1) This document discusses open data and open government, and their potential to drive innovation and economic growth in emerging countries and the Caribbean region. Open data and networks of collaboration can create competitive advantages for countries.
2) Open data lowers the cost of creating apps and fuels an "apps economy" that has created over 450,000 jobs in the US. Open data initiatives could add tens of millions to some economies.
3) Open data and open government produce social and economic value by enabling citizen feedback to improve services, fueling industries like real estate, and sparking startups and new kinds of work.
This talk reviews the foundations of Open Data and provides insight into the implementation and economic benefits by reviewing existing initiatives and lessons learned, as well as emerging models.
Presentation given by Juan Gomez, Head of Economic Strategy for the Commission of the New Economy at the DataGM steering group meeting 19th January 2011
Digital Transformation in the Connected Cities EraKarim Rizkallah
Government agencies are looking to implement digital strategies, develop their talent pool with digital skills and promote services that address citizens' requirements.
This talk reviews the foundations of Open Data and provides insight into the implementation and economic benefits by reviewing existing initiatives and lessons learned, as well as emerging models.
Presentation given by Juan Gomez, Head of Economic Strategy for the Commission of the New Economy at the DataGM steering group meeting 19th January 2011
Digital Transformation in the Connected Cities EraKarim Rizkallah
Government agencies are looking to implement digital strategies, develop their talent pool with digital skills and promote services that address citizens' requirements.
Releasing open data fuels economic activity, creating value in both the public and private sector. Research from McKinsey suggests that seven sectors could generate more than $3 trillion a year in additional value as a result of open data, which is already giving rise to hundreds of entrepreneurial businesses and helping established companies to segment markets, define new products and services, and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of operations.
While governments looking for economic outcomes from open data must focus on releasing assets with business value, the reach of that category across sectors is quite broad, as new research from New York University (NYU) makes clear.
An overview of current Open Data activities and approaches and our own approach to manage and develop Open Data projects using Linked Data as the technical piece for the best results in the long run. Prepared for ICT 2010, http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/cf/ict2010/item-display.cfm?id=2790
Zac Bookman, OpenGov CEO, and Jonathan Reichental, Palo Alto CIO, discuss the technological challenges governments face, and new solutions that help administrators save time, improve decision-making and build trust. Join the session to learn how leading governments across the country are finding innovative ways to be more digital, data-driven and efficient.
Open Your Government to the Promise of Cloud-Based Innovation and Collaboration
Releasing open data fuels economic activity, creating value in both the public and private sector. Research from McKinsey suggests that seven sectors could generate more than $3 trillion a year in additional value as a result of open data, which is already giving rise to hundreds of entrepreneurial businesses and helping established companies to segment markets, define new products and services, and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of operations.
While governments looking for economic outcomes from open data must focus on releasing assets with business value, the reach of that category across sectors is quite broad, as new research from New York University (NYU) makes clear.
An overview of current Open Data activities and approaches and our own approach to manage and develop Open Data projects using Linked Data as the technical piece for the best results in the long run. Prepared for ICT 2010, http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/cf/ict2010/item-display.cfm?id=2790
Zac Bookman, OpenGov CEO, and Jonathan Reichental, Palo Alto CIO, discuss the technological challenges governments face, and new solutions that help administrators save time, improve decision-making and build trust. Join the session to learn how leading governments across the country are finding innovative ways to be more digital, data-driven and efficient.
Open Your Government to the Promise of Cloud-Based Innovation and Collaboration
Presentation by Mr. Veli-Pekka Saarnivaara (Director General, Tekes - Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation) on "Tekes – Promoter of Innovation and Technology Development in Finland" during the study visit of the sub-committee on Innovative workplaces to Helsinki on 25 January 2011
Presentation on Open Government Data Tools and Infrastructure for Citizen Engagement at the WSIS Forum, May 2012 in Geneva Switzerland.
See: http://groups.itu.int/wsis-forum2012/Agenda/DraftAgenda.aspx?se=43276
Digital Leadership Interview : Gavin Starks, CEO of the Open Data Institute (...Capgemini
"Large organizations should think about releasing their data and rely on third parties to innovate on their behalf rather than trying to innovate internally."
[2011] Next Generation e-Government: Transformation into Open Government - Ol...e-Democracy Conference
e-Democracy Conference 2011 presentation titled 'Next Generation e-Government: Transformation into Open Government' by Oleg Petrov, Program Coordinator at World Bank
OGPL is a joint product from India and United States to promote transparency and greater citizen engagement by making more government data, documents, tools and processes publicly available.
By digitizing processes and making organizational changes, governments can
enhance services,
save money, and
improve citizens’ quality of life.
As companies have transformed themselves with digital technologies, people are calling on governments to follow suit.
By digitizing, governments can provide services that meet the evolving expectations of citizens and businesses, even in a period of tight budgets and increasingly complex challenges.
Estimates suggest that government digitization, using current technology, could generate over $1 trillion annually worldwide.
Digitizing a government requires attention to two major considerations:
the core capabilities for engaging citizens and businesses, and
the organizational enablers that support those capabilities (exhibit).
These make up a framework for setting digital priorities.
We look at the capabilities and enablers in this framework, along with guidelines and real-world examples to help governments seize the opportunities that digitization offers.
Presentation to Civil Society at the University of the West Indies, Port of Spain, Trinidad on 28 February 2015 by the World Bank to civil society representatives including those from the Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society
e-Governance Implementation In Ebonyi State Nigeria: Challenges and ProspectsEditor IJCATR
The deployment of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in different facets of the world’s economy has yielded very reasonable results. ICT has blured the barriers of hinderances in tourism, trade, healthcare, education and training. In governance and administration, ICT applications have enhanced the delivery of public services to citizens and clients not only by improving the process and management of government, but also by redefining the traditional concepts of citizenship. This paper examined the challenges facing the implementation of e-Governance in Ebonyi State – Nigeria and highlights the prospects. The research used a primary source of data by distributing, collecting and analysing a total of 500 questionnaires administered to respondents in the research area (Ebonyi State). The research found that the most difficult challenges facing the deployment of e-governance in Ebonyi State were lack of steady power supply, poor communication infrastructure and high cost of computer and internet equipments. The survey also revealed that the use of e-governance would bring improved efficiency in government operations without necessarily increasing the cost of state governance. e-Governance would strengthen democratic principles and ideologies which inturn brings good governance to the people.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with Parameters
Open Data & Open Government: Driving Innovation :: Jeff Kaplan
1. Open Data & Open Government:
Driving Innovation
Caribbean Growth Forum
Kingston, Jamaica
18 June 2012
Jeff Kaplan - Senior Consultant, ICT Unit
Email: jeff@openesolutions.com Twitter: @jeffkaplan88
2. Innovation Economy Leaders
Emerging countries can and are becoming digital leaders and
positioning themselves as key parts of the global Innovation Economy.
4. In Search of a Comparative Advantage
Today, networks create competitive advantage
as much as size.
Open Government and Open Data create networks of collaboration
and co-creation that produce real economic impact and innovations.
5. Open Data and the Apps Economy
Open Data lowers costs of raw materials for building apps
Apps Economy in U.S. now employs > 450,000 people ...
It was zero in 2007. (TechNet 2012 study)
6. The Value of Open Government
• Open Data leads to job creation on both supply and demand sides.
Digitization of paper documents generate micro-works while
increased open data produces more startups and work for developers.
• Open data could add > $35 million per year to Jamaica’s economy
and > $15 billion per year for Latin America+Caribbean. (EU study)
• Australia study: $5 of value for every $1 spent to open data
7. The Value of Open Government
Weather data: Open data from US National Weather Service
supports a private weather industry worth over $1.5 billion per year.
8. The Value of Open Government
Open Government & Open Data
produce real social value for citizens.
9. Citizen-driven Service Improvement
• LAPOR! -- Set up by Indonesia’s Presidential Unit for Supervision & Control to
enable citizens to monitor and verify public service delivery in real time.
• Government uses this citizen feedback to improve service delivery and allocation
of resources for various sector such as education, health, even defense.
11. • NGOs in Slovakia used open data to create website enabling people to see the
total value of government contracts associated with any person or company.
• Another Slovakia site -- http://www.otvorenezmluvy.sk -- shows
data on government contracts by individual contract.
15. The Value of Open Data
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Zillow now generates over $60 million in annual revenues
and has market capitalization over US$1 billion.
16. HospitalCompare (US Department of Health & Human Services)
enables comparison of hospital performance and services based
on open data + customer feedback.
17. Start Creating Value from Open Gov & Open Data
Leverage what already exists -- citizen engagement, data,
partnerships, problems What citizen engagement already exists?
What data is already available?
Apps that meet agency priorities = more sustainable apps / e-services
Open Data should start with demand ... Create a process for
identifying demand for data, both outside and inside government
Invest in co-creation: connect users (agencies, academia, nonprofits, media) with developers and private sector through
hackerthons, competitions, TechCamps
Turning data into apps and visualizations like maps is essential to
unlock value for people
18.
19. Take Home Message
(Questions)
If governments are willing to be active partners in an ecosystem willing to invest, experiment and even fail (on a small scale) –
they will see innovations spring from their Open Government and
Open Data efforts
• If you could have 1 dataset from government, what would it be?
• If you could give feedback to improve 1 government service,
which one would it be?
Editor's Notes
In truth, both government and citizens derive value from greater citizen engagement and greater government responsiveness to citizen feedback.
LAPOR! from Indonesia ... Presidential Unit for Development Supervision & Control (UKP4) launched Public Participation Information System (LAPOR which means “report”) in Nov 2011, a Web and SMS-accessible platform enabling citizens to monitor and verify delivery of government services in real time. Government uses this information to improve allocation of public resources in areas ranging from education and health to energy and defense. Real example: SMS from Aceh citizen in Nov 2011 on bridge that had not been rebuilt since its collapse in June 2011 led to allocation of funds for 2012 to finally get it rebuilt.
When UKP4 receives a message, it conducts a preliminary verification. After determining that further investigation is warranted, Unit posts a summary of problem on LAPOR’s Web site (so public can view and provide additional commentary) and notifies relevant government ministry. Officials follow up on the problem and may release a public statement explaining what they will do to fix it. Citizens have up to a month to monitor and verify this response.
Radio hosts give listeners a question about public service delivery. Citizens send responses via free SMS. Answers instantly processed and visualized to be shared on air. Results used in subsequent radio interviews with authorities and in print and online media. Development of the TRAC FM software was supported by several donors in East Africa, including Text to Change, Twaweza and the African Technology & Transparency Initiative. No precise cost figures -- but the TRAC FM software is built on RapidSMS, an open source platform originally developed by UNICEF which would make it relatively low cost to localize. In Uganda, access to the software is free to radio stations who want it
In addition to greater transparency, such information is likely to have two tangible, economic effects: (1) More competititve procurements that deliver better pricing for govenrment ... And possible exposure of improperly awarded contracts; and (2) A larger diversity of firms that win government contracts.
Both would have positive economic impacts on government and the private sector.
Open Data by itself does not produce even effective transparency or innovation. However, Open Data when put to use (reuse) is powerful fuel for applcations and eServices that can have real economic impact -- creating new jobs and new companies.
In every country, it is very likely that there are already Open Government type services and activities happening ... Even if they are not called Open Government.
Identify them, expand them, scale them. Even problems offer a great starting point for innovation.
