NOAA/NWS Perspectives on a Nationwide Network of Networks by Jack Hayes, NOAA Assistant Administrator for Weather Services and Director of the National Weather Service in Silver Spring, Maryland
Promoting cross-boundary collaboration for ecosystem service management at la...Aberdeen CES
The document discusses encouraging collaboration across property boundaries to provide ecosystem services. It identifies several prerequisites for collaboration, including a shared perception of problems, a willingness to cooperate, opportunities to trial new approaches, and support for realigning public expenditures. The planning process involves stakeholder analysis, spatial planning, existing incentives, market drivers, budgets, ecosystem services trade-offs, and available technologies. Implementation requires good communication, capacity building, partnership groups to promote the scheme, and awareness raising through various means.
The document discusses best practices for sustainable agriculture and rural development (SARD). It outlines a conceptual framework that considers various factors like trade-offs between assets, driving forces like climate variability, and complexity across technical, sectoral and regional levels. It proposes a methodology for defining a system, identifying components, forces, linkages and characterizing processes. The methodology aims to integrate information systems and assess impacts to add effectiveness to existing work in supporting member countries.
ACCRA aims to increase the capacity of vulnerable communities in Ethiopia, Uganda, and Mozambique to adapt to climate change through evidence-based interventions. It will conduct research on how livelihoods are affected by climate variability, successful adaptive strategies, and gaps. ACCRA will work with governments and members to disseminate findings and encourage capacity building. Funded for two years, it will collect data, develop capacity plans, and publish results to strengthen climate resilience.
Presentation Title: The Wisconsin-Citizen-based Monitoring Network: Integrating Social and Ecological Systems through the Principles of Ecosystem Management
Presenter: Owen Boyle, Citizen-based Monitoring Coordinator, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
The document proposes interventions and strategies to make critical infrastructure systems more resilient. It discusses making transportation systems like airports, roads, railways and waterways more resilient, as well as power, telecommunications, digital infrastructure, water supply, and health infrastructure. Some strategies proposed include improving standards and certification, risk identification and assessment, capacity building, innovation and emerging technologies, financing, and community-based and nature-based approaches. The overall aim is to strengthen implementation of global frameworks and improve coordination between stakeholders to enhance critical infrastructure resilience.
Presentation of Jessica Webb, Civil Society Specialist, Global Forest Watch, World Resource Institute. Delivered in the panel, titled "Addressing Extractive Challenge to Pursue Sustainable Development", organized by Publish What You Pay (PWYP) Indonesia in OGP Civil Society Day, OGP Global Summit on 27 October 2015 in Mexico.
Population aging is a global trend that is putting pressure on public expenditures for healthcare and long-term care. Many countries will see declining labor forces, requiring new strategies to maintain productivity. Data-driven innovation offers solutions to support independent smart living for older individuals, improve social connections, develop new models for health and care, and enable new work practices through remote monitoring. The panel discussion will address opportunities for using big data and analytics to meet needs of aging societies, what policies are required to promote data sharing, and what frameworks can maximize benefits and reduce risks.
The document discusses challenges with data scarcity in understanding disaster risk and proposes opening up and sharing risk data through innovative tools and partnerships. It notes the need to engage stakeholders to promote collaboration on analyzing hazards, vulnerability, exposure, and impacts in order to better understand, communicate, and manage disaster risks. Examples are given of collecting new data through non-traditional partnerships in locations like Haiti, Sri Lanka, and Kathmandu and sharing this data to model changing riskscapes and control risks through improved construction practices.
Promoting cross-boundary collaboration for ecosystem service management at la...Aberdeen CES
The document discusses encouraging collaboration across property boundaries to provide ecosystem services. It identifies several prerequisites for collaboration, including a shared perception of problems, a willingness to cooperate, opportunities to trial new approaches, and support for realigning public expenditures. The planning process involves stakeholder analysis, spatial planning, existing incentives, market drivers, budgets, ecosystem services trade-offs, and available technologies. Implementation requires good communication, capacity building, partnership groups to promote the scheme, and awareness raising through various means.
The document discusses best practices for sustainable agriculture and rural development (SARD). It outlines a conceptual framework that considers various factors like trade-offs between assets, driving forces like climate variability, and complexity across technical, sectoral and regional levels. It proposes a methodology for defining a system, identifying components, forces, linkages and characterizing processes. The methodology aims to integrate information systems and assess impacts to add effectiveness to existing work in supporting member countries.
ACCRA aims to increase the capacity of vulnerable communities in Ethiopia, Uganda, and Mozambique to adapt to climate change through evidence-based interventions. It will conduct research on how livelihoods are affected by climate variability, successful adaptive strategies, and gaps. ACCRA will work with governments and members to disseminate findings and encourage capacity building. Funded for two years, it will collect data, develop capacity plans, and publish results to strengthen climate resilience.
Presentation Title: The Wisconsin-Citizen-based Monitoring Network: Integrating Social and Ecological Systems through the Principles of Ecosystem Management
Presenter: Owen Boyle, Citizen-based Monitoring Coordinator, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
The document proposes interventions and strategies to make critical infrastructure systems more resilient. It discusses making transportation systems like airports, roads, railways and waterways more resilient, as well as power, telecommunications, digital infrastructure, water supply, and health infrastructure. Some strategies proposed include improving standards and certification, risk identification and assessment, capacity building, innovation and emerging technologies, financing, and community-based and nature-based approaches. The overall aim is to strengthen implementation of global frameworks and improve coordination between stakeholders to enhance critical infrastructure resilience.
Presentation of Jessica Webb, Civil Society Specialist, Global Forest Watch, World Resource Institute. Delivered in the panel, titled "Addressing Extractive Challenge to Pursue Sustainable Development", organized by Publish What You Pay (PWYP) Indonesia in OGP Civil Society Day, OGP Global Summit on 27 October 2015 in Mexico.
Population aging is a global trend that is putting pressure on public expenditures for healthcare and long-term care. Many countries will see declining labor forces, requiring new strategies to maintain productivity. Data-driven innovation offers solutions to support independent smart living for older individuals, improve social connections, develop new models for health and care, and enable new work practices through remote monitoring. The panel discussion will address opportunities for using big data and analytics to meet needs of aging societies, what policies are required to promote data sharing, and what frameworks can maximize benefits and reduce risks.
The document discusses challenges with data scarcity in understanding disaster risk and proposes opening up and sharing risk data through innovative tools and partnerships. It notes the need to engage stakeholders to promote collaboration on analyzing hazards, vulnerability, exposure, and impacts in order to better understand, communicate, and manage disaster risks. Examples are given of collecting new data through non-traditional partnerships in locations like Haiti, Sri Lanka, and Kathmandu and sharing this data to model changing riskscapes and control risks through improved construction practices.
Session 4 KE4CAP Pres1 bo dwyer-ke4_cap_canadaweADAPT
This document discusses user-oriented climate adaptation platforms and approaches to integrating user needs. It defines climate services as providing climate products or advice to assist decision-making. Traditionally, climate services took a top-down approach, but now focus on understanding user contexts and specifying requirements. Meeting user needs involves tailoring information, evolving user capacities over time, and adapting to evolving policy requirements. Key approaches discussed are web-based information provision, capacity building, and direct policy support.
EBM in the North Atlantic, we have concepts, mandates & tools, why not implem...Mark Dickey-Collas
A group of researchers from the US, Canada and the EU has reviewed ecosystem based management in the North Atlantic. The management of marine ecosystems is transitioning towards implementation of of ecosystem-based management, which offers a more systematic and integrated approach compared with conventional management. Ecosystem Based Management is informed by science and includes key elements such as connections and linkages between and within ecosystems, as well as with social and economic systems. We found a common understanding of concepts, sufficient mandates for action and sufficient tools for most components of EBM. So why is implemention so slow? This is explored and five key messages are delivered: • Ecosystem Based Management enables new benefits and opportunities; make the business case • Yes, we can!; adequate mandates and effective tools exist for Ecosystem Based Management • Integration of human dimensions is essential for Ecosystem Based Managment; diversify the conversation • Stakeholders don’t see their stake (in Ecosystem Based Management); engage and target ocean literacy to professionals • A sustainable future requires a sustained investment in Ecosystem Based Management; commitment is key
11 - U.S. UCAN - Advancing Gigabit ApplicationsUS-Ignite
The U.S. UCAN Program connects over 84,000 K-12 schools, 4,200 public libraries, and thousands of colleges, universities, and healthcare organizations to high-speed networks to test and develop applications that take advantage of gigabit speeds. The program works with developers to implement, monitor, evaluate, and promote new applications, providing guidance on instructions, intended benefits and audiences, and collecting feedback to demonstrate value, transform institutions, and facilitate collaboration across communities.
2012 09 ciard using information to power innovation (macs mexico)CIARD
This document discusses improving access to agricultural research outputs and technical documentation. It notes that currently many organizations invest little in communicating their research results and making publications accessible online. The CIARD initiative aims to address this by promoting open access policies, developing institutional capacities, and making data accessible through common standards and an online global registry of information services. The G20 and other international groups are supporting improved access to scholarly publications and documentation through various open access policies. CIARD provides a framework and tools to help organizations globally share information and take forward the goal of increased access to agricultural research outputs.
ACCRA aims to increase governments' and development actors' use of evidence in designing interventions that increase communities' capacity to adapt to climate change. It will conduct research and capacity building in Ethiopia, Uganda, and Mozambique. The research will examine how livelihoods are affected by climate variability and what projects are and are not doing to increase adaptive capacity. ACCRA will work closely with governments and members to disseminate findings and encourage evidence-based action.
Smart City Challenge calls - presentation by Steven Keen, Peter Brett Associates on behalf of the Thames Valley Berkshire, Smart City Cluster at the IoT Thames Valley Meetup on 8th May, 2019.
https://www.meetup.com/Internet-of-Things-Thames-Valley/
Community-Based Adaptation (CBA) implies a multi-stakeholders action, innovation and a process of social learning for adaptive livelihoods. Within this framework, communication plays a key role to facilitate knowledge sharing, participation and to enhance rural institutions capacities to assist small farmers to face climate change challenges.
CBA requires communication methods and tools to deal in an integrated manner with climate change issues, in order to:
• involve communities through participation and dialogue;
• discover with farmers appropriate technologies, livelihood options and sound economic practices;
• share knowledge through improved advisory services, such as Farmer and Climate Field Schools, demonstrations, field days etc.
Communication for Development (ComDev) is an approach promoted by FAO and other development agencies. It is central to CBA as it combines participatory communication methods and processes with a variety of media and tools, ranging from rural radio to Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs).
The FAO’s Communication for Sustainable Development Initiative (CSDI) is documenting and sharing good practices on the use of communication for CBA and it is piloting out strategies and services in selected pilot areas, namely: Congo, Jamaica, Bangladesh and Bolivia. These initiatives and other ongoing efforts and experiences will be shared and assessed in a working session at the conference come up with a common framework on communication for CBA.
Presented at the CAPRi/CCAFS research workshop on "Institutions for Inclusive Climate-Smart Agriculture". September, 2012, Nairobi, Kenya. For more information, visit http://www.capri.cgiar.org/wks_0912.asp
The document discusses encouraging open data across society. It outlines the top objectives of government open data strategies, including how open the data is by number of datasets released. It also discusses whether the right data is being released and if user needs are consulted. Initiatives to promote reuse of open government data and tracking the economic and social value of data reuse are examined. Questions are posed about how open data can contribute to economic growth, assessing demand for data, and the role of public-private partnerships in advancing open data.
Connectivity and co-development of climate services Fiona Percy
The document discusses co-developing climate services to build resilience to climate change. It argues that to be effective, climate information must be useful, usable, and developed with users so it increases their capacity to adapt. It presents a model for participatory climate services that engages farmers, pastoralists, and other vulnerable groups to collaboratively interpret forecasts and develop advisories. Key actors in the process include climate information providers, knowledge brokers who facilitate engagement between users and providers, and users themselves. The model aims to establish feedback loops so services continuously evolve to meet user needs.
The document discusses lessons learned from implementing HIV programs in a coordinated "One UN" approach. Key points include:
1) UN agencies in the country established a Joint UN Team on AIDS and coordination structures like a joint support plan to deliver efforts as "One UN".
2) Challenges included slow implementation of the joint support plan, lack of data for monitoring, and inability to reallocate surplus funds between agencies.
3) Examples of successful "One UN" initiatives are provided, along with structures that helped or hindered coordination and lessons learned.
The Centre for eCommerce and Communications (CeCC) focuses on understanding the impact of information and communication technologies (ICT) through collaborative research. It aims to transfer knowledge to others and promote broadband access and effective ICT use. CeCC partners with organizations across various industries and communities. It conducts initiatives such as supporting collaborative monitoring and introducing stakeholders to new technologies. CeCC also provides innovation research, content management systems, and takes a community building approach to its work.
ScienceScope provides mobile science learning resources and was part of a £3 million research project called "Participate" which aimed to demonstrate how new technologies can help people create and share digital content about the environment. The Participate consortium included BT, BBC, Blast Theory, Microsoft Research Cambridge, and universities, and involved trials in 2006 and 2007 with schools to develop and evaluate technology for participation and areas of study like atmospheric pollution and human physiology. Future plans included sharing data on the Participate website and using technologies like GPRS, Bluetooth, and sensors to integrate live data, images, and video.
Microgrids provide game-changing solutions for developed and developing electricity grids. They can be implemented in phases, starting with reducing demand and adding onsite generation and storage, and advancing to independent grid operation. Microgrids address energy poverty by providing reliable access for the 1.4 billion people living without electricity and 1 billion with unreliable access. The United Nations is working to achieve universal energy access by 2030 through initiatives like microgrid projects and solar trailers in Haiti. Microgrids benefit both developed and developing areas by improving reliability, integrating renewables and storage, enabling consumer participation, and improving quality of life, especially in disaster situations.
This presentation was given by Kate Hawkins, Institute of Development Studies, at a capacity building workshop on research communication in April 2008.
This document discusses scaling participatory scenario planning (PSP) for climate services in Africa. PSP involves multi-stakeholder forums where seasonal climate forecasts are shared and interpreted into local advisories. It has been piloted successfully in some counties. The document outlines phases for upscaling PSP to all 47 counties in a country. It discusses lead roles for different actors and challenges to scaling like maintaining quality and ensuring sustainable resources. Key success factors include multi-stakeholder linkages and developing ownership and evidence. Scaling requires capacity building, embedding in mainstream systems, and responsive innovation.
Today we hosted a small group of community members to discuss progress on the .org site and chart future directions.
At a high level we discussed:
* Review progress on site
* Contributors agreement
* Statistics on users
* Community member spotlight (Hartsel Bryant)
* Product demonstration (Pharmacy Pricing Engine)
* Future of the Community call
Collective Impact: The “New Normal” in the Greater Cincinnati Regiongcfdn
A presentation at the "Collective Impact in the Greater Cincinnati Community" event on September 24, 2012 hosted by The Greater Cincinnati Foundation and United Way of Greater Cincinnati
KE4CAP Session 4 - Pres5 e bilodeau-ke4_cap_canadaweADAPT
This document discusses a Canada's Virtual Knowledge Exchange Event from May 11th to 20th 2021 about fostering user-driven climate services. It outlines a 5-stage approach to addressing user needs: asking and listening to understand needs, recording and distilling key information, organizing and categorizing needs, prioritizing needs, and taking action to implement solutions. The document provides examples of methods used to understand user needs such as surveys, focus groups, and feedback at events. It also discusses challenges in distilling and categorizing the large amount of information collected from different sources to identify the most actionable user needs to focus on.
Plan s info session hea presentation g.irvinePeter Coles
In her introductory address, Dr. Gemma Irvine discussed the need to build upon the research system that has developed over the last 20 years and establish a better evidence base to showcase Ireland's strengths in research. She emphasized that every euro spent on research is an investment in Ireland's future. She then outlined some of the key issues to be addressed regarding pay-to-publish and open access models, new publishing deals, and bibliometric analysis tools, before thanking the audience.
The 2009 AMS Summer Community Meeting will be held from August 10-13 at the National Weather Center in Norman, Oklahoma. The meeting will explore implementing the recommendations of the 2009 NRC Report on a Nationwide Network of Networks to improve weather observation infrastructure. It will also discuss how the academic, government and private sectors can work together to better meet the needs of the growing renewable energy industry. A pre-meeting tour will provide attendees an opportunity to visit nearby organizations involved in weather research and applications.
Overview of the NRC Report on a Nationwide Network of Networks by Rit Carbone, Science Advisor and Senior Scientist in the Earth Observing Laboratory at the National Center for Atmospheric Research,
Boulder, Colorado; and Chair of the NRC Committee
Session 4 KE4CAP Pres1 bo dwyer-ke4_cap_canadaweADAPT
This document discusses user-oriented climate adaptation platforms and approaches to integrating user needs. It defines climate services as providing climate products or advice to assist decision-making. Traditionally, climate services took a top-down approach, but now focus on understanding user contexts and specifying requirements. Meeting user needs involves tailoring information, evolving user capacities over time, and adapting to evolving policy requirements. Key approaches discussed are web-based information provision, capacity building, and direct policy support.
EBM in the North Atlantic, we have concepts, mandates & tools, why not implem...Mark Dickey-Collas
A group of researchers from the US, Canada and the EU has reviewed ecosystem based management in the North Atlantic. The management of marine ecosystems is transitioning towards implementation of of ecosystem-based management, which offers a more systematic and integrated approach compared with conventional management. Ecosystem Based Management is informed by science and includes key elements such as connections and linkages between and within ecosystems, as well as with social and economic systems. We found a common understanding of concepts, sufficient mandates for action and sufficient tools for most components of EBM. So why is implemention so slow? This is explored and five key messages are delivered: • Ecosystem Based Management enables new benefits and opportunities; make the business case • Yes, we can!; adequate mandates and effective tools exist for Ecosystem Based Management • Integration of human dimensions is essential for Ecosystem Based Managment; diversify the conversation • Stakeholders don’t see their stake (in Ecosystem Based Management); engage and target ocean literacy to professionals • A sustainable future requires a sustained investment in Ecosystem Based Management; commitment is key
11 - U.S. UCAN - Advancing Gigabit ApplicationsUS-Ignite
The U.S. UCAN Program connects over 84,000 K-12 schools, 4,200 public libraries, and thousands of colleges, universities, and healthcare organizations to high-speed networks to test and develop applications that take advantage of gigabit speeds. The program works with developers to implement, monitor, evaluate, and promote new applications, providing guidance on instructions, intended benefits and audiences, and collecting feedback to demonstrate value, transform institutions, and facilitate collaboration across communities.
2012 09 ciard using information to power innovation (macs mexico)CIARD
This document discusses improving access to agricultural research outputs and technical documentation. It notes that currently many organizations invest little in communicating their research results and making publications accessible online. The CIARD initiative aims to address this by promoting open access policies, developing institutional capacities, and making data accessible through common standards and an online global registry of information services. The G20 and other international groups are supporting improved access to scholarly publications and documentation through various open access policies. CIARD provides a framework and tools to help organizations globally share information and take forward the goal of increased access to agricultural research outputs.
ACCRA aims to increase governments' and development actors' use of evidence in designing interventions that increase communities' capacity to adapt to climate change. It will conduct research and capacity building in Ethiopia, Uganda, and Mozambique. The research will examine how livelihoods are affected by climate variability and what projects are and are not doing to increase adaptive capacity. ACCRA will work closely with governments and members to disseminate findings and encourage evidence-based action.
Smart City Challenge calls - presentation by Steven Keen, Peter Brett Associates on behalf of the Thames Valley Berkshire, Smart City Cluster at the IoT Thames Valley Meetup on 8th May, 2019.
https://www.meetup.com/Internet-of-Things-Thames-Valley/
Community-Based Adaptation (CBA) implies a multi-stakeholders action, innovation and a process of social learning for adaptive livelihoods. Within this framework, communication plays a key role to facilitate knowledge sharing, participation and to enhance rural institutions capacities to assist small farmers to face climate change challenges.
CBA requires communication methods and tools to deal in an integrated manner with climate change issues, in order to:
• involve communities through participation and dialogue;
• discover with farmers appropriate technologies, livelihood options and sound economic practices;
• share knowledge through improved advisory services, such as Farmer and Climate Field Schools, demonstrations, field days etc.
Communication for Development (ComDev) is an approach promoted by FAO and other development agencies. It is central to CBA as it combines participatory communication methods and processes with a variety of media and tools, ranging from rural radio to Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs).
The FAO’s Communication for Sustainable Development Initiative (CSDI) is documenting and sharing good practices on the use of communication for CBA and it is piloting out strategies and services in selected pilot areas, namely: Congo, Jamaica, Bangladesh and Bolivia. These initiatives and other ongoing efforts and experiences will be shared and assessed in a working session at the conference come up with a common framework on communication for CBA.
Presented at the CAPRi/CCAFS research workshop on "Institutions for Inclusive Climate-Smart Agriculture". September, 2012, Nairobi, Kenya. For more information, visit http://www.capri.cgiar.org/wks_0912.asp
The document discusses encouraging open data across society. It outlines the top objectives of government open data strategies, including how open the data is by number of datasets released. It also discusses whether the right data is being released and if user needs are consulted. Initiatives to promote reuse of open government data and tracking the economic and social value of data reuse are examined. Questions are posed about how open data can contribute to economic growth, assessing demand for data, and the role of public-private partnerships in advancing open data.
Connectivity and co-development of climate services Fiona Percy
The document discusses co-developing climate services to build resilience to climate change. It argues that to be effective, climate information must be useful, usable, and developed with users so it increases their capacity to adapt. It presents a model for participatory climate services that engages farmers, pastoralists, and other vulnerable groups to collaboratively interpret forecasts and develop advisories. Key actors in the process include climate information providers, knowledge brokers who facilitate engagement between users and providers, and users themselves. The model aims to establish feedback loops so services continuously evolve to meet user needs.
The document discusses lessons learned from implementing HIV programs in a coordinated "One UN" approach. Key points include:
1) UN agencies in the country established a Joint UN Team on AIDS and coordination structures like a joint support plan to deliver efforts as "One UN".
2) Challenges included slow implementation of the joint support plan, lack of data for monitoring, and inability to reallocate surplus funds between agencies.
3) Examples of successful "One UN" initiatives are provided, along with structures that helped or hindered coordination and lessons learned.
The Centre for eCommerce and Communications (CeCC) focuses on understanding the impact of information and communication technologies (ICT) through collaborative research. It aims to transfer knowledge to others and promote broadband access and effective ICT use. CeCC partners with organizations across various industries and communities. It conducts initiatives such as supporting collaborative monitoring and introducing stakeholders to new technologies. CeCC also provides innovation research, content management systems, and takes a community building approach to its work.
ScienceScope provides mobile science learning resources and was part of a £3 million research project called "Participate" which aimed to demonstrate how new technologies can help people create and share digital content about the environment. The Participate consortium included BT, BBC, Blast Theory, Microsoft Research Cambridge, and universities, and involved trials in 2006 and 2007 with schools to develop and evaluate technology for participation and areas of study like atmospheric pollution and human physiology. Future plans included sharing data on the Participate website and using technologies like GPRS, Bluetooth, and sensors to integrate live data, images, and video.
Microgrids provide game-changing solutions for developed and developing electricity grids. They can be implemented in phases, starting with reducing demand and adding onsite generation and storage, and advancing to independent grid operation. Microgrids address energy poverty by providing reliable access for the 1.4 billion people living without electricity and 1 billion with unreliable access. The United Nations is working to achieve universal energy access by 2030 through initiatives like microgrid projects and solar trailers in Haiti. Microgrids benefit both developed and developing areas by improving reliability, integrating renewables and storage, enabling consumer participation, and improving quality of life, especially in disaster situations.
This presentation was given by Kate Hawkins, Institute of Development Studies, at a capacity building workshop on research communication in April 2008.
This document discusses scaling participatory scenario planning (PSP) for climate services in Africa. PSP involves multi-stakeholder forums where seasonal climate forecasts are shared and interpreted into local advisories. It has been piloted successfully in some counties. The document outlines phases for upscaling PSP to all 47 counties in a country. It discusses lead roles for different actors and challenges to scaling like maintaining quality and ensuring sustainable resources. Key success factors include multi-stakeholder linkages and developing ownership and evidence. Scaling requires capacity building, embedding in mainstream systems, and responsive innovation.
Today we hosted a small group of community members to discuss progress on the .org site and chart future directions.
At a high level we discussed:
* Review progress on site
* Contributors agreement
* Statistics on users
* Community member spotlight (Hartsel Bryant)
* Product demonstration (Pharmacy Pricing Engine)
* Future of the Community call
Collective Impact: The “New Normal” in the Greater Cincinnati Regiongcfdn
A presentation at the "Collective Impact in the Greater Cincinnati Community" event on September 24, 2012 hosted by The Greater Cincinnati Foundation and United Way of Greater Cincinnati
KE4CAP Session 4 - Pres5 e bilodeau-ke4_cap_canadaweADAPT
This document discusses a Canada's Virtual Knowledge Exchange Event from May 11th to 20th 2021 about fostering user-driven climate services. It outlines a 5-stage approach to addressing user needs: asking and listening to understand needs, recording and distilling key information, organizing and categorizing needs, prioritizing needs, and taking action to implement solutions. The document provides examples of methods used to understand user needs such as surveys, focus groups, and feedback at events. It also discusses challenges in distilling and categorizing the large amount of information collected from different sources to identify the most actionable user needs to focus on.
Plan s info session hea presentation g.irvinePeter Coles
In her introductory address, Dr. Gemma Irvine discussed the need to build upon the research system that has developed over the last 20 years and establish a better evidence base to showcase Ireland's strengths in research. She emphasized that every euro spent on research is an investment in Ireland's future. She then outlined some of the key issues to be addressed regarding pay-to-publish and open access models, new publishing deals, and bibliometric analysis tools, before thanking the audience.
The 2009 AMS Summer Community Meeting will be held from August 10-13 at the National Weather Center in Norman, Oklahoma. The meeting will explore implementing the recommendations of the 2009 NRC Report on a Nationwide Network of Networks to improve weather observation infrastructure. It will also discuss how the academic, government and private sectors can work together to better meet the needs of the growing renewable energy industry. A pre-meeting tour will provide attendees an opportunity to visit nearby organizations involved in weather research and applications.
Overview of the NRC Report on a Nationwide Network of Networks by Rit Carbone, Science Advisor and Senior Scientist in the Earth Observing Laboratory at the National Center for Atmospheric Research,
Boulder, Colorado; and Chair of the NRC Committee
The document discusses the Network of Networks (NoN) initiative and makes several key points:
1) NoN frames important issues around weather observation networks and partnerships between public, private, and academic sectors.
2) It proposes a "soft" model for collaboration among sectors and articulates the importance of stakeholder needs.
3) NoN recommends a model like the Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA) approach of developing and testing quasi-operational sensor networks to demonstrate benefits and transition to an operational capability.
Este documento describe los elementos principales de la pantalla de Excel. En 3 oraciones o menos:
La pantalla de Excel contiene barras como la de título, herramientas, opciones y fórmulas que permiten crear y editar hojas de cálculo. También incluye celdas donde se introduce datos, y barras de desplazamiento y etiquetas para moverse entre hojas y secciones. La barra de estado muestra el estado del documento y herramientas para acercar o alejar la vista.
This document summarizes upcoming CSS features like Box Alignment Level 3, CSS Grid Layout, CSS Shapes, CSS Feature Queries, and CSS Custom Properties. It explains what each feature does at a high level and provides example code snippets. The document also encourages developers to get involved by filing issues on browser bug trackers, requesting new features, and creating blog posts/demos to help drive adoption of these new CSS specifications.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
My books- Hacking Digital Learning Strategies http://hackingdls.com & Learning to Go https://gum.co/learn2go
Resources at http://shellyterrell.com/classmanagement
The reality for companies that are trying to figure out their blogging or content strategy is that there's a lot of content to write beyond just the "buy now" page.
Presentation from the workshop 'Informing and Enabling a Climate Resilient Ireland”' - held 23 March 2012. This event launched 2 EPA Climate Change Research Programme reports:
CCRP9 'Ireland adapts to Climate Change' and CCRP10 'Integrating Climate Change Adaptation into Sectoral Policies in Ireland'
Case study: Programme on Climate Information for Resilient Development in Afr...ExternalEvents
http://www.fao.org/in-action/naps/resources/webinars/en/
The NAP-Ag webinar on Climate Information Services in Adaptation Planning for Agriculture will provide insights into the role of Climate Information Services (CIS) in planning for adaptation in agricultural sectors. Country case studies and extended exploration of best practices will create a strong learning environment for country-to-country exchange on institutional arrangements, and gaps in Climate Information Services for the implementation and formulation of National Adaptation Plans. This webinar is a follow up to the March 2017 peer-to-peer exchange on “Effective Climate Information Services for Agriculture in ASEAN.”
Programme on Climate Information for Resilient Development in AfricaUNDP Climate
The NAP-Ag webinar on The Role of Climate Information Services in Adaptation Planning for Agriculture provided insights into the role of Climate Information Services (CIS) in planning for adaptation in agricultural sectors.
Climate Information for Resilient Development and Adaptation (CIRDA) and its ...NAP Events
Presentation by: Bonizella Biagini
4.1 Climate services in support of NAPs
This event will bring together experts involved in the provision of climate services and testimony from countries of how climate services are being used to support decision-making and effective adaptation. The event will start with brief statements, and will be followed by a panel discussion, where participants from the floor will have the opportunity to engage the panelists with questions or comments. The panel will demonstrate the practical benefits of climate services in support of climate risk management and adaptation to climate variability and change. It will also provide lessons learned through various activities being implemented at regional and national level.
Trasformative goals Water Pollutation New 2024.pptdwivedidilip1988
The Central Pollution Control Board held a webinar on its 46th foundation day to discuss its transformative goals for 2030. It aims to revamp its monitoring and analysis systems, take an airshed and watershed based action planning approach, strengthen capacity building through partnerships, drive research and innovation, and leverage information technology tools to improve environmental management. The goals are aimed at helping the organization address the growing complexities of pollution control in India by 2030.
This document discusses strategies for achieving large-scale watershed management. It outlines the challenges of reaching nutrient reduction goals across large areas. The authors propose a theory of change involving defining scalable watershed units and developing necessary elements like human capital, social capital, watershed policies, and financing. Specific proposals include establishing watershed coordinators, building social networks, aligning goals with science, and ensuring diverse and stable funding. The document argues this framework could help watershed efforts scale up practices to significantly improve water quality.
Data collaboratives: an assessment of new ways to use data for civic impact -...mysociety
This was presented by Andrew Young and Stefaan Verhulst from The GovLab @ NYU at the Impacts of Civic Technology Conference (TICTeC 2017) in Florence on 26th April. You can find out more information about the conference here: http://tictec.mysociety.org
The document discusses integrating air quality and pollution data from different sources using standards-based networking approaches. It describes the DataFed system, which allows non-intrusive integration of diverse data types from local, regional and global sources through web services and reusable components. The summary highlights that DataFed has been applied to EPA policy and science needs but more collaboration is still needed to fully connect heterogeneous data sources and enable new insights.
1) The document summarizes the achievements and progress of the SDC Climate Change and Environment Network from 2009-2010, including growing awareness of climate change issues, briefings and training events, and use of tools like the Climate and DRR Check.
2) It outlines challenges for 2011-2012, such as developing a network vision, increasing resources, and improving access to program information and learning from partner organizations and other networks.
3) It discusses the need to report on indicator-related results from programs funded by SDC's 0.5% climate fund and existing programs.
1) The document summarizes the achievements and progress of the SDC Climate Change and Environment Network from 2009-2010, including growing awareness of climate change issues, briefings and training events, and use of tools like the Climate and DRR Check.
2) It outlines challenges for 2011-2012, such as developing a network vision, increasing resources, and improving access to program information and learning from partner organizations and other networks.
3) It discusses the need to report on indicator-related results from programs funded by SDC's 0.5% climate fund and existing programs.
Using linked data and the semantic web - "powered by INSPIRE" conference pres...Alex Coley
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• Significantly advancing the digital literacy and knowledge management capabilities and capacity of partner organisations;
• Fostering, development and implementation of eResearch within academia and industry; and
• Measuring the impact of eResearch and digital innovation through longitudinal research.
CeRDI is also gaining national and international recognition in innovative spatial information systems.
This presentation showcases some of the diverse range of projects are that being supported through the team at CeRDI.
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OGC Testbed 11:
Delivering on our commitment to the Climate Data Initiative
In December 2014 the US White House Office of Science and Technology (OSTP) released a Policy Fact Sheet titled "Harnessing Climate Data to Boost Ecosystem & Water Resilience." The Fact Sheet includes OGC’s commitment to increase open access to climate change information using open standards. Testbed 11 results are now available delivering on that commitment.
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• Nine sponsors provided requirements and funding for Testbed 11.
• Thirty organizations participated in Testbed 11 by contributing prototypes, engineering
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• Analysis and prediction based on open climate data accessed using open standards
• Making predictive models more accessible with OGC Web Processing Service (WPS)
• Verifying model predictions using mobile operations, in-situ gauges and social media.
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1. National Weather Service
Strategic Plan 2010-2025
Jack Hayes
NOAA Assistant Administrator for Weather Services, and
National Weather Service Director
Norman, Oklahoma
August 10, 2009
2. Global & National Challenges
Impacts of climate change
Increased vulnerability to
weather, water, climate, and
other environmental hazards
Increased vulnerability to
solar activity
Large-scale impacts of
droughts, floods, chemical
makeup of oceans and rivers
3. NWS Vision
A safer, more informed and productive
society where environmental
knowledge empowers
the Nation to make
the best decisions
Services focused on impacts
Earth system forecasts
Data, information, and
knowledge
4. Key Outcomes for 2025
Loss of life, displacement from high impact events
reduced
NWS data and information contribute to a national
competitive advantage
Environmental data, prediction capabilities, and
decision support services integral components to:
Managing and sustaining healthy ecosystems and communities
Understanding and living with climate change
Minimizing risks to our national security
5. 2025: Decision Support
Providing the right information, at the right
time, to the right people
Key Objectives & Strategies
More accurate forecasts and increased lead
times for warnings
Watches, warnings and advisories that increase
responsiveness using social science
Direct, interpretive forecaster support
for .govs
Readily accessible, user-centric data
and information
Levels of uncertainty included in
forecasts and warnings
Partnership and collaboration an
integral component
6. 2025: Services
Broadening service areas to address global and
national challenges
Key Objectives & Strategies
High-impact weather
Space weather
Integrated water resources
Human health
Ecosystems
Climate
Transportation
Energy
7. 2025: Partnerships
Sharing assets, skills, and capabilities to meet
national needs
Key Objectives & Strategies
Use of new, innovative dissemination
and outreach methods
Coordinated environmental literacy
and weather safety campaigns
Increased focus on leveraging new
science and technology outside of NOAA
New tools and applications to link
environmental data and information
Proactive collaboration with private sector
8. 2025: Science & Technology
Exploiting state-of-the-art S&T to support
evolving services and information delivery
Key Objectives & Strategies
Expanded, integrated and more robust
observations
Integrated Earth system models
Next generation forecasting and decision
support system
Data integration and interoperability
AWIPS II…and beyond
Communication / collaboration tools –
onsite, offsite, virtually
9. 2025: Data & Information
Linking data and systems from all sources to
aid decision-making
Key Objectives & Strategies
Internet as cornerstone of operating model
Common standards to share and reuse data
Integrated and interoperable systems
Decision assistance tools
4-dimensional weather information database
Mesonets; WIGOS
Common operating pictures
among partners
10. Key Findings of
NRC Report on NoN
U.S. capabilities are uncoordinated
Overarching national strategy
needed
Build infrastructure for data exchange
Fill data gaps
Spatial
Temporal
Elements
11. Proposed NoN Enterprise
Approach
Build the “plumbing”
Metadata
Policies
IT capabilities
Data management
Communications
Services
Develop national standards/protocols
12. Proposed NoN Enterprise
Approach
Address Highest priority
observing gaps
Develop framework for National Mesonet
Height of PBL
Soil moisture & temperature profiles
High-resolution vertical
humidity profiles
Air quality measurements
Urban, coastal & mountainous
regions also priorities
13. Proposed NoN Enterprise
Approach
Collaborate with partners
OFCM…Committee for
Integrated Observing Systems
AMS Ad Hoc Working Group
on a Nationwide Observing
Network of Networks
14. NoN Challenges
Achieve Weather Enterprise consensus
Coordinating entity
Policy
Data standards
Protocols
Services
Overcome barriers limiting
participation—private,
academic, federal agencies
Proprietary restrictions
Complexity and competing interests
Resources