Presentation given at UN-REDD 'Building capacities for REDD+' side event.
RECOFTC – The Center for People and Forests, with financial and advisory support from the Global UN-REDD Programme through the United Nations Environment Programme, assessed the strengths and identified the gaps in the capacity building services being provided in a sample of Asia-Pacific countries against their REDD+ readiness needs. Recommendations were then given on how to improve the REDD+ capacity building process in the region.
Presentation given at UN-REDD 'Building capacities for REDD+' side event.
RECOFTC – The Center for People and Forests, with financial and advisory support from the Global UN-REDD Programme through the United Nations Environment Programme, assessed the strengths and identified the gaps in the capacity building services being provided in a sample of Asia-Pacific countries against their REDD+ readiness needs. Recommendations were then given on how to improve the REDD+ capacity building process in the region.
Case Study: Developing a truly integrated media measurement system in support...Arturo Romboli
In 2014, UNICEF’ Executive Director approved a new Global Communication and Public Advocacy Strategy (2014-2017) that is grounded in the organization’s fundamental conviction that all children have an equal right to survive, thrive and fulfil their potential – to the benefit of their societies and a more equitable world. To help translate that conviction into resources and action for children, UNICEF understood that it must build a more coordinated, consistent and cutting-edge global communication and public advocacy operation that both embraces and leads change. This is the first time UNICEF developed such an ambitious and global communication and public advocacy strategy. No one has done it before.
This presentation was provided by Lombe Tembo of ORCID, during the NISO Hot Topic Virtual Conference "Building an Equitable, Global Research Community." The event was held on October 26, 2022.
Case Study: UNICEF Global Integrated Media Monitoring Programme Lessons learn...Arturo Romboli
In August 2015, UNICEF Executive Director, Anthony Lake, approved a new Global Communication and Public Advocacy Strategy for the entire organization. The strategy, which aims to 1) to put the rights and well-being of the most disadvantaged children at the heart of the social, political, and economic agenda, 2) to support shifts in public policy, 3) fuel social engagement and to increase private and public resources for children, has the following specific objectives:
- Voice: be the leading voice for and with children
- Reach: 1 billion people around the world
- Engage: at least 50 million people acting regularly in support of children
The Strategic Planning and Communication Support unit in the Division of Communications (DOC), working in close collaboration with the Private Fundraising Partnership division (PFP), Regional and Country Offices developed a comprehensive Monitoring & Evaluation framework and set of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in support of the strategy implementation. This brief case study looks at the main lessons learned during the first year of implementation.
Session 6 - Ecosystem building & Role of DIHs | Train the Trainers ProgramFIWARE
This session consists of two parts. The first part will elaborate on the approach adopted towards building the i4Trust Community and the second will elaborate on the OnBoarding: the role of DIHs.
The session for Local Experts in Data Sharing (LEBDs) & Ambassadors
Case Study: Developing a truly integrated media measurement system in support...Arturo Romboli
In 2014, UNICEF’ Executive Director approved a new Global Communication and Public Advocacy Strategy (2014-2017) that is grounded in the organization’s fundamental conviction that all children have an equal right to survive, thrive and fulfil their potential – to the benefit of their societies and a more equitable world. To help translate that conviction into resources and action for children, UNICEF understood that it must build a more coordinated, consistent and cutting-edge global communication and public advocacy operation that both embraces and leads change. This is the first time UNICEF developed such an ambitious and global communication and public advocacy strategy. No one has done it before.
This presentation was provided by Lombe Tembo of ORCID, during the NISO Hot Topic Virtual Conference "Building an Equitable, Global Research Community." The event was held on October 26, 2022.
Case Study: UNICEF Global Integrated Media Monitoring Programme Lessons learn...Arturo Romboli
In August 2015, UNICEF Executive Director, Anthony Lake, approved a new Global Communication and Public Advocacy Strategy for the entire organization. The strategy, which aims to 1) to put the rights and well-being of the most disadvantaged children at the heart of the social, political, and economic agenda, 2) to support shifts in public policy, 3) fuel social engagement and to increase private and public resources for children, has the following specific objectives:
- Voice: be the leading voice for and with children
- Reach: 1 billion people around the world
- Engage: at least 50 million people acting regularly in support of children
The Strategic Planning and Communication Support unit in the Division of Communications (DOC), working in close collaboration with the Private Fundraising Partnership division (PFP), Regional and Country Offices developed a comprehensive Monitoring & Evaluation framework and set of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in support of the strategy implementation. This brief case study looks at the main lessons learned during the first year of implementation.
Session 6 - Ecosystem building & Role of DIHs | Train the Trainers ProgramFIWARE
This session consists of two parts. The first part will elaborate on the approach adopted towards building the i4Trust Community and the second will elaborate on the OnBoarding: the role of DIHs.
The session for Local Experts in Data Sharing (LEBDs) & Ambassadors
Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdfPaige Cruz
Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to ProductionAggregage
Join Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, in this new session where he'll share a practical framework to transform Gen AI prototypes into impactful products! He'll delve into the complexities of data collection and management, model selection and optimization, and ensuring security, scalability, and responsible use.
Pushing the limits of ePRTC: 100ns holdover for 100 daysAdtran
At WSTS 2024, Alon Stern explored the topic of parametric holdover and explained how recent research findings can be implemented in real-world PNT networks to achieve 100 nanoseconds of accuracy for up to 100 days.
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.
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.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
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.
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.
Le nuove frontiere dell'AI nell'RPA con UiPath Autopilot™UiPathCommunity
In questo evento online gratuito, organizzato dalla Community Italiana di UiPath, potrai esplorare le nuove funzionalità di Autopilot, il tool che integra l'Intelligenza Artificiale nei processi di sviluppo e utilizzo delle Automazioni.
📕 Vedremo insieme alcuni esempi dell'utilizzo di Autopilot in diversi tool della Suite UiPath:
Autopilot per Studio Web
Autopilot per Studio
Autopilot per Apps
Clipboard AI
GenAI applicata alla Document Understanding
👨🏫👨💻 Speakers:
Stefano Negro, UiPath MVPx3, RPA Tech Lead @ BSP Consultant
Flavio Martinelli, UiPath MVP 2023, Technical Account Manager @UiPath
Andrei Tasca, RPA Solutions Team Lead @NTT Data
3. Strengthening the Partnership
Alfa Redi
CIDSE
Department for International Development (DFID), UK
ECDPM
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA)
(Helvetas)
Humanist Institute for Co-operation with Developing Countries (Hivos)
ICCO
International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD)
International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP)
Natural Resources Institute (NRI)
RWSN – Rural Water Supply Network
SAP International
SDC
Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA)
UNECA
New partners 0
Leavers 1 (KIT)
4. Strengthening the Partnership
Shared vision
2. Promote connections among the
Partners and among individual
Dgroups
3. Promote connections with other
CoPs
1.
5. Shared vision
(= how we want the world to be)
What is our vision? Suggestions for
discussion…
1. “A world where every individual can
contribute constructively to dialogue
and decision-making for international
development and social justice”
2. ???
3. ???
6. Promote connections among the
Partners
↑ Knowledge sharing among Dgroups
partners (?KM4Dev)
↑ Visibility of individual Dgroups and how
they relate to each other, by theme, geo, lang.
visualisation tool, eg DebateGraph
Mapping of Dgroups
INCREASED COLLECTIVE IMPACT
OF DGROUPS
7. Promote connections with other
CoPs
Mapping of Dgroups
Progressive mapping of Global CoP
ecosystem
↑Navigability ↑Alignment ↓Duplication
↑ collective impact of all CoPs
(Dgroups + non-Dgroups) working in
international development
8. 2020 Goals
By 2020:
• All (open) Communities of Practice will be
readily visible and searchable by moderators
and users.
All (open) CoPs will be able to connect and
share seamlessly with one another
All (open) CoPs will be able to harness the
collective intelligence of their members (multistakeholder input into policy and practice)
9. Work area 1: Platform
improvement
2014 Objectives
We shall continue to
improve the platform through a user-driven process.
ensure that all requests and ideas for functionality
improvements raised through the [redesign] discussion group
are monitored and made freely available to all users
assess the feasibility (or otherwise) and provide progress
updates on each request.
explore how Dgroups can take advantage of mobile
opportunities
Other??
10. User-driven functionality
improvement
[redesign] Dgroup – Kristin & Damir
Viewing the web archive (6)
Delivery of email messages, formatting and
content (5)
Moderation (4)
Visual design (1)
Monitoring and evaluation (1)
Terminology (2)
11. Work area 2: Service reliability
2014 Objectives
Working with WA-Research:
We shall maintain service reliability at or
very near to 100%.
We shall increase our disaster
preparedness, so that normal service is
maintained in the event of disaster (eg
technical breakdown, illness, injury).
Other??
12. Work area 3:
Training & Peer Exchange
2014 Objectives
We shall:
introduce a peer support / training programme
(Dgroups Training module – ECDP)
organize regular online peer exchange sessions (1
each quarter)
continue to publish regular blog
posts, presentations etc on Dgroups Foundation
website (www.dgroups.info)
other??
13. Work area 4:
Engagement with current partners
2014 Objectives
We shall regular communications with all
our Partners, through 1-to-1 calls (at least 2
times per year).
We shall promote knowledge sharing among
Partners, especially around C4D issues
We shall build a basic visual representation of
the Dgroups CoP ecosystem
Other??
14. Work area 5: Marketing and
outreach
2014 Objectives
We shall:
continue to develop and improve the Dgroups
Foundation website (www.dgroups.info)
recruit 6 new paying members
produce leaflet in different languages
coordinate and provide support to at least 6
Partners to promote Dgroups (conference
calendar, leaflets, PPT)
other??
15. Work area 6: Governance and
administration
2014 Objectives
We shall seek to expand the
number, skills and influence of the
Board
We shall improve Board
representation –gender and
geographical location
Other??
17. Fees: Way forward
With present membership, an increase in partnership
contribution to E 5.000 is needed to cover costs.
Therefore:
Dgroups Board proposes to increase fees to E. 5000
starting 2015, for organizations with turnover of over 5
million Euro.
From now on, for new small organizations with turnover
below 5ME, a reduction of fees is offered, calculated at
0.1% of turnover, limiting the number of Dgroups to a
maximum of 12
Below E 150.000 we do not charge, but ask for a
formalized "sponsorship" by one of the large members