Costs, benefits and impacts of community forests on livelihoods in CameroonCIFOR-ICRAF
Verina Ingram, Emilie Beauchamp, Guillaume Lescuyer,
Marc Parren, Claude Njomgang, Abdon Awono
Presentation for the conference on
Taking stock of smallholders and community forestry
Montpellier France
March 24-26, 2010
Community mapping and tenure recognition in forest zones of Cameroon: A scopi...CIFOR-ICRAF
Mbile Peter
Paper synthesis and presentation Serge Ngendakumana
Presentation for the conference on
Taking stock of smallholders and community forestry
Montpellier France
March 24-26, 2010
Assessment of Large Scale Land Cover Change Classification and Drivers of Def...CIFOR-ICRAF
This presentation, delivered at the 36th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment, outlines the issue of national forest mapping in Indonesia. The importance and variability of forest definition is highlighted.
Assessment of Large Scale Land Cover Change Classification and Drivers of Def...CIFOR-ICRAF
This presentation, delivered to the 36th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment in Berlin, explains common problems of forest mapping in Indonesia, and highlights the need for systematic accuracy assessment.
Contribution of land use change models to REDD Process in the Congo BasinCIFOR-ICRAF
This presentation by Martin Tadoum,the Deputy Executive Secretary of COMIFAC describes the current situation of REDD in the Congo Basin, the methodological issues encountered, what the congobiom model has to do with that and what the next steps are.
Towards the Improvement of National Forest Monitoring ApproachesCIFOR-ICRAF
This presentation, delivered at the International Workshop on Forest Carbon Emissions in Jakarta, examines the need to improve national forest monitoring approaches. CIFOR's Global Comparative Study and the importance of definition are discussed in the context of Indonesia.
Cost and equity implications of integrating sticks and carrots in conservatio...CIFOR-ICRAF
This presentation by Jan Börner (University of Bonn, CIFOR), Eduardo Marinho (CIFOR), and Sven Wunder (CIFOR) discusses the necessity of integrating incentive-based policies into traditional command-and-control strategies to create a sustainable conservation model.
Presentation by the Jane Goodall Institute. The goal of this project is to reduce deforestation and forest degradation within the Budongo-Bugoma corridor (BBC) by at least half by building awareness, capacity and governance mechanisms for private forest owners and community groups to access carbon payments and benefit from REDD based global approaches to climate change mitigation.
Costs, benefits and impacts of community forests on livelihoods in CameroonCIFOR-ICRAF
Verina Ingram, Emilie Beauchamp, Guillaume Lescuyer,
Marc Parren, Claude Njomgang, Abdon Awono
Presentation for the conference on
Taking stock of smallholders and community forestry
Montpellier France
March 24-26, 2010
Community mapping and tenure recognition in forest zones of Cameroon: A scopi...CIFOR-ICRAF
Mbile Peter
Paper synthesis and presentation Serge Ngendakumana
Presentation for the conference on
Taking stock of smallholders and community forestry
Montpellier France
March 24-26, 2010
Assessment of Large Scale Land Cover Change Classification and Drivers of Def...CIFOR-ICRAF
This presentation, delivered at the 36th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment, outlines the issue of national forest mapping in Indonesia. The importance and variability of forest definition is highlighted.
Assessment of Large Scale Land Cover Change Classification and Drivers of Def...CIFOR-ICRAF
This presentation, delivered to the 36th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment in Berlin, explains common problems of forest mapping in Indonesia, and highlights the need for systematic accuracy assessment.
Contribution of land use change models to REDD Process in the Congo BasinCIFOR-ICRAF
This presentation by Martin Tadoum,the Deputy Executive Secretary of COMIFAC describes the current situation of REDD in the Congo Basin, the methodological issues encountered, what the congobiom model has to do with that and what the next steps are.
Towards the Improvement of National Forest Monitoring ApproachesCIFOR-ICRAF
This presentation, delivered at the International Workshop on Forest Carbon Emissions in Jakarta, examines the need to improve national forest monitoring approaches. CIFOR's Global Comparative Study and the importance of definition are discussed in the context of Indonesia.
Cost and equity implications of integrating sticks and carrots in conservatio...CIFOR-ICRAF
This presentation by Jan Börner (University of Bonn, CIFOR), Eduardo Marinho (CIFOR), and Sven Wunder (CIFOR) discusses the necessity of integrating incentive-based policies into traditional command-and-control strategies to create a sustainable conservation model.
Presentation by the Jane Goodall Institute. The goal of this project is to reduce deforestation and forest degradation within the Budongo-Bugoma corridor (BBC) by at least half by building awareness, capacity and governance mechanisms for private forest owners and community groups to access carbon payments and benefit from REDD based global approaches to climate change mitigation.
Transparent monitoring in practice: Supporting post-Paris land use sector mit...CIFOR-ICRAF
Presented by Stibniati Atmadja, Manuel Boissière, Niki De Sy, Robert Masolele, at "Scoping Workshop: Towards the Enhanced Transparency Framework for REDD+ MRV", ILRI, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 30 July 2021
Zambia’s forest reference emission level for the unfcccCIFOR-ICRAF
Presentation by Deuteronomy Kasaro and Abel M Siampale at the Global Landscapes Forum 2015, in Paris, France alongside COP21. For more information go to: www.landscapes.org.
Measurement Reporting Verification system in Papua New GuineaCIFOR-ICRAF
Presented by Alfred Rungol of the Climate Change & Development Authority of Papua New Guinea at the Asia-Pacific Rainforest Summit. http://www.cifor.org/asia-pacific-rainforest-summit/
Global Comparative Study on REDD+: Knowledge for action to protect tropical f...CIFOR-ICRAF
Presented by Pham Thu Thuy (CIFOR-ICRAF) at "Science and Public Policy Platform Dialogue I: REDD+ implementation in DRC after COP26 and the signing of the second Letter of Intent (LoI): Priorities, legal and policy frameworks and contributions of the GCS-REDD+ project" on 14 Dec 2021
Keeping track of forests: systems for measurement, reporting and verification...CIFOR-ICRAF
Presented by Dr. Haruni Krisnawati, Senior Researcher of the
Ministry of Environment and Forestry of Indonesia. Presented at the Asia-Pacific Rainforest Summit http://www.cifor.org/asia-pacific-rainforest-summit/
The Little Redd+ Book (Short) Bangkok MeetingtheREDDdesk
Introduction to REDD+ and the Little REDD+ Book, presented to journalists by Charlie Parker of the GCP at the UNFCCC meeting in Bangkok in October 2009.
Transparent monitoring in practice: Supporting post-Paris land use sector mit...CIFOR-ICRAF
Presented by Stibniati Atmadja, Manuel Boissière, Niki De Sy, Robert Masolele, at "Scoping Workshop: Towards the Enhanced Transparency Framework for REDD+ MRV", ILRI, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 30 July 2021
Zambia’s forest reference emission level for the unfcccCIFOR-ICRAF
Presentation by Deuteronomy Kasaro and Abel M Siampale at the Global Landscapes Forum 2015, in Paris, France alongside COP21. For more information go to: www.landscapes.org.
Measurement Reporting Verification system in Papua New GuineaCIFOR-ICRAF
Presented by Alfred Rungol of the Climate Change & Development Authority of Papua New Guinea at the Asia-Pacific Rainforest Summit. http://www.cifor.org/asia-pacific-rainforest-summit/
Global Comparative Study on REDD+: Knowledge for action to protect tropical f...CIFOR-ICRAF
Presented by Pham Thu Thuy (CIFOR-ICRAF) at "Science and Public Policy Platform Dialogue I: REDD+ implementation in DRC after COP26 and the signing of the second Letter of Intent (LoI): Priorities, legal and policy frameworks and contributions of the GCS-REDD+ project" on 14 Dec 2021
Keeping track of forests: systems for measurement, reporting and verification...CIFOR-ICRAF
Presented by Dr. Haruni Krisnawati, Senior Researcher of the
Ministry of Environment and Forestry of Indonesia. Presented at the Asia-Pacific Rainforest Summit http://www.cifor.org/asia-pacific-rainforest-summit/
The Little Redd+ Book (Short) Bangkok MeetingtheREDDdesk
Introduction to REDD+ and the Little REDD+ Book, presented to journalists by Charlie Parker of the GCP at the UNFCCC meeting in Bangkok in October 2009.
The political economy of REDD+ in the DRCCIFOR-ICRAF
Presented by Félicien Kengoum (PhD student, University of Helsinki), at "Bridging policy and science on addressing climate change and deforestation in Democratic Republic of Congo", on 12-14 December 2022
Barrier Analyses and Enabling Framework Report for the Prioritized technologi...Dr. Joshua Zake
This presentation was prepared and delivered during the national stakeholder’s workshop on barrier analyses and enabling framework for prioritized technologies for advancing climate change adaptation in the Agriculture, Forestry & Water sectors and mitigation in the Energy sector in Uganda.
The meeting was organized by the Uganda National Council of Science and Technology (UNCST) in collaboration with the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovations (MoSTI). It was held on 16-17th March 2020 1t UNCST offices in Ntinda, Kampala, Uganda.
Community Forestry and EbA Experience in The Gambia CIFOR-ICRAF
Presented by Ms Awa Sillah (Programme Coordinator, EbA Project), at COP27, UNFCCC Official Side Event, "Adaptation and NDCs in Africa and Asia: How much progress in the agroforestry and forestry sectors?", 11 Nov 2022
Agro-Meteorological Advisory Service in Bangladesh -syed mahmud hasanSyed Mahmud Hasan
This document will give you an insight about the Strategic Development of Agro-Meteorological Advisory Service. This would guide you to understand about the context of Bangladesh,which departments are mandated to provide what information and how our service can be a bridge between citizens and government departments though which citizens can respond to certain disaster shocks.
Getting REDD+ Off the Ground: Challenges and Opportunities’ - Case of Berau ...CIFOR-ICRAF
Presented by Wahjudi Wardojo, this presentation focuses on the specific REDD+ challenges from the eyes of the Berau Carbon Forest Program in Indonesia.
Presented by Choi Hyung Soon, Director of Global Forestry Research Division, National Institute of Forest Science (NIFoS) – Republic of Korea, on the ITPC side event “Could a virtual collaborative platform help to preserve tropical peatlands?” at the XV World Forestry Congress, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 5 May 2022.
Kishwan, J. (2011) REDD+ Negotiations: India’s PreparednesstheREDDdesk
Presentation from the South Asian Media Briefing Workshop on Climate Change, November 2011.
http://www.cseindia.org/content/cses-south-asian-media-briefing-workshop-climate-change-2011
Sharachchandra, L. (2011) India’s Policy towards REDD+: Dense Forest Ahead!theREDDdesk
Presentation from the South Asian Media Briefing Workshop on Climate Change, November 2011.
http://www.cseindia.org/content/cses-south-asian-media-briefing-workshop-climate-change-2011
Community Forestry International (2011) Umiam Sub-Watershed REDD+ Project, Me...theREDDdesk
Presentation from the South Asian Media Briefing Workshop on Climate Change, November 2011.
http://www.cseindia.org/content/cses-south-asian-media-briefing-workshop-climate-change-2011
Pushing the limits of ePRTC: 100ns holdover for 100 daysAdtran
At WSTS 2024, Alon Stern explored the topic of parametric holdover and explained how recent research findings can be implemented in real-world PNT networks to achieve 100 nanoseconds of accuracy for up to 100 days.
Enchancing adoption of Open Source Libraries. A case study on Albumentations.AIVladimir Iglovikov, Ph.D.
Presented by Vladimir Iglovikov:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/iglovikov/
- https://x.com/viglovikov
- https://www.instagram.com/ternaus/
This presentation delves into the journey of Albumentations.ai, a highly successful open-source library for data augmentation.
Created out of a necessity for superior performance in Kaggle competitions, Albumentations has grown to become a widely used tool among data scientists and machine learning practitioners.
This case study covers various aspects, including:
People: The contributors and community that have supported Albumentations.
Metrics: The success indicators such as downloads, daily active users, GitHub stars, and financial contributions.
Challenges: The hurdles in monetizing open-source projects and measuring user engagement.
Development Practices: Best practices for creating, maintaining, and scaling open-source libraries, including code hygiene, CI/CD, and fast iteration.
Community Building: Strategies for making adoption easy, iterating quickly, and fostering a vibrant, engaged community.
Marketing: Both online and offline marketing tactics, focusing on real, impactful interactions and collaborations.
Mental Health: Maintaining balance and not feeling pressured by user demands.
Key insights include the importance of automation, making the adoption process seamless, and leveraging offline interactions for marketing. The presentation also emphasizes the need for continuous small improvements and building a friendly, inclusive community that contributes to the project's growth.
Vladimir Iglovikov brings his extensive experience as a Kaggle Grandmaster, ex-Staff ML Engineer at Lyft, sharing valuable lessons and practical advice for anyone looking to enhance the adoption of their open-source projects.
Explore more about Albumentations and join the community at:
GitHub: https://github.com/albumentations-team/albumentations
Website: https://albumentations.ai/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/100504475
Twitter: https://x.com/albumentations
Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdfPaige Cruz
Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
Why You Should Replace Windows 11 with Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 for enhanced perfor...SOFTTECHHUB
The choice of an operating system plays a pivotal role in shaping our computing experience. For decades, Microsoft's Windows has dominated the market, offering a familiar and widely adopted platform for personal and professional use. However, as technological advancements continue to push the boundaries of innovation, alternative operating systems have emerged, challenging the status quo and offering users a fresh perspective on computing.
One such alternative that has garnered significant attention and acclaim is Nitrux Linux 3.5.0, a sleek, powerful, and user-friendly Linux distribution that promises to redefine the way we interact with our devices. With its focus on performance, security, and customization, Nitrux Linux presents a compelling case for those seeking to break free from the constraints of proprietary software and embrace the freedom and flexibility of open-source computing.
In the rapidly evolving landscape of technologies, XML continues to play a vital role in structuring, storing, and transporting data across diverse systems. The recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) present new methodologies for enhancing XML development workflows, introducing efficiency, automation, and intelligent capabilities. This presentation will outline the scope and perspective of utilizing AI in XML development. The potential benefits and the possible pitfalls will be highlighted, providing a balanced view of the subject.
We will explore the capabilities of AI in understanding XML markup languages and autonomously creating structured XML content. Additionally, we will examine the capacity of AI to enrich plain text with appropriate XML markup. Practical examples and methodological guidelines will be provided to elucidate how AI can be effectively prompted to interpret and generate accurate XML markup.
Further emphasis will be placed on the role of AI in developing XSLT, or schemas such as XSD and Schematron. We will address the techniques and strategies adopted to create prompts for generating code, explaining code, or refactoring the code, and the results achieved.
The discussion will extend to how AI can be used to transform XML content. In particular, the focus will be on the use of AI XPath extension functions in XSLT, Schematron, Schematron Quick Fixes, or for XML content refactoring.
The presentation aims to deliver a comprehensive overview of AI usage in XML development, providing attendees with the necessary knowledge to make informed decisions. Whether you’re at the early stages of adopting AI or considering integrating it in advanced XML development, this presentation will cover all levels of expertise.
By highlighting the potential advantages and challenges of integrating AI with XML development tools and languages, the presentation seeks to inspire thoughtful conversation around the future of XML development. We’ll not only delve into the technical aspects of AI-powered XML development but also discuss practical implications and possible future directions.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
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
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing DaysKari Kakkonen
My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
Climate impact / sustainability of software testing discussed on the talk. ICT and testing must carry their part of global responsibility to help with the climat warming. We can minimize the carbon footprint but we can also have a carbon handprint, a positive impact on the climate. Quality characteristics can be added with sustainability, and then measured continuously. Test environments can be used less, and in smaller scale and on demand. Test techniques can be used in optimizing or minimizing number of tests. Test automation can be used to speed up testing.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
zkStudyClub - Reef: Fast Succinct Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Regex ProofsAlex Pruden
This paper presents Reef, a system for generating publicly verifiable succinct non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs that a committed document matches or does not match a regular expression. We describe applications such as proving the strength of passwords, the provenance of email despite redactions, the validity of oblivious DNS queries, and the existence of mutations in DNA. Reef supports the Perl Compatible Regular Expression syntax, including wildcards, alternation, ranges, capture groups, Kleene star, negations, and lookarounds. Reef introduces a new type of automata, Skipping Alternating Finite Automata (SAFA), that skips irrelevant parts of a document when producing proofs without undermining soundness, and instantiates SAFA with a lookup argument. Our experimental evaluation confirms that Reef can generate proofs for documents with 32M characters; the proofs are small and cheap to verify (under a second).
Paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1886
A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...sonjaschweigert1
Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navy’s DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
- Reduction in onboarding time from 5 weeks to 1 day
- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
Development teams can ship efficiently and ensure applications are cyber ready for Navy Authorizing Officials (AOs). In this webinar, Sigma Defense and Anchore will give attendees a look behind the scenes and demo secure pipeline automation and security artifacts that speed up application ATO and time to production.
We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
