster, it makes up less and less of the total execution time, which is now becoming dominated by C function calls. As such, it may appear like there is a fundamental limit to Ruby’s performance.
In the first half of the 20th century, some early airplane designers thought that the speed of sound was a fundamental limit on the speed reachable by airplanes, thus coining the term “sound barrier”. This limit was eventually overcome, as it became understood that airflow behaves differently at supersonic speeds.
In order to break the Ruby performance barrier, it will be necessary to reduce the dependency on C extensions, and start writing more gems in pure Ruby code. In this talk, I want to look at this problem more in depth, and explore how YJIT can help enable writing pure-Ruby software that delivers high performance levels.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4
Kenya Election Results Mapping
1. REPORTING ON ELECTION
RESULTS USING GOOGLE MAPS
A CASE STUDY OF THE 2010 REFERENDUM RESULTS
IN KENYA
OUMA LEONARD ODHIAMBO
F19/1899/2007
SUPERVISOR: MR. J.N MWENDA
2. PRESENTATION OVERVIEW
Introduction
Problem statement
Objectives
Methodology
Overview of methodology
Area of study
Data sources and tools
Data Preparation
Results and analysis
Conclusions & Recommendations
3. INTRODUCTION
One of the most critical ways that individuals can influence
governmental decision-making is through voting. Voting is a formal
expression of preference for a candidate for office or for a proposed
resolution of an issue. Voting generally takes place in the context of a
large-scale national or regional election; however, local community
elections can be just as critical to individual participation in government
Article 21 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted
unanimously by the United Nations General Assembly in
1948, recognizes the integral role that transparent and open elections
play in ensuring the fundamental right to participatory government
If elections are not properly managed, riots and even civil war can break
out in a country. It is therefore important that election results be
disseminated to the public as soon as practically possible through the
available media.
4. PROBLEM STATEMENT
Kenya’s first direct elections for Africans to the Legislative
Council took place in 1957. In May 1963, elections were
held based on the widely held principle of “one person, one
vote.”
Kenya has successfully held largely peaceful elections
thereafter
The December 2007 elections marked a radical departure
from these positive trends. As the initial vote count came in
to the ECK, opposition candidate appeared to have a
substantial lead.
As the count continued, however, the incumbent closed the
gap and overtook his opponent by a substantial margin to
win reelection amid largely substantiated claims of rigging (
IFES Kenya, 2008), leading to protests and riots and
discrediting of the ECK for its involvement
5. …………CONT’
The protests escalated into unprecedented
violence, leading to over 1,000 deaths and the internal
displacement of more than 350,000 people
(IREC, 2008)
According to the IFES report, most of the operational
tasks were still accomplished manually. In 2007, laptop
computers sat unused while the tallying of results at
polling stations was conducted by hand, leading to a
delay in transmission to headquarters.
The delay in announcement of the final results at the
National Tallying Center, led to some media houses
relying on unspecified sources to broadcast and
announce results ahead of the ECK, in an effort to
outdo each other (IREC, 2008).
6. …………….CONT’
The Interim Independent Electoral Commission (IIEC) was formed to
replace the ECK. Its mandate was to institutionalize sustainable
electoral processes that would guarantee free and fair elections, part of
which included the development of a modern system for
collection, transmission and tallying of electoral data.
IIEC was replaced by a permanent electoral body, the Independent
Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) in line with the new
constitution. It has embarked on various reform in the electoral system
, including; the parallel vote tallying system, electronic voter registration
and the electronic vote tallying and transmission.
Geospatial technology integrated with information systems can easily
help to solve some of the problems. This is achieved by disseminating
all the results, final and provisional to the public through a dynamic map
as the results tickle in.
7. OBJECTIVES
The main objective of the study is to develop a Geospatial approach to
some of these electoral problems to assist in prompt dissemination of
electoral results to the public in an easy to understand and visually
appealing media.
The system will enable update of election results in the Google Fusion
Tables* and the final output displayed as a Google Map on a dedicated
website.
The specific objectives:
Mapping the electoral constituencies in Kenya
To develop a database of the registered voters in each constituencies.
Using the 2010 referendum results, prepare a Google Fusion Tables
showing the results
To display the results as map on a dedicated website, including the related
charts.
*A modern data management web application used to host, manage, collaborate
on, visualize, and publish data and maps online.
8. METHODOLOGY
Data identification
Data collection
Data
Referendum conversion Constituency
and Boundaries and their
Results: Textual
processing details
data and charts
Data Validation
YES
Error? Editing
NO
Geodatabase
creation
Map Styling and Embedding on Results and
Website Analysis
9. AREA OF STUDY
Kenya, officially the republic
of Kenya, lies between the
geographical coordinates 4°
North to 4° South of the
equator and Longitude
34°East to 41° East.
It is bordered by the Indian
Ocean to its south-
east, Tanzania to the
south, Uganda to the
west, South Sudan to the
north-west, Ethiopia to the
north and Somalia to the
north-east
10. WHY THE STUDY AREA
Lack of election data at lower electoral levels
Availability of reliable data at constituency
level covering the entire country
Need to show the national voting patterns in
the 2010 Constitutional Referendum.
11. DATASETS
Datasets Source Description
2010 Constituency Virtual Kenya A KML file of the 210
Boundaries (www.virtualkenya.org) constituencies as at 2010.
2010 Referendum Results IEBC A PDF document showing
in Kenya (www.iebc.or.ke) the results at constituency
level
County Profiles Kenya Open Data A list of the 47 Counties
Initiative (KODI) and the constituencies
(www.opendata.go.ke) that fall in them
12. TOOLS
Hardware
Computer with the specifications of 1 GB RAM and 3.0 GHz
processor speed, 80 GB HDD.
2 GB Flash Disk.
Safaricom Broadband Modem and Simcard
HP DeskJet F2483 Printer/Scanner.
Software
Google Fusion Tables (Beta)*
Notepad++
PDF to Excel Converter
Microsoft Office 2010.
Fusion Table Layer Builder
*Experimental
13. DATA PREPARATION
Data conversion from PDF to Microsoft Excel
Importation of the results into Google Fusion
Tables
Importation of the constituency boundaries to
fusion tables
Merging the results with the boundaries
Visualization and styling of the resultant map
24. DISCUSSION OF THE RESULTS
This shows the interest by Kenyans to election
related issues and the ease of access to
internet, which has cut a niche to itself as means of
sharing information by the public.
With the landing of the fiber optic cables, access to
the internet has become affordable to many and even
much faster.
According to latest statistics from US-based
Ookla’s NetIndex, Kenya is second in the
continent, after Ghana which has emerged as having
the fastest broadband internet speeds in
Africa., (Aptantech, 2012)), further enabling
accessibility to such maps.
25. CONCLUSIONS
In conclusion, it can be said that:
It is possible to display election results on Google
Maps.
Possibilities for the results to be hosted on the
internet.
Possibilities to reduce errors in election results
tallying and analysis.
Chances of the public showing interest in such
online maps and actually viewing them.
N/B Care must be given to the data entry and
editing
26. RECOMMENDATIONS
With the advancement in technology in the country, there is need
to embrace the electronic voting and merge the same with GIS or
web mapping service that the commission may employ.
The IEBC needs to build the capacity of their employees to be
able to implement GIS related aspects of the elections. Such
employees need to have skills in data
capture, editing, transmission and visualization in a GIS
environment. These might include GIS managers, GIS
programmer, GIS analyst and data entry personnel.
There is need to explore the internet as a possible avenue for
release of election results to the public.
There is need to extend the scope of the study to cover the
County Assembly Wards. There is also need to incorporate road
access so as to facilitate network analysis. This is important as
influences the creation of the electoral units as per the new
constitution.