Digital philanthropy, meet grassroots innovationMade by Many
The document discusses how digital tools can enable grassroots innovation by removing barriers to online fundraising. It provides examples of grassroots organizations in Kenya that use technology to address local issues and share data. The document advocates for supporting grassroots innovators who are tackling real-world problems with a purpose, and argues that by demystifying technology, these causes can grow in a sustainable way that inspires others.
The document summarizes a presentation given by Alessandro Alasia to the Rural Development Network on August 12, 2010 about the Canadian Rural Research Network (CRRN). It provides an overview of the CRRN's vision to facilitate rural research collaboration online, its development since 2009 including establishing an online presence and growing participation, and its achievements in compiling and sharing rural research information through its blog and social media platforms. It also discusses the CRRN's emerging research network model and priorities for continued expansion and involvement.
The document discusses a national dialogue on health information technology and privacy hosted by the National Academy of Public Administration. It provided an online forum for citizens to submit ideas and comments. Over 4,400 people from 80 countries participated, submitting 120 unique ideas and 500 comments. Participation was geographically diverse and included urban, rural, and suburban residents. The dialogue engaged a wide range of stakeholders and generated valuable discussion and perspectives on the topic.
TechSoup is an online community and resource for nonprofits that provides information to help nonprofits make effective use of technology. It has established the Nonprofit Commons in the virtual world Second Life to create a learning community for nonprofits. The Nonprofit Commons provides free virtual office space to over 30 organizations and hosts meetings and events to help nonprofits explore how to utilize Second Life. It aims to increase its capacity, develop shared tools for nonprofits, organize awareness campaigns, and host virtual and mixed reality events while evaluating the impact of the virtual community.
The document summarizes the Nonprofit Commons project in Second Life. It discusses how the Nonprofit Commons provides free virtual office space and meetings for nonprofits. It has grown from one sim with 32 organizations to two sims with nearly 70 organizations. Weekly community meetings attract over 45 avatars. The Nonprofit Commons aims to create a learning community for nonprofits to explore how to utilize virtual worlds. It has identified best practices like using events to build connections and maintaining a presence on the mainland. Future goals include panels at conferences, webinars, and supporting nonprofit development in Second Life.
20120821 putting the world’s cultural heritage online with crowd sourcing sli...Frederick Zarndt
The document discusses using crowdsourcing to put cultural heritage collections online. It describes how crowdsourcing is being used by various cultural institutions, such as the National Library of Australia, to transcribe text from digitized historical newspapers and documents. Crowdsourcing provides economic and other benefits, including improving the accuracy of optical character recognition, increasing the discoverability of collection items through better searchability, and engaging more of the public with cultural heritage collections online.
The document summarizes TechSoup's Nonprofit Commons project in Second Life. The Nonprofit Commons provides free virtual office space and a learning community for nonprofits. It currently has 32 member organizations from over 60 countries. Goals include expanding the number of member organizations, developing shared resources and tools for nonprofits, and organizing awareness campaigns on important issues.
Presentation given by Sanna Tiivola during the "Redistributing the power: Key steps for mainstreaming participation of homeless people" seminar at the FEANTSA 2014 Policy Conference, "Confronting homelessness in the EU: Seeking out the next generation of best practices", 24-25 October 2014, Bergamo (Italy)
Digital philanthropy, meet grassroots innovationMade by Many
The document discusses how digital tools can enable grassroots innovation by removing barriers to online fundraising. It provides examples of grassroots organizations in Kenya that use technology to address local issues and share data. The document advocates for supporting grassroots innovators who are tackling real-world problems with a purpose, and argues that by demystifying technology, these causes can grow in a sustainable way that inspires others.
The document summarizes a presentation given by Alessandro Alasia to the Rural Development Network on August 12, 2010 about the Canadian Rural Research Network (CRRN). It provides an overview of the CRRN's vision to facilitate rural research collaboration online, its development since 2009 including establishing an online presence and growing participation, and its achievements in compiling and sharing rural research information through its blog and social media platforms. It also discusses the CRRN's emerging research network model and priorities for continued expansion and involvement.
The document discusses a national dialogue on health information technology and privacy hosted by the National Academy of Public Administration. It provided an online forum for citizens to submit ideas and comments. Over 4,400 people from 80 countries participated, submitting 120 unique ideas and 500 comments. Participation was geographically diverse and included urban, rural, and suburban residents. The dialogue engaged a wide range of stakeholders and generated valuable discussion and perspectives on the topic.
TechSoup is an online community and resource for nonprofits that provides information to help nonprofits make effective use of technology. It has established the Nonprofit Commons in the virtual world Second Life to create a learning community for nonprofits. The Nonprofit Commons provides free virtual office space to over 30 organizations and hosts meetings and events to help nonprofits explore how to utilize Second Life. It aims to increase its capacity, develop shared tools for nonprofits, organize awareness campaigns, and host virtual and mixed reality events while evaluating the impact of the virtual community.
The document summarizes the Nonprofit Commons project in Second Life. It discusses how the Nonprofit Commons provides free virtual office space and meetings for nonprofits. It has grown from one sim with 32 organizations to two sims with nearly 70 organizations. Weekly community meetings attract over 45 avatars. The Nonprofit Commons aims to create a learning community for nonprofits to explore how to utilize virtual worlds. It has identified best practices like using events to build connections and maintaining a presence on the mainland. Future goals include panels at conferences, webinars, and supporting nonprofit development in Second Life.
20120821 putting the world’s cultural heritage online with crowd sourcing sli...Frederick Zarndt
The document discusses using crowdsourcing to put cultural heritage collections online. It describes how crowdsourcing is being used by various cultural institutions, such as the National Library of Australia, to transcribe text from digitized historical newspapers and documents. Crowdsourcing provides economic and other benefits, including improving the accuracy of optical character recognition, increasing the discoverability of collection items through better searchability, and engaging more of the public with cultural heritage collections online.
The document summarizes TechSoup's Nonprofit Commons project in Second Life. The Nonprofit Commons provides free virtual office space and a learning community for nonprofits. It currently has 32 member organizations from over 60 countries. Goals include expanding the number of member organizations, developing shared resources and tools for nonprofits, and organizing awareness campaigns on important issues.
Presentation given by Sanna Tiivola during the "Redistributing the power: Key steps for mainstreaming participation of homeless people" seminar at the FEANTSA 2014 Policy Conference, "Confronting homelessness in the EU: Seeking out the next generation of best practices", 24-25 October 2014, Bergamo (Italy)
CrisisCommons is one of many volunteer technical communities. We are collaborating to answer the question: How can I help during times of crisis and disaster?
I presented at Ignite Toronto on Thursday, September 2, 2010
by Heather Leson
Barrow Cadbury Trust workshop, Community Rights Made Real presentationLorna Prescott
Urban Forum, Dudley CVS, and Dudley Metropolitan Council secured funding from Barrow Cadbury Trust for an action research project to test awareness of and appetite for the government's new Community Rights in Dudley. Through surveys, focus groups, workshops, and an Our Society Our Solutions working group, they assessed community group perceptions and involved them in planning local implementation. This led to proposals for a holistic Managing Assets and Services Holistically approach presented to Dudley Council, piloting collaboration between community groups and the council.
20110815 co creation-in_urban_planning_case_kangasAntti Poikola
This document discusses co-creation in urban planning, using a case study from Kangas, Jyväskylä, Finland. Over 600 people participated in the two-month planning process through various methods. Methods included wiki planning, digital storytelling, online forums, and workshops. The goal was to involve citizens, businesses, politicians and others earlier in the planning process to improve quality and reduce complaints. The results included 10 citizen visions, 63 ideas on an online forum, and over 300 people creating 31 visions.
This document provides biographical information about Jean Russell and her work on the concept of thrivability. It summarizes that Jean Russell has written about and spoken on thrivability and collaboration in locations around the world. It also thanks various individuals and publications for their contributions to images and ideas presented in the document.
The document discusses using a Ning social network to improve distance education. It notes that a Ning network can help with student retention and improve grades and satisfaction by humanizing distance learning. The document also provides an overview of a demo showing how Web 2.0 tools can be integrated into a Ning social network. Potential advantages include creating a sense of community among students and ease of adding tools, though set-up may take time and moderation is required. Instructions are given to join the Classroom 2.0 Ning group.
Challenges of Neighbourhood Democracy - presentation from UKGovCamp 12The Democratic Society
This document discusses the challenge of balancing neighborhood democracy with representation on councils. It advocates for community-level participation that informs residents and allows discussion, but makes decisions alongside traditional methods. It acknowledges the difficulties in managing online and offline connections, paranoia, and balancing national, local and hyperlocal interests. The goal is to turn ideas of neighborhood participation into a practical governance blueprint.
CIPD presentation – working beyond our hierarchical boundariesCasey Morrison
Volunteering is becoming less hierarchical and more collaborative. People are increasingly volunteering informally through online networks and sharing platforms. This has led to more distributed, leaderless organizations where people self-organize around shared values through online networks and cooperation without top-down coordination. Now the default way to get things done is through online networks rather than traditional organizations.
The document provides starter ideas for special events and activities that participating organizations can host for Connected Educator Month. It lists various event formats such as webinars, forums, Twitter chats, guided tours, and contests. It also suggests launching new communities or features, running online classes, and collaborating on projects. The goal is for a diversity of engaging events that provide opportunities for educators to participate, learn, and connect throughout the month.
This document discusses ways to make the Euclid Network more accessible to social entrepreneurs to connect them with policy makers. It suggests building an open collaboration community using a Euclid wiki with engagement toolkits. This would generate both digital and physical spaces for social entrepreneurs and policy makers to connect. A local hero facilitator with the toolkit could help by organizing local meetings and events to share projects, ideas and connect social entrepreneurs to opportunities. Building local Facebook groups and providing community management training and tools in the wiki toolkit could help local heroes in their role.
Transformed by You Presentation - SOCITMNoel Hatch
Discover a programme that brings together students, entrepreneurs & community groups to develop creative solutions to local challenges.
We help train students to co-design solutions from uncovering local needs with the community to working with them to develop projects that can be taken forward.
We evaluate the insights and impact of the needs & solutions to help public services better understand how to support communities to help each other & use technology.
The document appears to be a presentation about various technology topics given by Vincent Everts. It discusses emerging technologies like electric vehicles, location-based social media, 4G networks, tablets, internet and social media usage statistics. It also covers topics like online collaboration tools, Google AdWords, BYOD policies in companies, and the impact of social media and online tools on business.
Presentacion Ushahidi - #redflexion Madrid Nov 2012ondula
Presentación utilizada por Emmanuel Kala para su ponencia en la jornada de #REDflexion: Mapeando para el cambio social, en International Lab, Madrid 22-Nov-2012
using tools to engage the public | Ken SnyderOpenPlans
The document discusses tools and methods for engaging the public in innovative decision-making to support sustainable communities. It describes challenges such as some members of the public being unaware, busy, blocked, excluded, apathetic, doubtful or opposed. Solutions include sharing information and being transparent, using multiple communication channels, asset mapping, understanding tradeoffs, brainstorming solutions, and celebrating successes. The PlaceMatters Decision Lab provides cost-effective and politically viable solutions grounded in democracy and sustainability principles using tools like surveys, mapping, scenario analysis and civic engagement activities to gather public input.
This document provides an overview of open source software for libraries. It defines open source as software where users can freely use, distribute, study, and modify the code for any purpose. Open source draws on contributions from a global community of developers to drive innovation. The document discusses common misconceptions about open source and outlines the freedoms and governance structure of open source projects. It also provides examples of open source software that can benefit libraries.
This is Lecture VII: What are the CHALLENGES on the Social Web? as part of the Social Web course at the VU University Amsterdam. Visit the website for more information: http://semanticweb.cs.vu.nl/socialweb2012/
Lora Aroyo, The Network Institute, VU University Amsterdam
(some slides based on article by Won Kim, Ok-Ran Jeong and Sang-Won Lee)
The document discusses the importance of technology in libraries and for careers in libraries. It notes that books and the printing press were once new technologies that faced resistance but became widely adopted. It encourages learning about current technologies like web technologies, open source software, and desktop software. Specific tools are described like Facebook, LinkedIn, Firefox, Zotero, WordPress and others to provide examples. The document emphasizes teaching technologies to students in an enthusiastic way tailored to their needs and allowing time for hands-on learning and exploration.
WiserEarth Indonesia (@WiserIndonesia)WiserEarth .
The document summarizes WiserEarth, a non-profit global online platform that connects individuals, communities, and organizations working on sustainability issues. The platform features issue areas, organization and event directories, social networking tools, and discussion groups. It aims to help users globally and locally connect, share knowledge and resources, and collaborate to work towards a just and sustainable future. An upcoming event is the WiserEarth Indonesia monthly gathering on July 23rd in Jakarta to enable offline networking and collaboration among local users.
This document provides an agenda for two upcoming sessions on May 13th and 20th about using the internet and web resources. The May 13th session will discuss what youth can teach about internet use and the affordances of the web, including demos and questions. The May 20th session will cover a taxonomy of the soul in cyberspace, including enhancing place-bound churches, substituting the internet for in-person activities, and native religious internet activities. The document also outlines different levels of technological capability and lists various internet resources and social networks that could be discussed.
Network Effectiveness Presentation: Packard Working Session, May 27guest504cd
This document provides an overview of a working session on network effectiveness for Packard Foundation grantees. It discusses different types of networks and structures, characteristics of healthy networks, examples of how networks have been used to solve problems at scale, and lessons learned about working in a networked way ("working wikily"). Key points covered include decentralization, emergent strategies, openness and transparency, balancing top-down and bottom-up approaches, and designing experiments around problems rather than tools. Network mapping is presented as a tool for understanding network structures and flows.
[2012 07-01] wiki socium - open projects fundAlena Popova
WikiSocium is a proposed online platform to provide solutions to social problems through a wiki-style collection of step-by-step instructions. It aims to create a knowledge base of answers to "what can I do?" questions on issues like housing, utilities, roads, consumer rights and law. The platform would make social engagement as simple and convenient as possible to motivate more people and allow the knowledge base to grow through wiki mechanisms. It faces challenges in developing functionality, usability, and virality to become a scalable solution. The founders are seeking sponsorship to develop a full-featured version over the next 6 months at an estimated cost of 1.5 million rubles.
Lecture 1: Social Web Introduction (2012)Lora Aroyo
This is the first lecture in the Social Web course (2012) at the VU University Amsterdam
Visit the website for more information: http://semanticweb.cs.vu.nl/socialweb2012/
Thanks to Julita Vassileva and Peter Brusilovsky for letting me adopt slides from their lectures
CrisisCommons is one of many volunteer technical communities. We are collaborating to answer the question: How can I help during times of crisis and disaster?
I presented at Ignite Toronto on Thursday, September 2, 2010
by Heather Leson
Barrow Cadbury Trust workshop, Community Rights Made Real presentationLorna Prescott
Urban Forum, Dudley CVS, and Dudley Metropolitan Council secured funding from Barrow Cadbury Trust for an action research project to test awareness of and appetite for the government's new Community Rights in Dudley. Through surveys, focus groups, workshops, and an Our Society Our Solutions working group, they assessed community group perceptions and involved them in planning local implementation. This led to proposals for a holistic Managing Assets and Services Holistically approach presented to Dudley Council, piloting collaboration between community groups and the council.
20110815 co creation-in_urban_planning_case_kangasAntti Poikola
This document discusses co-creation in urban planning, using a case study from Kangas, Jyväskylä, Finland. Over 600 people participated in the two-month planning process through various methods. Methods included wiki planning, digital storytelling, online forums, and workshops. The goal was to involve citizens, businesses, politicians and others earlier in the planning process to improve quality and reduce complaints. The results included 10 citizen visions, 63 ideas on an online forum, and over 300 people creating 31 visions.
This document provides biographical information about Jean Russell and her work on the concept of thrivability. It summarizes that Jean Russell has written about and spoken on thrivability and collaboration in locations around the world. It also thanks various individuals and publications for their contributions to images and ideas presented in the document.
The document discusses using a Ning social network to improve distance education. It notes that a Ning network can help with student retention and improve grades and satisfaction by humanizing distance learning. The document also provides an overview of a demo showing how Web 2.0 tools can be integrated into a Ning social network. Potential advantages include creating a sense of community among students and ease of adding tools, though set-up may take time and moderation is required. Instructions are given to join the Classroom 2.0 Ning group.
Challenges of Neighbourhood Democracy - presentation from UKGovCamp 12The Democratic Society
This document discusses the challenge of balancing neighborhood democracy with representation on councils. It advocates for community-level participation that informs residents and allows discussion, but makes decisions alongside traditional methods. It acknowledges the difficulties in managing online and offline connections, paranoia, and balancing national, local and hyperlocal interests. The goal is to turn ideas of neighborhood participation into a practical governance blueprint.
CIPD presentation – working beyond our hierarchical boundariesCasey Morrison
Volunteering is becoming less hierarchical and more collaborative. People are increasingly volunteering informally through online networks and sharing platforms. This has led to more distributed, leaderless organizations where people self-organize around shared values through online networks and cooperation without top-down coordination. Now the default way to get things done is through online networks rather than traditional organizations.
The document provides starter ideas for special events and activities that participating organizations can host for Connected Educator Month. It lists various event formats such as webinars, forums, Twitter chats, guided tours, and contests. It also suggests launching new communities or features, running online classes, and collaborating on projects. The goal is for a diversity of engaging events that provide opportunities for educators to participate, learn, and connect throughout the month.
This document discusses ways to make the Euclid Network more accessible to social entrepreneurs to connect them with policy makers. It suggests building an open collaboration community using a Euclid wiki with engagement toolkits. This would generate both digital and physical spaces for social entrepreneurs and policy makers to connect. A local hero facilitator with the toolkit could help by organizing local meetings and events to share projects, ideas and connect social entrepreneurs to opportunities. Building local Facebook groups and providing community management training and tools in the wiki toolkit could help local heroes in their role.
Transformed by You Presentation - SOCITMNoel Hatch
Discover a programme that brings together students, entrepreneurs & community groups to develop creative solutions to local challenges.
We help train students to co-design solutions from uncovering local needs with the community to working with them to develop projects that can be taken forward.
We evaluate the insights and impact of the needs & solutions to help public services better understand how to support communities to help each other & use technology.
The document appears to be a presentation about various technology topics given by Vincent Everts. It discusses emerging technologies like electric vehicles, location-based social media, 4G networks, tablets, internet and social media usage statistics. It also covers topics like online collaboration tools, Google AdWords, BYOD policies in companies, and the impact of social media and online tools on business.
Presentacion Ushahidi - #redflexion Madrid Nov 2012ondula
Presentación utilizada por Emmanuel Kala para su ponencia en la jornada de #REDflexion: Mapeando para el cambio social, en International Lab, Madrid 22-Nov-2012
using tools to engage the public | Ken SnyderOpenPlans
The document discusses tools and methods for engaging the public in innovative decision-making to support sustainable communities. It describes challenges such as some members of the public being unaware, busy, blocked, excluded, apathetic, doubtful or opposed. Solutions include sharing information and being transparent, using multiple communication channels, asset mapping, understanding tradeoffs, brainstorming solutions, and celebrating successes. The PlaceMatters Decision Lab provides cost-effective and politically viable solutions grounded in democracy and sustainability principles using tools like surveys, mapping, scenario analysis and civic engagement activities to gather public input.
This document provides an overview of open source software for libraries. It defines open source as software where users can freely use, distribute, study, and modify the code for any purpose. Open source draws on contributions from a global community of developers to drive innovation. The document discusses common misconceptions about open source and outlines the freedoms and governance structure of open source projects. It also provides examples of open source software that can benefit libraries.
This is Lecture VII: What are the CHALLENGES on the Social Web? as part of the Social Web course at the VU University Amsterdam. Visit the website for more information: http://semanticweb.cs.vu.nl/socialweb2012/
Lora Aroyo, The Network Institute, VU University Amsterdam
(some slides based on article by Won Kim, Ok-Ran Jeong and Sang-Won Lee)
The document discusses the importance of technology in libraries and for careers in libraries. It notes that books and the printing press were once new technologies that faced resistance but became widely adopted. It encourages learning about current technologies like web technologies, open source software, and desktop software. Specific tools are described like Facebook, LinkedIn, Firefox, Zotero, WordPress and others to provide examples. The document emphasizes teaching technologies to students in an enthusiastic way tailored to their needs and allowing time for hands-on learning and exploration.
WiserEarth Indonesia (@WiserIndonesia)WiserEarth .
The document summarizes WiserEarth, a non-profit global online platform that connects individuals, communities, and organizations working on sustainability issues. The platform features issue areas, organization and event directories, social networking tools, and discussion groups. It aims to help users globally and locally connect, share knowledge and resources, and collaborate to work towards a just and sustainable future. An upcoming event is the WiserEarth Indonesia monthly gathering on July 23rd in Jakarta to enable offline networking and collaboration among local users.
This document provides an agenda for two upcoming sessions on May 13th and 20th about using the internet and web resources. The May 13th session will discuss what youth can teach about internet use and the affordances of the web, including demos and questions. The May 20th session will cover a taxonomy of the soul in cyberspace, including enhancing place-bound churches, substituting the internet for in-person activities, and native religious internet activities. The document also outlines different levels of technological capability and lists various internet resources and social networks that could be discussed.
Network Effectiveness Presentation: Packard Working Session, May 27guest504cd
This document provides an overview of a working session on network effectiveness for Packard Foundation grantees. It discusses different types of networks and structures, characteristics of healthy networks, examples of how networks have been used to solve problems at scale, and lessons learned about working in a networked way ("working wikily"). Key points covered include decentralization, emergent strategies, openness and transparency, balancing top-down and bottom-up approaches, and designing experiments around problems rather than tools. Network mapping is presented as a tool for understanding network structures and flows.
[2012 07-01] wiki socium - open projects fundAlena Popova
WikiSocium is a proposed online platform to provide solutions to social problems through a wiki-style collection of step-by-step instructions. It aims to create a knowledge base of answers to "what can I do?" questions on issues like housing, utilities, roads, consumer rights and law. The platform would make social engagement as simple and convenient as possible to motivate more people and allow the knowledge base to grow through wiki mechanisms. It faces challenges in developing functionality, usability, and virality to become a scalable solution. The founders are seeking sponsorship to develop a full-featured version over the next 6 months at an estimated cost of 1.5 million rubles.
Lecture 1: Social Web Introduction (2012)Lora Aroyo
This is the first lecture in the Social Web course (2012) at the VU University Amsterdam
Visit the website for more information: http://semanticweb.cs.vu.nl/socialweb2012/
Thanks to Julita Vassileva and Peter Brusilovsky for letting me adopt slides from their lectures
Koios - Collective Intelligence and Crowd sourcing for public goodRoy Lachica
The document proposes a crowdsourcing platform called Koios to harness the cognitive surplus of internet users to collectively solve difficult social problems through structured collaboration and by leveraging theories of systems thinking, collective intelligence, and other problem solving approaches; while challenges remain in design, participation, and quality control, the platform aims to make problem solving more efficient by coordinating efforts online through shared tools, data, and workflows.
High Order Bit - Architecture for Humanitykkjjkevin03
Architecture for Humanity is an organization that provides design solutions for social and humanitarian crises. They have over 3,700 members working on over 300 projects globally. Their approach embraces community design principles like removing participation barriers and prioritizing the needs of those affected. Their openarchitecturenetwork.org site allows over 100,000 visitors to browse, vote on, contribute to and collaborate on projects using a diverse array of files uploaded by members. Their sustainable open community model leverages Web 2.0 technologies to facilitate innovative, situation-appropriate design solutions.
Knowledge Weaving for Social Innovation: Laying the First StrandCommunitySense
Society consists of a web of interconnected communities. A large body of research and practice exists on how to make communities work. Still, the intersection and interaction of multiple communities - the development and use of their inter-communal commons - is ill-understood. Social innovation is the process in which relevant stakeholders jointly develop solutions to wicked problems that none of them can solve on their own. As such, it is a prime example of the need for multiple stakeholder communities collaborating. We propose a process for building a networked community-commons called knowledge weaving. This is a reflective sensemaking effort in which existing communal knowledge sharing practices, initiatives, and resources are tied together into coherent commons-based knowledge fabrics that support intercommunal collaboration, such as for social innovation. We illustrate the approach with the case of the European Social Innovation Week 2015 pre-events.
I would DiYSE for it! A manifesto for do-it-yourself internet-of-things creationDries De Roeck
This document presents a manifesto for creating a do-it-yourself internet-of-things system called DiYSE. The manifesto is based on insights from qualitative research with users. It outlines 6 principles for DiYSE: 1) Support meaningful experiences, 2) Support different levels of technical expertise, 3) Empower users to be in control, 4) Provide an ecosystem to support idea creation not just programming, 5) Connect the digital and physical worlds, and 6) Be a system that allows users to easily start and stop projects. The goal of DiYSE is to make internet-of-things creation accessible to more than just technical experts by offering different levels of technical abstraction.
A Visual View of Human Computation Models / Crowdsourcingarepb
This document presents a new visual model for understanding crowdsourcing and human computation projects. It maps several major projects on axes related to taxonomy openness, contributor accessibility, and consumption view. These include the Encyclopedia of Life, Quora, Stack Overflow, Galaxy Zoo, reCAPTCHA, Games With a Purpose, and Duolingo. It identifies models for singular big data challenges that involve closed taxonomies, novice contributors, and curated views, as well as models for diverse content platforms that feature more open taxonomies, multiple contributor types, and curated consumption.
Must Everyone in the Community Participate?Hizrah Muchtar
This is a presentation that prepared as one of seminars for "B08-Participatory Process for Urban Transformation". B08 is one of the modules of master course on Building & Urban Design in Development (BUDD) at Development Planning Unit - University College London (DPU-UCL) in 2002.
This document discusses building digital communities through public libraries. It provides an overview of several initiatives focused on digital inclusion, such as the Building Digital Communities framework and the Edge Initiative. The framework aims to help communities achieve digital inclusion in areas like education, health care, and civic engagement. The Edge Initiative establishes aspirational benchmarks for high-quality public access technology services in libraries. The document discusses strategies libraries can use to implement these initiatives, including forming partnerships, leaving their buildings, and understanding community needs through assessments. It emphasizes that achieving digital inclusion takes time and may require resources like those provided through TechSoup.
The document outlines Bryan Jackson's presentation on social media strategy. It discusses establishing a vision and goals, analyzing audience and engagement metrics, crafting targeted messaging, selecting platforms, and measuring results. The presentation provides tips on listening to customers, sharing content regularly, and adapting the strategy based on performance.
Ivanti’s Patch Tuesday breakdown goes beyond patching your applications and brings you the intelligence and guidance needed to prioritize where to focus your attention first. Catch early analysis on our Ivanti blog, then join industry expert Chris Goettl for the Patch Tuesday Webinar Event. There we’ll do a deep dive into each of the bulletins and give guidance on the risks associated with the newly-identified vulnerabilities.
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
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.
In the realm of cybersecurity, offensive security practices act as a critical shield. By simulating real-world attacks in a controlled environment, these techniques expose vulnerabilities before malicious actors can exploit them. This proactive approach allows manufacturers to identify and fix weaknesses, significantly enhancing system security.
This presentation delves into the development of a system designed to mimic Galileo's Open Service signal using software-defined radio (SDR) technology. We'll begin with a foundational overview of both Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and the intricacies of digital signal processing.
The presentation culminates in a live demonstration. We'll showcase the manipulation of Galileo's Open Service pilot signal, simulating an attack on various software and hardware systems. This practical demonstration serves to highlight the potential consequences of unaddressed vulnerabilities, emphasizing the importance of offensive security practices in safeguarding critical infrastructure.
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!
Freshworks Rethinks NoSQL for Rapid Scaling & Cost-EfficiencyScyllaDB
Freshworks creates AI-boosted business software that helps employees work more efficiently and effectively. Managing data across multiple RDBMS and NoSQL databases was already a challenge at their current scale. To prepare for 10X growth, they knew it was time to rethink their database strategy. Learn how they architected a solution that would simplify scaling while keeping costs under control.
Generating privacy-protected synthetic data using Secludy and MilvusZilliz
During this demo, the founders of Secludy will demonstrate how their system utilizes Milvus to store and manipulate embeddings for generating privacy-protected synthetic data. Their approach not only maintains the confidentiality of the original data but also enhances the utility and scalability of LLMs under privacy constraints. Attendees, including machine learning engineers, data scientists, and data managers, will witness first-hand how Secludy's integration with Milvus empowers organizations to harness the power of LLMs securely and efficiently.
FREE A4 Cyber Security Awareness Posters-Social Engineering part 3Data Hops
Free A4 downloadable and printable Cyber Security, Social Engineering Safety and security Training Posters . Promote security awareness in the home or workplace. Lock them Out From training providers datahops.com
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.
Driving Business Innovation: Latest Generative AI Advancements & Success StorySafe Software
Are you ready to revolutionize how you handle data? Join us for a webinar where we’ll bring you up to speed with the latest advancements in Generative AI technology and discover how leveraging FME with tools from giants like Google Gemini, Amazon, and Microsoft OpenAI can supercharge your workflow efficiency.
During the hour, we’ll take you through:
Guest Speaker Segment with Hannah Barrington: Dive into the world of dynamic real estate marketing with Hannah, the Marketing Manager at Workspace Group. Hear firsthand how their team generates engaging descriptions for thousands of office units by integrating diverse data sources—from PDF floorplans to web pages—using FME transformers, like OpenAIVisionConnector and AnthropicVisionConnector. This use case will show you how GenAI can streamline content creation for marketing across the board.
Ollama Use Case: Learn how Scenario Specialist Dmitri Bagh has utilized Ollama within FME to input data, create custom models, and enhance security protocols. This segment will include demos to illustrate the full capabilities of FME in AI-driven processes.
Custom AI Models: Discover how to leverage FME to build personalized AI models using your data. Whether it’s populating a model with local data for added security or integrating public AI tools, find out how FME facilitates a versatile and secure approach to AI.
We’ll wrap up with a live Q&A session where you can engage with our experts on your specific use cases, and learn more about optimizing your data workflows with AI.
This webinar is ideal for professionals seeking to harness the power of AI within their data management systems while ensuring high levels of customization and security. Whether you're a novice or an expert, gain actionable insights and strategies to elevate your data processes. Join us to see how FME and AI can revolutionize how you work with data!
HCL Notes und Domino Lizenzkostenreduzierung in der Welt von DLAUpanagenda
Webinar Recording: https://www.panagenda.com/webinars/hcl-notes-und-domino-lizenzkostenreduzierung-in-der-welt-von-dlau/
DLAU und die Lizenzen nach dem CCB- und CCX-Modell sind für viele in der HCL-Community seit letztem Jahr ein heißes Thema. Als Notes- oder Domino-Kunde haben Sie vielleicht mit unerwartet hohen Benutzerzahlen und Lizenzgebühren zu kämpfen. Sie fragen sich vielleicht, wie diese neue Art der Lizenzierung funktioniert und welchen Nutzen sie Ihnen bringt. Vor allem wollen Sie sicherlich Ihr Budget einhalten und Kosten sparen, wo immer möglich. Das verstehen wir und wir möchten Ihnen dabei helfen!
Wir erklären Ihnen, wie Sie häufige Konfigurationsprobleme lösen können, die dazu führen können, dass mehr Benutzer gezählt werden als nötig, und wie Sie überflüssige oder ungenutzte Konten identifizieren und entfernen können, um Geld zu sparen. Es gibt auch einige Ansätze, die zu unnötigen Ausgaben führen können, z. B. wenn ein Personendokument anstelle eines Mail-Ins für geteilte Mailboxen verwendet wird. Wir zeigen Ihnen solche Fälle und deren Lösungen. Und natürlich erklären wir Ihnen das neue Lizenzmodell.
Nehmen Sie an diesem Webinar teil, bei dem HCL-Ambassador Marc Thomas und Gastredner Franz Walder Ihnen diese neue Welt näherbringen. Es vermittelt Ihnen die Tools und das Know-how, um den Überblick zu bewahren. Sie werden in der Lage sein, Ihre Kosten durch eine optimierte Domino-Konfiguration zu reduzieren und auch in Zukunft gering zu halten.
Diese Themen werden behandelt
- Reduzierung der Lizenzkosten durch Auffinden und Beheben von Fehlkonfigurationen und überflüssigen Konten
- Wie funktionieren CCB- und CCX-Lizenzen wirklich?
- Verstehen des DLAU-Tools und wie man es am besten nutzt
- Tipps für häufige Problembereiche, wie z. B. Team-Postfächer, Funktions-/Testbenutzer usw.
- Praxisbeispiele und Best Practices zum sofortigen Umsetzen
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.
Digital Banking in the Cloud: How Citizens Bank Unlocked Their MainframePrecisely
Inconsistent user experience and siloed data, high costs, and changing customer expectations – Citizens Bank was experiencing these challenges while it was attempting to deliver a superior digital banking experience for its clients. Its core banking applications run on the mainframe and Citizens was using legacy utilities to get the critical mainframe data to feed customer-facing channels, like call centers, web, and mobile. Ultimately, this led to higher operating costs (MIPS), delayed response times, and longer time to market.
Ever-changing customer expectations demand more modern digital experiences, and the bank needed to find a solution that could provide real-time data to its customer channels with low latency and operating costs. Join this session to learn how Citizens is leveraging Precisely to replicate mainframe data to its customer channels and deliver on their “modern digital bank” experiences.
[OReilly Superstream] Occupy the Space: A grassroots guide to engineering (an...Jason Yip
The typical problem in product engineering is not bad strategy, so much as “no strategy”. This leads to confusion, lack of motivation, and incoherent action. The next time you look for a strategy and find an empty space, instead of waiting for it to be filled, I will show you how to fill it in yourself. If you’re wrong, it forces a correction. If you’re right, it helps create focus. I’ll share how I’ve approached this in the past, both what works and lessons for what didn’t work so well.
4. Community Tools
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Homepage
Gallery &
News Events Forum Documents
Everyblock
Community
Ideas Places &
Stuff (Extend)
& Problems Services
Fixmystreet Ushahidi Google, Facebook Shareables, Freecycle
Groupware
Mapping
Members Groups Notifications Map
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5. Best for
• Local communities
Know your neighbour
Work together for better neighbourhood
• Local municipalities
Collecting problems and ideas
Also used by
• Corporate clusters
• Interest based communities Community Tools
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16. Unique
• Various tools integrated into
one solution
• Packaged software
built for wider audience
• Based on Drupal
Open source, GPL
Community Tools
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18. Community Tools 2
Dev status and plans
• New user interface
• Built from ground up on nex gen
technlogy: Drupal 7
• Mobile friendly
• Extendibility
• Cooperation with Transition Towns
and Community Forge
• Released May 2012
• Building Open Data aggregator
and plugins
Community Tools
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19. Thank you!
• www.communitytools.info
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