This was presented by Kersti Ruth Wissenbach from the University of Amsterdam at the Impacts of Civic Technology Conference (TICTeC2016) in Barcelona on 27th April. You can find out more information about the conference here: https://www.mysociety.org/research/tictec-2016/
Amplifying citizen voices and driving civic tech usage through mainstream mediamysociety
This was presented by Justin Arenstein from Code for
Africa at the Impacts of Civic Technology Conference (TICTeC2016) in Barcelona on 27th April. You can find out more information about the conference here: https://www.mysociety.org/research/tictec-2016/
Impacts of Government-Led Civic Tech: US Citiesmysociety
This was presented by Emily Shaw from mySociety at the Impacts of Civic Technology Conference (TICTeC2016) in Barcelona on 27th April. You can find out more information about the conference here: https://www.mysociety.org/research/tictec-2016/
What is Civic Tech: Toward finalizing a basic framework so that we can move o...mysociety
This was presented by Micah Syfry (Civic Hall), Matt Stempeck (Microsoft) and Erin Simpson (Civic Hall Labs) at the Impacts of Civic Technology Conference (TICTeC2016) in Barcelona on 27th April. You can find out more information about the conference here: https://www.mysociety.org/research/tictec-2016/
This was presented by Kate Krontiris (Omidyar
Network, USA) at the Impacts of Civic Technology Conference (TICTeC2016) in Barcelona on 27th April. You can find out more information about the conference here: https://www.mysociety.org/research/tictec-2016/
February 2014 update: Since publishing our original report in December, 2013, we've received dozens of emails from peers in the budding civic tech community proposing additions. On Feb. 26, we released an updated version of the civic tech investment analysis, which includes an additional 34 companies and $265 million of investment. Find out more at http://kng.ht/1cPi3Ar.
Investments by private capital funders and foundations in technology that spurs citizen engagement, improves cities and makes governments more effective is growing significantly, with more than $430 million going to the field between January 2011 and May 2013, according to a major report released today by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
The first report of its kind, “The Emergence of Civic Tech: Investments in a Growing Field,” provides an in-depth analysis of the current state of private capital and foundation investments in civic technology. It aims to help organizations and investors better understand civic tech funding, so that they can strengthen their work and help shape the field. The analysis applies a new approach to research and advances the use of data in the social sector; it showcases an interactive data visualization map that allows users to explore investments across multiple areas of civic tech. Find out more at www.knightfoundation.org/features/civictech
Micah Sifry, Erin Simpson, and Matt Stempeck present a field guide to civic tech at The Impacts of Civic Technology Conference at the Barcelona World Trade Center, April 2016.
Newsout: 30 examples of government transparencyBill Densmore
"E-Democracy Meets E-Journalism: How the Net can support local and state governance and citizen engagement." In a presentation delivered Sat., March 21, 2009 at the Newsout.org symposium in Boston, by Stephen Clift, founder and board chair, www.E-Democracy.Org, provides 30 examples of ways governments can provide public information in transparent and useful ways via the Internet.
Amplifying citizen voices and driving civic tech usage through mainstream mediamysociety
This was presented by Justin Arenstein from Code for
Africa at the Impacts of Civic Technology Conference (TICTeC2016) in Barcelona on 27th April. You can find out more information about the conference here: https://www.mysociety.org/research/tictec-2016/
Impacts of Government-Led Civic Tech: US Citiesmysociety
This was presented by Emily Shaw from mySociety at the Impacts of Civic Technology Conference (TICTeC2016) in Barcelona on 27th April. You can find out more information about the conference here: https://www.mysociety.org/research/tictec-2016/
What is Civic Tech: Toward finalizing a basic framework so that we can move o...mysociety
This was presented by Micah Syfry (Civic Hall), Matt Stempeck (Microsoft) and Erin Simpson (Civic Hall Labs) at the Impacts of Civic Technology Conference (TICTeC2016) in Barcelona on 27th April. You can find out more information about the conference here: https://www.mysociety.org/research/tictec-2016/
This was presented by Kate Krontiris (Omidyar
Network, USA) at the Impacts of Civic Technology Conference (TICTeC2016) in Barcelona on 27th April. You can find out more information about the conference here: https://www.mysociety.org/research/tictec-2016/
February 2014 update: Since publishing our original report in December, 2013, we've received dozens of emails from peers in the budding civic tech community proposing additions. On Feb. 26, we released an updated version of the civic tech investment analysis, which includes an additional 34 companies and $265 million of investment. Find out more at http://kng.ht/1cPi3Ar.
Investments by private capital funders and foundations in technology that spurs citizen engagement, improves cities and makes governments more effective is growing significantly, with more than $430 million going to the field between January 2011 and May 2013, according to a major report released today by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
The first report of its kind, “The Emergence of Civic Tech: Investments in a Growing Field,” provides an in-depth analysis of the current state of private capital and foundation investments in civic technology. It aims to help organizations and investors better understand civic tech funding, so that they can strengthen their work and help shape the field. The analysis applies a new approach to research and advances the use of data in the social sector; it showcases an interactive data visualization map that allows users to explore investments across multiple areas of civic tech. Find out more at www.knightfoundation.org/features/civictech
Micah Sifry, Erin Simpson, and Matt Stempeck present a field guide to civic tech at The Impacts of Civic Technology Conference at the Barcelona World Trade Center, April 2016.
Newsout: 30 examples of government transparencyBill Densmore
"E-Democracy Meets E-Journalism: How the Net can support local and state governance and citizen engagement." In a presentation delivered Sat., March 21, 2009 at the Newsout.org symposium in Boston, by Stephen Clift, founder and board chair, www.E-Democracy.Org, provides 30 examples of ways governments can provide public information in transparent and useful ways via the Internet.
Out of the spreadsheet and into the community: finding data-driven stories wi...mysociety
This was presented by Rahul Bhargava from MIT at the Impacts of Civic Technology Conference (TICTeC2016) in Barcelona on 27th April. You can find out more information about the conference here: https://www.mysociety.org/research/tictec-2016/
By Laurenellen McCann. Edited by Daniel X. O’Neil.
Experimental Modes of Civic Engagement
in Civic Tech is an investigation into what
it means to build civic technology with, not for, real people and real communities. It answers the question, “What’s the difference between sentiment and action?”
The project was conducted by Laurenellen McCann, and it deepens her work in needs- responsive, community-driven processes for creating technology for public good.
This is a project of the Smart Chicago Collaborative, a civic organization devoted to improving lives in Chicago through technology. It was funded by a Knight Community Information Challenge Deep Dive grant given to The Chicago Community Trust by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
Mobile News Notifications: A Two-wave Experiment with Smartphone UsersKnight Foundation
With the proliferation of smartphones and the ability to send
mobile news notifications …
• Do notifications have an economic benefit for newsrooms? Do they drive traffic to the news app or to the news site?
• Do notifications have a democratic benefit? Do they inform the public or simply provide information that could have been learned elsewhere?
Engaging Times - We are the Engagement Generation (Online)Steven Clift
A fresh keynote to the Consultation Institute annual conference in London. 5 key lessons from 20 years of e-democracy and 3 major themes for the next decade. (And two more bonus themes in slides only.)
To schedule an updated version of this speech, contact Steven Clift: http://stevenclift.com
Live/updated Google Slides version from: http://e-democracy.org/learn
Designing for digital democracy - Amelia Loye (engage2)mysociety
This was presented by Amelia Loye from engage2 at the Impacts of Civic Technology Conference (TICTeC 2017) in Florence on 26th April. You can find out more information about the conference here: http://tictec.mysociety.org
How open data and social media can work together to solve some of government's big problems. (Presented to the California Democratic Party Internet Caucus at Stanford University, Feb. 5, 2011.)
Out of the spreadsheet and into the community: finding data-driven stories wi...mysociety
This was presented by Rahul Bhargava from MIT at the Impacts of Civic Technology Conference (TICTeC2016) in Barcelona on 27th April. You can find out more information about the conference here: https://www.mysociety.org/research/tictec-2016/
By Laurenellen McCann. Edited by Daniel X. O’Neil.
Experimental Modes of Civic Engagement
in Civic Tech is an investigation into what
it means to build civic technology with, not for, real people and real communities. It answers the question, “What’s the difference between sentiment and action?”
The project was conducted by Laurenellen McCann, and it deepens her work in needs- responsive, community-driven processes for creating technology for public good.
This is a project of the Smart Chicago Collaborative, a civic organization devoted to improving lives in Chicago through technology. It was funded by a Knight Community Information Challenge Deep Dive grant given to The Chicago Community Trust by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
Mobile News Notifications: A Two-wave Experiment with Smartphone UsersKnight Foundation
With the proliferation of smartphones and the ability to send
mobile news notifications …
• Do notifications have an economic benefit for newsrooms? Do they drive traffic to the news app or to the news site?
• Do notifications have a democratic benefit? Do they inform the public or simply provide information that could have been learned elsewhere?
Engaging Times - We are the Engagement Generation (Online)Steven Clift
A fresh keynote to the Consultation Institute annual conference in London. 5 key lessons from 20 years of e-democracy and 3 major themes for the next decade. (And two more bonus themes in slides only.)
To schedule an updated version of this speech, contact Steven Clift: http://stevenclift.com
Live/updated Google Slides version from: http://e-democracy.org/learn
Designing for digital democracy - Amelia Loye (engage2)mysociety
This was presented by Amelia Loye from engage2 at the Impacts of Civic Technology Conference (TICTeC 2017) in Florence on 26th April. You can find out more information about the conference here: http://tictec.mysociety.org
How open data and social media can work together to solve some of government's big problems. (Presented to the California Democratic Party Internet Caucus at Stanford University, Feb. 5, 2011.)
Presentation used for a seminar at the Jagiellonian University of Cracow (PL).
It provided an introduction to the field of Technopolitics and eParticipation as a research domain.
Presentation included several videos and a lot of animations. It is therefore recommended to download it.
Blocked by YouTube - Unseen digital intermediation for social imaginaries in ...University of Sydney
YouTube is one of the most globally utilised online content sharing sites, enabling new commercial enterprise, education opportunities and facilities for vernacular creativity (Burgess, 2006). Its user engagement demonstrates significant capacity to develop online communities, alongside its arguably more popular use as a distribution platform to monetise one’s branded self (Senft, 2013). However, as a subset of Alphabet Incorporated, its access is often restricted by governments of Asian Pacific countries who disagree with the ideology of the business. Despite this, online communities thrive in these countries, bringing into question the sorts of augmentations used by its participants. This article reframes the discussion beyond restrictive regulation to focus on the DIY approach (augmentation) of community building through the use of hidden infrastructures (algorithms). This comparative study of key YouTube channels in several Asia Pacific countries highlights the sorts of techniques that bypass limiting infrastructures to boost online community engagement and growth. Lastly, this article reframes the significance of digital intermediation to highlight the opportunities key agents contribute to strengthening social imaginaries within the Asia Pacific region.
The Adoption of Social Network Sites for Expressive Participation in Internet...BO TRUE ACTIVITIES SL
The present study is an initial effort to develop a model that explores how uses of ICTs, particularly SNSs, foster expressive forms of participation that result in civic participation. In doing so, we attempt to investigate the acceptance and use of SNSs by members’ e-movements and SMOs and whether these uses turn results in a host of traditional or offline civic participatory behaviours. A theoretical model is proposed and justified, albeit not empirically validated. Thus, representing an opportunity for future research. The ideas extracted from the discussion should be a help for citizens to create social movements on the Internet. In this regard, numerous practical reflections and suggestions are presented.
Note:
Interactivity and animation are lost when the slides are converted to PDF.
Abstract:
In a technological society such as Canada, it is suggested that a specialized kind of expert citizenship is needed (Andrew Feenberg). In the era of big data, others suggest that there is a need to learn how to read algorithms and to study its high priests and alchemists (Genevieve Bell). While, doing citizenship requires a political ethics of technology to thwart technological and quantitative fundamentalism (Darin Barney). Finally, in the midst of a data revolution we need to critically re-conceptualize data (Rob Kitchin). Quite simply, in today's Canada doing citizenship requires data literacy, technical, philosophical and political. Access to print media - books, government documents, academic journals - in libraries and archives enabled a literate society, the prerequisite of a democratic system. I argue that good governance in knowledge producing institutions, is to have technological experts, both data creators and preservers, working to store, manage, disseminate and preserve data so that we have the requisite artifacts to increase our literacy and build upon collected knowledge. Data literacy I suggest, is indispensable in the current democratic system, and that requires having access to data, data infrastructures - knowledge and technology - and dedicated skilled people and resources to sustainably care for them. I consider research data management to be our duty.
Internet and Society: Politics And Democracy 2009James Stewart
Lecture Slides for Internet and Society course and the University of Edinburgh on the topic of the the internet, mobiles, computing and practice and theorisation of politics and democracy
Why aren't Evaluators using Digital Media Analytics?CesToronto
Whether it’s through blogs, tweets, or even the comments section of an online newspaper, the world is increasingly talking online. However, the potential uses for the massive amounts of information available on the internet remain largely untapped in the sphere of evaluation.
This presentation will explore innovative methods to extract these insights from the large and complex collections of digital data publicly available online. In particular, we will examine the unprecedented uses, and potential limitations, of digital media analytics to:
• Measure the outcomes of public outreach, advocacy, communications, and information sharing programs;
• Establish current and retroactive baselines;
• Conduct “borderless” data collection to gain insights from other countries, as well as disapora communities in Canada;
• Identify unknown stakeholder groups and create detailed stakeholder maps; and,
• Provide context and insight to inform further data collection.
Experimental Modes of Civic Engagement in Civic Tech is an investigation into what it means to build civic tech with, not for. It answers the question, "what's the difference between sentiment and action?"
The project led by Laurenellen McCann, and it deepens her work in needs-responsive, community-driven processes for creating technology with real people and real communities for public good.
This project falls under Smart Chicago's work on the Knight Community Information Challenge grant awarded under their Engaged Communities strategy to the Chicago Community Trust "as it builds on its successful Smart Chicago Project, which is taking open government resources directly into neighborhoods through a variety of civic-minded apps"
This document is a compendium of writing by Laurenellen created as a primer for our April 4, 2015 convening at the Chicago Community Trust.
Regulating Access to Information - Alex Parsons, mySociety (UK)mysociety
This was presented at mySociety's TICTeC Show & Tell event, which was held virtually on 28 September 2021. More details on the event can be found here: https://tictec.mysociety.org/showandtells/2021
Watch this space (and pay for it): Alaveteli-driven exposure of the misuse of...mysociety
This was presented at mySociety's TICTeC Show & Tell event, which was held virtually on 28 September 2021. More details on the event can be found here: https://tictec.mysociety.org/showandtells/2021
What are the effects of OpenStreetMapping on the mappers themselves? - Aishwo...mysociety
This was presented at mySociety's TICTeC Show & Tell event, which was held virtually on 25 May 2021. More details on the event can be found here: https://tictec.mysociety.org/showandtells/2021
#PlanTech and the geospatial ecosystem - Ben Fowkes (Delib)mysociety
This was presented at mySociety's TICTeC Show & Tell event, which was held virtually on 25 May 2021. More details on the event can be found here: https://tictec.mysociety.org/showandtells/2021
Open data for local self governance: learnings from five Ukrainian cities - N...mysociety
This was presented at mySociety's TICTeC Show & Tell event, which was held virtually on 25 May 2021. More details on the event can be found here: https://tictec.mysociety.org/showandtells/2021
Digital Champions: community led development monitoring in Tanzania - Janet C...mysociety
This was presented at mySociety's TICTeC Show & Tell event, which was held virtually on 25 May 2021. More details on the event can be found here: https://tictec.mysociety.org/showandtells/2021
Don’t build it: a practical guide for those building Civic Tech - Luke Jordan...mysociety
This was presented at mySociety's TICTeC Show & Tell event, which was held virtually on 20th April 2021. More details on the event can be found here: https://tictec.mysociety.org/showandtells/2021
It takes two: when citizens and Congress Members deliberate online - Samantha...mysociety
This was presented at mySociety's TICTeC Show & Tell event, which was held virtually on 20th April 2021. More details on the event can be found here: https://tictec.mysociety.org/showandtells/2021
Understanding the small hurdles that block community engagement, with behavio...mysociety
This was presented at mySociety's TICTeC Show & Tell event, which was held virtually on 20th April 2021. More details on the event can be found here: https://tictec.mysociety.org/showandtells/2021
Our COVID consultation journey: from a small initiative to the desk of the pr...mysociety
This was presented at mySociety's TICTeC Show & Tell event, which was held virtually on 20th April 2021. More details on the event can be found here: https://tictec.mysociety.org/showandtells/2021
Keeping track of open data in times of political change - David Zamora (Open ...mysociety
This was presented at mySociety's TICTeC Show & Tell event, which was held virtually on 23rd March 2021. More details on the event can be found here: https://tictec.mysociety.org/showandtells/2021
Civic tech vs. illicit pharmacies - Ibraheem Saleem (Code for Pakistan)mysociety
This was presented at mySociety's TICTeC Show & Tell event, which was held virtually on 23rd March 2021. More details on the event can be found here: https://tictec.mysociety.org/showandtells/2021
Find that Charity: a tool to help find charities and improve charity data - D...mysociety
This was presented at mySociety's TICTeC Show & Tell event, which was held virtually on 23rd March 2021. More details on the event can be found here: https://tictec.mysociety.org/showandtells/2021
Civic tech for smartphone beginners: is the future binary? - Arran Leonard (I...mysociety
This was presented at mySociety's TICTeC Show & Tell event, which was held virtually on 23rd March 2021. More details on the event can be found here: https://tictec.mysociety.org/showandtells/2021
How to monitor emergency procurement with open data: lessons from 12 countrie...mysociety
This was presented at mySociety's TICTeC Show & Tell event, which was held virtually on 23rd March 2021. More details on the event can be found here: https://tictec.mysociety.org/showandtells/2021
This was presented at mySociety's TICTeC 2020 conference, which was held virtually on 24th and 25th March 2020. More details on the conference can be found here: https://tictec.mysociety.org/2020
Openly available air quality data: not just blue-sky thinking - Sruti Modekur...mysociety
This was presented at mySociety's TICTeC 2020 conference, which was held virtually on 24th and 25th March 2020. More details on the conference can be found here: https://tictec.mysociety.org/2020
How to last in civic tech (especially now) - Matthew Stempeck & Micah L. Sifr...mysociety
This was presented at mySociety's TICTeC 2020 conference, which was held virtually on 24th and 25th March 2020. More details on the conference can be found here: https://tictec.mysociety.org/2020
Future of tech and democracy at the city of Reykjavík - Sigurlaug Anna Jóhann...mysociety
This was presented at mySociety's TICTeC 2020 conference, which was held virtually on 24th and 25th March 2020. More details on the conference can be found here: https://tictec.mysociety.org/2020
Lessons learned from building democracy’s database - Stacy Henderson (Cicero,...mysociety
This was presented at mySociety's TICTeC 2020 conference, which was held virtually on 24th and 25th March 2020. More details on the conference can be found here: https://tictec.mysociety.org/2020
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
Essentials of Automations: The Art of Triggers and Actions in FMESafe Software
In this second installment of our Essentials of Automations webinar series, we’ll explore the landscape of triggers and actions, guiding you through the nuances of authoring and adapting workspaces for seamless automations. Gain an understanding of the full spectrum of triggers and actions available in FME, empowering you to enhance your workspaces for efficient automation.
We’ll kick things off by showcasing the most commonly used event-based triggers, introducing you to various automation workflows like manual triggers, schedules, directory watchers, and more. Plus, see how these elements play out in real scenarios.
Whether you’re tweaking your current setup or building from the ground up, this session will arm you with the tools and insights needed to transform your FME usage into a powerhouse of productivity. Join us to discover effective strategies that simplify complex processes, enhancing your productivity and transforming your data management practices with FME. Let’s turn complexity into clarity and make your workspaces work wonders!
In his public lecture, Christian Timmerer provides insights into the fascinating history of video streaming, starting from its humble beginnings before YouTube to the groundbreaking technologies that now dominate platforms like Netflix and ORF ON. Timmerer also presents provocative contributions of his own that have significantly influenced the industry. He concludes by looking at future challenges and invites the audience to join in a discussion.
How to Get CNIC Information System with Paksim Ga.pptxdanishmna97
Pakdata Cf is a groundbreaking system designed to streamline and facilitate access to CNIC information. This innovative platform leverages advanced technology to provide users with efficient and secure access to their CNIC details.
Alt. GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using ...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.
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
Unlock the Future of Search with MongoDB Atlas_ Vector Search Unleashed.pdfMalak Abu Hammad
Discover how MongoDB Atlas and vector search technology can revolutionize your application's search capabilities. This comprehensive presentation covers:
* What is Vector Search?
* Importance and benefits of vector search
* Practical use cases across various industries
* Step-by-step implementation guide
* Live demos with code snippets
* Enhancing LLM capabilities with vector search
* Best practices and optimization strategies
Perfect for developers, AI enthusiasts, and tech leaders. Learn how to leverage MongoDB Atlas to deliver highly relevant, context-aware search results, transforming your data retrieval process. Stay ahead in tech innovation and maximize the potential of your applications.
#MongoDB #VectorSearch #AI #SemanticSearch #TechInnovation #DataScience #LLM #MachineLearning #SearchTechnology
Maruthi Prithivirajan, Head of ASEAN & IN Solution Architecture, Neo4j
Get an inside look at the latest Neo4j innovations that enable relationship-driven intelligence at scale. Learn more about the newest cloud integrations and product enhancements that make Neo4j an essential choice for developers building apps with interconnected data and generative AI.
Full-RAG: A modern architecture for hyper-personalizationZilliz
Mike Del Balso, CEO & Co-Founder at Tecton, presents "Full RAG," a novel approach to AI recommendation systems, aiming to push beyond the limitations of traditional models through a deep integration of contextual insights and real-time data, leveraging the Retrieval-Augmented Generation architecture. This talk will outline Full RAG's potential to significantly enhance personalization, address engineering challenges such as data management and model training, and introduce data enrichment with reranking as a key solution. Attendees will gain crucial insights into the importance of hyperpersonalization in AI, the capabilities of Full RAG for advanced personalization, and strategies for managing complex data integrations for deploying cutting-edge AI solutions.
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.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
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.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
Unlocking Productivity: Leveraging the Potential of Copilot in Microsoft 365, a presentation by Christoforos Vlachos, Senior Solutions Manager – Modern Workplace, Uni Systems
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
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
Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
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Data revolution or data divide? Can social movements bring the human back into civic tech?
1. Data revolution or data divide?
Can social movements bring the
human back into civic tech?
TICTeC 2016
Kersti Ruth Wissenbach
@kerstiru
2. 1. How do citizens resist massive data
collection by means of technical
fixes (re-active data activism)?
2. How do social movements use big
data to foster social change (pro-
active data activism)?
3. How does data activism affect the
dynamics of transnational civil
society, and transnational
advocacy networks in particular?
PI Dr. Stefania Milan
Department of Media Studies, University of
Amsterdam
Data Activism: The Politics of Big Data According
to Civil Society
3. Expanding civic tech community or
‚selling out‘ tools?
What happens to civic technologies and activism
networks as they disperse into a ‚development
context‘?
And why do we need a new perspective?
4. Civic Tech for this research
Civic
Tech
Activism
• Coding, design, advocacy skills to a cause they
are effected by or feel strongly about
• Empower active citizenry from within the civic
sphere
Transparency and
accountability
Open data
open government
Own creation &
utilization of - new /
localizable
communication
means (data, ICTs)
Trans-local /
trans-national
networksField of action
Direct action
Expansion into
developing
environments
5. ‚Starting points‘
• In development context civic tech and community ‘separated’
– focus on tech implementation [by development agencies] rather
than community
• NGOs acting ‘on behalf of’ local civil society may prevent
growth of civic tech community towards more contextual
action repertoires, diversity, inclusive growth
– Disconnect between wider thematic expertise and related
approaches (inclusion/ participation) and contemporary TA, open
government work?
• Civic tech field risking to replicate patterns of older tech-
deterministic approaches?
– Discourse (not action) around defining civic tech seems to replicate
concerns around tech-domination and limited attention towards
communication and community the ICT4D community has already
processed. (McCann 2015)
6. It‘s about power, not tools
Potential power shifts – civic driven (local, national, transnational)
• ‘Genuine bottom-up expression of public will’
• Removing hierarchies and intermediaries > direct governance
• Building and utilization technologies to open up civil society space
• Strength through community building and mutual support across localities
How does an active community expand, rather than their tools?
• Who is represented in data? [‚data scientists are not social scientists‘ (Taylor 2015)]
• Who is involved in utilization of data, tools, etc.?
• Hierarchies within networks?
• What form of participation is power?
Counter-act prevailing power structures > focus on the
definition and enactment of the civic
7. Change perspective, not the label
MOVEMENTS AS NEW ‚FUNDING TARGET‘? > pressing social
movements into conventional structures but what if the structure is
rotten?
‘RE-LABELING’ = New terms old practises
ISOLATING DIGITAL DIVIDE FROM BROADER PROBLEM OF THE
DEVELOPMENT DIVIDE
Meta discourse: UNESCO, ITU to WSIS [‘there has never been a power shift
(Hamelink: 2016)]
Academia: Development Communication, ICT4D, stagnation?
Practise: Participatory tech hype? / cleavages btw activists, NGOs, donors;
Limitation in organizational structures
10. Mapping the field
Expose links to wider
movements/
transnational
engagements
Grassroots
activism
individuals
organisations
events
democracy/pow
er
ICT4D
data
tools
participation/ag
ency
contexts
information
Development
Communication Participatory
approaches
Citizen media
platforms
(users)
Civic Tech
Activism
tools
Dependency
Modernization
Theories
Behaviour
change
Information
Communication
dialogue
People vs. Media
centred
Mass media
Paradigmatic
challenge to
development
TA (open
government / data)
Technocratic/magic
bullet vs
integrative/particip.
approach
Civic
collective
action
capacities
open
ICT4D
democracy
participation
inclusion
open
development
Social
Movement
Theory
Process
Action
repertoires
Collective
identity
Opportunity
structures
(Emancipatory
Communication)
Activism
11. Baack, S.( 2015) Network tool: Gephi
Contributors
(Github)
Followers (Github)
users
strategists
makers
Civic Tech Activism > How does
collectivity unfold, not technology?
tools
tactics
dialogue
12. What is the nature of collective action
in transnational Civic Tech Activism?
1. What are the action repertoires of civic tech
activists?
2. How is collective identity in the field of civic
tech activism created?
3. Is there a relation between the action
repertoire of civic tech activists and the
formation of a collective identity?
13. Collective Action
Socially constructed field of shared action
Civic organizing + Developing & utilizing
tools and tactics for
socio-political
goal
Civic Tech
Activism
Individuals,
organisations, events
Action
Repertoires
(tools, tactics,
communication,
etc.)
Opportunity
Structures
(political,
cultural, etc.)
Identity
formation
(individual /
collective)
Emotions,
values, etc.
15. With the concepts and tools of SMR it will be analysed
• How civic tech activists make sense of their
involvement
• How the individual interacts with the collective > to
what extend technology is able to shape such
interaction
• How shared values and principles are translated into
practice (action repertoires)
• If they transcend [as tools travel]
16. Contribution to the field
• Respond to lacking empirical evidence as to why
increased ICT-accessibility on its own should drive
democracy and civic participation
• Contribute to fill research gap on civic tech activism (vs
tools /users)
• Provide new, civic-centred theoretical approach to the
field > social movement lens (people and process focus
(communication)
– Not addressed in ICT4D research
– Stagnation in Development Communication research
– socio-political activities in developing countries don‘t need to be
linked to development theory and repertoire of approaches
17. Methodology
Required data Method
Civic Tech Activists
Opportunity structures, identity formation, action repertoire
Concept
use and interpretation of civic tech terminology
Literature / document analysis
Digital methods: Issue crawler
Survey among civic tech networks
Structure
geographic, demographic
Network mapping: data repositories, online groups
Survey: mailing lists / google groups, CT organisations
Group dynamics / engagement patterns
creation, maintenance, expansion of networks;
Challenges; Ways of organizing, patterns/levels of
internal/external engagement
Language, cultures of communicating, etc.
Observation: online and offline gatherings
Interviews: individual activists, community managers
from civic tech organizations
Contexts (motivational, personal)
Reasons for engagement, triggers for involvement
personal contexts
Feeling of belonging (local, national, transnational)
Surveys: mailing lists
Semi-structured interviews: during events, online
Observation: civic tech events
18. Methodology
Required data Method
Civic Tech Activists
Action repertoires
Toos and tactics
Strategies
Communication practices (outreach and
engagement)
Interviews: activists, community managers, potential
project staff of tool utilization
Civic Technologies (within action repertoire)
Technologies built
where, by whom, why
Digital mapping: Githhub scraping
Interviews: civic tech activists and organisations
Utilization of civic tech
where by whom, how, why
Implementing parties, strategies, collaboration
patterns
Document analysis: Collection and analysis of project
documentation / project strategies
Interviews: implementing entities
creation and utilization of data and informational and communication technologies (ICTs) by activists to serve the public good
basically activism rooted practices are pressed into conventional tech-determinsistic development cooperation structures. Why not considering what would happen if the community, rather than its tools would expand on a transnational scale.
What would make the difference in comparison to what is happening now?
The potential for these platforms to invigorate citizen engagement, increase transparency, and broaden public debate has been recognised not only by those in civil society, but by governments, by development agencies, and by philanthropists.
Focus on platforms
Me: focus on processes citizen engagement from both sites > in creating tech and engaging with it (not for the tech but with the process the tech facilitates)
‘The rise of civic technology in this new millennium has been organic and profound. It has not been led by politicians or corporations, nor by powerful knowledge-rich institutions or NGOs, but by individuals and loosely constituted groups with specific digital expertise and an interest in getting things done. Such individuals are not normally considered to be on the cutting edge of political and practical behaviour change. ‘ (Rumbul 2015, mySociety)
Social Movement Lens = Taking a radical different approach towards how to address civic dynamics and potentials in regards to opening up civil society space, local, translocal, transnational
Shifting the narrative > opposing the practice of sticking new labels on existing structures (redirecting funding but within same old ways)
>> so to be clear my intention is NOT to promote the shift within development cooperation to shift to another ‚target‘ (funding movements?)
.. And talking about movements.. Movements are not ‚the new thing‘... They have always been there, they have always been funded and there is much contestation about how to define and categorize movements.. Not uncritizised..
So a social movement lens is not about movements as ‚the new target‘ but about looking into a methodological repertoire which may help to overcome decades of stagnation in moving from discourse to serious shifts in practise (and power)
TO clarify > I am NOT promoting to support movements since this is sth easy to say but not as straight forward to do
Contested field > what is a movement?
Protest movements usually no agenda
Bigger movements are a conglomerate of individuals, orgs etc.. So if going via the bigger orgs.. You might run into the same trouble than before and so we have to think beyond conventional structures and not whom to fund next in the same old way!
TA, later open government and open data
Buzzword
Conceptual vagueness and methodological weaknesses
For civic tech community that means
Transcending community’s ‘collective identity’ not homogeneous groups technological outreach
Stronger cross-disciplinary community structure (not only tech)
Engaging with actors experienced in engaging marginalised communities
Epistemology of action
Move away from a tech-centric perspective on how people use new technologies or collect data towards how people construct collective identity in action and produce unity out of diverse elements of action.
Shifts away from a subject-object separation within change processes, focusing on the direct relation of people’s integrity with certain contexts for political will formation and engagement. It served as the base for several conceptualisations of identity formation within new social movement studies (Huesca 2001).
Approach recognizes the role of transforming identity prior to action and therefore deems both inseparable, seeing the participation in certain movements based on interests bound to own identities. Equally does it recognize the effect of increasing exposure to global challenges (in political contexts) on the (re)formation of identity and therefore transformation of the sense of belonging.
Academia and practise continuously fall short on the recognition of context-relevance and opportunities in direct correlation with the role of identity formation and community building, especially towards the fringes of society, for socio-political engagement
Utilization of data and ICTs within change processes > dominantly addressed within Communication for Change but falling short on recognition of contemporary transformations of human realities and the role of identity formations therein as well as the significant citizen-built and driven character of new ICTs
A relevant concept with the greatest success in ‘defining the properties of the external environment, relevant to the development of social movements’ > political opportunity structures (Della Porta and Diani 2006). However, a broader approach towards opportunity structures, including net-politics, tech-infrastructural and cultural opportunities would be required and would respond to the major criticism towards the political process approach, namely the distinction between “objective” reality and its social construction (Berger and Luckmann 1966).
Tech-centric approach dominating social movement studies and its scholarly fashion of quantitative data analysis has moved the question of collective identity below the radar of digital activism discourse (Gerbaudo and Treré 2015). Despite explorations of new media and collective identity (Milan 2015, Kavada 2015), attention to ICT-related exclusion of entire civil society sectors remains underserved.
Network Analysis of entities involved in Tech4TA
Semi-structured interviews (activists from sampled transnational civic tech communities, disconnected local civic-tech initiatives, organisational bodies of more structured civic tech networks, sample NGO practitioners and local partners)
Ethnographic / E-ethnographic research of sample civic tech communities and their (virtual) interactions (events and hangouts) through participatory observation in order to explore community cultures and collective identities.
Action research bringing together actors from civic tech and NGOs side in order to co-evaluate main obstacles for collaboration.