High-level outline for upcoming Zilino online dialogue event on mental health connecting students, teachers and staff from colleges and universities across the United States.
Participatory budgeting (PB) is quickly becoming a hot trend here in the US. PB sits right at the intersection of civic engagement, open government and technology. In short, it’s the perfect topic for SXSW.
Tiago Peixoto (World Bank), Marti Brown (City of Vallejo, CA) and myself hope to spread the word about this innovative process at next year's SXSW in Austin, TX to a broad audience of technology and civic innovators.
Please vote and comment to help us get there. Voting ends August 31, 2012. Thanks!
High-level outline for upcoming Zilino online dialogue event on mental health connecting students, teachers and staff from colleges and universities across the United States.
Participatory budgeting (PB) is quickly becoming a hot trend here in the US. PB sits right at the intersection of civic engagement, open government and technology. In short, it’s the perfect topic for SXSW.
Tiago Peixoto (World Bank), Marti Brown (City of Vallejo, CA) and myself hope to spread the word about this innovative process at next year's SXSW in Austin, TX to a broad audience of technology and civic innovators.
Please vote and comment to help us get there. Voting ends August 31, 2012. Thanks!
Off-the-Shelf E-Participation? Five Recent ExamplesIntellitics, Inc.
A lot of web 2.0 tools are available today that can be useful for web-based public participation. However, these tools were not designed specifically for the purpose of public participation and may lack critical features and necessary process support which can often cause issues. Addressing these issues would not always require changing the technology. Good facilitation and a commitment to impact will go a long way.
Stakeholder Engagement Guide of Guides ACCESSIBLE2KBHN KT
Understanding and responding to stakeholder needs increases the likelihood that your research will be useful and used. This compilation of existing guides on stakeholder engagement (SE) begins with a table outlining the three main approaches to SE, followed by resources that provide more detail on how to conduct and evaluate different types of SE activities.
Organizational Capacity-Building Series - Session 12: Grant-WritingINGENAES
This session describes different sources of funding for organizations and how to effectively write proposals for grants. These presentations are are part of a workshop series that was implemented in Nepal and 2016 as part of the INGENAES initiative.
Data Placemats: Construction and Practical Design TipsInnovation Network
Increasing stakeholder involvement throughout the evaluation lifecycle, not only enhances stakeholder buy-in to the final evaluation results, but it also ensures that the evaluator is taking into consideration multiple viewpoints to be able to provide a more comprehensive picture of a program or initiative. Data placemats, a data viz technique to improve stakeholder understanding of data, can be used to communicate preliminary evaluation results during the analysis phase of the evaluation life cycle. When done correctly, it offers stakeholders an opportunity to form their own judgments about the data and weigh in prior to the final report. In this session, the presenter will review the concept of data placemats, focusing specifically on the nuts and bolts of constructing a data placemat.
Evaluating community projects
These guidelines were initially developed as part of the JRF Neighbourhood Programme. This programme is made up of 20 community or voluntary organisations all wanting to exercise a more strategic influence in their neighbourhood. The guidelines were originally written to help these organisations evaluate their work. They provide step-by-step advice on how to evaluate a community project which will be of interest to a wider audience.
What is evaluation?
Put simply, evaluation by members of a project or organisation will help people to learn from their day-to-day work. It can be used by a group of people, or by individuals working alone. It assesses the effectiveness of a piece of work, a project or a programme. It can also highlight whether your project is moving steadily and successfully towards achieving what it set out to do, or whether it is moving in a different direction. You can then celebrate and build on successes as well as learn from what has not worked so well.
Why evaluate?
Although evaluation may seem like an unnecessary additional task if you are already short of time and resources, it can save you both time and resources by keeping participants focused on, and working towards, the ultimate goal of the project. If necessary, it can refocus activity away from unproductive or unnecessary work.
This document represents a compilation of existing guides on stakeholder engagement. The individual guides have been divided into three sections: introduction to stakeholder engagement, how to do stakeholder engagement, and evaluating the outcome of stakeholder engagement on your research. The guides that have been organized into these sections have each been created for different audiences and/or organizations.
However, the concepts, processes and strategies contained within them are transferrable to other contexts including NeuroDevNet and the research projects led by its researchers and trainees.
Several of the guides that are referenced, contain tables with names and definitions of different methodologies for doing stakeholder engagement. This information has been analyzed and arranged into the following three tables based on the main goal of the stakeholder engagement activity:
Table 1 represents dissemination-focused stakeholder engagement. That is, the activity is mostly about sharing
information with stakeholders but there is an opportunity for them to comment.
Table 2 represents methodologies that aim to facilitate discussion, analysis, and/or prioritization and recommendations
among stakeholders. The methodologies vary from informal non-structured to more formal structured discussion, recording of feedback and analysis.
Finally, Table 3 represents the opposite of Table 1, in that the methodologies are mainly for listening to
stakeholders after providing minimal information such as guiding questions or information about a problem to be solved. Methods that are very similar have been combined into one heading. The definitions for each methodology can be found in the guides they originate from.
As grant professionals, we work to avoid all errors in grant applications—from math, to grammar, to citations. Nevertheless, we are all human and oversights slip through. Often the mistakes are minor and overlooked by a potential funder. However, there are times when an error can jeopardize a funding award. It has happened to many—if not all—of us. The critical question is how, as a new or seasoned grant professional, to learn from these mistakes and still successfully continue to move your organization or your client forward.
Off-the-Shelf E-Participation? Five Recent ExamplesIntellitics, Inc.
A lot of web 2.0 tools are available today that can be useful for web-based public participation. However, these tools were not designed specifically for the purpose of public participation and may lack critical features and necessary process support which can often cause issues. Addressing these issues would not always require changing the technology. Good facilitation and a commitment to impact will go a long way.
Stakeholder Engagement Guide of Guides ACCESSIBLE2KBHN KT
Understanding and responding to stakeholder needs increases the likelihood that your research will be useful and used. This compilation of existing guides on stakeholder engagement (SE) begins with a table outlining the three main approaches to SE, followed by resources that provide more detail on how to conduct and evaluate different types of SE activities.
Organizational Capacity-Building Series - Session 12: Grant-WritingINGENAES
This session describes different sources of funding for organizations and how to effectively write proposals for grants. These presentations are are part of a workshop series that was implemented in Nepal and 2016 as part of the INGENAES initiative.
Data Placemats: Construction and Practical Design TipsInnovation Network
Increasing stakeholder involvement throughout the evaluation lifecycle, not only enhances stakeholder buy-in to the final evaluation results, but it also ensures that the evaluator is taking into consideration multiple viewpoints to be able to provide a more comprehensive picture of a program or initiative. Data placemats, a data viz technique to improve stakeholder understanding of data, can be used to communicate preliminary evaluation results during the analysis phase of the evaluation life cycle. When done correctly, it offers stakeholders an opportunity to form their own judgments about the data and weigh in prior to the final report. In this session, the presenter will review the concept of data placemats, focusing specifically on the nuts and bolts of constructing a data placemat.
Evaluating community projects
These guidelines were initially developed as part of the JRF Neighbourhood Programme. This programme is made up of 20 community or voluntary organisations all wanting to exercise a more strategic influence in their neighbourhood. The guidelines were originally written to help these organisations evaluate their work. They provide step-by-step advice on how to evaluate a community project which will be of interest to a wider audience.
What is evaluation?
Put simply, evaluation by members of a project or organisation will help people to learn from their day-to-day work. It can be used by a group of people, or by individuals working alone. It assesses the effectiveness of a piece of work, a project or a programme. It can also highlight whether your project is moving steadily and successfully towards achieving what it set out to do, or whether it is moving in a different direction. You can then celebrate and build on successes as well as learn from what has not worked so well.
Why evaluate?
Although evaluation may seem like an unnecessary additional task if you are already short of time and resources, it can save you both time and resources by keeping participants focused on, and working towards, the ultimate goal of the project. If necessary, it can refocus activity away from unproductive or unnecessary work.
This document represents a compilation of existing guides on stakeholder engagement. The individual guides have been divided into three sections: introduction to stakeholder engagement, how to do stakeholder engagement, and evaluating the outcome of stakeholder engagement on your research. The guides that have been organized into these sections have each been created for different audiences and/or organizations.
However, the concepts, processes and strategies contained within them are transferrable to other contexts including NeuroDevNet and the research projects led by its researchers and trainees.
Several of the guides that are referenced, contain tables with names and definitions of different methodologies for doing stakeholder engagement. This information has been analyzed and arranged into the following three tables based on the main goal of the stakeholder engagement activity:
Table 1 represents dissemination-focused stakeholder engagement. That is, the activity is mostly about sharing
information with stakeholders but there is an opportunity for them to comment.
Table 2 represents methodologies that aim to facilitate discussion, analysis, and/or prioritization and recommendations
among stakeholders. The methodologies vary from informal non-structured to more formal structured discussion, recording of feedback and analysis.
Finally, Table 3 represents the opposite of Table 1, in that the methodologies are mainly for listening to
stakeholders after providing minimal information such as guiding questions or information about a problem to be solved. Methods that are very similar have been combined into one heading. The definitions for each methodology can be found in the guides they originate from.
As grant professionals, we work to avoid all errors in grant applications—from math, to grammar, to citations. Nevertheless, we are all human and oversights slip through. Often the mistakes are minor and overlooked by a potential funder. However, there are times when an error can jeopardize a funding award. It has happened to many—if not all—of us. The critical question is how, as a new or seasoned grant professional, to learn from these mistakes and still successfully continue to move your organization or your client forward.
Step Seven of the Accountability in Action training kit.
In this step we learn about evidence-based advocacy. We will learn how to develop an advocacy strategy and consider who you should make your case to and how to communicate it.
Evaluation pal program monitoring and evaluation technologyCesToronto
In this session, Dr. Cugelman will discuss his work to develop an automated program monitoring and evaluation technology, called Evaluation Pal. He launched Evaluation Pal in 2011, then in 2012, pilot tested it for an evaluation of the Green Infrastructure Ontario Coalition which was submitted to the Ontario Trillium Foundation. Soon after, MaRS' Social Innovation Generation accepted it into their incubator program.
In this session, Dr. Cugelman will provide a tour of the tool, and use the Green Infrastructure Ontario case study to demonstrate how automated data collection can be used in the program evaluation process. This presentation will also provide an opportunity to discuss the challenges and opportunities of using technology to aid program evaluation.
Community engagement 101 for the love of non profits (apr.10.19)Natasha Horsman
No matter what line of business or what type of organization, or whether you are a community volunteer or stakeholder, it’s important to effectively gather feedback from and maintain positive relationships with your community. In this presentation, you will learn about an internationally recognized framework to help you design, plan, and deliver community engagement. You’ll also get some tools, tips and tricks to help you get the most value when you lead or participate in engagement initiatives.
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
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.
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.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
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
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
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.
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
Enhancing Performance with Globus and the Science DMZGlobus
ESnet has led the way in helping national facilities—and many other institutions in the research community—configure Science DMZs and troubleshoot network issues to maximize data transfer performance. In this talk we will present a summary of approaches and tips for getting the most out of your network infrastructure using Globus Connect Server.
Welcome to the first live UiPath Community Day Dubai! Join us for this unique occasion to meet our local and global UiPath Community and leaders. You will get a full view of the MEA region's automation landscape and the AI Powered automation technology capabilities of UiPath. Also, hosted by our local partners Marc Ellis, you will enjoy a half-day packed with industry insights and automation peers networking.
📕 Curious on our agenda? Wait no more!
10:00 Welcome note - UiPath Community in Dubai
Lovely Sinha, UiPath Community Chapter Leader, UiPath MVPx3, Hyper-automation Consultant, First Abu Dhabi Bank
10:20 A UiPath cross-region MEA overview
Ashraf El Zarka, VP and Managing Director MEA, UiPath
10:35: Customer Success Journey
Deepthi Deepak, Head of Intelligent Automation CoE, First Abu Dhabi Bank
11:15 The UiPath approach to GenAI with our three principles: improve accuracy, supercharge productivity, and automate more
Boris Krumrey, Global VP, Automation Innovation, UiPath
12:15 To discover how Marc Ellis leverages tech-driven solutions in recruitment and managed services.
Brendan Lingam, Director of Sales and Business Development, Marc Ellis
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!
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.
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.
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.
1. Digital Engagement
Across the PB Lifecycle
2nd Intl. Conference on Participatory Budgeting
in the US and Canada
May 5, 2013
Tim Bonnemann
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
2. Digital Engagement
The use of information and communications
technologies to support, enhance or extend
public participation and civic engagement
processes.
22. Questions to Consider
• What are the staffing needs to run the
engagement well?
• How can technology support participants in
taking on roles beyond simply providing
input (e.g. outreach, peer-to-peer tutoring)?
• How might technology support capacity
building and bridging digital divides?
• How will you measure success?