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- Governance includes steering and management groups from partner organizations, with technical, editorial, and communications subgroups.
- The project aims to direct users to partners' sites, pool available information, and create a platform to help agencies achieve their objectives.
- Future plans include strengthening partnerships, identifying additional data sources, prioritizing environmental issues, and increasing public involvement and debate.
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This document discusses XSEDE and building national/international cyberinfrastructure. It introduces John Towns, the director of XSEDE, and outlines some of his background and roles. It then provides high-level information about XSEDE, including that it is a 5-year, $121 million project funded by the NSF to provide advanced digital services and resources. XSEDE acts as a virtual organization comprising resources from 20 partner institutions. The document discusses some lessons learned from previous similar projects and challenges in managing a distributed organization like XSEDE. It also provides strategies for successful partnerships, emphasizing the importance of clear goals, stakeholder needs, decision-making processes, and flexibility.
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- Launched in 2011, it was created by the Scottish Government and several agencies to be a single access point for Scotland's environmental data and reports.
- Governance includes steering and management groups from partner organizations, with technical, editorial, and communications subgroups.
- The project aims to direct users to partners' sites, pool available information, and create a platform to help agencies achieve their objectives.
- Future plans include strengthening partnerships, identifying additional data sources, prioritizing environmental issues, and increasing public involvement and debate.
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The document discusses integrating an AIDS community solution exchange with UNAIDS to increase collaboration and reduce issues around ownership and branding. It proposes having the moderation team be "embedded" within UNAIDS to increase UNAIDS ownership and reduce discrimination. Some current issues discussed are turf wars, peer discrimination, the solution exchange not being included in UNAIDS work plans. Suggestions include having UNAIDS take more ownership and responsibility for quality, including the solution exchange in work plans, and orienting UNAIDS staff on knowledge management to improve collaboration.
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The Building Local Capacity for Delivery of HIV Services in Southern Africa Project (BLC) worked in Namibia from 2010-2015 to strengthen local organizations' capacity to address HIV. Through a mapping effort led by the Namibian Network for AIDS Service Organisations (NANASO), BLC conducted the first nationwide assessment of 234 civil society organizations. This provided data on registration, communication capabilities, and organizational capacity. The assessment strengthened NANASO's understanding of its constituency and ability to support members. It demonstrated how networks can better partner with organizations to assess needs and improve health service delivery.
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The document discusses The Smart Capital Private Securities Exchange, which aims to restore the original functioning of American capitalism through reestablishing value creation and risk mitigation mechanisms. The Exchange selects companies and provides remediation, risk mitigation, and oversight to position them to become dominant in their industries. It functions as an alternative asset class, provides an investment grade asset, and has a built-in trading platform and exit strategy for capital migration.
Green Leaf The Design Studio is a new design studio located in Nerul, Navi Mumbai that offers 360-degree creative solutions across advertising and promotions. They specialize in concept through execution across all media, with the goal of delivering effective creative solutions that provide value to clients. Their services include branding, print, outdoor, digital, and other design work, and they have experience working with companies in various industries.
Adam Prohel presentation at Online Marketing Summit in Las Angeles June 14th 2011
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www.carbonwarroom.com
Dokumen tersebut membahas tentang penyelesaian masalah dan pembuatan keputusan. Ia menjelaskan definisi penyelesaian masalah dan pembuatan keputusan serta langkah-langkah dan faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhi kedua-duanya. Dokumen ini juga membandingkan pendekatan rasional dan model-model dalam membuat keputusan.
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This document discusses considerations for public libraries looking to invest in electronic resources. It notes that patron demand is driving the need for e-resources and that they make information easily accessible. Some benefits include 24/7 access, space savings, and potential cost savings. The document then discusses specific e-resources like e-books, databases, and e-readers. It emphasizes the importance of consulting patrons and policies, considering budget and costs, ensuring technical support, and being aware of licensing issues before making decisions about adding e-resources.
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Jeni Cross, Colorado State University
Austin Troy, University of Colorado Denver
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Slides from the 14th August 2019 webinar presentation as part of the Best Practices for HPC Software Developers (Webinar) series - https://ideas-productivity.org/events/hpc-best-practices-webinars/ - more info at https://www.exascaleproject.org/event/smp-rp/ and a recording on YouTube is at - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sELeZStzdY&feature=youtu.be
Abstract:
Software is a necessary by-product of research. Software in this context can range from small shell scripts to complex and layered software ecosystems. Dealing with software as a first class citizen at the time of grant formulation is aided by the development of a Software Management Plan (SMP). An SMP can help to formalize a set of structures and goals that ensure your software is accessible and reusable in the short, medium and long term. SMP’s aim at becoming for software what Data Management Plans (DMP’s) have become for research data (DMP’s are mandatory for National Science Foundation grants). This webinar takes you through the questions you should consider when developing a Software Management Plan, how to manage the implementation of the plan, and some of the current motivation driving discussion in this area of research management.
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Please contact me if you have any questions.
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Leveraging Social Business Tools to better manage Performance Improvement pro...TefenManagementConsulting
We want to suggest a new approach to Performance Improvement projects, leveraging on Social Business Tools. The adoption of such tools (forums, repositories, wikis, etc.) enhances cooperation, integration and communication among individuals and groups, which are key for their success and sustainability.
A “Social” approach to Performance Improvement has already proven successful (e.g. pharmaceutical, financial services, manufacturing companies, etc.), thanks to:
o Greater amount of ideas and feedbacks exchanged by people at all levels, departments and sites;
o Joint development and implementation of improvement initiatives;
o Establishment of a Continuous Improvement culture - which led people to actually “own” the process of interactively generating, implementing and sustaining the improvement.
Key success factors were the strong sponsorship from Top Management, the bottom-up & involvement-based “Change engine” and the presence of clear responsibilities & accountabilities.
4. Background
• Community founded on support of specific
implementations
• Community growth outpaced support
infrastructure
• BCG-supported organizational development
process
• Finding: entity needed to sustain key
infrastructure and to grow/support community
process (online
presence, meetings, training, partner
development)
5. Background
• Already have maturing community
leadership infrastructure
• Inc. designed to catalyze this community
process / sustain it
• OpenMRS, Inc. more Apache-like than
Eclipse-like -> inherently more sustainable
• LLC vs. Ltd. vs. Inc.
10. Regional Certification Consultative
Training Support
Communities Process? Services
Content Implementer
Collaborative Guides / Docs
MVP/CIEL Technical
Dictionary Documentation
AMPATH
Mailing Lists
Dictionary
Peer Support Implementers
Online Presence
Network Meetings
11.
12. Partnerships Lead
Chris Seebregts, PhD
Jembi Health Systems
• Focused on the productivity and collaboration
of the “organizations” who benefit and support
the OpenMRS community
• 2013 Goals:
– Develop OpenMRS Partnership strategic plan
(categorization, governance, outreach model, etc)
– Begin outreach to existing partners
• Establish partner database, and documentation
templates
• Contact point for inquiries
– Establish at least 2-3 new strategic partnerships
13. Examples of OpenMRS Partnerships
Existing: Future:
• Partners-in-Health • HISP
• Regenstrief Institute • KEHIA
• AMPATH • I-Tech / University of
• Columbia University Washington
• Jembi • Medecins Sans
• Rockefeller Foundation Frontieres (Doctors
without Borders)
• Google
• USAID
• FACES
• Nafundi
• MoH Rwanda
• University of Utah
• Thoughtworks
• Gates Foundation
• Philippine NTHC
• WAHIFP
14. Community Manager
Michael Downey
OpenMRS
• Focused on the productivity and collaboration of the
“individuals” within the OpenMRS community
• 2013 Goals:
– Produce 1 global conference (Kenya) and at least 2
regional/global hack-a-thons
– Release infrastructure that supports community
becoming more data-driven around issues of
community health (eg, contributor “conversion”,
satisfaction, growth metrics, etc)
– Establish communication program for key contributors
– Technology support for continuous delivery process
15. Evaluation/Impact Lead
Hamish Fraser, MBChCB, MRCP, MSc
Harvard University / MIT
• Encourages the collection of evidence that
demonstrates impact of OpenMRS in health care
settings, and coordinates/optimizes these efforts – our
form of “marketing”
• 2013 Goals:
– Identify at least 2 organization that are committed to carrying
out OpenMRS evaluation studies and provide support where
needed
– Provide input to engineering team in support of tools that
make it easier to support evaluations within OpenMRS
platform
– Develop documentation within OpenMRS community that
simplifies process of carrying out evaluations within
community
– Survey OpenMRS implementations for potential future
evaluation studies
16. Engineering Lead
Burke Mamlin, MD
Regenstrief Institute
• Operationalizes the community software development
process, minds the overall OpenMRS architecture
• 2013 Goals:
– Oversee 1 main release (App Framework/Ref. Application)
and 2-3 point releases
– Optimizations in development process
• Implementations noticeably “more involved”
• Volunteers noticeably “more involved”
• Clearly documented engineering roles/responsibilities
• Continuous Delivery System
– Better “Developer Experience”
• First Developer SDK Release
• Improved documentation: Developer Guide and Technical
Reference Guide published in 2013
17. Metadata/Content Lead
Andrew Kanter, MD MPH
Columbia University, IMO
• Oversees the growth of health content
required for key functionality of
implementations of OpenMRS
• 2013 Goals:
– Map and document key requirements for
implementations
– Support core “starter” terminology for new
OpenMRS implementations (MVP/CIEL) and
provide field mapping support
– Create sustainability plan and partner team
18. Executive Director
Paul Biondich, MD MS
Regenstrief Institute
• Directly supports the work of the community
leadership team and provides overall
community oversight
• 2013 Goals:
– Establishes more distributed, explicit community
leadership structure and review process
– Incubation program for new leadership – focus on
leaders within resource-poor environments
– Develop training/consultative service infrastructure
– Establish “back office” for OpenMRS, Inc.
20. • Assure OpenMRS, Inc. adheres to its mission,
vision, and values
• Determine and monitor the organization’s
programs, services, and effectiveness
• Hold the organization accountable to make its
plans in advance
• Ensure the organization creates a financial
sustainability plan
• Review and approve annual budgets
• Support and review the performance of the
executive director
• Represent OpenMRS to the public for both
collaborative opportunities and financial support
21. • Chair of the Board
– Leads board meetings
– Assists ED in preparing agenda for board meetings
– Coordinates ED’s annual performance eval
– Coordinates search for new board members and supports
their orientation
• Secretary
– Attends all board meetings
– Ensure the safety / accuracy of all board records
– Assume responsibilities of chair in his/her absence
• Treasurer
– Attends all board meetings
– Serves as chairman of all financial oversight matters
– Presents the annual budget to the board for approval
– Works with ED to ensure that financial reports are
available to the board and community on a timely basis
– Reviews annual internal audit
23. • IRS Update
• “Back Office” update
– Bank account established, first year RF deposited
(Chase)
– Working on liability insurance
– Will either work through fiscal sponsorship org. or
hire accountant
• Need to change fiscal year to 1/1 – 12/31
• Expected operational expenses
– 2013 Implementer Meeting / Hack-a-thons
– Cloud server space (~$20k)
– Continued legal expenses (~$10k)
– Community Manager / Engineering Support Roles
– ED support (10-15%)