Kumi Naidoo: SDGs and Transformation in a Context of Institutional FailureFuture Earth
On 31 May, Rosemary Kalapurakal, Kumi Naidoo and Per Olsson hosted a discussion about the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and transformation. The discussion focused on the implications of transformation research for the implementation of the SDGs, particular SDG-17 – "Partnerships for the Goals" – the only goal that explicitly addresses how nations will meet these sustainability targets.
Wabash Heartland Innovation Network Presentation February 2019 Ed Morrison
The Wabash Heartland Innovation Network (WHIN: http://whin.org) is designing new networks to support the development and deployment of technologies for smart manufacturing and smart agriculture.
We have been working on new approaches to ecosystem development that can accelerate the development of WHIN, This presentation explains.
The concept of clusters has been around for nearly 30 years. However, not enough is known about how they form. Until now. The Purdue Agile Strategy Lab as focused on how to design and guide the conversations that lead to productive clusters. This article provides a summary.
This document discusses the influence of systems in today's world and their evolution. It notes that systems have provided processes to apply solutions to problems and have systematized the world. The digital age is driven by technology and has settled into our lives, creating new industries and words while also generating fears and hopes. Systems have made significant contributions to society through employment and skills development. Ultimately, systems should serve all people rather than dominate them.
This document discusses the future of technology and its impact on jobs and society. It explores scenarios around issues like self-driving cars, the sharing economy, and advancing technologies. The document emphasizes that we must thoughtfully navigate technological change to improve lives and cities. It also stresses the need to bring together disciplines like science, design, engineering and art to collectively imagine positive futures and guide current choices and policy.
It is one thing to use the term “ecosystems” as a metaphor. It is quite another to create a new visual language to help universities and their partners see them. That is what the Purdue Agile Strategy Lab has been working on over the last few years. In partnership with Fraunhofer IOA based in Stuttgart, Germany they’ve develop a set of visual frameworks that can be used and adapted in efforts related to innovation, entrepreneurship, technology transfer and a wide variety of economic development-related strategies.
Oklahoma City: Birthplace of Strategic Doing Ed Morrison
The document summarizes Brian Thompson's work developing and promoting the concept of Strategic Doing. It describes how Strategic Doing enables open, collaborative networks to quickly form action-oriented partnerships, work toward measurable goals, and make adjustments. Examples are given of how Strategic Doing has been used to transform regions, develop industry clusters like water technology in Milwaukee, and engage leaders and communities in problem solving. The document asserts that Strategic Doing provides an effective methodology for collaborative innovation, economic development, and achieving positive change.
Jumping the Curve in Workforce DevelopmentEd Morrison
Designing new approaches to workforce development requires us to think differently. We should stop trying to fix old systems that were never designed to work together. Instead, we need to take a different perspective and design what's next. Here's a start.
Kumi Naidoo: SDGs and Transformation in a Context of Institutional FailureFuture Earth
On 31 May, Rosemary Kalapurakal, Kumi Naidoo and Per Olsson hosted a discussion about the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and transformation. The discussion focused on the implications of transformation research for the implementation of the SDGs, particular SDG-17 – "Partnerships for the Goals" – the only goal that explicitly addresses how nations will meet these sustainability targets.
Wabash Heartland Innovation Network Presentation February 2019 Ed Morrison
The Wabash Heartland Innovation Network (WHIN: http://whin.org) is designing new networks to support the development and deployment of technologies for smart manufacturing and smart agriculture.
We have been working on new approaches to ecosystem development that can accelerate the development of WHIN, This presentation explains.
The concept of clusters has been around for nearly 30 years. However, not enough is known about how they form. Until now. The Purdue Agile Strategy Lab as focused on how to design and guide the conversations that lead to productive clusters. This article provides a summary.
This document discusses the influence of systems in today's world and their evolution. It notes that systems have provided processes to apply solutions to problems and have systematized the world. The digital age is driven by technology and has settled into our lives, creating new industries and words while also generating fears and hopes. Systems have made significant contributions to society through employment and skills development. Ultimately, systems should serve all people rather than dominate them.
This document discusses the future of technology and its impact on jobs and society. It explores scenarios around issues like self-driving cars, the sharing economy, and advancing technologies. The document emphasizes that we must thoughtfully navigate technological change to improve lives and cities. It also stresses the need to bring together disciplines like science, design, engineering and art to collectively imagine positive futures and guide current choices and policy.
It is one thing to use the term “ecosystems” as a metaphor. It is quite another to create a new visual language to help universities and their partners see them. That is what the Purdue Agile Strategy Lab has been working on over the last few years. In partnership with Fraunhofer IOA based in Stuttgart, Germany they’ve develop a set of visual frameworks that can be used and adapted in efforts related to innovation, entrepreneurship, technology transfer and a wide variety of economic development-related strategies.
Oklahoma City: Birthplace of Strategic Doing Ed Morrison
The document summarizes Brian Thompson's work developing and promoting the concept of Strategic Doing. It describes how Strategic Doing enables open, collaborative networks to quickly form action-oriented partnerships, work toward measurable goals, and make adjustments. Examples are given of how Strategic Doing has been used to transform regions, develop industry clusters like water technology in Milwaukee, and engage leaders and communities in problem solving. The document asserts that Strategic Doing provides an effective methodology for collaborative innovation, economic development, and achieving positive change.
Jumping the Curve in Workforce DevelopmentEd Morrison
Designing new approaches to workforce development requires us to think differently. We should stop trying to fix old systems that were never designed to work together. Instead, we need to take a different perspective and design what's next. Here's a start.
Innovation, Sustainabiity, Development: A New Manifesto was launched at the Royal Society in London on 15 June 2010. This presentation opened the event, given by STEPS Centre director Melissa Leach and Manifesto project convenor Adrian Ely. For more information about the project see: http://anewmanifesto.org/
The World in 2025 - Future Agenda (2016)Future Agenda
What are the big issues for next decade? The World in 2025 is the full synthesis of insights from the second Future Agenda programme undertaken in 2016. From 120 discussions with thousands of informed people in 45 cities across 35 countries, we gained over 800 insights on the next decade. From these we identified and detailed over 60 key areas of change - those are all shared feely on the future agenda website (www.futureagenda.org).
This document brings all of these insights together in a single pdf for you to use. It is a free book shared under the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 licence. We hope that you find it a useful view of how people around the world see change occurring over the next decade.
PLEASE NOTE: This book is also available at cost for local digital printing via Amazon and Create Space
https://www.amazon.co.uk/World-2025-Insights-Future-Agenda/dp/0993255426
https://www.amazon.com/World-2025-Insights-Future-Agenda/dp/0993255426
https://www.createspace.com/6656252
By 2025, everything that can benefit from an internet connection likely will have one. There will be over 50 billion SIM cards in use, connecting over 50 devices per capita globally on average. Most of the 50 billion connected devices will be machines and sensors, generating unprecedented amounts of data. While this connectivity enables many opportunities, it also risks security and privacy issues if all connected devices are not sufficiently protected.
This document reviews different models of the innovation process. It begins by discussing early linear models and their limitations in capturing the complex, interactive nature of innovation. More recent dynamic models view innovation as involving networks of actors and sources. These models reveal issues with partial views of innovation that focus only on certain stages or aspects. The document also discusses sources of discontinuity that can change the "rules of the game" and open new opportunities, challenging existing players. It provides examples like new technologies, markets, regulations, and business models that can trigger discontinuities.
STEPS methods #2: Wider context in governance, politics and institutionsSTEPS Centre
This document discusses wider contexts in governance, politics, and institutions related to managing risk and opening up innovation politics. It notes that current approaches tend to privilege single best or optimal decisions based on narrow inputs and analyses, potentially leading to technological lock-in. It advocates for more plural, democratic approaches acknowledging uncertainties and diverse stakeholders, using methods that appreciate alternative pathways, understandings, and judgments rather than privileging any one vision. The STEPS methodology aims to use a repertoire of conditional methods prioritizing various factors to enable reflection on marginal interests and alternatives.
Stephen Frost provides a brilliant, if somewhat long and repetitive, the case for a new approach to diversity and inclusion (D&I). Stop creating a separate, expensive, and often annoying parallel organizational process. Instead, weave diversity and inclusion into your business plan so it aligns with and supports your business objectives. Instead of compliance and policing quotas, use evidence to convince your colleagues that diversity and inclusion are the correct values to carry out and the best course for your business.
Adrian Ely - Manifesto - Reflections on an (ongoing) experiment in the politi...STEPS Centre
Presentation at the STEPS Conference 2010 - Pathways to Sustainability: Agendas for a new politics of environment, development and social justice
http://www.steps-centre.org/events/stepsconference2010.html
Good Tech Lab explores the frontiers of technology, entrepreneurship and venture finance, where pioneers tackle the world's biggest problems. This slidedeck presents our inaugural research, leading up to a final report published in september 2018. If you like it, get in touch with us!
The document summarizes key points from a seminar on participation in the era of digital innovation. It discusses the difference between invention and innovation, the innovation cycle, types of innovation including open innovation, emerging technologies, citizen participation typologies using Arnstein's ladder, the wisdom of crowds concept, and participation in practice including political and social innovation. The seminar included exercises linking emerging technologies to levels of participation and examples of innovation tools.
Sustainable development is the greatest challenge of our time. It brings together a number of global problems—pollution and intoxication of the space in which we live; poverty and starvation; climate change; depletion of mineral and organic
resources; ecological devastation; and global inequity
This document discusses communications strategies to improve air quality. It suggests that communications can: 1) inform urban design decisions and achieve behavior change among polluters; 2) increase health professionals' awareness; and 3) alert people to peak pollution times/areas and underpin new programs. Key barriers include invisible pollutants, public perceptions that others are responsible, and behavior change challenges. Other factors to consider are a city's brand, framing justice issues, private sector roles, and empowering public agency. The document analyzes audiences like local authorities and at-risk communities to design iconic actions and creative campaigns that move people through stages like awareness to action.
This document provides an introduction to "The Open Book of Social Innovation", which maps out hundreds of methods for social innovation being used around the world. It describes social innovation as new ideas that meet social needs and create new social relationships. The context for social innovation is explained as traditional government and market solutions proving inadequate for problems like climate change and health epidemics. An emerging social economy is outlined that blurs production and consumption boundaries and emphasizes collaboration over one-off transactions. The book aims to support those involved in social innovation by documenting different methods.
Analysing and Understanding Seed R&D Policy Processes in Africafutureagricultures
This document discusses seed research and development pathways and policy processes in Africa. It begins by introducing the Future Agricultures Consortium, which focuses on agricultural policy processes. It then discusses how innovation pathways can be opened up and broadened to consider more alternatives. The rest of the document analyzes how seed policies are shaped by narratives, actors/networks, and political interests. It provides frameworks for understanding policy processes and presents country case studies examining the political economy of seed systems. The key messages are that seed policy must be understood as a political process, and opening up policy spaces and narratives can help nurture diverse seed innovation pathways.
This document discusses the need for responsible research and innovation (RRI) to address societal challenges. RRI aims to align research and innovation with societal values and expectations by encouraging inclusion of various stakeholders such as policymakers, civil society, businesses, and educators. It also aims to ensure research considers issues like ethics, gender equality, governance, public engagement, and open access. The document outlines six key policies to implement RRI: ethics, gender equality, governance, public engagement, science education, and open access. It provides resources for learning about RRI projects, practices, tools, and policies to help foster more responsible and inclusive research.
1) The document discusses the concept of "innovative responsibility", which is defined as accounting for the potential effects and impacts of innovation on society and the environment throughout the innovation process.
2) It argues that failures to consider innovative responsibility, like in the 2008 mortgage crisis, can have severe consequences, and that individuals and institutions all have an obligation to ensure innovative responsibility.
3) The conclusion states that innovative responsibility should be considered as important as issues like climate change and terrorism, and practicing it can help eliminate potential catastrophes while improving system resilience and sustainability.
There has been over five decades of research into scaling with impact. However, this research has rarely been absorbed into the practice of spreading and diffusing innovative ideas, services and processes in both local and national health systems. Most of the scaling plans we see today are actually based on a set of assumptions, or myths
Riel Miller educacao a distancia sociedade da informação
Connecting Research and Policy in the Digital Economy: Possibility Space Scenarios & 21st Century Transitions
As transformações oportunizadas pelo século XXI
João Jose Saraiva da Fonseca
http://joaojosefonseca1.blogspot.com/
Alternative Narratives on Economic Growth: Prototyping Change at the System L...Kimberley Peter
This presentation was given at the Relating Systems Thinking and Design Symposium (RSD7), Turin, Italy, in 2018.
Abstract: Increasing inequality, rising social unrest, and climate change suggest new approaches to economic growth are needed. This project asked “How might reframing growth enable change to a more desirable alternative?” and used two primary approaches in the process of discovery. Causal Layered Analysis was used to understand the causes, processes, and outcomes of economic growth and alternatives to it. Three narratives were analyzed comparatively including the current growth-first narrative, an emergent participation narrative, and a speculative freedom narrative. Outputs from this analysis were used to reframe the economy and create an accessible and participatory role-play experience for stakeholders to explore how change might happen. Responses to the role play experience show how powerful a participatory approach can be and provide insight into engaging diverse stakeholders as participants in the future of the economy not just as receivers of economic policy. Proposals are presented based on candidate strategies generated through role play.
Download the conference paper at https://systemic-design.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/RSD7-proceedings_web.pdf (page 60-78), and the full research paper from the OCAD Open Research Repository at https://tinyurl.com/1f06bt4e
Promoting collaborative RD networks in morocco some elements for thoughtIlyas Azzioui
this presentation highlights some aspects related to innovation systems in development countries, dominant values and some prevalent misconceptions that should be taken into consideration when building a collaborative R&D Network in a developing country like Morocco.
This document outlines a variety of methods that can be used to scope issues broadly, focus on particularities in depth, and link relations and perspectives across contexts. It provides a repertoire of methods that can help appreciate alternative pathways, including interpretive, interactive, and group deliberative styles as well as techniques like critical literature reviews, in-depth case studies, discourse analysis, and participatory approaches.
Innovation, Sustainabiity, Development: A New Manifesto was launched at the Royal Society in London on 15 June 2010. This presentation opened the event, given by STEPS Centre director Melissa Leach and Manifesto project convenor Adrian Ely. For more information about the project see: http://anewmanifesto.org/
The World in 2025 - Future Agenda (2016)Future Agenda
What are the big issues for next decade? The World in 2025 is the full synthesis of insights from the second Future Agenda programme undertaken in 2016. From 120 discussions with thousands of informed people in 45 cities across 35 countries, we gained over 800 insights on the next decade. From these we identified and detailed over 60 key areas of change - those are all shared feely on the future agenda website (www.futureagenda.org).
This document brings all of these insights together in a single pdf for you to use. It is a free book shared under the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 licence. We hope that you find it a useful view of how people around the world see change occurring over the next decade.
PLEASE NOTE: This book is also available at cost for local digital printing via Amazon and Create Space
https://www.amazon.co.uk/World-2025-Insights-Future-Agenda/dp/0993255426
https://www.amazon.com/World-2025-Insights-Future-Agenda/dp/0993255426
https://www.createspace.com/6656252
By 2025, everything that can benefit from an internet connection likely will have one. There will be over 50 billion SIM cards in use, connecting over 50 devices per capita globally on average. Most of the 50 billion connected devices will be machines and sensors, generating unprecedented amounts of data. While this connectivity enables many opportunities, it also risks security and privacy issues if all connected devices are not sufficiently protected.
This document reviews different models of the innovation process. It begins by discussing early linear models and their limitations in capturing the complex, interactive nature of innovation. More recent dynamic models view innovation as involving networks of actors and sources. These models reveal issues with partial views of innovation that focus only on certain stages or aspects. The document also discusses sources of discontinuity that can change the "rules of the game" and open new opportunities, challenging existing players. It provides examples like new technologies, markets, regulations, and business models that can trigger discontinuities.
STEPS methods #2: Wider context in governance, politics and institutionsSTEPS Centre
This document discusses wider contexts in governance, politics, and institutions related to managing risk and opening up innovation politics. It notes that current approaches tend to privilege single best or optimal decisions based on narrow inputs and analyses, potentially leading to technological lock-in. It advocates for more plural, democratic approaches acknowledging uncertainties and diverse stakeholders, using methods that appreciate alternative pathways, understandings, and judgments rather than privileging any one vision. The STEPS methodology aims to use a repertoire of conditional methods prioritizing various factors to enable reflection on marginal interests and alternatives.
Stephen Frost provides a brilliant, if somewhat long and repetitive, the case for a new approach to diversity and inclusion (D&I). Stop creating a separate, expensive, and often annoying parallel organizational process. Instead, weave diversity and inclusion into your business plan so it aligns with and supports your business objectives. Instead of compliance and policing quotas, use evidence to convince your colleagues that diversity and inclusion are the correct values to carry out and the best course for your business.
Adrian Ely - Manifesto - Reflections on an (ongoing) experiment in the politi...STEPS Centre
Presentation at the STEPS Conference 2010 - Pathways to Sustainability: Agendas for a new politics of environment, development and social justice
http://www.steps-centre.org/events/stepsconference2010.html
Good Tech Lab explores the frontiers of technology, entrepreneurship and venture finance, where pioneers tackle the world's biggest problems. This slidedeck presents our inaugural research, leading up to a final report published in september 2018. If you like it, get in touch with us!
The document summarizes key points from a seminar on participation in the era of digital innovation. It discusses the difference between invention and innovation, the innovation cycle, types of innovation including open innovation, emerging technologies, citizen participation typologies using Arnstein's ladder, the wisdom of crowds concept, and participation in practice including political and social innovation. The seminar included exercises linking emerging technologies to levels of participation and examples of innovation tools.
Sustainable development is the greatest challenge of our time. It brings together a number of global problems—pollution and intoxication of the space in which we live; poverty and starvation; climate change; depletion of mineral and organic
resources; ecological devastation; and global inequity
This document discusses communications strategies to improve air quality. It suggests that communications can: 1) inform urban design decisions and achieve behavior change among polluters; 2) increase health professionals' awareness; and 3) alert people to peak pollution times/areas and underpin new programs. Key barriers include invisible pollutants, public perceptions that others are responsible, and behavior change challenges. Other factors to consider are a city's brand, framing justice issues, private sector roles, and empowering public agency. The document analyzes audiences like local authorities and at-risk communities to design iconic actions and creative campaigns that move people through stages like awareness to action.
This document provides an introduction to "The Open Book of Social Innovation", which maps out hundreds of methods for social innovation being used around the world. It describes social innovation as new ideas that meet social needs and create new social relationships. The context for social innovation is explained as traditional government and market solutions proving inadequate for problems like climate change and health epidemics. An emerging social economy is outlined that blurs production and consumption boundaries and emphasizes collaboration over one-off transactions. The book aims to support those involved in social innovation by documenting different methods.
Analysing and Understanding Seed R&D Policy Processes in Africafutureagricultures
This document discusses seed research and development pathways and policy processes in Africa. It begins by introducing the Future Agricultures Consortium, which focuses on agricultural policy processes. It then discusses how innovation pathways can be opened up and broadened to consider more alternatives. The rest of the document analyzes how seed policies are shaped by narratives, actors/networks, and political interests. It provides frameworks for understanding policy processes and presents country case studies examining the political economy of seed systems. The key messages are that seed policy must be understood as a political process, and opening up policy spaces and narratives can help nurture diverse seed innovation pathways.
This document discusses the need for responsible research and innovation (RRI) to address societal challenges. RRI aims to align research and innovation with societal values and expectations by encouraging inclusion of various stakeholders such as policymakers, civil society, businesses, and educators. It also aims to ensure research considers issues like ethics, gender equality, governance, public engagement, and open access. The document outlines six key policies to implement RRI: ethics, gender equality, governance, public engagement, science education, and open access. It provides resources for learning about RRI projects, practices, tools, and policies to help foster more responsible and inclusive research.
1) The document discusses the concept of "innovative responsibility", which is defined as accounting for the potential effects and impacts of innovation on society and the environment throughout the innovation process.
2) It argues that failures to consider innovative responsibility, like in the 2008 mortgage crisis, can have severe consequences, and that individuals and institutions all have an obligation to ensure innovative responsibility.
3) The conclusion states that innovative responsibility should be considered as important as issues like climate change and terrorism, and practicing it can help eliminate potential catastrophes while improving system resilience and sustainability.
There has been over five decades of research into scaling with impact. However, this research has rarely been absorbed into the practice of spreading and diffusing innovative ideas, services and processes in both local and national health systems. Most of the scaling plans we see today are actually based on a set of assumptions, or myths
Riel Miller educacao a distancia sociedade da informação
Connecting Research and Policy in the Digital Economy: Possibility Space Scenarios & 21st Century Transitions
As transformações oportunizadas pelo século XXI
João Jose Saraiva da Fonseca
http://joaojosefonseca1.blogspot.com/
Alternative Narratives on Economic Growth: Prototyping Change at the System L...Kimberley Peter
This presentation was given at the Relating Systems Thinking and Design Symposium (RSD7), Turin, Italy, in 2018.
Abstract: Increasing inequality, rising social unrest, and climate change suggest new approaches to economic growth are needed. This project asked “How might reframing growth enable change to a more desirable alternative?” and used two primary approaches in the process of discovery. Causal Layered Analysis was used to understand the causes, processes, and outcomes of economic growth and alternatives to it. Three narratives were analyzed comparatively including the current growth-first narrative, an emergent participation narrative, and a speculative freedom narrative. Outputs from this analysis were used to reframe the economy and create an accessible and participatory role-play experience for stakeholders to explore how change might happen. Responses to the role play experience show how powerful a participatory approach can be and provide insight into engaging diverse stakeholders as participants in the future of the economy not just as receivers of economic policy. Proposals are presented based on candidate strategies generated through role play.
Download the conference paper at https://systemic-design.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/RSD7-proceedings_web.pdf (page 60-78), and the full research paper from the OCAD Open Research Repository at https://tinyurl.com/1f06bt4e
Promoting collaborative RD networks in morocco some elements for thoughtIlyas Azzioui
this presentation highlights some aspects related to innovation systems in development countries, dominant values and some prevalent misconceptions that should be taken into consideration when building a collaborative R&D Network in a developing country like Morocco.
Similar to Andy Stirling: Steering Directions for Emerging Technologies - beyond “risk, trust and public engagement” (20)
This document outlines a variety of methods that can be used to scope issues broadly, focus on particularities in depth, and link relations and perspectives across contexts. It provides a repertoire of methods that can help appreciate alternative pathways, including interpretive, interactive, and group deliberative styles as well as techniques like critical literature reviews, in-depth case studies, discourse analysis, and participatory approaches.
Coloniality in Transformation: decolonising methods for activist scholarship ...STEPS Centre
Presentation by Andy Stirling to 2021 Transformations to Sustainability conference session on '‘Philosophical Underpinnings’ in decolonizing research methods for transformation towards sustainability', 17th June 2021
Opening up the politics of justification in maths for policy: power and uncer...STEPS Centre
Presentation by Andy Stirling to conference of INET in collaboration with OECD on ‘Forecasting the Future for Sustainable Development: approaches to modelling and the science of prediction’. 16th June 2021
Discussion: The Future of the World is Mobile - Giorgia GiovannettiSTEPS Centre
By Giorgia Giovannetti, University of Firenze and Robert Schuman Centre, EUI. Given at EUI on 10 April 2019.
https://steps-centre.org/event/the-future-of-the-world-is-mobile-what-can-we-learn-from-pastoralists/
Interfacing pastoral movements and modern mobilitiesSTEPS Centre
By Michele Nori, PASTRES (Pastoralism, Uncertainty, Resilience) project. Given at EUI on 10 April 2019.
https://steps-centre.org/event/the-future-of-the-world-is-mobile-what-can-we-learn-from-pastoralists/
Reconceiving migration through the study of pastoral mobilitySTEPS Centre
By Natasha Maru, PASTRES (Pastoralism, Uncertainty, Resilience) project. Given at EUI on 10 April 2019.
https://steps-centre.org/event/the-future-of-the-world-is-mobile-what-can-we-learn-from-pastoralists/
Bringing moral economy into the study of land deals: reflections from MadagascarSTEPS Centre
19 March 2019, Institute of Development Studies
Seminar organised by the Resource Politics and Rural Futures Clusters, in association with the STEPS Centre’s PASTRES project
Speaker: Mathilde Gingembre
https://steps-centre.org/event/steps-seminar-mathilde-gingembre-bringing-moral-economy-into-the-study-of-land-deals-reflections-from-madagascar/
Agency and social-ecological system (SES) pathways: the Transformation Lab in...STEPS Centre
Presentation by J. Mario Siqueiros, February 2019, at a STEPS Seminar at the Institute of Development Studies.
More information: https://steps-centre.org/project/pathways-network/
From controlled transition to caring transformations - StirlingSTEPS Centre
This document discusses the differences between "controlling transitions" and "caring transformations" when addressing issues like climate change. It argues that ideas of control are part of the problem and that controlled transition does not equal real transformation. Caring for transformation instead of control could mean culturing transformation through myriad grassroots actions that challenge power and are driven by solidarity, values and hope rather than singular theories and top-down control. True transformation is shaped by unruly diversity rather than imposed order and expertise.
Systems, change and growth - Huff and BrockSTEPS Centre
Presentation from week 1 of the System Change HIVE that outlines big ideas about the environment and some criticisms of capitalism.
http://systemchangehive.org/
STEPS Annual Lecture 2017: Achim Steiner - Doomed to fail or bound to succeed...STEPS Centre
Achim Steiner, incoming UNDP director, gave the STEPS Annual lecture at the University of Sussex on 15 May 2017. Find out more: https://steps-centre.org/event/steps-annual-lecture-achim-steiner/
Andy Stirling - nexus methods (RGS 2016)STEPS Centre
This document discusses the concept of "nexus thinking" across multiple domains and topics. It makes several key points:
1) Nexus thinking spans across different silos and considers connections between domains like food, water, energy, climate, and development.
2) Framing of nexus issues applies at every level and transcends place, space, and scale. Different framings lead to different understandings and potential solutions.
3) Nexus thinking recognizes the entanglement of objective conditions and subjective actors, and highlights the role of power and politics in knowledge production.
Andy Stirling - STEPS Centre 'Pathways Methods'STEPS Centre
The document outlines the STEPS Centre 'Pathways Methods' for helping appreciate alternative pathways. It summarizes the methods as follows:
1. The methods aim to catalyze more open political space by broadening out discussions beyond incumbent 'pro-innovation' views and opening up consideration of marginalized interests and alternative pathways.
2. The methodology involves engaging actors, exploring narratives, characterizing dynamics, and revealing strategies through a repertoire of participatory and deliberative methods.
3. A case study applying these methods in Kenya found surprising optimism for alternative crops but farmer preference for local maize varieties, showing how the methods can surface plural perspectives on pathways.
This document provides an overview of a presentation given by Andy Stirling on 'Nexus Methods' at the ESRC Methods Festival. It discusses the complex and interconnected nature of issues related to the food-water-energy nexus. It notes that while there are many quantitative and qualitative methods that can be applied to nexus issues, they all involve subjective framings and no single method can capture the full complexity. The presentation advocates a reflexive approach that acknowledges the conditional nature of knowledge and assessment in this domain.
Suresh Rohilla - Climate change and sanitation, water resourcesSTEPS Centre
Workshop on climate change and uncertainty from below and above, Delhi. http://steps-centre.org/2016/blog/climate-change-and-uncertainty-from-above-and-below/
Suraje Dessai - Uncertainty from above and encounters in the middleSTEPS Centre
Workshop on climate change and uncertainty from below and above, Delhi. http://steps-centre.org/2016/blog/climate-change-and-uncertainty-from-above-and-below/
Sumetee Pahwa Gajjar - Uncertainty from withinSTEPS Centre
Workshop on climate change and uncertainty from below and above, Delhi. http://steps-centre.org/2016/blog/climate-change-and-uncertainty-from-above-and-below/
Shibaji Bose - Voices from below - a Photo Voice exploration in Indian sundar...STEPS Centre
Workshop on climate change and uncertainty from below and above, Delhi. http://steps-centre.org/2016/blog/climate-change-and-uncertainty-from-above-and-below/
Cosa hanno in comune un mattoncino Lego e la backdoor XZ?Speck&Tech
ABSTRACT: A prima vista, un mattoncino Lego e la backdoor XZ potrebbero avere in comune il fatto di essere entrambi blocchi di costruzione, o dipendenze di progetti creativi e software. La realtà è che un mattoncino Lego e il caso della backdoor XZ hanno molto di più di tutto ciò in comune.
Partecipate alla presentazione per immergervi in una storia di interoperabilità, standard e formati aperti, per poi discutere del ruolo importante che i contributori hanno in una comunità open source sostenibile.
BIO: Sostenitrice del software libero e dei formati standard e aperti. È stata un membro attivo dei progetti Fedora e openSUSE e ha co-fondato l'Associazione LibreItalia dove è stata coinvolta in diversi eventi, migrazioni e formazione relativi a LibreOffice. In precedenza ha lavorato a migrazioni e corsi di formazione su LibreOffice per diverse amministrazioni pubbliche e privati. Da gennaio 2020 lavora in SUSE come Software Release Engineer per Uyuni e SUSE Manager e quando non segue la sua passione per i computer e per Geeko coltiva la sua curiosità per l'astronomia (da cui deriva il suo nickname deneb_alpha).
Digital Marketing Trends in 2024 | Guide for Staying AheadWask
https://www.wask.co/ebooks/digital-marketing-trends-in-2024
Feeling lost in the digital marketing whirlwind of 2024? Technology is changing, consumer habits are evolving, and staying ahead of the curve feels like a never-ending pursuit. This e-book is your compass. Dive into actionable insights to handle the complexities of modern marketing. From hyper-personalization to the power of user-generated content, learn how to build long-term relationships with your audience and unlock the secrets to success in the ever-shifting digital landscape.
Let's Integrate MuleSoft RPA, COMPOSER, APM with AWS IDP along with Slackshyamraj55
Discover the seamless integration of RPA (Robotic Process Automation), COMPOSER, and APM with AWS IDP enhanced with Slack notifications. Explore how these technologies converge to streamline workflows, optimize performance, and ensure secure access, all while leveraging the power of AWS IDP and real-time communication via Slack notifications.
Monitoring and Managing Anomaly Detection on OpenShift.pdfTosin Akinosho
Monitoring and Managing Anomaly Detection on OpenShift
Overview
Dive into the world of anomaly detection on edge devices with our comprehensive hands-on tutorial. This SlideShare presentation will guide you through the entire process, from data collection and model training to edge deployment and real-time monitoring. Perfect for those looking to implement robust anomaly detection systems on resource-constrained IoT/edge devices.
Key Topics Covered
1. Introduction to Anomaly Detection
- Understand the fundamentals of anomaly detection and its importance in identifying unusual behavior or failures in systems.
2. Understanding Edge (IoT)
- Learn about edge computing and IoT, and how they enable real-time data processing and decision-making at the source.
3. What is ArgoCD?
- Discover ArgoCD, a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes, and its role in deploying applications on edge devices.
4. Deployment Using ArgoCD for Edge Devices
- Step-by-step guide on deploying anomaly detection models on edge devices using ArgoCD.
5. Introduction to Apache Kafka and S3
- Explore Apache Kafka for real-time data streaming and Amazon S3 for scalable storage solutions.
6. Viewing Kafka Messages in the Data Lake
- Learn how to view and analyze Kafka messages stored in a data lake for better insights.
7. What is Prometheus?
- Get to know Prometheus, an open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit, and its application in monitoring edge devices.
8. Monitoring Application Metrics with Prometheus
- Detailed instructions on setting up Prometheus to monitor the performance and health of your anomaly detection system.
9. What is Camel K?
- Introduction to Camel K, a lightweight integration framework built on Apache Camel, designed for Kubernetes.
10. Configuring Camel K Integrations for Data Pipelines
- Learn how to configure Camel K for seamless data pipeline integrations in your anomaly detection workflow.
11. What is a Jupyter Notebook?
- Overview of Jupyter Notebooks, an open-source web application for creating and sharing documents with live code, equations, visualizations, and narrative text.
12. Jupyter Notebooks with Code Examples
- Hands-on examples and code snippets in Jupyter Notebooks to help you implement and test anomaly detection models.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 6DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 6. In this session, we will cover Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI webinar offers an in-depth exploration of leveraging cutting-edge technologies for test automation within the UiPath platform. Attendees will delve into the integration of generative AI, a test automation solution, with Open AI advanced natural language processing capabilities.
Throughout the session, participants will discover how this synergy empowers testers to automate repetitive tasks, enhance testing accuracy, and expedite the software testing life cycle. Topics covered include the seamless integration process, practical use cases, and the benefits of harnessing AI-driven automation for UiPath testing initiatives. By attending this webinar, testers, and automation professionals can gain valuable insights into harnessing the power of AI to optimize their test automation workflows within the UiPath ecosystem, ultimately driving efficiency and quality in software development processes.
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into integrating generative AI.
2. Understanding how this integration enhances test automation within the UiPath platform
3. Practical demonstrations
4. Exploration of real-world use cases illustrating the benefits of AI-driven test automation for UiPath
Topics covered:
What is generative AI
Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath integration with generative AI
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Unlock the Future of Search with MongoDB Atlas_ Vector Search Unleashed.pdfMalak Abu Hammad
Discover how MongoDB Atlas and vector search technology can revolutionize your application's search capabilities. This comprehensive presentation covers:
* What is Vector Search?
* Importance and benefits of vector search
* Practical use cases across various industries
* Step-by-step implementation guide
* Live demos with code snippets
* Enhancing LLM capabilities with vector search
* Best practices and optimization strategies
Perfect for developers, AI enthusiasts, and tech leaders. Learn how to leverage MongoDB Atlas to deliver highly relevant, context-aware search results, transforming your data retrieval process. Stay ahead in tech innovation and maximize the potential of your applications.
#MongoDB #VectorSearch #AI #SemanticSearch #TechInnovation #DataScience #LLM #MachineLearning #SearchTechnology
For the full video of this presentation, please visit: https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2024/06/building-and-scaling-ai-applications-with-the-nx-ai-manager-a-presentation-from-network-optix/
Robin van Emden, Senior Director of Data Science at Network Optix, presents the “Building and Scaling AI Applications with the Nx AI Manager,” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit.
In this presentation, van Emden covers the basics of scaling edge AI solutions using the Nx tool kit. He emphasizes the process of developing AI models and deploying them globally. He also showcases the conversion of AI models and the creation of effective edge AI pipelines, with a focus on pre-processing, model conversion, selecting the appropriate inference engine for the target hardware and post-processing.
van Emden shows how Nx can simplify the developer’s life and facilitate a rapid transition from concept to production-ready applications.He provides valuable insights into developing scalable and efficient edge AI solutions, with a strong focus on practical implementation.
Have you ever been confused by the myriad of choices offered by AWS for hosting a website or an API?
Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, Lightsail, Amplify, S3 (and more!) can each host websites + APIs. But which one should we choose?
Which one is cheapest? Which one is fastest? Which one will scale to meet our needs?
Join me in this session as we dive into each AWS hosting service to determine which one is best for your scenario and explain why!
Main news related to the CCS TSI 2023 (2023/1695)Jakub Marek
An English 🇬🇧 translation of a presentation to the speech I gave about the main changes brought by CCS TSI 2023 at the biggest Czech conference on Communications and signalling systems on Railways, which was held in Clarion Hotel Olomouc from 7th to 9th November 2023 (konferenceszt.cz). Attended by around 500 participants and 200 on-line followers.
The original Czech 🇨🇿 version of the presentation can be found here: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/hlavni-novinky-souvisejici-s-ccs-tsi-2023-2023-1695/269688092 .
The videorecording (in Czech) from the presentation is available here: https://youtu.be/WzjJWm4IyPk?si=SImb06tuXGb30BEH .
Webinar: Designing a schema for a Data WarehouseFederico Razzoli
Are you new to data warehouses (DWH)? Do you need to check whether your data warehouse follows the best practices for a good design? In both cases, this webinar is for you.
A data warehouse is a central relational database that contains all measurements about a business or an organisation. This data comes from a variety of heterogeneous data sources, which includes databases of any type that back the applications used by the company, data files exported by some applications, or APIs provided by internal or external services.
But designing a data warehouse correctly is a hard task, which requires gathering information about the business processes that need to be analysed in the first place. These processes must be translated into so-called star schemas, which means, denormalised databases where each table represents a dimension or facts.
We will discuss these topics:
- How to gather information about a business;
- Understanding dictionaries and how to identify business entities;
- Dimensions and facts;
- Setting a table granularity;
- Types of facts;
- Types of dimensions;
- Snowflakes and how to avoid them;
- Expanding existing dimensions and facts.
Introduction of Cybersecurity with OSS at Code Europe 2024Hiroshi SHIBATA
I develop the Ruby programming language, RubyGems, and Bundler, which are package managers for Ruby. Today, I will introduce how to enhance the security of your application using open-source software (OSS) examples from Ruby and RubyGems.
The first topic is CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures). I have published CVEs many times. But what exactly is a CVE? I'll provide a basic understanding of CVEs and explain how to detect and handle vulnerabilities in OSS.
Next, let's discuss package managers. Package managers play a critical role in the OSS ecosystem. I'll explain how to manage library dependencies in your application.
I'll share insights into how the Ruby and RubyGems core team works to keep our ecosystem safe. By the end of this talk, you'll have a better understanding of how to safeguard your code.
Ocean lotus Threat actors project by John Sitima 2024 (1).pptxSitimaJohn
Ocean Lotus cyber threat actors represent a sophisticated, persistent, and politically motivated group that poses a significant risk to organizations and individuals in the Southeast Asian region. Their continuous evolution and adaptability underscore the need for robust cybersecurity measures and international cooperation to identify and mitigate the threats posed by such advanced persistent threat groups.
Programming Foundation Models with DSPy - Meetup SlidesZilliz
Prompting language models is hard, while programming language models is easy. In this talk, I will discuss the state-of-the-art framework DSPy for programming foundation models with its powerful optimizers and runtime constraint system.
Building Production Ready Search Pipelines with Spark and MilvusZilliz
Spark is the widely used ETL tool for processing, indexing and ingesting data to serving stack for search. Milvus is the production-ready open-source vector database. In this talk we will show how to use Spark to process unstructured data to extract vector representations, and push the vectors to Milvus vector database for search serving.
GraphRAG for Life Science to increase LLM accuracyTomaz Bratanic
GraphRAG for life science domain, where you retriever information from biomedical knowledge graphs using LLMs to increase the accuracy and performance of generated answers
AI 101: An Introduction to the Basics and Impact of Artificial IntelligenceIndexBug
Imagine a world where machines not only perform tasks but also learn, adapt, and make decisions. This is the promise of Artificial Intelligence (AI), a technology that's not just enhancing our lives but revolutionizing entire industries.
Fueling AI with Great Data with Airbyte WebinarZilliz
This talk will focus on how to collect data from a variety of sources, leveraging this data for RAG and other GenAI use cases, and finally charting your course to productionalization.
2. Green Transformations are about Sustainability
17 goals; 169 targets; 304 indicators; 196 countries over 15 years;
underscore the inherent diversity and complexity of the challenge
… not carbon alone (& pyrolysis can be dangerous)
3. this session RISK TRUST
PUBLIC
ENGAGEMENT
Some
neglected
themes
DIRECTION
DIVERSITY
DEMOCRACY
‘Green’ is not self evident. So: queries not
just about how fast? But which way? Mr
Gurria mentions, but then not discussed.
Not just challenges; strategies, contexts,
perspectives. Not single choice between
Rotmans’ old / new; Nemet’s push / pull
Hardly mentioned so far. Geels refers to
socio-technical system change. Beinhocker
highlights optimising markets.
6. RISK
DIRECTION
Real drivers of global moves in sustainable
directions have arisen from hope-inspired
collective action by social movements
Recognise green transforrmations as
inherently political not about managing
narrow technical expert risk-based fears
9. RISK
DIVERSITY
Go beyond ‘hammer’ of simple risk metrics,
assuming incumbency, many uncertainties
eg: IP-driven monoculture transgenic crops,
rather than marker assist, cisgenics, open
source participatory breeding, eco-farming
Diversity is the most robust response –
adaptation, agility, flexibility, reversibility
12. RISK
DEMOCRACY
As in founding values of science itself,
plurality is a source of robustness
be careful about optimising models, RCTs,
aggregated evidence based policy
empower interactive models, civic research
community monitoring, citizen science,
15. TRUST
DIRECTION
Trust is a mutual social quality… So why do
policy discussions emphasise trust by
powerless of powerful, not other way?
Incumbent interests around innovation
systems must trust society to do steering
Actions to discontinue entrenched regimes
are as crucial as innovating new systems
18. TRUST
DIVERSITY
Asserting 1 managed top-down transition
can impede trust: diverse transformations
Focus less on ‘scaling up’ one privileged
strategy - and more on seeding diverse
repertoires and portfolios of pathways
No more ‘road maps’ with just one road
21. TRUST
DEMOCRACY
Much talk of quality, longevity, lifestyle
choices – but total omission of equality
Treated as if luxury. Yet in knowledge and
action, equality overturns entrenched power
From education… to empowerment
From responsibility… to accountability
From ‘sound science’… to transparency
From smart innovation… to open innovation
24. PUBLIC
ENGAGEMENT
DIRECTION
participate for legitimacy not legitimation
Drive for aggregation and consensus is
about justifying – “what can drones do?”
Instead, all policy appraisal should open
up implications of diverse choices
27. PUBLIC
ENGAGEMENT
DIVERSITY
beware impatient top-down language of
urgency: “five years to save the planet”
Grassroots innovation & social technology
can seem slower, but is fast if time is right
importance shown by Danish wind as
crucial basis for current renewable surge
30. DEMOCRACY
PUBLIC
ENGAGEMENT
Brundtland highlighted greater democracy
– uninvited is more crucial than invited
Previous transforms driven by bottom-up
culture change, not top down policy.
Emphasise and reinvigorate democracy,
Only fulcrum strong enough to bear load.
32. RISK TRUST
PUBLIC
ENGAGEMENT
DIRECTION
DIVERSITY
DEMOCRACY
make space for
politics, not just
policy … and
not carbon alone
tools to highlight
uncertainties
about green
directions
prioritise not
only interests but
knowledges of
most excluded
be clear & direct
in challenging
incumbent
system power
not one transition
– no more ‘road
maps’ with
only one road
empower and
fund grassroots
and social
innovation
participation is
for opening up,
not closing
down pathways
sustainability
transformations
are about hopes,
not fears
prioritise
inclusion, equality;
not responsibility
and smartness
Editor's Notes
roland: analytic believe in method, intuitive believe in results
Abstract
The governance of science and technology is conditioned by some pervasive fallacies and fantasies. None are more extensive or deeply embedded, than those concerning the ability of human agency deliberately to control key features of interest in the world. Aspects and implications of the associated dilemmas arise both in the ways knowledge itself is understood, as well as the styles of intervention that society seeks to undertake. Common to both areas, are the neglected dynamics of power - encouraging exaggeration both of the quality of knowledge and the tractability of action.
Focusing on the example of energy systems, this talk will quickly review some of the practical policy implications. It will argue for attention to a range of neglected 'broader based' methods for 'opening up' policy appraisal of energy systems. It will also conclude for greater attention to governance strategies that do not depend on claims and aspirations to control. Again, some practical implications will be discussed relating to resilience rather than stability in energy systems and transformation rather than deterministic transition. In all these respects, a concrete energy policy strategy that repeatedly comes to the fore is that of deliberate diversification.