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.
The document summarizes African Risk Capacity (ARC), an initiative to improve responses to drought emergencies in Africa. ARC provides:
1) Index-based weather risk insurance for African countries through a risk pool, allowing for cost-effective contingency funding and early responses to protect livelihoods.
2) A software tool called Africa RiskView that helps countries quantify drought risk based on rainfall data, vulnerability information, and response costs to access insurance payouts.
3) Risk pooling across countries in the program, which significantly reduces funding requirements for drought responses compared to countries managing risks individually.
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.
The document discusses maximizing the value of a SharePoint investment by avoiding false starts, strategizing and architecting appropriately, and establishing governance. It recommends identifying business needs and validating requirements through prototyping. SharePoint can be leveraged as an internal collaboration platform, information hub, and business applications platform. Proper architecture, information architecture, and governance models are important to achieve optimal value from SharePoint implementations.
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.
The document summarizes African Risk Capacity (ARC), an initiative to improve responses to drought emergencies in Africa. ARC provides:
1) Index-based weather risk insurance for African countries through a risk pool, allowing for cost-effective contingency funding and early responses to protect livelihoods.
2) A software tool called Africa RiskView that helps countries quantify drought risk based on rainfall data, vulnerability information, and response costs to access insurance payouts.
3) Risk pooling across countries in the program, which significantly reduces funding requirements for drought responses compared to countries managing risks individually.
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.
The document discusses maximizing the value of a SharePoint investment by avoiding false starts, strategizing and architecting appropriately, and establishing governance. It recommends identifying business needs and validating requirements through prototyping. SharePoint can be leveraged as an internal collaboration platform, information hub, and business applications platform. Proper architecture, information architecture, and governance models are important to achieve optimal value from SharePoint implementations.
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.
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.
The unemployment rate for veterans who served on active duty in the U.S. Armed Forces since September 2001 was 5.1% in May 2022, little changed from 5.0% in April 2022 and lower than the rate of 5.5% in May 2021. Younger veterans who served on active duty in the post-9/11 era and who were between the ages of 18 to 24 had an unemployment rate of 10.3% in May 2022, little changed over the month but lower than 11.3% a year earlier.
This document discusses different types of validity that are important for evaluating data and results, including internal validity, external validity, construct validity, and statistical conclusion validity. For each type of validity, it lists potential threats that could undermine the validity of the results if not properly addressed. Some examples of threats mentioned are history effects, selection bias, inadequate definition of constructs, violated statistical assumptions, and low statistical power. The overall message is that properly evaluating different aspects of validity is key to being a smart consumer of data and results.
This document provides a lighthearted overview of social and mobile recruiting strategies through a series of tweets. It discusses using various social media platforms like LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest to engage candidates. It also highlights building a mobile-friendly career site to apply from any device and hiring top mobile developers. The document promotes having recruiters and sourcers act as "brand ambassadors" or "#rockstars" to authentically engage candidates across social media.
The Mail & Guardian Online was the first South African newspaper to go online in 1994. They have a dedicated online news team to produce unique digital content in addition to publishing their weekly printed articles. While they have resource constraints, their new website launching on June 20, 2008 will feature improvements like hyperlinks, interactivity, multimedia, and blogs to better engage readers and be more competitive with other South African news sites.
Steve Levy gave a presentation on using Twitter for recruiting. He discussed finding and engaging with potential candidates, evaluating them based on their social media presence, and escalating interactions from Twitter to phone calls or interviews. He emphasized being personable, consistent, and avoiding mistakes that could damage a company's brand. Levy also shared examples of effective tweets and tools for searching, analyzing, and managing contacts on Twitter.
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.
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.
Goal of this project is to operationalize a CAP-enabled Multi Agency Situational Awareness (MASA) platform, called SAMBRO (Sahana Alerting and Messaging Broker) in the Maldives for: 1) Providing location specific alerts/warnings, and 2) Integrating all the stakeholders through a common information exchange hub for better coordination at the time of a disaster.
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
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.
This document proposes a project to create educational materials about maritime cyber security risks. It aims to educate non-technical maritime industry employees through videos and guides. A working group of industry experts will identify common risks and vulnerabilities and distill technical knowledge into practical advice. Their findings will be given to creative specialists to develop engaging media. The goal is to widely disseminate knowledge to help detect, prevent, and respond to cyber threats and reduce companies' exposure. The project seeks funding and industry partners to collaborate and share the production costs.
The document summarizes the Integrated Risk Management for Africa (IRMA) project. It is a 3-year, €3.5 million European Commission funded research project involving 9 EU and 6 African partners. The project aims to develop an ICT service platform to support environmental risk management in Africa and will implement risk scenarios in Senegal, Mozambique, Cameroon, and Morocco to validate the platform.
Early Warning on Disastrous Weather through Cell PhoneIOSR Journals
1) The document proposes an early weather warning system for Bangladesh that alerts subscribers via phone calls or SMS about impending natural disasters like cyclones, tsunamis, or tornadoes.
2) The system collects weather data from various sources and sends warning messages to subscribers based on their detected location. Warnings are sent via automated phone calls in Bengali to ensure all subscribers can understand, even if asleep.
3) Testing showed the system works well within Dhaka, with fast response times due to storing processed data. The system aims to minimize loss of life from natural disasters by providing widespread early warnings to the Bangladeshi population.
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.
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.
The unemployment rate for veterans who served on active duty in the U.S. Armed Forces since September 2001 was 5.1% in May 2022, little changed from 5.0% in April 2022 and lower than the rate of 5.5% in May 2021. Younger veterans who served on active duty in the post-9/11 era and who were between the ages of 18 to 24 had an unemployment rate of 10.3% in May 2022, little changed over the month but lower than 11.3% a year earlier.
This document discusses different types of validity that are important for evaluating data and results, including internal validity, external validity, construct validity, and statistical conclusion validity. For each type of validity, it lists potential threats that could undermine the validity of the results if not properly addressed. Some examples of threats mentioned are history effects, selection bias, inadequate definition of constructs, violated statistical assumptions, and low statistical power. The overall message is that properly evaluating different aspects of validity is key to being a smart consumer of data and results.
This document provides a lighthearted overview of social and mobile recruiting strategies through a series of tweets. It discusses using various social media platforms like LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest to engage candidates. It also highlights building a mobile-friendly career site to apply from any device and hiring top mobile developers. The document promotes having recruiters and sourcers act as "brand ambassadors" or "#rockstars" to authentically engage candidates across social media.
The Mail & Guardian Online was the first South African newspaper to go online in 1994. They have a dedicated online news team to produce unique digital content in addition to publishing their weekly printed articles. While they have resource constraints, their new website launching on June 20, 2008 will feature improvements like hyperlinks, interactivity, multimedia, and blogs to better engage readers and be more competitive with other South African news sites.
Steve Levy gave a presentation on using Twitter for recruiting. He discussed finding and engaging with potential candidates, evaluating them based on their social media presence, and escalating interactions from Twitter to phone calls or interviews. He emphasized being personable, consistent, and avoiding mistakes that could damage a company's brand. Levy also shared examples of effective tweets and tools for searching, analyzing, and managing contacts on Twitter.
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.
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.
Goal of this project is to operationalize a CAP-enabled Multi Agency Situational Awareness (MASA) platform, called SAMBRO (Sahana Alerting and Messaging Broker) in the Maldives for: 1) Providing location specific alerts/warnings, and 2) Integrating all the stakeholders through a common information exchange hub for better coordination at the time of a disaster.
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
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.
This document proposes a project to create educational materials about maritime cyber security risks. It aims to educate non-technical maritime industry employees through videos and guides. A working group of industry experts will identify common risks and vulnerabilities and distill technical knowledge into practical advice. Their findings will be given to creative specialists to develop engaging media. The goal is to widely disseminate knowledge to help detect, prevent, and respond to cyber threats and reduce companies' exposure. The project seeks funding and industry partners to collaborate and share the production costs.
The document summarizes the Integrated Risk Management for Africa (IRMA) project. It is a 3-year, €3.5 million European Commission funded research project involving 9 EU and 6 African partners. The project aims to develop an ICT service platform to support environmental risk management in Africa and will implement risk scenarios in Senegal, Mozambique, Cameroon, and Morocco to validate the platform.
Early Warning on Disastrous Weather through Cell PhoneIOSR Journals
1) The document proposes an early weather warning system for Bangladesh that alerts subscribers via phone calls or SMS about impending natural disasters like cyclones, tsunamis, or tornadoes.
2) The system collects weather data from various sources and sends warning messages to subscribers based on their detected location. Warnings are sent via automated phone calls in Bengali to ensure all subscribers can understand, even if asleep.
3) Testing showed the system works well within Dhaka, with fast response times due to storing processed data. The system aims to minimize loss of life from natural disasters by providing widespread early warnings to the Bangladeshi population.
Voice and screen recording technologies are evolving rapidly to help the transport industry meet increasing regulatory requirements to record safety information. These technologies can capture voice calls and screen interactions, but managing the large amounts of recorded data can be challenging. New distributed solutions allow transport operators to search across recordings located anywhere and synchronize relevant voice and screen recordings to efficiently investigate incidents. This helps determine factors like whether pilots or drivers followed procedures correctly.
This document discusses traffic incident management (TIM) and provides information on key topics related to improving TIM programs. It covers the national TIM vision of FHWA to promote rapid incident clearance and reduce responder injuries. The business case for TIM is presented, highlighting costs of traffic incidents including lives lost, injuries, and societal costs. National goals for TIM include responder safety, quick clearance, and interoperable communications. The TIM process is described involving detection, response, site management, clearance and review. Strategies to improve each step are discussed such as advanced detection technologies, coordinated response, and use of incident command system for site management.
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.
This document discusses standard operating procedures (SOPs) for tsunami early warning systems in the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia region. It describes the key components of an end-to-end tsunami warning system, including hazard detection, threat evaluation, alert dissemination, and emergency response. It outlines the roles and responsibilities of regional tsunami service providers, national tsunami warning centers, disaster management offices, emergency services, media, and the public. It emphasizes that coherent SOPs across all levels are needed to ensure an effective and reliable warning chain and rapid evacuation when necessary to save lives. Regular practice and modification of SOPs is also important to maintain an updated "living document".
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.
IRJET- Disaster Detection & Early Warning SystemIRJET Journal
This document describes a proposed disaster detection and early warning system that uses sensors and a microcontroller to monitor the environment for hazards. When thresholds are exceeded, the system sends SMS alerts, sounds an alarm, and displays warnings on an LCD screen to notify people. It aims to spread disaster information quickly via GSM to warn those at risk as early as possible. The system initialization, sensor input monitoring, alert activation, and normal/pre-disaster condition displays are outlined in the block diagram and flowchart. The goal is to save lives and reduce damage through early detection and warnings.
The document discusses GDACS and the Virtual OSOCC. GDACS is a disaster monitoring and alert system that collects hazard data and issues color-coded alerts. It also includes the Virtual OSOCC, an online coordination platform. The Virtual OSOCC allows responders to exchange information during disasters. It supports coordination and situational awareness in the early stages of sudden-onset disasters. The document provides details on the tools and services provided by GDACS and guidelines for how different responders should use the Virtual OSOCC.
Module 9 building regional and international networks for disaster risk man...unapcict
The document summarizes key topics from a training workshop on using information and communication technologies (ICT) for disaster risk management (DRM), including forming regional and international networks. It discusses reasons for creating networks like the scale of DRM efforts exceeding country boundaries, the benefits of resource sharing, and promoting positive externalities. Examples provided include the Mekong River Commission which shares flood information between countries, and tsunami warning systems in the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
The document outlines the RECLAIM Phase III project which aims to promote best practices for early warning of landslides in a changing climate scenario. It discusses forming joint working groups between landslide professionals to analyze critical slope destabilization factors. The project goals are to share and develop good practices for landslide early warning systems and introduce concepts like precipitation threshold values. Key activities include studying current early warning approaches, analyzing monitoring mechanisms, and identifying challenges to improve existing early warning systems.
The RFS uses several technologies and social media platforms in crisis response situations, including line scanning, aircraft cameras, lightning strike data, mobile warnings apps, and multiple Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube accounts. During fires, the RFS provides real-time incident information through RSS feeds and maps on their website. However, technology also poses challenges as loss of communications towers could limit situational awareness, and unsafe wind conditions may ground aircraft and helicopters. The RFS aims to engage in social media conversations to disseminate safety messages while monitoring the dynamic online landscape.
Towards a new approach of data dissemination in vanets networkscsandit
In the 2000s, ad hoc networks was developed and highly used in dynamic environment,
particularly for inter- vehicular communication (VANETs : Vehicular Ad hoc Networks).
Since that time, many researches and developments process was dedicated to VANET networks.
This was motivated by the current vehicular industry trend that is leading to a new transport
system generation based on the use of new communication technologies in order to provide
many services to passengers, the fact that improves the driving and travel’s experience.
These systems require traffic information sharing and dissemination the example as the case
alert message emitting allowing the driver to minimize driving risks. Sharing such information
between vehicles helps to anticipate potentially dangerous situations, as well as planning better
routes during congestion situations.
In this context, we are trying in this paper to model and simulate VANET Networks in order to
analyze and evaluate security information dissemination approaches and mechanisms used in
this type of networks in several exchanges conditions.This in order to identify their limitations
and suggest a new improved approach. This study was conducted as part of our research
project entitled “Simulation & VANETs”, where we justify and validate our approach using
modeling and simulation techniques and tools used in this domain.
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
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 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.
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.
Unlocking Productivity: Leveraging the Potential of Copilot in Microsoft 365, a presentation by Christoforos Vlachos, Senior Solutions Manager – Modern Workplace, Uni Systems
Cosa hanno in comune un mattoncino Lego e la backdoor XZ?Speck&Tech
ABSTRACT: A prima vista, un mattoncino Lego e la backdoor XZ potrebbero avere in comune il fatto di essere entrambi blocchi di costruzione, o dipendenze di progetti creativi e software. La realtà è che un mattoncino Lego e il caso della backdoor XZ hanno molto di più di tutto ciò in comune.
Partecipate alla presentazione per immergervi in una storia di interoperabilità, standard e formati aperti, per poi discutere del ruolo importante che i contributori hanno in una comunità open source sostenibile.
BIO: Sostenitrice del software libero e dei formati standard e aperti. È stata un membro attivo dei progetti Fedora e openSUSE e ha co-fondato l'Associazione LibreItalia dove è stata coinvolta in diversi eventi, migrazioni e formazione relativi a LibreOffice. In precedenza ha lavorato a migrazioni e corsi di formazione su LibreOffice per diverse amministrazioni pubbliche e privati. Da gennaio 2020 lavora in SUSE come Software Release Engineer per Uyuni e SUSE Manager e quando non segue la sua passione per i computer e per Geeko coltiva la sua curiosità per l'astronomia (da cui deriva il suo nickname deneb_alpha).
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!
GraphRAG for Life Science to increase LLM accuracyTomaz Bratanic
GraphRAG for life science domain, where you retriever information from biomedical knowledge graphs using LLMs to increase the accuracy and performance of generated answers
Your One-Stop Shop for Python Success: Top 10 US Python Development Providersakankshawande
Simplify your search for a reliable Python development partner! This list presents the top 10 trusted US providers offering comprehensive Python development services, ensuring your project's success from conception to completion.
Let's Integrate MuleSoft RPA, COMPOSER, APM with AWS IDP along with Slackshyamraj55
Discover the seamless integration of RPA (Robotic Process Automation), COMPOSER, and APM with AWS IDP enhanced with Slack notifications. Explore how these technologies converge to streamline workflows, optimize performance, and ensure secure access, all while leveraging the power of AWS IDP and real-time communication via Slack notifications.
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!
TrustArc Webinar - 2024 Global Privacy SurveyTrustArc
How does your privacy program stack up against your peers? What challenges are privacy teams tackling and prioritizing in 2024?
In the fifth annual Global Privacy Benchmarks Survey, we asked over 1,800 global privacy professionals and business executives to share their perspectives on the current state of privacy inside and outside of their organizations. This year’s report focused on emerging areas of importance for privacy and compliance professionals, including considerations and implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, building brand trust, and different approaches for achieving higher privacy competence scores.
See how organizational priorities and strategic approaches to data security and privacy are evolving around the globe.
This webinar will review:
- The top 10 privacy insights from the fifth annual Global Privacy Benchmarks Survey
- The top challenges for privacy leaders, practitioners, and organizations in 2024
- Key themes to consider in developing and maintaining your privacy program
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 6DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 6. In this session, we will cover Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI webinar offers an in-depth exploration of leveraging cutting-edge technologies for test automation within the UiPath platform. Attendees will delve into the integration of generative AI, a test automation solution, with Open AI advanced natural language processing capabilities.
Throughout the session, participants will discover how this synergy empowers testers to automate repetitive tasks, enhance testing accuracy, and expedite the software testing life cycle. Topics covered include the seamless integration process, practical use cases, and the benefits of harnessing AI-driven automation for UiPath testing initiatives. By attending this webinar, testers, and automation professionals can gain valuable insights into harnessing the power of AI to optimize their test automation workflows within the UiPath ecosystem, ultimately driving efficiency and quality in software development processes.
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into integrating generative AI.
2. Understanding how this integration enhances test automation within the UiPath platform
3. Practical demonstrations
4. Exploration of real-world use cases illustrating the benefits of AI-driven test automation for UiPath
Topics covered:
What is generative AI
Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath integration with generative AI
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
OpenID AuthZEN Interop Read Out - AuthorizationDavid Brossard
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07 cap standards-n-procedures
1. Common Alerting Protocol Standard and
Operating Procedures
Nuwan Waidyanatha
Director - Sahana Software Foundation
nuwan[AT]sahanafoundation[DOT]org
http://www.lirneasia.net/profiles/nuwan-waidyanatha
Mobile: +8613888446352 (cn) +94773710394 (lk)
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. □ Why do we need CAP
□ What is CAP?
□ How do we use it?
■ CAP-Profile
■ Register of Alerting
Authorities
■ Multi agency situational
awareness
□ Automation
□ Pilots
□ Users
□ Conclusion
□ Resources
Outline
4. How is it done in your country?
Let's take 05 minutes to discuss
- what are the events (pick one)?
- what are there jurisdictional boundaries?
- who are the authorities responsible for detection,
decision, and dissemination?
- who receives the alerts and who publishes them?
- when do they publish and when do intended
recipients receive the alerts?
5. Typical vertical horizontal integration
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Railway Financial
Civil
affairs … …… …
National
Provincial/Regional
State/Regional
County/Town/Village
Land Earthquake Water Heath
Firefighting Meteorological Traffic
Diploma
tic
“Horizontal”
Inf. Sharing
“Vertical”
A variety of
means to
public
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Management platformManagement platform
Collecti
on
Collecti
on
WebsiteWebsite
Feedback evaluation
system
Feedback evaluation
system
SMS release
system
SMS release
systemProcessProcess
Transm
ission
Transm
ission
StoreStore ControlControl
National
Emergency
Early Warning
& Alerting
System
6. □How do we manage the subscribers and publishers?
□How do we deliver early warnings in local language?
□How do we use available technologies?
□How do we disseminate alerts over multiple channels?
□How do we interoperate with incompatible systems?
□How do we effectively communicate the optimal content?
□How do we address the communication strategy?
□How do we accommodate upstream-downstream alerting?
Problem to solve in alerting/warning systems
7. ANSWER: CAP for all-hazards all-media and
multi-agency alerting and situational awareness
Managed by the Organization for the
Advancement of Structured Information
Standards (OASIS)
Recommended (X.1303) by the International
Telecommunications Union Standardization
Sector (ITU-T) – to align with ASN1 (Abstract
Syntax Notation One) ISO standards notation
Complies with the US National Science and
Technology Council (NSTC) six principles of
alerting, designed for :
• Coordination (avoid duplication)
• Consistency (believable)
• Channels (Multiple)
• Completeness (unabiguity)
• Coverage (Geo-targetting)
• Control (security)
8. All-hazards displaying on all-media
TV SCROLLERSWEB ADSSPECIAL DEVICES
Any City / Province / Country
Radio
Television
Fax
Cell / SMS
SirensStorm
Earthquake
Fire
Tsunami
Volcano
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9. CAP (XML) → uses XSL to transform→ delivery method
10. Automated Standard Message
“A <event> alert has been issued for
<areaDesc> by <senderName>. Persons in this
area are encouraged to <responseType>, and
<instruction>. This event is rated as <severity>,
and is <certainty>. Responsive action should
be taken <urgency> . For more information
about this event, visit <URI> or call <contact>.”
11. Example of Automated Standard Message
“A Flood alert has been issued for North
Western Province by Department of Irrigation and
Water Resources. Persons in this area are
encouraged to prepare, and stay away from
demarcated flood zones. This event is rated as
moderate, and is likely. Responsive action
should be taken in future. For more information
about this event, visit http://www.ndmc.gov.lk/ or
call 2395521.”
17. Exercise – SAMBRO message delivery
1) getting a feel for alerts in CAP format for the project focused
coastal hazards (use the SimCAPTool)
INSTRUCTIONS:
- Form four groups and use the same example used in the
discussion to now generate your alert message
- Access: http://cap.ituprojects.org
- Login with sd@gmail.com and 123
2) disseminate alerts in CAP format to the Restricted through
multiple delivery modes for the chosen event
18. Resources
1) Video “Introduction to CAP”, Eliot Christian (WMO): http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=n0iKp60jjtY
2) Instructions for translating the video to local language:
http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/www/ISS/Meetings/WIS-CAP_Geneva2011/video.zip
3) Video on the use of CAP in real-time biosurveillance pilot, Nuwan Waidyanatha
(LIRNEasia): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7WOq5giddI
4) CAP implementers workshop, WMO, Geneva, April 2011:
http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/www/ISS/Meetings/WIS-
CAP_Geneva2011/DocPlan.html
5) CAP Cookbook (wiki):
http://www.incident.com/cookbook/index.php/Welcome_to_the_CAP_Cookbook
6) ITU-T recommendation X.1303: http://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-X.1303/en
7) TD No. 1556, Administrative Procedure for Registering WMO Alerting Identifiers
(PWS-20): http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/amp/pwsp/documents/AIR_PWS-20.pdf
8) OASIS EDXL suite of standards (including CAP): http://www.oasis-
open.org/standards#edxl