Digital Green is an organization that uses video to improve agricultural extension in India. Over 600 million people depend on agriculture in India but small landholders earn less than $2 per day. Traditional extension methods are not scalable enough. Digital Green produces instructional videos with local farmers and distributes them through community screenings with a local mediator. Early results found Digital Green was over 10 times more cost-effective per adoption than traditional extension. The system is being expanded through a structured process and analytics platform to improve operations over time.
Risk communication and evacuation decision making: the case of residents in d...Global Risk Forum GRFDavos
This document summarizes a study on risk communication and evacuation decision-making for debris flows in Taiwan. The study examined residents living in vulnerable areas in Kaohsiung City and found that while residents highly trust warnings from public authorities, many had little understanding of evacuation plans and alerts. Environmental cues like rainfall levels and neighbors evacuating were the strongest influences on evacuation decisions. Past disaster experience also increased residents' preparedness. The study concludes risk communication must go beyond one-way messages and consider social and environmental factors to improve evacuation responses.
The use of interactive3d as a tool in municipal planning & delivery - Dave Lo...SAFIPA
The Naledi3d Factory uses VR to communicate concepts and practices in a wide range of disciplines including industrial training and safety awareness, health and sanitation, heritage, new technology concepts etc. including applications that can impact on community development
Social Networks for Agricultural DevelopmentCIMMYT
Digital Green is an organization that uses digital video to provide agricultural extension services to farmers. They produce short videos featuring local farmers demonstrating best practices. Videos are shown to groups of farmers by a local mediator. Digital Green has found this approach to be 7 times more effective than traditional extension methods in driving adoption of new practices, and over 10 times more cost-effective. Their approach leverages existing social networks to spread information through communities and builds trust through using local identities. Over 2,800 videos have been produced and viewed by farmers in over 10,000 villages across India since 2006.
The m-SAFI system allows communities to report sanitation issues through consensus and organized action. It collects reports and triggers responses based on thresholds, while also minimizing unnecessary movement. The system was designed to address open defecation reporting using USSD technology on mobile phones to give communities a voice that is heard by stakeholders. Beneficiaries can ignite reports that trigger escalating steps of engagement from local governments, developers, and ministries to evaluate problems and implement solutions until communities achieve open defecation free status.
Nunga Wali Spatial - Streamlining The BusinessGary Maguire
This document summarizes a project called Nunga Wali Spatial. The project aimed to [1] streamline business processes for auditing remote Aboriginal housing by developing a mobile application to capture data in the field, [2] integrate the data into a central spatial repository with reporting capabilities, and [3] improve housing outcomes for remote Aboriginal communities through evidence-based decision making. The project objectives were to create an integrated mobile and web-based system allowing standardized data collection and reporting to help access government funding. The benefits would include improved audit efficiency, data access, knowledge, and meeting strategic targets. Success required collaboration, leveraging existing technologies, training, and ongoing support.
Digital dictation & voice to text conversionremya_nair1910
This presentation is about an advanced workflow management system for legal firms, courts & advocates. This technology stream lines your documentation & dictation process efficiently. We present you a digital voice recorder and a voice to text conversion software which works in real time
The document discusses how technology can help Alzheimer's patients live independently through solutions like location tracking, activity monitoring, and personalized health reminders. It also explores how museums can provide more personalized experiences for visitors using mobile applications that offer customized tours, digital treasure hunts, and additional exhibit content. The document advocates thinking broadly about goals and focusing on manageable projects that leverage partnerships and strengths while improving areas like costs, attendance, and relevance.
Risk communication and evacuation decision making: the case of residents in d...Global Risk Forum GRFDavos
This document summarizes a study on risk communication and evacuation decision-making for debris flows in Taiwan. The study examined residents living in vulnerable areas in Kaohsiung City and found that while residents highly trust warnings from public authorities, many had little understanding of evacuation plans and alerts. Environmental cues like rainfall levels and neighbors evacuating were the strongest influences on evacuation decisions. Past disaster experience also increased residents' preparedness. The study concludes risk communication must go beyond one-way messages and consider social and environmental factors to improve evacuation responses.
The use of interactive3d as a tool in municipal planning & delivery - Dave Lo...SAFIPA
The Naledi3d Factory uses VR to communicate concepts and practices in a wide range of disciplines including industrial training and safety awareness, health and sanitation, heritage, new technology concepts etc. including applications that can impact on community development
Social Networks for Agricultural DevelopmentCIMMYT
Digital Green is an organization that uses digital video to provide agricultural extension services to farmers. They produce short videos featuring local farmers demonstrating best practices. Videos are shown to groups of farmers by a local mediator. Digital Green has found this approach to be 7 times more effective than traditional extension methods in driving adoption of new practices, and over 10 times more cost-effective. Their approach leverages existing social networks to spread information through communities and builds trust through using local identities. Over 2,800 videos have been produced and viewed by farmers in over 10,000 villages across India since 2006.
The m-SAFI system allows communities to report sanitation issues through consensus and organized action. It collects reports and triggers responses based on thresholds, while also minimizing unnecessary movement. The system was designed to address open defecation reporting using USSD technology on mobile phones to give communities a voice that is heard by stakeholders. Beneficiaries can ignite reports that trigger escalating steps of engagement from local governments, developers, and ministries to evaluate problems and implement solutions until communities achieve open defecation free status.
Nunga Wali Spatial - Streamlining The BusinessGary Maguire
This document summarizes a project called Nunga Wali Spatial. The project aimed to [1] streamline business processes for auditing remote Aboriginal housing by developing a mobile application to capture data in the field, [2] integrate the data into a central spatial repository with reporting capabilities, and [3] improve housing outcomes for remote Aboriginal communities through evidence-based decision making. The project objectives were to create an integrated mobile and web-based system allowing standardized data collection and reporting to help access government funding. The benefits would include improved audit efficiency, data access, knowledge, and meeting strategic targets. Success required collaboration, leveraging existing technologies, training, and ongoing support.
Digital dictation & voice to text conversionremya_nair1910
This presentation is about an advanced workflow management system for legal firms, courts & advocates. This technology stream lines your documentation & dictation process efficiently. We present you a digital voice recorder and a voice to text conversion software which works in real time
The document discusses how technology can help Alzheimer's patients live independently through solutions like location tracking, activity monitoring, and personalized health reminders. It also explores how museums can provide more personalized experiences for visitors using mobile applications that offer customized tours, digital treasure hunts, and additional exhibit content. The document advocates thinking broadly about goals and focusing on manageable projects that leverage partnerships and strengths while improving areas like costs, attendance, and relevance.
Web 3.0 refers to the next stage of development of the World Wide Web, characterized by greater integration between online and real world experiences. Groupon is seen as an example of Web 3.0 because it enhances aspects of social networking by allowing users to find local deals and discounts, while also building connections to local businesses. However, Web 3.0 and companies like Groupon still face challenges around overdependence on the internet, limiting the types of deals offered, and ensuring businesses continue to provide discounts. The future of Web 3.0 is uncertain as technology may change the dynamics significantly.
The document describes plans for an Open Venture Accelerator called Hub Launchpad. It will support startups working in open domains like civic, finance, manufacturing and public services. The accelerator aims to build an open economy through four main programs over four years in London and Birmingham. It has secured £4 million in funding and partnerships. The first phase involves developing an open charter and delivering hack camps and accelerator cohorts of at least 35 founders each. The goal is to support 140 venture founders with investment awards and monthly stipends totaling £2.5 million.
The document provides an overview of the respiratory system including what it includes, how it works, why we need it, common diseases and illnesses, and ways to protect the respiratory system. The respiratory system includes the lungs, airways, diaphragm, windpipe, throat, mouth, and nasal passages. It works by bringing air into the lungs through the nose and mouth, distributing it through the bronchi and into the blood, and then removing carbon dioxide through exhalation. We need the respiratory system to provide oxygen to all our cells. Common respiratory illnesses include asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Ways to protect the respiratory system include not smoking, avoiding air pollution, and regular exercise.
The document discusses Weltevrede Jonker Family Wine Estate and their commitment to the soil and multi-generational family winemaking traditions. Proceeds from wine sales benefit 1000 children in the rural Robertson Valley. Visitors to their website can learn more about how they are agents of change by making a positive difference in people's lives through their work.
Twitter & Facebook for Emergencies and OutreachMisty Montano
The document discusses best practices for using social media like Twitter and Facebook for emergency outreach. It recommends establishing an organization's social media policy and goals before deciding which networks to use. During emergencies, social media can provide timely updates but organizations should be the authoritative source of information. Some tips include developing communities on Facebook and followers on Twitter, using hashtags, and mapping incidents. It's important for organizations to invest time to build social media presence so they are seen as the leader in their community during emergencies.
The document discusses proxemics and nonverbal communication. It includes diagrams illustrating different zones of personal space and prompts to label aspects of the diagrams. It then discusses research on how physical proximity affects collaboration and the use of virtual communication technologies to achieve perceived proximity. Studies show perceived proximity and increased communication can foster connection and common ground between individuals, even without physical exposure.
- E. Coli is a common bacteria found in cattle intestines that infects an estimated 10,000-20,000 Americans annually, with around 2,000 hospitalized due to complications.
- Symptoms include stomach cramps, diarrhea, and possible long-term kidney damage or other lifelong health issues for some.
- Proper food handling and cooking practices can help prevent E. Coli infections, such as thoroughly cooking ground beef and washing hands and surfaces regularly.
El documento habla sobre el uso de la tecnología digital e Internet en la enseñanza de las ciencias sociales. Menciona páginas web y recursos digitales útiles para enseñar historia e incluye una discusión sobre las facilidades y complicaciones del uso de las TIC en el aula, como la falta de preparación técnica de los maestros y la sobrecarga de información para los estudiantes. También analiza cómo los niños pueden hacer inferencias a partir de fuentes históricas.
Marketing Info Kin Tec Middle East Linkedin Proofanthonyvernon
Kin-Tec is a specialist technical recruitment company operating globally to provide contract and permanent personnel to major oil & gas, power, and energy companies. It has over 50 years of combined experience recruiting for demanding projects around the world. Kin-Tec prides itself on high standards of service quality, using the latest technology and procedures to achieve total client satisfaction.
The document analyzes SAT score data from 1966-2009 to compare scores of male and female high school seniors. It finds that males consistently scored higher on both the math and critical reading portions of the SAT. The average difference was larger for math (38 points) than critical reading (7 points). Charts show linear relationships between male and female scores for each section. Possible reasons for the differences include bias in the SAT, innate ability differences, or societal and teacher expectations pushing more males toward math-focused fields.
El documento habla sobre las diferentes especialidades médicas, describiendo brevemente cada una de ellas, sus funciones, áreas de trabajo y requisitos para ejercerlas. Menciona especialidades como medicina interna, cirugía, ginecología y obstetricia, pediatría, oftalmología, entre otras. Explica a grandes rasgos en qué consiste el trabajo de cada especialidad y a qué ramas de la medicina pertenecen.
Presentation held by Dr. Nadagouda during the oikos swissnex Practitioner Day 2011 @ IIM Bangalore, India, 26 August 2011.
http://www.oikos-international.org/academic/development/development-academy-2011/practitioner-day.html
Web 3.0 refers to the next stage of development of the World Wide Web, characterized by greater integration between online and real world experiences. Groupon is seen as an example of Web 3.0 because it enhances aspects of social networking by allowing users to find local deals and discounts, while also building connections to local businesses. However, Web 3.0 and companies like Groupon still face challenges around overdependence on the internet, limiting the types of deals offered, and ensuring businesses continue to provide discounts. The future of Web 3.0 is uncertain as technology may change the dynamics significantly.
The document describes plans for an Open Venture Accelerator called Hub Launchpad. It will support startups working in open domains like civic, finance, manufacturing and public services. The accelerator aims to build an open economy through four main programs over four years in London and Birmingham. It has secured £4 million in funding and partnerships. The first phase involves developing an open charter and delivering hack camps and accelerator cohorts of at least 35 founders each. The goal is to support 140 venture founders with investment awards and monthly stipends totaling £2.5 million.
The document provides an overview of the respiratory system including what it includes, how it works, why we need it, common diseases and illnesses, and ways to protect the respiratory system. The respiratory system includes the lungs, airways, diaphragm, windpipe, throat, mouth, and nasal passages. It works by bringing air into the lungs through the nose and mouth, distributing it through the bronchi and into the blood, and then removing carbon dioxide through exhalation. We need the respiratory system to provide oxygen to all our cells. Common respiratory illnesses include asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Ways to protect the respiratory system include not smoking, avoiding air pollution, and regular exercise.
The document discusses Weltevrede Jonker Family Wine Estate and their commitment to the soil and multi-generational family winemaking traditions. Proceeds from wine sales benefit 1000 children in the rural Robertson Valley. Visitors to their website can learn more about how they are agents of change by making a positive difference in people's lives through their work.
Twitter & Facebook for Emergencies and OutreachMisty Montano
The document discusses best practices for using social media like Twitter and Facebook for emergency outreach. It recommends establishing an organization's social media policy and goals before deciding which networks to use. During emergencies, social media can provide timely updates but organizations should be the authoritative source of information. Some tips include developing communities on Facebook and followers on Twitter, using hashtags, and mapping incidents. It's important for organizations to invest time to build social media presence so they are seen as the leader in their community during emergencies.
The document discusses proxemics and nonverbal communication. It includes diagrams illustrating different zones of personal space and prompts to label aspects of the diagrams. It then discusses research on how physical proximity affects collaboration and the use of virtual communication technologies to achieve perceived proximity. Studies show perceived proximity and increased communication can foster connection and common ground between individuals, even without physical exposure.
- E. Coli is a common bacteria found in cattle intestines that infects an estimated 10,000-20,000 Americans annually, with around 2,000 hospitalized due to complications.
- Symptoms include stomach cramps, diarrhea, and possible long-term kidney damage or other lifelong health issues for some.
- Proper food handling and cooking practices can help prevent E. Coli infections, such as thoroughly cooking ground beef and washing hands and surfaces regularly.
El documento habla sobre el uso de la tecnología digital e Internet en la enseñanza de las ciencias sociales. Menciona páginas web y recursos digitales útiles para enseñar historia e incluye una discusión sobre las facilidades y complicaciones del uso de las TIC en el aula, como la falta de preparación técnica de los maestros y la sobrecarga de información para los estudiantes. También analiza cómo los niños pueden hacer inferencias a partir de fuentes históricas.
Marketing Info Kin Tec Middle East Linkedin Proofanthonyvernon
Kin-Tec is a specialist technical recruitment company operating globally to provide contract and permanent personnel to major oil & gas, power, and energy companies. It has over 50 years of combined experience recruiting for demanding projects around the world. Kin-Tec prides itself on high standards of service quality, using the latest technology and procedures to achieve total client satisfaction.
The document analyzes SAT score data from 1966-2009 to compare scores of male and female high school seniors. It finds that males consistently scored higher on both the math and critical reading portions of the SAT. The average difference was larger for math (38 points) than critical reading (7 points). Charts show linear relationships between male and female scores for each section. Possible reasons for the differences include bias in the SAT, innate ability differences, or societal and teacher expectations pushing more males toward math-focused fields.
El documento habla sobre las diferentes especialidades médicas, describiendo brevemente cada una de ellas, sus funciones, áreas de trabajo y requisitos para ejercerlas. Menciona especialidades como medicina interna, cirugía, ginecología y obstetricia, pediatría, oftalmología, entre otras. Explica a grandes rasgos en qué consiste el trabajo de cada especialidad y a qué ramas de la medicina pertenecen.
Presentation held by Dr. Nadagouda during the oikos swissnex Practitioner Day 2011 @ IIM Bangalore, India, 26 August 2011.
http://www.oikos-international.org/academic/development/development-academy-2011/practitioner-day.html
This document summarizes the Digital Green agricultural extension model which uses locally produced videos shown by local mediators to disseminate information to farmers. Key points:
- Digital Green shows short videos on farming best practices produced by and featuring local farmers. This helps overcome issues like illiteracy and lack of access to experts.
- Early experiments showed Digital Green was over 7 times more effective at increasing adoptions of new practices than traditional extension methods and cost 10 times less per adoption.
- The model scales through a network of local mediators who screen the videos on a rotating basis in villages and facilitate discussions to support farmers.
- Over 2500 videos have been produced on a range of topics indexed by location,
It's about DigitalGreen which is social enterprise in India using technology to help the farmer in India.
The contents including pictures are from Digitalgreen.(http://digitalgreen.org/)
Transforming lives of rural communities around the world by using digital pla...STARS Forum
Ritika Pandey of Digital Green speaking at the STARS Forum 7th Annual National Congress, shares results of pilots in providing and enhancing agriculture extension services to farmers. Very innovative use of video technology, video content from the farmers themselves have been highly effective in spreading knowledge, skills, and expertise between farming communities.
Digital Green is an NGO that uses ICT like short videos to improve agricultural extension services for small farmers in India and other countries. The videos demonstrate best farming practices to address issues like declining yields and involve local farmers as producers and subjects. This approach is more cost-effective and engaging than traditional top-down methods. Evaluation found the video-mediated extension approach increased adoption of new practices by farmers seven-fold compared to conventional models. Digital Green aims to create a sustainable system where farmers both consume and produce agricultural content.
20 sep 2011 digital green partner meeting - BAIFCSISA
The document summarizes BAIF Institute for Rural Development's partnership with Digital Green in Karnataka, India. It provides an overview of BAIF, their focus areas including livelihoods and natural resource management. Quantitative and qualitative progress is shared, including villages reached and videos produced. It discusses integration with BAIF's existing projects and experiments with quality assurance, impact assessments, and ensuring sustainability. Key learnings and challenges are also presented.
DigitalGREEN is a non-profit organization that uses videos on agricultural best practices to educate smallholder farmers in local languages. It aims to address the shortcomings of previous "green revolution" approaches and traditional agricultural extension methods. The organization films expert farmers demonstrating techniques, then works with local organizations to screen the videos for other farmers and generate discussions. Its goal is to improve the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of agriculture-dependent families in a low-cost and scalable way by leveraging existing social networks and technologies. Evaluation shows DigitalGREEN may be over 10 times more cost-effective than traditional extension methods in disseminating expert information. It is working to further increase its impact and cost-effectiveness through partnerships while ensuring ads
20 sep 2011 Digital Green Partner Meeting PRADANCSISA
This document summarizes PRADAN's partnership with digitalGREEN to produce agricultural education videos for rural communities. It outlines that PRADAN operates in 7 states, 44 districts, and works with over 225,000 households. The partnership has resulted in 415 videos being produced, covering over 6,700 villages and 13,000 communities. It also identifies opportunities for improving dissemination skills, diversifying content, and better tracking video adoption. The document provides contact information for the PRADAN partnership and a link to their website for more information.
This document discusses a mobile agro-advisory project in India run by CABI and IKSL. IKSL provides agricultural advisory services to over 4 million farmers through voice messages on their mobile phones. CABI is partnering with IKSL to enhance the quality of information provided by developing an agricultural knowledge repository, ensuring content quality, and building IKSL agent capacity. The collaboration aims to better package knowledge for farmers through mobile phones to help them make informed decisions and improve their livelihoods.
This document summarizes a study that evaluated the impact of a mobile phone-based agricultural advice and information service called Avaaj Otalo (AO) on cotton farmers in Gujarat, India. The study used a randomized controlled trial with 1,200 farmers randomized to either receive AO, AO plus physical extension sessions, or serve as pure controls. The study examined the impact on sources of information, agricultural knowledge, and farming practices. It also analyzed peer effects and information sharing. The results of the study will provide insights into the effectiveness of using mobile phones to deliver agricultural extension services and the diffusion of information among farmers.
Reflections on knowledge management practice case studyRichard Vines
Richard Vines reflects on his 15 months working on a knowledge management project for Victoria's agricultural industries. The project aims to consolidate disparate client information, create knowledge hubs for different industry sectors, and build knowledge management capabilities. Vines discusses tensions that arise at organizational boundaries related to indicators of success, domain focus, control, and support systems. Knowledge management requires navigating tensions between familiar and unfamiliar learning. The project also seeks to harmonize client data while retaining diversity, and provide user-friendly access to relevant information to support farmers. Knowledge management is a diverse practice that requires sustained commitment to develop as a coherent domain.
1) The document outlines steps for managing content for m-Agriculture platforms, including analyzing information needs, sourcing, localizing, ensuring quality, and obtaining feedback.
2) It identifies challenges such as determining information needs at scale, limitations of SMS/voice formats, sourcing dispersed content, ensuring local relevance and quality, and obtaining sufficient feedback.
3) The document discusses managing various trade-offs around usability, reach, quality, and partnerships to ensure impactful content delivery. It proposes quality assurance measures like local consultations and verifiable, updated sources.
Information communication technologies for sustainable agriculture_Dr Jiju Al...India Water Portal
This presentation by Dr Jiju Alex, Associate Professor, Kerala Agricultural University presented at the Kerala Environment Congress organised by the Centre for Environment and Development discusses the relevance of information technologies for sustainable agriculture
Lighting Talks: Farmer Co-Design of climate change solutions presentationsSadie W Shelton
These presentations were given at the GDDF 2022 Side Session: Farmer co-design of climate change solution, on May 5, 2022. The interactive session introduced the research of the new Agroecological TRANSITIONS Inclusive Digital Tools (ATDT) project.
Speakers Included:
- Sonja Vogt, University of Lausanne (AgriPath: Self-service v. Agent-enabled digital resources for local solutions)
- Berta Ortiz, Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT (e-Ushauri ("Advice" in Swahili): Two-way communication between farmers and experts)
- Stella Rodrigues, Agrotools (Traceability for low-emission beef)
- Katie Nelson, IIRRI-Hanoi (Sustainable Rice Platform: Certification)
In this interactive session, we explored how well digital solutions are enabling farmer co-design of solutions for climate change mitigation and resilience. We looked at types of options available and state-of-the-art innovations and explore options for best practices, and consider farmer-to-farmer exchange, information hubs accessible to farmers, and farmer-advisor linkages and trade-offs of non-digital options.
Panelists will assess what more can be done digitally and how to sustain efforts through effective business models for co-design resources.
Learn more: https://alliancebioversityciat.org/projects/inclusive-digital-tools-enable-climate-informed-agroecological-transitions-atdt
Financial and corporate aspects with recycling v greener ictGreenology
This document discusses green ICT lifecycles and electronic waste management. It provides statistics on ICT spending and equipment sales in Bahrain. It discusses factors that influence ICT equipment lifespan like brand, quality, warranty periods and software updates. The benefits of asset management systems and refresh periods are outlined. Options for ICT equipment disposal are explored, including challenges with electronic waste. The document proposes innovative approaches like a 50:50 employee scheme and replacing costs with benefits to achieve more sustainable ICT lifecycles and environments.
Research Extension Implementation Of Services Research FestusDavidAndersson
This document summarizes Dr. Festus Murithi's presentation on Kenya's agricultural research and extension services. It discusses Kenya's National Agricultural Research System (NARS), led by the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI), and their role in conducting research to improve productivity, livelihoods, and environmental sustainability. KARI uses approaches like participatory planning, farming systems research, value chain analysis, and partnerships to strengthen linkages between research and extension to promote adoption of new technologies. Some successful projects that have improved adoption through community involvement and clear economic benefits are soil and water conservation, agroforestry, irrigation, and dairy and horticultural initiatives.
Kelvin Cantafio, Vice Chair of NetHope, will be delivering a keynote address on the Power of Innovation, using information technology as a lever for social change. He will share both innovative organizational models as well as case examples of technology benefiting humanity, based on his global experience with within the ngo sector. He will also describe the partnerships and relationships, facilitated by technology, that have been central to NetHope’s success. NetHope is a new-generation information technology collaboration of 29 leading international nongovernmental organizations (ngo's) representing more than $30 billion of humanitarian development, emergency relief, healthcare, micro-finance and conservation programs serving tens of millions of beneficiaries in more than 180 countries. For more information, visit
www.nethope.org.
Discover top-tier mobile app development services, offering innovative solutions for iOS and Android. Enhance your business with custom, user-friendly mobile applications.
HCL Notes und Domino Lizenzkostenreduzierung in der Welt von DLAUpanagenda
Webinar Recording: https://www.panagenda.com/webinars/hcl-notes-und-domino-lizenzkostenreduzierung-in-der-welt-von-dlau/
DLAU und die Lizenzen nach dem CCB- und CCX-Modell sind für viele in der HCL-Community seit letztem Jahr ein heißes Thema. Als Notes- oder Domino-Kunde haben Sie vielleicht mit unerwartet hohen Benutzerzahlen und Lizenzgebühren zu kämpfen. Sie fragen sich vielleicht, wie diese neue Art der Lizenzierung funktioniert und welchen Nutzen sie Ihnen bringt. Vor allem wollen Sie sicherlich Ihr Budget einhalten und Kosten sparen, wo immer möglich. Das verstehen wir und wir möchten Ihnen dabei helfen!
Wir erklären Ihnen, wie Sie häufige Konfigurationsprobleme lösen können, die dazu führen können, dass mehr Benutzer gezählt werden als nötig, und wie Sie überflüssige oder ungenutzte Konten identifizieren und entfernen können, um Geld zu sparen. Es gibt auch einige Ansätze, die zu unnötigen Ausgaben führen können, z. B. wenn ein Personendokument anstelle eines Mail-Ins für geteilte Mailboxen verwendet wird. Wir zeigen Ihnen solche Fälle und deren Lösungen. Und natürlich erklären wir Ihnen das neue Lizenzmodell.
Nehmen Sie an diesem Webinar teil, bei dem HCL-Ambassador Marc Thomas und Gastredner Franz Walder Ihnen diese neue Welt näherbringen. Es vermittelt Ihnen die Tools und das Know-how, um den Überblick zu bewahren. Sie werden in der Lage sein, Ihre Kosten durch eine optimierte Domino-Konfiguration zu reduzieren und auch in Zukunft gering zu halten.
Diese Themen werden behandelt
- Reduzierung der Lizenzkosten durch Auffinden und Beheben von Fehlkonfigurationen und überflüssigen Konten
- Wie funktionieren CCB- und CCX-Lizenzen wirklich?
- Verstehen des DLAU-Tools und wie man es am besten nutzt
- Tipps für häufige Problembereiche, wie z. B. Team-Postfächer, Funktions-/Testbenutzer usw.
- Praxisbeispiele und Best Practices zum sofortigen Umsetzen
Main news related to the CCS TSI 2023 (2023/1695)Jakub Marek
An English 🇬🇧 translation of a presentation to the speech I gave about the main changes brought by CCS TSI 2023 at the biggest Czech conference on Communications and signalling systems on Railways, which was held in Clarion Hotel Olomouc from 7th to 9th November 2023 (konferenceszt.cz). Attended by around 500 participants and 200 on-line followers.
The original Czech 🇨🇿 version of the presentation can be found here: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/hlavni-novinky-souvisejici-s-ccs-tsi-2023-2023-1695/269688092 .
The videorecording (in Czech) from the presentation is available here: https://youtu.be/WzjJWm4IyPk?si=SImb06tuXGb30BEH .
Fueling AI with Great Data with Airbyte WebinarZilliz
This talk will focus on how to collect data from a variety of sources, leveraging this data for RAG and other GenAI use cases, and finally charting your course to productionalization.
Dandelion Hashtable: beyond billion requests per second on a commodity serverAntonios Katsarakis
This slide deck presents DLHT, a concurrent in-memory hashtable. Despite efforts to optimize hashtables, that go as far as sacrificing core functionality, state-of-the-art designs still incur multiple memory accesses per request and block request processing in three cases. First, most hashtables block while waiting for data to be retrieved from memory. Second, open-addressing designs, which represent the current state-of-the-art, either cannot free index slots on deletes or must block all requests to do so. Third, index resizes block every request until all objects are copied to the new index. Defying folklore wisdom, DLHT forgoes open-addressing and adopts a fully-featured and memory-aware closed-addressing design based on bounded cache-line-chaining. This design offers lock-free index operations and deletes that free slots instantly, (2) completes most requests with a single memory access, (3) utilizes software prefetching to hide memory latencies, and (4) employs a novel non-blocking and parallel resizing. In a commodity server and a memory-resident workload, DLHT surpasses 1.6B requests per second and provides 3.5x (12x) the throughput of the state-of-the-art closed-addressing (open-addressing) resizable hashtable on Gets (Deletes).
Monitoring and Managing Anomaly Detection on OpenShift.pdfTosin Akinosho
Monitoring and Managing Anomaly Detection on OpenShift
Overview
Dive into the world of anomaly detection on edge devices with our comprehensive hands-on tutorial. This SlideShare presentation will guide you through the entire process, from data collection and model training to edge deployment and real-time monitoring. Perfect for those looking to implement robust anomaly detection systems on resource-constrained IoT/edge devices.
Key Topics Covered
1. Introduction to Anomaly Detection
- Understand the fundamentals of anomaly detection and its importance in identifying unusual behavior or failures in systems.
2. Understanding Edge (IoT)
- Learn about edge computing and IoT, and how they enable real-time data processing and decision-making at the source.
3. What is ArgoCD?
- Discover ArgoCD, a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes, and its role in deploying applications on edge devices.
4. Deployment Using ArgoCD for Edge Devices
- Step-by-step guide on deploying anomaly detection models on edge devices using ArgoCD.
5. Introduction to Apache Kafka and S3
- Explore Apache Kafka for real-time data streaming and Amazon S3 for scalable storage solutions.
6. Viewing Kafka Messages in the Data Lake
- Learn how to view and analyze Kafka messages stored in a data lake for better insights.
7. What is Prometheus?
- Get to know Prometheus, an open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit, and its application in monitoring edge devices.
8. Monitoring Application Metrics with Prometheus
- Detailed instructions on setting up Prometheus to monitor the performance and health of your anomaly detection system.
9. What is Camel K?
- Introduction to Camel K, a lightweight integration framework built on Apache Camel, designed for Kubernetes.
10. Configuring Camel K Integrations for Data Pipelines
- Learn how to configure Camel K for seamless data pipeline integrations in your anomaly detection workflow.
11. What is a Jupyter Notebook?
- Overview of Jupyter Notebooks, an open-source web application for creating and sharing documents with live code, equations, visualizations, and narrative text.
12. Jupyter Notebooks with Code Examples
- Hands-on examples and code snippets in Jupyter Notebooks to help you implement and test anomaly detection models.
"Choosing proper type of scaling", Olena SyrotaFwdays
Imagine an IoT processing system that is already quite mature and production-ready and for which client coverage is growing and scaling and performance aspects are life and death questions. The system has Redis, MongoDB, and stream processing based on ksqldb. In this talk, firstly, we will analyze scaling approaches and then select the proper ones for our system.
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2. Agriculture in India
600M agriculture-dependent lives
Majority small landholders (<3 acres)
<$2 a day ($750 a year)
Growing debts ($300 per year per farmer)
Earlier technology intervention…
– Green revolution had mixed results
• Increased yields, but…
• Led to rising input costs, declining soil
fertility
• Due to excessive use of A farmer from Yellachavadi village,
fertilizers/pesticides outside of Bangalore
Indiscriminate use of technology partially
responsible for current agrarian crisis
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3. Agricultural Systems?
farmer expert
Low literacy
in local lang
Expensive No unique ID
No bank account Credit card
credit
Poor roads
Market
Quantity
Poor quality buyers
control
Computing device and connectivity not enough!
4. Agriculture Extension
Dissemination of expert agriculture
information and technology to farmers
“Training & Visit” extension popularized
by the World Bank in 1970s
– Face-to-face interactions of
extension officers and farmers
100,000 extension officers in India
– Extension agent-to-farmer ratio is
1: 2,000
– 610,000 villages in India with
average 1,000-person population
Extension officer “commuting” between farms
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5. Agricultural Social Networks
?
Main source of information about new technology and
farm practices over the past 365 days (India: NSSO 2005) 5
6. The Problem
How can the speed and effectiveness
of agriculture extension be improved
at a reasonable cost?
Extension officer on-field demonstration
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7. Digital Video for Extension
Video provides…
– Resource-savings: human, cost, time
– Accessibility for non-literate farmers 7
8. Early Experimentation
Early Experimentation
Parameters Varied
Background of actors in video, Types of content,
Background of actors in video, Types of content,
Location and timing field trying various combinations
Six months in of screening, Method of dissemination,
Over 200Degree of mediation,Background of mediator, etc. design
Degree surveys, ethnographic investigation, and iterative
days of of mediation, Background of mediator, etc.
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9. Digital Green System
Participatory Content Production
Introduction to innovations
– Standard extension
procedure
Rough “storyboarding”
– Repetitive pattern; easy to
learn
– Minimize post-production
Local farmers on their own fields
– Reduce perception of
“teachers”
– Promote “local stars”
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10. Digital Green System
Video Database
Online video
databasehttp://www.digitalgreen.org
>2,100 videos of 8-10 minutes each
Quality-control, minor video editing,
and metadata tagging
Indexed by type, topic, locale,
season, crop, etc.
Distributed via memory cards
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11. Digital Green System
Mediated Instruction
Local mediator
– Performance-based honorarium
Human engagement
– Field questions, capture feedback,
encourage participation
– Balance genders
On-demand screenings
– Choice time and place
– Not “stand-alone” kiosk
Support and monitoring
– Daily metrics and feedback
– Official extension staff
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12. Digital Green System
Structured Sequencing
Community Practices with Practices with
Assessment short-term longer-term
visible rewards visible rewards
Group Participation
Audience
Awareness
Season
Location
Time
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13. Digital Green System
1. Participatory content production
2. Video database
3. Mediated instruction
4. Structured sequencing
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14. Preliminary Evaluation
Experimental Set-Up
15-month study
21 villages in Karnataka: Classical GREEN (8)
– Language: Kannada
Expert Same as usual
– Crops: Ragi, banana, mulberry, coconut Digital Green (9)
Research Assistant
– Population: 50-80 households 3 sessions per week
– Irrigation: 10-20 households with access
Extension Cost:
Rs. 9,500 ($240) for TV/DVD
– Television: 15-20 households
Officer
per village
PC / camera costs shared
Extension officer shared
Metrics: Mediator salary
– Knowledge: Before-and-after
Local Mediator Local Mediator Local Mediator Accountability:
– Attendance: Farmers at each screening Daily metrics and feedback
Official extension staff
– Interest: Intent to take-up a practice
Poster Green(3)
–
FarmingAdoption: Number of households Farming up
Farming taking Same as Digital Green with local
each new farming practice or technology
Community Community Community mediator, but no TV/DVD
Mediator makes posters and holds
regular group sessions
Audio Green (1)
Same as Poster Green with
MP3 audio tracks from videos
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15. Digital Green: Early Results
7 times more adoptions over classical extension
Sustained local presence
90
80
Mediation
70
Adoption Rate (%)
60
Repetition (and novelty) 50
Classic GREEN
40
30 Digital Green
Integration into existing extension Poster Green
20
operations
10 Audio Green
0
Social homophily between mediator,
Jun-07
Oct-07
Jan-08
Mar-08
Jun-08
May-07
May-08
Apr-07
Jul-07
Aug-07
Sep-07
Feb-08
Apr-08
Nov-07
Cumulative
Dec-07
actor, and farmer
Desire to be “on TV”
Trust built from identities of farmers 15 months:
and villages in videos 13 villages, 3 nights a week, 1,000 regulars
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16. Cost-Benefit
Cost (USD) Adoption (%) Cost/Adoption
System /Village/Year /Village/Year (USD)
Classical GREEN $840 11% $38.18
Digital Green $630 85% $3.70
Poster Green $490 59% $4.15
Note: Decreasing amortized cost of hardware with time and scale
Digital Green is at least 10 times more effective
per dollar spent than classical extension! 16
17. Incremental Adoptions,
Incremental Incomes
$250
$200
$150
In first 8 months, adoption of improved
practices increased the incomes of farmers by
$100
an average of $242!
$50
$0
Jun-10 Jul-10 Aug-10 Sep-10 Oct-10 Nov-10 Dec-10 Jan-11
Chili -
NurseryChili Line Beans Line Sowing Bitter Gourd Pest & Ginger Rot Potato Line Sowing, Tomato IntercroppingSeed Poultry Rearing
Raising, Sowing, Beans FertilizerRice Intensification
System of Application Management
_ Improved Onion
Improved
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18.
19. Digital Green System
Network Effect
Viral Web 2.0 in the Web-less world
- Content ecosystem: education, entrepreneurship, entertainment
- Cost-realistic access: pico projectors, TVs, DVD players, and camcorders
Reinforce existing social networks to diffuse innovations through communities
Local “idol” competitions to be a better farmer
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2
20.
21. Digital Green System
Platform
Online Offline (no/low connectivity)
Browser-based input
Cloud-based central database Data stored in local database
Synchronized with local databases Synchronized when connectivity available
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23. Digital Green System
Platform
Robust system to share, track, and analyse data to manage operations and
target interventions over time
Analytics dashboard built on top of a simple yet robust data
entry system that can toggle between online and offline connectivity modes
http://www.digitalgreen.org/
100,000
simultaneous
offline users
Offline mode 10x
faster than online
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26. Non-Non-Profit Digital Green
Subsidize agriculture Digital Green’s value to farmers is
established – viewers contribute Rs. 2-4
extension with ads? per screening.
Could DG also be supported by ads?
Advertisers get access to a distributed,
captive audience with demonstrated
interest in better agriculture.
Ads follow Digital Green’s distribution
channels.
To do:
– Scale Digital Green
– Devise mechanism for ensuring
appropriate ads
– Quantify ad effectiveness
Digital Green DVD title screen – Quantify ad value to advertisers
33. Agricultural Systems?
farmer expert
Low literacy
in local lang
Expensive No unique ID
No bank account Credit card
credit
Poor roads
Market
Quantity
Poor quality buyers
control
Technology not enough!
34. Technology magnifies human intent and capability.
Technology itself requires support from
well-intentioned, competent people or organizations.
Successful technology interventions work as a part of
well-intentioned, competent organizations.
The number of people dependent on agriculture in India is declining. Still, today, there are about 60% of people whose income depends on agriculture to a large extent.Majority of the farmers are smallholders and cultivate in a land of less than 3 acres.Agriculture has been getting increased attention, primarily because of the farming crisis.Farming related suicides has been increasing and in the period from 97 to 2005 there have been 150,000 suicides. Green revolution, which was a major event in Indian agriculture history, where India converted to chemical based farming in 1960s focused on high yielding varieties of crops.While yields have increased, there has been criticism from many quarters about it. Farmers have been using fertlizers/pesticides indiscriminately leading to rising input costs and decreasing soil fertility. There has been tension between whether to produce market oriented crops vs promoting sustainable agriculture. Lots of opinions, research, debates..
Agricultural extension is essentially the dissemination of expert agricultural information and technologies to farmers. Agricultural extension was popularized by the World Bank during the 1960s and 1970s in the form of the “Training & Visit” system. Today, India still has over 100,000 civil-service extension officers. This represents the second largest extension force in the world, but India has an even vaster population of farmers. Indeed, there is only 1 extension officer for every 2,000 farmers.
In 2003, the Government of India sponsored a National Sample Survey to understand the sources of information farmers were relying upon for new technology and farm practices. They discovered that the formal channels of extension – including, the “Training and Visit”-style extension and the government’s broadcast media programs – were reaching a small proportion of farm households. Instead, they found that farmers primarily relied on the informal channels of information diffusion that existed by “word of mouth” in their own village communities.
Inspired by Digital StudyHall’s efforts in improving rural education, we began with the premise that digital video is a technology that can be taken to the last-mile and provide significant resource-savings – particularly, since the hardware has become so affordable. A one-to-one demonstration between an extension officer and a farmer could now be digitally captured and shown to many farmers who could easily relate to a visual media.
I spent over 200 days in the field working with a grassroots-level NGO, called GREEN Foundation, which follows the classic “Training & Visit”-based approach for agricultural extension. Through iterative design, we experimented with various parameters of a digital video-based extension model.For example, we considered the background of the “actors” that are featured in videos. On one hand, an agricultural expert can present highly-quality content. But on the other, we found that farmers were not receptive to being “lectured” to by outsiders of a very different socioeconomic demographic. Instead, they preferred to watch a fellow farmer share his or her experiences in a manner similar to the informal social networks that they were used to interacting with. On distributing these videos, we initially experimented with setting up a TV in front of a public square next to a stack of DVDs that farmers could choose to access as they pleased. Though there was an initial novelty, the community quickly became disinterested as they couldn’t understand its purpose. We found that they needed a human mediator who could use the “virtual” on-screen demonstrations to engage farmers in a sustained learning and adoption process.
The process of producing the content starts by following the existing field activities of extension agents. The mere presence of the camera improves the productivity of an extension agent and a farmer’s interaction and rough “story boarding” helps reduce the need for post-production. Those extension agents or farmers that are featured in the videos know that they will be seen by others in their respective communities as role models. We want to stimulate this creation of “local stars”. The actors featured in the videos are seen not as outside “teachers”, but as local farmers who are adopting the practices or technologies within the constraints of local resources on their own fields.
We have been building a repository of this video content with our field partners for the last 1.5 years. The repository currently includes over 250 videos that average 8 minutes in length. The videos are reviewed by the experts of our partner organizations in content hubs, like Bangalore, and minor video editing and meta tagging is used to upload the content to a video database. Though these videos are mirrored online at www.digitalgreen.org, that is not how farmers actually view them. Villages are sent DVDs.
These DVDs are received by local village mediators. These mediators were chosen on the basis of local language literacy for record-keeping purposes and equitably balance genders to engage both men and women farmers. Indeed, these mediators mainly serve to engage the community by pausing and rewinding the videos, fielding questions, and encouraging group participation. Unlike broadcast programs or standalone kiosks, the mediators take the shared TV and DVD players to farmers at their choice time and place and serve as a feedback mechanism for farmers. Though we’ve seen many mediators become resource persons in their local communities, its also important to note that they are supported and monitored by the official extension system.
Of course, a single screening is not enough. We’ve found that over time we can build trust and sustained participation in communities only by using a model for structuring the sequence of interventions. We begin the process by using the local mediator to help assess some general characteristics of his or her community, such as its socioeconomic and agroecological resources and needs. By seeding locally relevant content, an informal farmers group is created using the video programs as the focus. Then, since there is span of agricultural practices and technologies that have varying time-horizons for investment and reward, the mediators first showcase those practices that offer visible short-term rewards to gain traction in a community before showcasing a practice, like mulching, which has a longer gestation period to offering a gain in soil fertility.
These field trials allowed to converge on the Digital Green system which includes four unique components that I’ll briefly outline: (1) a participatory process for content production, (2) a video-based database, (3) locally mediated instruction, and (4) a model for sequencing content to build trust and sustained participation within farming communities.
After we developed Digital Green, we began a 9-month study to evaluate its effectiveness as an approach for agricultural extension. In 8 villages, we followed GREEN Foundation’s extension officers as they adhered to the classic Training & Visit model. In 8 other villages, we used the full Digital Green system that I have described, which includes a local mediator who is provided a shared TV and DVD player to conduct a 3 video screening each week in his or her community. You’ll notice that Digital Green still incurs the costs of being supported by the existing extension system, but its reach is extended by the presence of local mediators at the village level. Finally, as part of a preliminary study, called Poster Green, we selected four villages in which we follow the similar approach to Digital Green with a local mediator but without a TV and DVD player. Mediators in Poster Green villages hold the same frequency of regular group sessions in their communities and use posters and discussions instead of videos to communicate to their audiences.To compare these three modes of agricultural extension, we measured what knowledge was transferred to farmers, whether farmers’ attendance and interest sustained over time, and for our short-duration study, how many practices farmers ultimately adopted on their own fields. The 20 villages that were selected for this evaluation are roughly 2-hours outside of our MSR India office in southeastern Karnataka. The communities are comprised mostly of subsistence farmers that grow the staple crop, ragi, and the communities are comprised of between 50-80 households. Though most qualify for the government’s “below the poverty line” schemes, one-quarter have access to irrigation facilities and one-quarter have TVs in their own homes.
Early indications show that Digital Green system has increased the adoption rate 7-fold over classical extension. Over the last 9 months, we’ve also seen that farmer’s participation has sustained even with the frequency of 3 screenings per week in each village. I should note that these figures only count whether a farmer has adopted at least one new practice during a particularly period. Also, there are a variety of practices that a farmer could adopt, but they were sequenced uniformly across each group of villages on a calendar-basis. The key factors that resulted in the substantial gain of the Digital Green system over the classical approach include the sustained presence of a local mediator who can engage the community. The on-demand nature of video technology offers the capacity for repetition to ensure that concepts are grasped as well as the novelty that is introduced by showcasing new farmers adopting practices. We have found that some farmers are incentivized to adopt practices just to be featured “on TV”. This helps us reduce the perceived disconnect between experts and farmers, and allows farmers whose first questions are often “Who is this person in this video?” and “Which village is he or she from?” to authenticate the viability of the content.
Now, let’s consider the per village costs of the Classical GREEN, Digital Green, and Poster Green models. Digital Green is supported by the same Classical GREEN extension system and adds the costs of village mediators, TVs and DVD players, a video camera, and a PC. Surprisingly, though, Digital Green costs less than Classical GREEN on a per village basis because each higher-paid extension agent essentially reaches more villages. In terms of benefit, as we saw in the previous slide, Digital Green can potentially increase annual adoption rates by over 7-fold. And, as a result of the lower per village cost and higher adoption rates, we’ve found that Digital Green could be 10 times more effective per dollar spent than classical extension!
In addition to the cost-benefit calculations, we’ve also seen some interesting side-effects of Digital Green. We’ve found that we can take concepts of Web 2.0 to the Web-less world where the infrastructure has yet to reach the last mile. We can build an ecosystem of content around farmer education, entrepreneurship, and entertainment by just using cost-realistic technologies like TVs, DVD players, and camcorders. We can take the existing social networks that farmers use for channeling information and expose them into public view through video. In some cases, we’ve found that we can stimulate a sort-of “Farmer Idol” competition where farmers want to be seen as the best farmer in their community and are incentivized to appear “on TV”.
Over the last 2 years, the tribal communities that we’re working with in five Indian states have produced over 400 short videos that are by the farmers, of the farmers, and for the farmers. The content spans a variety of topics and genres and includes step-by-step demonstrations, testimonials, and interviews. Some farmers even compete to appear “on TV” in a “Farmer Idol” sort-of program to be seen as the best farmer and generates motivational “currency” doing so. The first two questions that farmers often ask when they watch these videos is “What is the name of the farmer in this video?” and “Which village is he or she from?” to authenticate that the content comes from a source that they can relate with before considering a change in their behaviour.