The document discusses using geographic information systems (GIS) and map layers to conduct risk assessments and improve situational awareness for multi-agency coastal hazard response. It outlines activities for a workshop including discussing data layers for risk assessment, emulating a sea level rise event, and an exercise where groups generate alert areas and consider hazard and census data, as well as emergency communications coverage. The goal is to adopt techniques from tools like Sahana CRMT to better prepare communities through mapping and information sharing.
The document discusses effective work-related road risk management. It outlines the risks of work-related driving including harm to employees, compliance with legislation, corporate social responsibility, and financial losses. It then discusses the risk management process and effective intervention strategies like eliminating, substituting, and reducing risks. Finally, it provides case studies of risk management programs implemented by Iron Mountain and Vauxhall UK.
Analyzing Risk in Hospital-Physician TransactionsCBIZ, Inc.
This document summarizes a presentation on analyzing risk in hospital-physician transactions given by David Pursell and David Thompson. It discusses key legal issues around fair market value and volume or value of referrals. It provides context and definitions for fair market value under the Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute. It also discusses commercial reasonableness and provides examples and factors to consider in determining fair market value and commercial reasonableness in hospital-physician arrangements.
The document summarizes the new Corporate Manslaughter Bill legislation in the UK. It defines key terms like (1) senior manager, (2) duty of care, and (3) gross breach. It explains that an organization can be found guilty if a senior manager's decisions or actions cause a death through gross negligence of their duty of care. It also provides guidance on how organizations can avoid prosecution by having proper policies, training, oversight of risks, and responding appropriately if investigated.
RISK ANALYSIS FOR SEVERE TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS IN ROAD TUNNELSFranco Bontempi
Msc Thesis by Carmine Di Santo
Advisor Franco Bontempi
Co-advisor Konstantinos Gkoumas
In this Thesis, a comprehensive risk analysis is performed in a long tunnel in South Italy, accounting for multifaceted aspects and parameters, using a dedicated tool (QRAM). The analysis is integrated with a sensitivity analysis on specific parameters that have an influence on the risk.
In Chapter 2, the regulatory framework is discussed, which led to the identification of the quantitative risk analysis as the method for the determination of the inherent risk of a road tunnel.
In Chapter 3, the procedure followed by the QRA model to derive societal and individual risk indicators is discussed, starting from a given number of possible accident scenarios.
In chapters ranging from 4 to 7, physical phenomena of different accident scenarios are explained, and their consequences on the exposed population.
In Chapter 8, is performed the risk analysis on the St. Demetrio tunnel applying the PIARC/OECD QRA model.
In chapter 9, conclusions regard to risk analysis applied to real case and about the sensitivity analysis are appropriate. In particular, the sensitivity analysis has highlighted the most influential parameters in the model.
Updated with latest version as presented at the Canberra Agile & Scrum meetup on July 20, 2017. Previously titled "Using Agile techniques to manage risk more effectively".
Given that the "Waterfall" process model has been dominant in the IT industry for many decades, how many IT and project management professionals are aware that it's inventor warned the world in 1970 that Waterfall is "risky and invites failure"?
From a risk management perspective, is waterfall ever an appropriate choice for complex IT initiatives given what we know now?
In this session we will outline how, as a risk management strategy, using the waterfall model for non-trivial systems development initiatives is systemically high risk as compared with the Iterative Incremental Development (IID) model that has been used in pockets of the IT industry since the late 1950's. Today, many organisations use the IID strategy under the umbrella term of 'Agile'. The majority of these employ Lean Product Development patterns that were first described in the Harvard Business Review in 1986 using a metaphor borrowed from the game of rugby i.e. 'Scrum'.
If you are not using a disciplined agile approach, are you facing more risk as you approach a high-stakes deadline than you need to?
The varied contexts that we work in come with varied types of risk. For a green fields date-driven release, the primary risk may be cost and schedule related. For teams designing a new product for an emerging market, the primary risks may be business risk. For teams doing innovative R&D, the primary risk may technical risk. For a young team in a new technical or business domain, the primary risk may be social risk. In this session, we will use real world examples of such varied challenges to illustrate how risk-tuned Agile helped us to manage risk effectively.
Whilst we will always have to deal with risk to create value, the good news is that there are now many powerful risk management techniques that can be overlaid on top of IID to tune your development process to the type of risk you face. The question is: which ones are most appropriate for the type of risk you are facing? In this workshop we outline a series of powerful risk management tools that tune an agile development process to effectively manage the type of risk that you face.
Road safety presentation(PPT) by FaisalFaisal Ayub
hi friends.....I m Faisal...this is my road safety ppt...feel free to clip and download...its about it safety, statistics and signs.....hope u like it.....comment down its rating out of 10
The document discusses using geographic information systems (GIS) and map layers to conduct risk assessments and improve situational awareness for multi-agency coastal hazard response. It outlines activities for a workshop including discussing data layers for risk assessment, emulating a sea level rise event, and an exercise where groups generate alert areas and consider hazard and census data, as well as emergency communications coverage. The goal is to adopt techniques from tools like Sahana CRMT to better prepare communities through mapping and information sharing.
The document discusses effective work-related road risk management. It outlines the risks of work-related driving including harm to employees, compliance with legislation, corporate social responsibility, and financial losses. It then discusses the risk management process and effective intervention strategies like eliminating, substituting, and reducing risks. Finally, it provides case studies of risk management programs implemented by Iron Mountain and Vauxhall UK.
Analyzing Risk in Hospital-Physician TransactionsCBIZ, Inc.
This document summarizes a presentation on analyzing risk in hospital-physician transactions given by David Pursell and David Thompson. It discusses key legal issues around fair market value and volume or value of referrals. It provides context and definitions for fair market value under the Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute. It also discusses commercial reasonableness and provides examples and factors to consider in determining fair market value and commercial reasonableness in hospital-physician arrangements.
The document summarizes the new Corporate Manslaughter Bill legislation in the UK. It defines key terms like (1) senior manager, (2) duty of care, and (3) gross breach. It explains that an organization can be found guilty if a senior manager's decisions or actions cause a death through gross negligence of their duty of care. It also provides guidance on how organizations can avoid prosecution by having proper policies, training, oversight of risks, and responding appropriately if investigated.
RISK ANALYSIS FOR SEVERE TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS IN ROAD TUNNELSFranco Bontempi
Msc Thesis by Carmine Di Santo
Advisor Franco Bontempi
Co-advisor Konstantinos Gkoumas
In this Thesis, a comprehensive risk analysis is performed in a long tunnel in South Italy, accounting for multifaceted aspects and parameters, using a dedicated tool (QRAM). The analysis is integrated with a sensitivity analysis on specific parameters that have an influence on the risk.
In Chapter 2, the regulatory framework is discussed, which led to the identification of the quantitative risk analysis as the method for the determination of the inherent risk of a road tunnel.
In Chapter 3, the procedure followed by the QRA model to derive societal and individual risk indicators is discussed, starting from a given number of possible accident scenarios.
In chapters ranging from 4 to 7, physical phenomena of different accident scenarios are explained, and their consequences on the exposed population.
In Chapter 8, is performed the risk analysis on the St. Demetrio tunnel applying the PIARC/OECD QRA model.
In chapter 9, conclusions regard to risk analysis applied to real case and about the sensitivity analysis are appropriate. In particular, the sensitivity analysis has highlighted the most influential parameters in the model.
Updated with latest version as presented at the Canberra Agile & Scrum meetup on July 20, 2017. Previously titled "Using Agile techniques to manage risk more effectively".
Given that the "Waterfall" process model has been dominant in the IT industry for many decades, how many IT and project management professionals are aware that it's inventor warned the world in 1970 that Waterfall is "risky and invites failure"?
From a risk management perspective, is waterfall ever an appropriate choice for complex IT initiatives given what we know now?
In this session we will outline how, as a risk management strategy, using the waterfall model for non-trivial systems development initiatives is systemically high risk as compared with the Iterative Incremental Development (IID) model that has been used in pockets of the IT industry since the late 1950's. Today, many organisations use the IID strategy under the umbrella term of 'Agile'. The majority of these employ Lean Product Development patterns that were first described in the Harvard Business Review in 1986 using a metaphor borrowed from the game of rugby i.e. 'Scrum'.
If you are not using a disciplined agile approach, are you facing more risk as you approach a high-stakes deadline than you need to?
The varied contexts that we work in come with varied types of risk. For a green fields date-driven release, the primary risk may be cost and schedule related. For teams designing a new product for an emerging market, the primary risks may be business risk. For teams doing innovative R&D, the primary risk may technical risk. For a young team in a new technical or business domain, the primary risk may be social risk. In this session, we will use real world examples of such varied challenges to illustrate how risk-tuned Agile helped us to manage risk effectively.
Whilst we will always have to deal with risk to create value, the good news is that there are now many powerful risk management techniques that can be overlaid on top of IID to tune your development process to the type of risk you face. The question is: which ones are most appropriate for the type of risk you are facing? In this workshop we outline a series of powerful risk management tools that tune an agile development process to effectively manage the type of risk that you face.
Road safety presentation(PPT) by FaisalFaisal Ayub
hi friends.....I m Faisal...this is my road safety ppt...feel free to clip and download...its about it safety, statistics and signs.....hope u like it.....comment down its rating out of 10
Brett Lyons leads a group at Cefas that conducts chemical risk assessments through multi-disciplinary approaches. The group analyzes the fate and effects of chemicals in aquatic ecosystems, and develops testing guidelines through international organizations. It has extensive analytical chemistry capabilities and facilities for studying chemicals. The group performs a wide range of ecotoxicology tests on invertebrates, fish, and amphibians. It also conducts environmental monitoring, effects testing, and uses sticklebacks as a model species. The group identifies causes of toxicity in complex samples and links biomarkers to behavior.
This document discusses corporate road risk and driver safety. It provides statistics showing that around 1/3 of all road casualties involve driving for work. The Health and Safety at Work Act requires employers to ensure employee safety during work activities like driving. Simply complying with vehicle and licensing requirements is not enough. The real cost of a work-related crash to a company is much higher than insurance costs due to lost productivity and other factors. The document advocates creating a safety culture with defensive driving practices like controlling space, identifying hazards, communicating intentions, and staying alert.
The document provides extensive information and suggestions to prevent road accidents. It discusses road accident statistics worldwide and in various countries. It then lists numerous specific measures that can be taken by governments, organizations, schools, parents and individuals to improve road safety and reduce accidents through better enforcement of rules, public awareness campaigns, vehicle and road improvements, and changes in driver behavior.
This document discusses various types of risks including:
- Market risk, strategic risk, sales risk, management risk, and budget risk as types of business risks.
- Systematic risk and unsystematic risk.
- Inflation risk, exchange rate risk, interest rate risk, liquidity risk, maturity risk, credit risk, and political risk.
It provides definitions and explanations of these risks. The document also outlines a process for risk management including identifying risks, analyzing them, ranking them, and developing contingency plans for high probability/high impact risks.
Personal hygiene involves maintaining cleanliness and grooming of the external body through regular habits like washing, bathing, oral hygiene, and handwashing. It helps prevent infections and illnesses while promoting psychological well-being. Key aspects of personal hygiene include regular hair washing to remove oil and dirt; daily face washing; brushing and flossing teeth twice daily; washing ears, hands, feet, nails, and trimming nails; and bathing daily to prevent body odor. Proper hygiene of all body parts is important for health.
The document discusses road safety and statistics related to road accidents worldwide and in India. Some key points:
- Over 1.2 million people are killed in road accidents worldwide each year, with 3,000 deaths daily and 500 of them children.
- In India in 2007, 1,14,590 people were killed in road accidents, with Kerala accounting for 3,802 deaths.
- The annual economic loss due to road accidents in India is over Rs. 300,000 crores.
The document then provides various technological, infrastructural, educational, enforcement and other suggestions to improve road safety in India.
The document discusses the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) standard for multi-agency alerting and situational awareness across all hazards. CAP allows alerts to be disseminated through multiple channels including TV, radio, websites and cell phones. It is an XML-based format managed by OASIS that is recommended by ITU-T and follows NSTC principles. The document provides an example of an automated standard message in CAP and demonstrates delivering alerts through various channels using a CAP simulator tool. Resources for further information on CAP are also listed.
Sahana is an open source disaster management software that was created in response to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. It provides a platform for multi-agency coordination and situational awareness during disasters. Some key features include alerting, situation reporting, resource management, and social media integration. Sahana has been deployed for over 100 disasters worldwide and is used by organizations like the Red Cross, UN agencies, and various government agencies for emergency response coordination and planning. The Sahana Foundation is establishing a Center of Excellence at the Asian Institute of Technology in Thailand to support ongoing development and training.
Using Data Integration to Deliver Intelligence to Anyone, AnywhereSafe Software
Data integration makes it possible to deliver intelligence and keep decision makers, first responders, and civilians informed. For over 20 years, FME has been trusted by federal governments to move data from nearly any source to the target destination, while saving time and budget resources.
With FME, federal governments can deliver open data, improve emergency & disaster response, enhance land management, turn public safety and defense into actionable results, and integrate & deliver location intelligence.
This document summarizes the status of geo-referenced information in disaster risk management in Bangladesh. It provides background on Bangladesh's geography, population, hazards, and government capacity. Key points:
- Bangladesh is vulnerable to floods, cyclones, earthquakes due to its location and high population density.
- The government has established specialized disaster management organizations and programs like CPP.
- Agencies like CEGIS use satellite data for tasks like hazard mapping, but this information could be better utilized during emergencies.
- Projects are working to develop multi-hazard risk assessment and mapping to inform development policies.
- Networks like SADKN and BDKN aim to share disaster knowledge, but need more support and
DRIVER Expe42 Den Haag - demo on April 19th 2016Denis Havlik
These slides lead through the "canned experiment" that was organised at the first day of DRIVER experiment on crisis communication and informal volunteering.
Spatial data thailand flood 2011 masterclass apan37 bandung vtVeerachai Tanpipat
The document discusses spatial data and tools used in Thailand during the 2011 flood event. Various data sources were utilized including vector and raster data from satellites, aerial imagery from drones, and telemetry from sensors. Following the floods, monitoring and warning systems were improved with a centralized hydroclimate database, updated websites and mobile apps, and increased international collaboration. Real-time satellite data is now downloaded daily through the APAN network for flood monitoring and modeling.
Lesson 5. Crisis Mapping and Community Drillsgicait ait
Crisis mapping is the real time gathering, display and analysis of data during a disaster, it is an important but challenging task.
This module discussed three types of crisis mapping: Situational reporting, Damage assessment and Needs assessment.
This document discusses multi-agency situational awareness and alert implementation procedures. It outlines the typical vertical and horizontal integration of different agencies, and presents a management platform for collecting, transmitting, and controlling alert information. The document also discusses establishing a national Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) profile by defining the types of incidents covered, intended audiences, languages, geographic areas, and communication technologies used. It provides an example authority hierarchy register from the Philippines and information on the World Meteorological Organization's register of alerting authorities.
With the automated Risk Assessment module from SunGard®, you’ll quickly collect accurate and timely information that will: (1) Reveal the technical, human, natural, or proximal (e.g., nearby highway) risks that threaten any location. (2) Ascertain the probability and severity level of each threat. (3) Identify the consequences for each identified risk. (4) Determine the efficacy of any mitigation strategies or controls currently in place.
Slides presented Day 1 of the Timor-Leste Emergency Communications Plan workshop. Overview of the resilience mapping, cap-based alerting/warning, and sitrep-based situational-reporting workflows and tools
Brett Lyons leads a group at Cefas that conducts chemical risk assessments through multi-disciplinary approaches. The group analyzes the fate and effects of chemicals in aquatic ecosystems, and develops testing guidelines through international organizations. It has extensive analytical chemistry capabilities and facilities for studying chemicals. The group performs a wide range of ecotoxicology tests on invertebrates, fish, and amphibians. It also conducts environmental monitoring, effects testing, and uses sticklebacks as a model species. The group identifies causes of toxicity in complex samples and links biomarkers to behavior.
This document discusses corporate road risk and driver safety. It provides statistics showing that around 1/3 of all road casualties involve driving for work. The Health and Safety at Work Act requires employers to ensure employee safety during work activities like driving. Simply complying with vehicle and licensing requirements is not enough. The real cost of a work-related crash to a company is much higher than insurance costs due to lost productivity and other factors. The document advocates creating a safety culture with defensive driving practices like controlling space, identifying hazards, communicating intentions, and staying alert.
The document provides extensive information and suggestions to prevent road accidents. It discusses road accident statistics worldwide and in various countries. It then lists numerous specific measures that can be taken by governments, organizations, schools, parents and individuals to improve road safety and reduce accidents through better enforcement of rules, public awareness campaigns, vehicle and road improvements, and changes in driver behavior.
This document discusses various types of risks including:
- Market risk, strategic risk, sales risk, management risk, and budget risk as types of business risks.
- Systematic risk and unsystematic risk.
- Inflation risk, exchange rate risk, interest rate risk, liquidity risk, maturity risk, credit risk, and political risk.
It provides definitions and explanations of these risks. The document also outlines a process for risk management including identifying risks, analyzing them, ranking them, and developing contingency plans for high probability/high impact risks.
Personal hygiene involves maintaining cleanliness and grooming of the external body through regular habits like washing, bathing, oral hygiene, and handwashing. It helps prevent infections and illnesses while promoting psychological well-being. Key aspects of personal hygiene include regular hair washing to remove oil and dirt; daily face washing; brushing and flossing teeth twice daily; washing ears, hands, feet, nails, and trimming nails; and bathing daily to prevent body odor. Proper hygiene of all body parts is important for health.
The document discusses road safety and statistics related to road accidents worldwide and in India. Some key points:
- Over 1.2 million people are killed in road accidents worldwide each year, with 3,000 deaths daily and 500 of them children.
- In India in 2007, 1,14,590 people were killed in road accidents, with Kerala accounting for 3,802 deaths.
- The annual economic loss due to road accidents in India is over Rs. 300,000 crores.
The document then provides various technological, infrastructural, educational, enforcement and other suggestions to improve road safety in India.
The document discusses the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) standard for multi-agency alerting and situational awareness across all hazards. CAP allows alerts to be disseminated through multiple channels including TV, radio, websites and cell phones. It is an XML-based format managed by OASIS that is recommended by ITU-T and follows NSTC principles. The document provides an example of an automated standard message in CAP and demonstrates delivering alerts through various channels using a CAP simulator tool. Resources for further information on CAP are also listed.
Sahana is an open source disaster management software that was created in response to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. It provides a platform for multi-agency coordination and situational awareness during disasters. Some key features include alerting, situation reporting, resource management, and social media integration. Sahana has been deployed for over 100 disasters worldwide and is used by organizations like the Red Cross, UN agencies, and various government agencies for emergency response coordination and planning. The Sahana Foundation is establishing a Center of Excellence at the Asian Institute of Technology in Thailand to support ongoing development and training.
Using Data Integration to Deliver Intelligence to Anyone, AnywhereSafe Software
Data integration makes it possible to deliver intelligence and keep decision makers, first responders, and civilians informed. For over 20 years, FME has been trusted by federal governments to move data from nearly any source to the target destination, while saving time and budget resources.
With FME, federal governments can deliver open data, improve emergency & disaster response, enhance land management, turn public safety and defense into actionable results, and integrate & deliver location intelligence.
This document summarizes the status of geo-referenced information in disaster risk management in Bangladesh. It provides background on Bangladesh's geography, population, hazards, and government capacity. Key points:
- Bangladesh is vulnerable to floods, cyclones, earthquakes due to its location and high population density.
- The government has established specialized disaster management organizations and programs like CPP.
- Agencies like CEGIS use satellite data for tasks like hazard mapping, but this information could be better utilized during emergencies.
- Projects are working to develop multi-hazard risk assessment and mapping to inform development policies.
- Networks like SADKN and BDKN aim to share disaster knowledge, but need more support and
DRIVER Expe42 Den Haag - demo on April 19th 2016Denis Havlik
These slides lead through the "canned experiment" that was organised at the first day of DRIVER experiment on crisis communication and informal volunteering.
Spatial data thailand flood 2011 masterclass apan37 bandung vtVeerachai Tanpipat
The document discusses spatial data and tools used in Thailand during the 2011 flood event. Various data sources were utilized including vector and raster data from satellites, aerial imagery from drones, and telemetry from sensors. Following the floods, monitoring and warning systems were improved with a centralized hydroclimate database, updated websites and mobile apps, and increased international collaboration. Real-time satellite data is now downloaded daily through the APAN network for flood monitoring and modeling.
Lesson 5. Crisis Mapping and Community Drillsgicait ait
Crisis mapping is the real time gathering, display and analysis of data during a disaster, it is an important but challenging task.
This module discussed three types of crisis mapping: Situational reporting, Damage assessment and Needs assessment.
This document discusses multi-agency situational awareness and alert implementation procedures. It outlines the typical vertical and horizontal integration of different agencies, and presents a management platform for collecting, transmitting, and controlling alert information. The document also discusses establishing a national Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) profile by defining the types of incidents covered, intended audiences, languages, geographic areas, and communication technologies used. It provides an example authority hierarchy register from the Philippines and information on the World Meteorological Organization's register of alerting authorities.
With the automated Risk Assessment module from SunGard®, you’ll quickly collect accurate and timely information that will: (1) Reveal the technical, human, natural, or proximal (e.g., nearby highway) risks that threaten any location. (2) Ascertain the probability and severity level of each threat. (3) Identify the consequences for each identified risk. (4) Determine the efficacy of any mitigation strategies or controls currently in place.
Slides presented Day 1 of the Timor-Leste Emergency Communications Plan workshop. Overview of the resilience mapping, cap-based alerting/warning, and sitrep-based situational-reporting workflows and tools
The document summarizes Northrop Grumman's experience with and recovery from Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Key points:
- Katrina caused severe damage to Northrop Grumman's shipbuilding facilities and IT infrastructure in Mississippi and Louisiana.
- The company's disaster preparedness helped minimize data loss and enabled relocation of IT workers and restoration of key applications within weeks.
- Lessons learned included keeping data centers out of harm's way, planning for public infrastructure failures, and leveraging suppliers in recovery plans.
Government and Education Webinar: SolarWinds Orion Platform: Audit and Stream...SolarWinds
During this interactive webinar, our presenter discussed how to leverage major Orion® Platform alert features and use lessons learned and best practices to provide actionable information for events around your organization.
Attendees learned about:
Using enhanced node status and dependencies
Defining thresholds or baselines
Categorizing and filtering with custom properties and groups
Leveraging advanced alerting features to improve alert detail and reduce noise
Ensuring persistent issues generate or escalate alerts and alarms
Integrating with chat, ticketing, APIs, and/or SMS and providing detailed poll data
Alert actions for network devices, servers, or services on failure
This transcript summarizes Patrick Mitchell's military education and experience. It shows that he completed recruit training in 1997 and then took various submarine and fire control courses between 1997-2002. These included basic enlisted submarine school, underwater fire control training, and fire control technician basic operations. The transcript also lists Mitchell's occupations from 1997-2005 which progressed from Seaman Recruit to Fire Control Technician and included roles maintaining combat control systems and administering information systems.
This document discusses using blockchain technology to create a decentralized and authenticated alert network. It proposes storing alert messages as "assets" on a blockchain, with publishers and subscribers as participants. Key transactions would include publishing, updating, deleting alerts, and acknowledging receipt. This could provide reliable attribution, integrity and help scale alerting beyond traditional systems by allowing many-to-many communication. However, some open questions remain around transaction speed and how well existing blockchain platforms model alert messaging requirements. The document also explores using the Interplanetary File System (IPFS) as an alternative to blockchains for an immutable and decentralized storage and distribution of alerts.
Talk at the 5th International Conference on Translating Voice Translating Regions: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/centras/translation-news-and-events/v-translating-voices
Common alerting protocol overview for pagasa 2016 [autosaved] [autosaved]Nuwan Waidyanatha
The document discusses the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP), which is a standard format for communicating hazard warnings across all media types. It was adopted by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) for early warning systems. CAP allows communication of any hazard type to the public or designated groups. The document outlines CAP implementation in various countries and organizations, including the Philippines where CAP will be used to disseminate early warnings over the internet, smartphones, radio, and TV.
The document discusses the development and implementation of the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) system in the Philippines for weather alert messaging. It describes how PAGASA, the Philippines' weather agency, has worked with partners like Google and WMO to develop and launch CAP. Key events included the initial launch in 2014 during Tropical Storm Ruby, training workshops, and ongoing work to expand CAP alerts and involve other agencies. The goal is to provide authoritative weather warnings to the public through CAP.
The document discusses Sahana, an open source disaster management software, and its alerting and messaging broker component called SAMBRO. It provides information on SAMBRO's functions, architecture, capabilities to interconnect with other systems, and how it can improve situational awareness during disasters. It then outlines Sahana's work with the Department of Meteorology and Hydrology in Myanmar to implement SAMBRO, including training workshops, tests, and exercises carried out to integrate it into Myanmar's warning systems and processes. The document concludes with recommendations to expand the use of SAMBRO's common alerting protocol (CAP) standard in Myanmar.
The document discusses a workshop on improving institutional responsiveness to coastal hazards through multi-agency situational awareness using Common Alerting Protocol (CAP)-enabled technology. It outlines a SWOT analysis of the CAP-enabled Sahana Broker identifying advantages, disadvantages, potential troubles, and opportunities for improvement. It also lists 6 discussion points focused on developing a national CAP implementation profile, collaborating with stakeholders, addressing policy issues, training personnel, and revisiting project plans and activities.
Real-Time Biosurveillance Program Pilot - India & Sri LankaNuwan Waidyanatha
The Biosurv program was tailored for a range of functions. Its main objective program was the rapid detection and
notification of any possible health outbreak using cutting edge information processing technology. The
mHealthSurvey application takes a few seconds to enter each patient's disease information. This rich dataset is sent over the existing commercial GPRS channels to
a centralized database. With such techniques, the
incoming health data can be automatically monitored for unusual changes in the numbers of reported disease
cases. The same data is also used to characterize statistical relationships between all available combinations of reported genders, locations, ages, symptoms and signs, etc., even if the number of such combinations is
prohibitively large for humans to process. That enables epidemiologists to pin down a potential outbreak of, for
instance, a gastrointestinal disease among children living in the Southwestern suburbs of the city, before it
spreads to other areas or to other demographic groups. T-Cube Web Interface (TCWI) and its underlying disease
outbreak detection algorithms are capable of reducing time-intensive calculations involved in such analyses from
hours or days down to as quick as turning on a light switch.
Introduction to Operationalizing the Common Alerting Protocol (ITU-T X.1303) ...Nuwan Waidyanatha
Presentation made at the 4th Asia Pacific Telecommunity Workshop on Disaster Management and Communications. The presentation discusses the utility and implementation strategies of the Common Alerting Protocol (ITU-T X.1303) emergency communication standard.
Considerations for Developing a Resilient Emergency Communication SystemNuwan Waidyanatha
This document discusses considerations for developing resilient emergency communication systems. It outlines key factors such as understanding hazard risk profiles, determining emergency ICT systems and roles, ensuring multi-agency situational awareness, and monitoring systems through exercises. It also describes vulnerabilities in ICT infrastructure and the need for redundancy. Specific challenges around bridging the last mile, public health communication, voice-enabled situational reporting, and using pictographs for linguistically diverse populations are examined. The presentation concludes with examples of technologies that can help address some of these issues.
Sahana Opens Source Ecosystem for supplying Disaster Management IT SystemsNuwan Waidyanatha
The document summarizes Sahana, an open source software ecosystem for disaster management information systems. Sahana was created in response to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and has since been deployed for many disasters worldwide. It provides scalable, efficient, and real-time information management tools to help coordinate disaster response and relief efforts. The Sahana Software Foundation is a nonprofit that maintains the platform and supports a global community of volunteers and organizations implementing Sahana.
Presentation made to the JASIL ICT workshop on disseminating Weather Forecast Data to Herders using Yazmi Alert Sending over Satellite Enabled Technology (ASSET) in Mongolia.
Use of CAP for Disease Surveillance and NotificationNuwan Waidyanatha
1) The document discusses using the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) standard and mobile technologies for real-time disease surveillance through a pilot program in Sri Lanka and India.
2) The program involves collecting health data from community workers and analyzing it to detect disease outbreaks, then issuing alerts through CAP messages on mobile phones and the web.
3) Challenges include educating stakeholders about CAP, defining the necessary CAP profile elements, and addressing user interface and acceptance issues of frequent alerts on mobile devices.
Nuwan Waidyanatha gave a presentation at LIRNEasia in July 2008 about classifying early warning systems. He discussed the need to classify early warning systems based on their capabilities and limitations, such as the hazards they can address and their response time and coverage. He used the example of the Low-Mekong Hydrological Warning System and whether it could be extended to serve other early warning objectives or be used for dam failure warnings.
Fueling AI with Great Data with Airbyte WebinarZilliz
This talk will focus on how to collect data from a variety of sources, leveraging this data for RAG and other GenAI use cases, and finally charting your course to productionalization.
Skybuffer SAM4U tool for SAP license adoptionTatiana Kojar
Manage and optimize your license adoption and consumption with SAM4U, an SAP free customer software asset management tool.
SAM4U, an SAP complimentary software asset management tool for customers, delivers a detailed and well-structured overview of license inventory and usage with a user-friendly interface. We offer a hosted, cost-effective, and performance-optimized SAM4U setup in the Skybuffer Cloud environment. You retain ownership of the system and data, while we manage the ABAP 7.58 infrastructure, ensuring fixed Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and exceptional services through the SAP Fiori interface.
FREE A4 Cyber Security Awareness Posters-Social Engineering part 3Data Hops
Free A4 downloadable and printable Cyber Security, Social Engineering Safety and security Training Posters . Promote security awareness in the home or workplace. Lock them Out From training providers datahops.com
Ivanti’s Patch Tuesday breakdown goes beyond patching your applications and brings you the intelligence and guidance needed to prioritize where to focus your attention first. Catch early analysis on our Ivanti blog, then join industry expert Chris Goettl for the Patch Tuesday Webinar Event. There we’ll do a deep dive into each of the bulletins and give guidance on the risks associated with the newly-identified vulnerabilities.
For the full video of this presentation, please visit: https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2024/06/temporal-event-neural-networks-a-more-efficient-alternative-to-the-transformer-a-presentation-from-brainchip/
Chris Jones, Director of Product Management at BrainChip , presents the “Temporal Event Neural Networks: A More Efficient Alternative to the Transformer” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit.
The expansion of AI services necessitates enhanced computational capabilities on edge devices. Temporal Event Neural Networks (TENNs), developed by BrainChip, represent a novel and highly efficient state-space network. TENNs demonstrate exceptional proficiency in handling multi-dimensional streaming data, facilitating advancements in object detection, action recognition, speech enhancement and language model/sequence generation. Through the utilization of polynomial-based continuous convolutions, TENNs streamline models, expedite training processes and significantly diminish memory requirements, achieving notable reductions of up to 50x in parameters and 5,000x in energy consumption compared to prevailing methodologies like transformers.
Integration with BrainChip’s Akida neuromorphic hardware IP further enhances TENNs’ capabilities, enabling the realization of highly capable, portable and passively cooled edge devices. This presentation delves into the technical innovations underlying TENNs, presents real-world benchmarks, and elucidates how this cutting-edge approach is positioned to revolutionize edge AI across diverse applications.
In the realm of cybersecurity, offensive security practices act as a critical shield. By simulating real-world attacks in a controlled environment, these techniques expose vulnerabilities before malicious actors can exploit them. This proactive approach allows manufacturers to identify and fix weaknesses, significantly enhancing system security.
This presentation delves into the development of a system designed to mimic Galileo's Open Service signal using software-defined radio (SDR) technology. We'll begin with a foundational overview of both Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and the intricacies of digital signal processing.
The presentation culminates in a live demonstration. We'll showcase the manipulation of Galileo's Open Service pilot signal, simulating an attack on various software and hardware systems. This practical demonstration serves to highlight the potential consequences of unaddressed vulnerabilities, emphasizing the importance of offensive security practices in safeguarding critical infrastructure.
Driving Business Innovation: Latest Generative AI Advancements & Success StorySafe Software
Are you ready to revolutionize how you handle data? Join us for a webinar where we’ll bring you up to speed with the latest advancements in Generative AI technology and discover how leveraging FME with tools from giants like Google Gemini, Amazon, and Microsoft OpenAI can supercharge your workflow efficiency.
During the hour, we’ll take you through:
Guest Speaker Segment with Hannah Barrington: Dive into the world of dynamic real estate marketing with Hannah, the Marketing Manager at Workspace Group. Hear firsthand how their team generates engaging descriptions for thousands of office units by integrating diverse data sources—from PDF floorplans to web pages—using FME transformers, like OpenAIVisionConnector and AnthropicVisionConnector. This use case will show you how GenAI can streamline content creation for marketing across the board.
Ollama Use Case: Learn how Scenario Specialist Dmitri Bagh has utilized Ollama within FME to input data, create custom models, and enhance security protocols. This segment will include demos to illustrate the full capabilities of FME in AI-driven processes.
Custom AI Models: Discover how to leverage FME to build personalized AI models using your data. Whether it’s populating a model with local data for added security or integrating public AI tools, find out how FME facilitates a versatile and secure approach to AI.
We’ll wrap up with a live Q&A session where you can engage with our experts on your specific use cases, and learn more about optimizing your data workflows with AI.
This webinar is ideal for professionals seeking to harness the power of AI within their data management systems while ensuring high levels of customization and security. Whether you're a novice or an expert, gain actionable insights and strategies to elevate your data processes. Join us to see how FME and AI can revolutionize how you work with data!
Have you ever been confused by the myriad of choices offered by AWS for hosting a website or an API?
Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, Lightsail, Amplify, S3 (and more!) can each host websites + APIs. But which one should we choose?
Which one is cheapest? Which one is fastest? Which one will scale to meet our needs?
Join me in this session as we dive into each AWS hosting service to determine which one is best for your scenario and explain why!
5th LF Energy Power Grid Model Meet-up SlidesDanBrown980551
5th Power Grid Model Meet-up
It is with great pleasure that we extend to you an invitation to the 5th Power Grid Model Meet-up, scheduled for 6th June 2024. This event will adopt a hybrid format, allowing participants to join us either through an online Mircosoft Teams session or in person at TU/e located at Den Dolech 2, Eindhoven, Netherlands. The meet-up will be hosted by Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), a research university specializing in engineering science & technology.
Power Grid Model
The global energy transition is placing new and unprecedented demands on Distribution System Operators (DSOs). Alongside upgrades to grid capacity, processes such as digitization, capacity optimization, and congestion management are becoming vital for delivering reliable services.
Power Grid Model is an open source project from Linux Foundation Energy and provides a calculation engine that is increasingly essential for DSOs. It offers a standards-based foundation enabling real-time power systems analysis, simulations of electrical power grids, and sophisticated what-if analysis. In addition, it enables in-depth studies and analysis of the electrical power grid’s behavior and performance. This comprehensive model incorporates essential factors such as power generation capacity, electrical losses, voltage levels, power flows, and system stability.
Power Grid Model is currently being applied in a wide variety of use cases, including grid planning, expansion, reliability, and congestion studies. It can also help in analyzing the impact of renewable energy integration, assessing the effects of disturbances or faults, and developing strategies for grid control and optimization.
What to expect
For the upcoming meetup we are organizing, we have an exciting lineup of activities planned:
-Insightful presentations covering two practical applications of the Power Grid Model.
-An update on the latest advancements in Power Grid -Model technology during the first and second quarters of 2024.
-An interactive brainstorming session to discuss and propose new feature requests.
-An opportunity to connect with fellow Power Grid Model enthusiasts and users.
Generating privacy-protected synthetic data using Secludy and MilvusZilliz
During this demo, the founders of Secludy will demonstrate how their system utilizes Milvus to store and manipulate embeddings for generating privacy-protected synthetic data. Their approach not only maintains the confidentiality of the original data but also enhances the utility and scalability of LLMs under privacy constraints. Attendees, including machine learning engineers, data scientists, and data managers, will witness first-hand how Secludy's integration with Milvus empowers organizations to harness the power of LLMs securely and efficiently.
Main news related to the CCS TSI 2023 (2023/1695)Jakub Marek
An English 🇬🇧 translation of a presentation to the speech I gave about the main changes brought by CCS TSI 2023 at the biggest Czech conference on Communications and signalling systems on Railways, which was held in Clarion Hotel Olomouc from 7th to 9th November 2023 (konferenceszt.cz). Attended by around 500 participants and 200 on-line followers.
The original Czech 🇨🇿 version of the presentation can be found here: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/hlavni-novinky-souvisejici-s-ccs-tsi-2023-2023-1695/269688092 .
The videorecording (in Czech) from the presentation is available here: https://youtu.be/WzjJWm4IyPk?si=SImb06tuXGb30BEH .
zkStudyClub - LatticeFold: A Lattice-based Folding Scheme and its Application...Alex Pruden
Folding is a recent technique for building efficient recursive SNARKs. Several elegant folding protocols have been proposed, such as Nova, Supernova, Hypernova, Protostar, and others. However, all of them rely on an additively homomorphic commitment scheme based on discrete log, and are therefore not post-quantum secure. In this work we present LatticeFold, the first lattice-based folding protocol based on the Module SIS problem. This folding protocol naturally leads to an efficient recursive lattice-based SNARK and an efficient PCD scheme. LatticeFold supports folding low-degree relations, such as R1CS, as well as high-degree relations, such as CCS. The key challenge is to construct a secure folding protocol that works with the Ajtai commitment scheme. The difficulty, is ensuring that extracted witnesses are low norm through many rounds of folding. We present a novel technique using the sumcheck protocol to ensure that extracted witnesses are always low norm no matter how many rounds of folding are used. Our evaluation of the final proof system suggests that it is as performant as Hypernova, while providing post-quantum security.
Paper Link: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/257
Skybuffer AI: Advanced Conversational and Generative AI Solution on SAP Busin...Tatiana Kojar
Skybuffer AI, built on the robust SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP), is the latest and most advanced version of our AI development, reaffirming our commitment to delivering top-tier AI solutions. Skybuffer AI harnesses all the innovative capabilities of the SAP BTP in the AI domain, from Conversational AI to cutting-edge Generative AI and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). It also helps SAP customers safeguard their investments into SAP Conversational AI and ensure a seamless, one-click transition to SAP Business AI.
With Skybuffer AI, various AI models can be integrated into a single communication channel such as Microsoft Teams. This integration empowers business users with insights drawn from SAP backend systems, enterprise documents, and the expansive knowledge of Generative AI. And the best part of it is that it is all managed through our intuitive no-code Action Server interface, requiring no extensive coding knowledge and making the advanced AI accessible to more users.
A Comprehensive Guide to DeFi Development Services in 2024Intelisync
DeFi represents a paradigm shift in the financial industry. Instead of relying on traditional, centralized institutions like banks, DeFi leverages blockchain technology to create a decentralized network of financial services. This means that financial transactions can occur directly between parties, without intermediaries, using smart contracts on platforms like Ethereum.
In 2024, we are witnessing an explosion of new DeFi projects and protocols, each pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in finance.
In summary, DeFi in 2024 is not just a trend; it’s a revolution that democratizes finance, enhances security and transparency, and fosters continuous innovation. As we proceed through this presentation, we'll explore the various components and services of DeFi in detail, shedding light on how they are transforming the financial landscape.
At Intelisync, we specialize in providing comprehensive DeFi development services tailored to meet the unique needs of our clients. From smart contract development to dApp creation and security audits, we ensure that your DeFi project is built with innovation, security, and scalability in mind. Trust Intelisync to guide you through the intricate landscape of decentralized finance and unlock the full potential of blockchain technology.
Ready to take your DeFi project to the next level? Partner with Intelisync for expert DeFi development services today!
1. CAP Alert Area Templates through
Risk Assessments
Nuwan Waidyanatha
Director - Sahana Software Foundation
nuwan[AT]sahanafoundation[DOT]org
http://www.lirneasia.net/profiles/nuwan-waidyanatha
Mobile: +94773710394 (Int'l Roaming) +8613888446352 (cn)
CAP on a Map Kickoff Workshop – Improving Institutional Responsiveness to
Coastal Hazards through Multi Agency Situational Awareness
2015 April 15
Nasandura Palace Hote, Male, Maldives
2. 2
Outline
❑ Map layers for risk assessment
❑ Discussion of the data layers
❑ Common activities
❑ Group exercise
3. Purpose of the
multiple <INFO>
and <AREA>
Cyclone NILAM-12
2012 October 31
NILAM-12
LK Met Dept
02:00 UTC
Alert
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MET
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வடக்கு
උතුර
<AREA>
<INFO>
02:00 UTC
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NILAM-12
LK Met Dept
12:00 UTC
Update
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qualifiers
5. Adopting from Sahana CRMT
Community Resilience Mapping Tool provides
coalition members with the opportunity to create
maps of their neighborhoods that can be overlaid
Help make communities better prepared with
good information about their situation
System brings together
2010 Census Data,
2011 American Community Survey data,
USGS and California Geological Survey Hazards
data,
FEMA flood zone data,
70,000 points of interest within LA County:
schools, churches, health facilities, government
offices, municipal services, social services
agencies, arts and recreation facilities
7. Affects of Alert Area Template
Pamono landslide hazard map
Save the alert polygon in
CAP_area_template GIS
layer
Use those template names as
a separate attribute to auto
fill the <areaDesc>,
<geocodes>, <polygon>
10. Exercise instructions
1) Form four (4) groups based on less to most technical/domain
2) access the software through
your browser: http://cap.aidiq.com/eden/gis/index
3) Login not required
4) Zoom in on West Coast USA
5) Visualize vulnerable populations:
- Hazards ---> Sea Level Rise
- Census data ---> Age 67-79 and Disabled
11. Exercise – generating an alert area
1) Who will be you working-group and what are the organizations
part of the working group?
2) What are your geographical boundaries and area descriptions?
3) Consider a hazard and determine the availability of necessary
hazard specific data? If not available how would you source it?
4) What census data will you require? If it is available who would
have it? If not available how would you source it?
5) Given an example of a hazard specific vulnerable population
and the resilience factor you are interested in?
6) How is done in your country now?