PARSOL Planning was a project launched in 2003 to assist local authorities in delivering planning and regulatory services online. It was funded by the UK government's Department for Communities and Local Government. The project included several workstreams focused on areas like electronic applications, consultation, best practices, and helping local authorities meet service delivery standards. While officially finishing in 2006, PARSOL's goal was to provide sustainable products and ensure key deliverables continued after the project ended by migrating them to organizations like the Planning Portal.
Collaborating on Technology Service Delivery Summary report finalSabina Visser
Recommendations from Collaborating on Shared Technology Service Delivery Project. 28 municipalities participated in evaluating opportunities for shared service delivery, identifying recommendations, and developing tools to support evaluating feasibility, and project implementation
Presentation of CITADEL at the ENLARGE [1] Final Event. This presentation aims to introduce the CITADEL project and how CITADEL relates to the ENLARGE Manifesto [2]
[1] http://www.enlarge-project.eu/
[2] http://www.enlarge-project.eu/manifesto-for-collaborative-processes/
Collaborating on Technology Service Delivery Summary report finalSabina Visser
Recommendations from Collaborating on Shared Technology Service Delivery Project. 28 municipalities participated in evaluating opportunities for shared service delivery, identifying recommendations, and developing tools to support evaluating feasibility, and project implementation
Presentation of CITADEL at the ENLARGE [1] Final Event. This presentation aims to introduce the CITADEL project and how CITADEL relates to the ENLARGE Manifesto [2]
[1] http://www.enlarge-project.eu/
[2] http://www.enlarge-project.eu/manifesto-for-collaborative-processes/
Webinar - How to improve the evaluation of complex systems?Leonardo ENERGY
Evaluation is intended to provide policy makers and practitioners with feedback and recommendations to improve policy making and implementation. The success of an evaluation and the impact of its findings hinges on the way policy makers and practitioners are involved in and perceive the evaluation process. The more complex the policy, the more challenging this relationship becomes.
Based on the practical example of analysing the evaluation of the Defra’s Reward & Recognition Scheme (RRF), this webinar will explore research insights around these topics:
* Evaluation experiences and challenges;
* Relationship between evaluation and policy-making especially looking at the policy cycle; and
* The understanding and potential use of complexity in policymaking.
The end goal being to unpack how to better conduct evaluations of complex systems and improve evidence-backed policymaking focusing on the UK context but, hopefully, offering lessons that can be extrapolated across other European contexts and to various policy fields.
Meeting the Needs of Housing Finance Agencies Using Data and MapsPolicyMap
More and more, state housing finance agencies are using data to see where geographically the greatest areas of need are, what types of populations are in those places, and to guide planning, research and evaluation efforts. It’s surprisingly easy for HFAs to use readily available data to improve their work. During this webinar, presenters from Illinois Housing Development Authority, Connecticut Housing Finance Authority, and North Carolina Housing Finance Agency will describe the exciting work they’re doing with data and mapping.
Digital Government Today: International Perspective and Lessons for the FutureRyan Androsoff
An overview of current trends in digital government with a focus on IT governance, digital service delivery, social media, and open data. All views expressed in the presentation are those of the author and should not be attributed to any organization mentioned or referenced.
Slide deck from the ICANN 52 session 'All Things WHOIS' that took place in Singapore on Monday, 9 February 2015.
For more information on this session, please visit: http://singapore52.icann.org/en/schedule/mon-whois
A beginner's guide to getting the most out of talking to strangers. For journalism students and anyone who's interested in how to talk with people and come away with a story.
Jason Miles-Campbell, from JISC Legal, provides an overview of legal issues that relate specifically to business and community engagement. He also points out specific resources of use to those working in this area.
This presentation was delivered during a CPD & Training Project event.For more information see: http://www.netskills.ac.uk/content/projects/2008/jisc-bce-cpd/index.html
We provide a platform that reduces your emails and meetings and create a platform where your entire online community to communicate, share ideas, and provide input so that you can make better decisions through the power of WE instead of ME.
Webinar - How to improve the evaluation of complex systems?Leonardo ENERGY
Evaluation is intended to provide policy makers and practitioners with feedback and recommendations to improve policy making and implementation. The success of an evaluation and the impact of its findings hinges on the way policy makers and practitioners are involved in and perceive the evaluation process. The more complex the policy, the more challenging this relationship becomes.
Based on the practical example of analysing the evaluation of the Defra’s Reward & Recognition Scheme (RRF), this webinar will explore research insights around these topics:
* Evaluation experiences and challenges;
* Relationship between evaluation and policy-making especially looking at the policy cycle; and
* The understanding and potential use of complexity in policymaking.
The end goal being to unpack how to better conduct evaluations of complex systems and improve evidence-backed policymaking focusing on the UK context but, hopefully, offering lessons that can be extrapolated across other European contexts and to various policy fields.
Meeting the Needs of Housing Finance Agencies Using Data and MapsPolicyMap
More and more, state housing finance agencies are using data to see where geographically the greatest areas of need are, what types of populations are in those places, and to guide planning, research and evaluation efforts. It’s surprisingly easy for HFAs to use readily available data to improve their work. During this webinar, presenters from Illinois Housing Development Authority, Connecticut Housing Finance Authority, and North Carolina Housing Finance Agency will describe the exciting work they’re doing with data and mapping.
Digital Government Today: International Perspective and Lessons for the FutureRyan Androsoff
An overview of current trends in digital government with a focus on IT governance, digital service delivery, social media, and open data. All views expressed in the presentation are those of the author and should not be attributed to any organization mentioned or referenced.
Slide deck from the ICANN 52 session 'All Things WHOIS' that took place in Singapore on Monday, 9 February 2015.
For more information on this session, please visit: http://singapore52.icann.org/en/schedule/mon-whois
A beginner's guide to getting the most out of talking to strangers. For journalism students and anyone who's interested in how to talk with people and come away with a story.
Jason Miles-Campbell, from JISC Legal, provides an overview of legal issues that relate specifically to business and community engagement. He also points out specific resources of use to those working in this area.
This presentation was delivered during a CPD & Training Project event.For more information see: http://www.netskills.ac.uk/content/projects/2008/jisc-bce-cpd/index.html
We provide a platform that reduces your emails and meetings and create a platform where your entire online community to communicate, share ideas, and provide input so that you can make better decisions through the power of WE instead of ME.
In the second decade of the second millennium, many of us are approaching the web wrong. We have trouble defining goals, addressing needs, and defining scope. We use phrases like “Mobile First,” or “Content First.” We forget where we came from, and lack vision on where we’re going by bogging ourselves down in processes or allowing programmers to do front end UI. Everything about our environment is transitional – everything except one core component: us. People create websites, people consume websites, and there comes a point where strategy needs to yield to technological requirements and open itself to what our users want and need. I’m talking about “People First.”
Getting Hacked is a Nasty Business. Events are in for a Rude Awakening.Michelle Bruno
The latest ETB visual summary of the article, "Getting Hacked is a Nasty Business. Events are in for a Rude Awakening." You can read the full article at: http://www.eventtechbrief.com/page.cfm/action=library/libID=3/libEntryID=72/listID=1
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The Challenges Facing Local CIOs | Geoff Connell | March 2016Anna Fenston
Presentation on 'The Challenges facing local CIOs' by Geoff Connell from the Local Digital Futures - Working as One: Platforms & Sharing event held on 4 March 2016 in London.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
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.
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.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...
Mosaic, Public Sector Forums, Efficiency Through E-Planning
1. PARSOL Planning … and its contribution to the e-Planning Programme By Jason McNeil, BEng (hons), PARSOL Planning Project Manager Director and Principal Consultant, Mosaic Consulting Associates Ltd.
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