The document proposes a Collaborative Aid Marketplace, which would be:
1) A social network-enabled solution that allows donors, governments, organizations and communities to collaboratively select, fund and oversee development projects.
2) Participants would become "share-stakeholders" who earn credits for participation that can be invested in projects and used to track results.
3) Funded projects would be selected through open competition and peer review to find the most innovative, effective solutions to development challenges.
Social Finance Ontario is a working constellation of the Ontario Nonprofits Network. This slide presentation provides a brief description of policy in the UK, US and Canada that supports social enterprise. Along with a brief description of some community investment funds and models.
ZenMall is a new social marketplace where users can find any products, create their own collections, share unusual things with friends and save interesting products in their collections. They also can follow interesting people, shops and its product collections.
The main difference of ZenMall is not sale of a big click
number but social tools for the interaction of customers
with shops and each other.
Bangalore B2B business in the Bangalore B2B marketplace along with Bengaluru B2B manufacturers, suppliers, exporters, importers, buyers, sellers, dealers, distributors, wholesalers, whole sellers, traders and agents has gained popularity across the globe.
Big Data for Development: Opportunities and Challenges, Summary SlidedeckUN Global Pulse
Summary points from UN Global Pulse White Paper "Big Data for Development: Opportunities & Challenges." See: http://www.unglobalpulse.org/BigDataforDevelopment
Social Finance Ontario is a working constellation of the Ontario Nonprofits Network. This slide presentation provides a brief description of policy in the UK, US and Canada that supports social enterprise. Along with a brief description of some community investment funds and models.
ZenMall is a new social marketplace where users can find any products, create their own collections, share unusual things with friends and save interesting products in their collections. They also can follow interesting people, shops and its product collections.
The main difference of ZenMall is not sale of a big click
number but social tools for the interaction of customers
with shops and each other.
Bangalore B2B business in the Bangalore B2B marketplace along with Bengaluru B2B manufacturers, suppliers, exporters, importers, buyers, sellers, dealers, distributors, wholesalers, whole sellers, traders and agents has gained popularity across the globe.
Big Data for Development: Opportunities and Challenges, Summary SlidedeckUN Global Pulse
Summary points from UN Global Pulse White Paper "Big Data for Development: Opportunities & Challenges." See: http://www.unglobalpulse.org/BigDataforDevelopment
The Social Innovation Generation program at MaRS (SiG@MaRS) has been offering programs and services for social innovators and social entrepreneurs for over a year now.
Find out what has been done; what programs and services are available to help you advance your social purpose efforts, and join SiG@MaRS in planning for the future of the program.
More information: http://www.marsdd.com/mars/About-MaRS/Partners/sig.html
Measuring the Blended Value of Corporate Social Responsibility and Social Ent...Karim Harji
Presentation to the Canadian Evaluation Society Annual Conference, Ottawa, June 2, 2009
Innovative evaluation methods and tools are emerging in the fields of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and social enterprise. The focus of these innovations is the measurement of the “blended value” (financial, social and environmental) that is created by CSR and social enterprise, which is of interest to social investors, “philanthrocapitalists” and governments.
This panel will summarize findings-in-process from ongoing applications in these spheres in Ontario, Ghana and other developing-world settings. There are advantages and challenges in applying “blended value” approaches that the presenters will examine. The panelists will also discuss the implications of these findings for the theory and practice of evaluation.
One of the biggest challenges of starting a company is to maintain a steady cash flow. An entrepreneur's worst nightmare is: "What if I run out of money!"
Jo Van Betsbrugge is an Innovation Advisor at the National Research Council’s Innovation Access circa November 2013. He will be sharing his experiences with you on: starting and running a company in Quebec, and will demisify exactly how he successfully raised over $1M without the help of venture capital.
He helps entrepreneurs and small and medium-sized businesses navigate through the multitude of available innovation support programs offered by provincial and federal governments.
In this presentation, learn what state services and funding are available for growing technology companies. Each year, the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) dedicates $25 million to help build companies with high growth potential. The MEDC is organizing a statewide bus tour to educate early-stage tech companies on programs ranging from business support to venture capital. Visit http://www.michiganadvantage.org/Entrepreneurs-and-Innovators/
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These slides were prepared based on a mission I did to Israel from 18th to 22nd of March, 2018, organized by Anjos do Brasil, APEX Brasil and ABVCAP. The information presented here were collected from my own writtings during the many visits we made and some material presented in the visits (cited as appropriate).
How to Convert Community Stakeholders to Impact InvestorsTechSoup
Mission-driven organizations can now raise capital in alignment with their values. Changes in securities laws, new intermediaries, and new financial tech (fintech) solutions make it easier for organizations to engage their supporters, both wealthy and not, as impact investors.
This session, led by expert John Katovich, Co-Founder of Cutting Edge Capital and Principal of Bequia Securities, will feature an overview of new fundraising strategies that deepen community engagement while raising revenue.
This session will also introduce SVX.US, based on the Canadian impact investing marketplace launching in the U.S. in partnership with Bequia Securities and its first offering, TechSoup. This session will serve as a useful case study for new ways to raise capital from your community.
Measuring Social Enterprise Impacts and Benefits:Emerging Approaches and IssuesKarim Harji
Presentation at the CASC/ANSER conference, Ottawa, May 27, 2009
For many social enterprises, the important issues of accountability and performance often get funneled into a discussion around metrics and measurement. Yet the measurement of the “blended value” (financial, social and environmental) that is created by social enterprise is a relatively under-developed facet of the social finance marketspace. This session will present emerging approaches and methods to assess, manage and communicate the complexity of social and financial value creation. Drawing on Canadian and international examples, the potential contributions of these approaches to the broader debate around social impact measurement will also be examined.
“Comparing investors who spent less than the median 20 hours of due diligence and investors who spent more, shows an overall multiple difference of 5.9X for those with high due diligence compared to only 1.1X for those with low due diligence.”
Excerpt taken from “Returns to Angel Investors in Groups”, a comprehensive study of 539 Angel led investments. Robert Wiltbank, Ph.D. and Warren Boeker, Ph. D., 11/2007.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
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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/
The Social Innovation Generation program at MaRS (SiG@MaRS) has been offering programs and services for social innovators and social entrepreneurs for over a year now.
Find out what has been done; what programs and services are available to help you advance your social purpose efforts, and join SiG@MaRS in planning for the future of the program.
More information: http://www.marsdd.com/mars/About-MaRS/Partners/sig.html
Measuring the Blended Value of Corporate Social Responsibility and Social Ent...Karim Harji
Presentation to the Canadian Evaluation Society Annual Conference, Ottawa, June 2, 2009
Innovative evaluation methods and tools are emerging in the fields of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and social enterprise. The focus of these innovations is the measurement of the “blended value” (financial, social and environmental) that is created by CSR and social enterprise, which is of interest to social investors, “philanthrocapitalists” and governments.
This panel will summarize findings-in-process from ongoing applications in these spheres in Ontario, Ghana and other developing-world settings. There are advantages and challenges in applying “blended value” approaches that the presenters will examine. The panelists will also discuss the implications of these findings for the theory and practice of evaluation.
One of the biggest challenges of starting a company is to maintain a steady cash flow. An entrepreneur's worst nightmare is: "What if I run out of money!"
Jo Van Betsbrugge is an Innovation Advisor at the National Research Council’s Innovation Access circa November 2013. He will be sharing his experiences with you on: starting and running a company in Quebec, and will demisify exactly how he successfully raised over $1M without the help of venture capital.
He helps entrepreneurs and small and medium-sized businesses navigate through the multitude of available innovation support programs offered by provincial and federal governments.
In this presentation, learn what state services and funding are available for growing technology companies. Each year, the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) dedicates $25 million to help build companies with high growth potential. The MEDC is organizing a statewide bus tour to educate early-stage tech companies on programs ranging from business support to venture capital. Visit http://www.michiganadvantage.org/Entrepreneurs-and-Innovators/
2018: What did I learn about Innovation and Entrepreneurship in IsraelLeandro de Castro
These slides were prepared based on a mission I did to Israel from 18th to 22nd of March, 2018, organized by Anjos do Brasil, APEX Brasil and ABVCAP. The information presented here were collected from my own writtings during the many visits we made and some material presented in the visits (cited as appropriate).
How to Convert Community Stakeholders to Impact InvestorsTechSoup
Mission-driven organizations can now raise capital in alignment with their values. Changes in securities laws, new intermediaries, and new financial tech (fintech) solutions make it easier for organizations to engage their supporters, both wealthy and not, as impact investors.
This session, led by expert John Katovich, Co-Founder of Cutting Edge Capital and Principal of Bequia Securities, will feature an overview of new fundraising strategies that deepen community engagement while raising revenue.
This session will also introduce SVX.US, based on the Canadian impact investing marketplace launching in the U.S. in partnership with Bequia Securities and its first offering, TechSoup. This session will serve as a useful case study for new ways to raise capital from your community.
Measuring Social Enterprise Impacts and Benefits:Emerging Approaches and IssuesKarim Harji
Presentation at the CASC/ANSER conference, Ottawa, May 27, 2009
For many social enterprises, the important issues of accountability and performance often get funneled into a discussion around metrics and measurement. Yet the measurement of the “blended value” (financial, social and environmental) that is created by social enterprise is a relatively under-developed facet of the social finance marketspace. This session will present emerging approaches and methods to assess, manage and communicate the complexity of social and financial value creation. Drawing on Canadian and international examples, the potential contributions of these approaches to the broader debate around social impact measurement will also be examined.
“Comparing investors who spent less than the median 20 hours of due diligence and investors who spent more, shows an overall multiple difference of 5.9X for those with high due diligence compared to only 1.1X for those with low due diligence.”
Excerpt taken from “Returns to Angel Investors in Groups”, a comprehensive study of 539 Angel led investments. Robert Wiltbank, Ph.D. and Warren Boeker, Ph. D., 11/2007.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
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/
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.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
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Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
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Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
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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.
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However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
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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:
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- 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
A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...
Collaborative Aid Marketplace
1. Collaborative Aid Marketplace
A Social Network Enabled Solution for Development
Dr Shaun Conway
shaun@trendresponse.com
2. Aid doesn’t
work well
Donors don't know what they want and have changing agendas
Transparency is lacking and this promotes corruption
Little accountability for how money is spent and for demonstrating results
Governments lack capacity to transform investments into results
Poor decision-making, not driven by evidence for what works or by explicit values
Lack of democratic process
inadequate mechanisms for meaningful participation by those affected
Skewed incentives and allocative injustice
Lack of evaluation and learning
High transactional costs and 'rent-seeking'
Innovations are not properly rewarded or scaled up
A false economic model of development that is not sustainable
But there is an overall desire to ‘make
aid work’ and ‘get it right.’ >>
3. > New-Age donors
• Private sector action
driven by CSI and
venture philanthropy
• Want to be hands-on in
design, operation &
measurement
• Embrace technology
solutions & innovation
• Belief in Market
mechanisms for
reducing poverty
• Changing institutions
4. > Collaboration enabled
• Realisation that
collaboration drives
value-creation
• More options for
partnership in
globalised world
• People increasingly
have the voice &
information - want to
be part of the solution
• Affected communities
becoming collaborators
5. > Private Sector Innovation
• New assistance models &
types of organisations
• Public-private Mix
• Development Foundations
• Social Enterprise
• Novel financing mechanisms
• Innovation funds
• Co-investment
6. Designed Solution:
A Collaborative
Aid Marketplace
Participants are Share-stakeholders
Virtuous Share/Prediction Market
Investment yields & results tracked
Platform for co-creative innovation
Reputation-building
Donor investment portfolio
7. Share-stakeholders
• All entrants are share-
stakeholders given
starting credits (Eco’s)
• Earn credits through
participation &
shareholding
• Currency of decision
changes the power
Projects
dynamic
• Share-stakeholders are
the ‘wise crowd’, but
reputation & track
record count
8. Platform for Innovation
• Emergent solutions
• Co-created through open
collaboration & peer
review
• Open competition for
resources
• Iterative improvement
through cyclical review &
market response
9. Virtuous Share Market
• Transfers decision power to • Direct investment, or via
participant community ‘vehicle’
• Invest in the best solutions • Enables speculation on new
through ‘buying’ stocks innovations/projects
(prediction market) • Market Cap = funding level
10. Yields/Results Tracked
• Capital growth as
value of solution
increases
• Quarterly results
reported against
expected
• Evidence posted - e.g.
Media
• Community, analyst &
external reviews/
commentary
• Dividends paid for
results/targets met
• Market responds
11. Reputation-Building
• ‘Wealth’ = reputation • Capital builds up as
solutions prosper &
• Currency earned for dividends paid
contribution
• Influence grows with
• Credit becomes rewards success
12. Bright Kid Foundation - An Edutainer classroom for the children o... http://www.sasix.co.za/projects/view/E
Donor Portfolio
HOME PROJECTS MY GIVING ACCOUNT REPORTS NEWS ABOUT US
An Edutainer classroom for the children of Dertig Invest now
• Incentivised by co-
In three simple steps.
investment Project Profile
SASIX ID:
ECD-NW-MAY-0002
• Due diligence & selection
ORGANISATION:
Bright Kid Foundation
PROVINCE:
by ‘the community’ North West
SECTOR:
Early Childhood Development
PROJECT DURATION:
6 months
• Results are evident and PROJECT BUDGET:
ZAR 265 250
Supporting the Bright Kid Foundation to install an Edutainer will provide the
linked to investments
SHARES ISSUED:
Early Learners' Day Care with a safe, sanitary classroom that creates the right
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conditions for an effective educational programme.
SHARES AVAILABLE:
VISION 5145
Research in the last thirty years has provided overwhelming evidence that the environment in which
• High visibility & reach children spend their early years has enormous consequences for their later cognitive, emotional and Project Location
physical development. Scholars estimate that half of all intellectual development potential is established
by the age of four, and that by school age children have already been largely prepared to succeed, or
under-prepared to fail. Education and mental stimulation in the first years of life, along with basic health
care and adequate nutrition, are the crucial determinants of the intellectual growth essential for
within stakeholder success at school and achievement later in life.
However, very few South African children receive adequate early childhood education. Much of the
preschooling which does occur, takes place in cramped, dilapidated and unhygienic conditions, with
problems ranging from lead paint contamination to inadequate lighting. The end result is that many six
community
and seven year olds enter the formal schooling system drastically unprepared, which results in
frustration and poor learning, and high rates of grade repetition, failure and dropping out. In 2000, a
quarter of children enrolled in primary schools dropped out within five years.
The Edutainer is an innovative and practical way to address the problem of scarce, inferior early
childhood education in South Africa. The Edutainer is an “instant classroom” made from a shipping
container. The container (12 square metres) is converted, fitted with windows and doors, insulated,
electrified, furnished, and then delivered to a community and installed on prepared concrete
• Reputation & brand
foundations. The Edutainer is plentifully stocked with carefully selected books, teaching aids, and
educational toys. The Edutainer provides a safe and productive learning environment for up to thirty
children aged between two and six. The object of Bright Kid Foundation is to provide as many
Edutainers to needy communities in South Africa as possible.
Project Risk
grows with responsible OVERVIEW
This project will enable the Bright Kid Foundation to supply an “Edutainer” container fully equipped as a
safe, sanitary classroom that creates the right conditions for an effective educational programme, as
the new home of the Early Learners Day Care preschool. The preschool is in Dertig in Makapanstad,
action & community North West. The attractive, functional classrooms include electrical connections, burglar bars on all
windows, a security gate, a large cupboard, steel shelves, a full length chalk board and soft board, an
insulated ceiling and large windows for light and a cross-draft, vinyl sheet flooring, furniture, books and
toys for 30 children. The qualified teacher at the ECD centre will be trained by the Keletsong
Community Training and Resource Centre in how to use the equipment in the Edutainer, and will be
rating able to offer the surrounding community a quality educare programme that improves the children’s life
chances. Because the teacher owns the Edutainers, she will be motivated to maintain it well.
WHAT WE LIKE ABOUT THIS PROJECT
Early childhood development is enormously important for a child’s intellectual growth. A
nationwide early childhood development survey in 2000, led by the Centre for Early Childhood
Development, found that 23 482 early learning sites provided services for 1 030 473 young
children. More than 90% of this was community-driven provision. This represents 17% of the
0-6 age population and means that 83% of children aged 0-6 years — 5,3 million children — do Organisation Rating
not benefit from any structured early learning programme in a positive learning environment.
13. Collaborative Aid Marketplace
A more efficient marketplace that reduces
the costs of delivering aid
Allows democratic participation
People co-create more innovative solutions to
real development problems
Share-stakeholders select, invest in and co-own
the most promising developments
Provides transparency with the right incentives
& rewards
Process of financing produces information at no
extra cost, for monitoring progress
Promotes human-scale development &
private sector contribution