Oxford Consultants for Social Inclusion developed the Index of Multiple Deprivation to identify areas with high levels of need. It uses a basket of indicators from various data sources to measure deprivation comprehensively. To maximize impact, OCSI consulted with users, published methodology details and examples, and supported reuse of the data. As a result, the IMD is used by governments and organizations to target over £1 billion per year of resources to deprived areas.
1) The estate tax laws are currently in a state of uncertainty due to the expiration of tax cuts passed in 2001 and the failure of Congress to pass new legislation.
2) This has created confusion for estate planners and uncertainty around the constitutionality of retroactive tax laws and the interpretation of existing estate planning documents.
3) Financial advisors should proactively identify clients who may be impacted and encourage reviewing existing plans or documenting intentions to address the uncertainty until Congress passes new legislation.
This document provides an overview and summary of estate planning concepts for a successor trustee training. It discusses the goals of estate planning including controlling assets while alive, planning for disability or death, and passing on assets in accordance with one's wishes. It also covers the responsibilities of a successor trustee in administering and distributing trust assets according to the terms of the trust document.
Trevor set a goal to exercise 3-5 hours per week to counteract the sedentary nature of his computer science major. He calculated having 75 free hours per week, making the goal realistic and achievable. Trevor tracked his progress in a log book. Through snowboarding frequently with friends, often exceeding his goal of 3-5 hours per week, Trevor was easily able to achieve his wellness goal. He plans to continue exercising regularly by maintaining an enabling social support system and continually challenging himself physically.
Being memorable in business requires that you understand what's important to your audiences and communicate that you offer it -- it a relevant way. This presentation discussions being relevant, using the right tools and adding personality to your online efforts to engage with customers.
The HTML5 Canvas element allows scripts to access a bitmap rendered surface for drawing graphics via JavaScript. It provides a simple syntax using <canvas> tags with width and height attributes. Canvas drawing is rendered as a bitmap and is resource dependent, but offers advantages like being native to browsers without requiring plugins. While purely scripted, it is a W3C standard and examples demonstrate its capabilities for animations and interactive experiences.
Oxford Consultants for Social Inclusion developed the Index of Multiple Deprivation to identify areas with high levels of need. It uses a basket of indicators from various data sources to measure deprivation comprehensively. To maximize impact, OCSI consulted with users, published methodology details and examples, and supported reuse of the data. As a result, the IMD is used by governments and organizations to target over £1 billion per year of resources to deprived areas.
1) The estate tax laws are currently in a state of uncertainty due to the expiration of tax cuts passed in 2001 and the failure of Congress to pass new legislation.
2) This has created confusion for estate planners and uncertainty around the constitutionality of retroactive tax laws and the interpretation of existing estate planning documents.
3) Financial advisors should proactively identify clients who may be impacted and encourage reviewing existing plans or documenting intentions to address the uncertainty until Congress passes new legislation.
This document provides an overview and summary of estate planning concepts for a successor trustee training. It discusses the goals of estate planning including controlling assets while alive, planning for disability or death, and passing on assets in accordance with one's wishes. It also covers the responsibilities of a successor trustee in administering and distributing trust assets according to the terms of the trust document.
Trevor set a goal to exercise 3-5 hours per week to counteract the sedentary nature of his computer science major. He calculated having 75 free hours per week, making the goal realistic and achievable. Trevor tracked his progress in a log book. Through snowboarding frequently with friends, often exceeding his goal of 3-5 hours per week, Trevor was easily able to achieve his wellness goal. He plans to continue exercising regularly by maintaining an enabling social support system and continually challenging himself physically.
Being memorable in business requires that you understand what's important to your audiences and communicate that you offer it -- it a relevant way. This presentation discussions being relevant, using the right tools and adding personality to your online efforts to engage with customers.
The HTML5 Canvas element allows scripts to access a bitmap rendered surface for drawing graphics via JavaScript. It provides a simple syntax using <canvas> tags with width and height attributes. Canvas drawing is rendered as a bitmap and is resource dependent, but offers advantages like being native to browsers without requiring plugins. While purely scripted, it is a W3C standard and examples demonstrate its capabilities for animations and interactive experiences.
The document discusses estate planning challenges in light of changing federal estate tax laws. It outlines three potential scenarios for future estate tax rules depending on whether Congress acts, and the implications for estate planning. Estate plans now require an "if-then" approach - maximizing income tax savings if there is no estate tax, or traditional estate tax savings if taxes are reinstated. The document provides instructions for funding trusts to achieve these tax objectives under different potential tax regimes.
The document contains JavaScript code for decoding base64 encoded strings and encoding strings to base64. It also contains HTML and CSS code to display an overlay with an iframe for displaying advertising or other content to the user.
The document summarizes a presentation about charitable trusts and estate planning. It discusses how charitable remainder trusts can provide income for life, pass assets to heirs free of estate taxes, and leave remaining assets to charity. It also describes how charitable lead trusts can eliminate estate taxes by having charity receive income for a period before assets pass to heirs.
The document discusses estate planning and provides an overview of the traditional estate planning approach versus the "Truth Approach". It emphasizes the importance of developing a personalized plan through counselling to ensure client goals are met, maintaining and updating the plan over time, and properly transferring assets and wisdom to beneficiaries. The document also covers topics like mental disability planning, asset ownership, taxation, and funding trusts to reduce estate taxes.
B2: Open Up: Open Data in the Public SectorMarieke Guy
Parallel session [B2: Open Up: Open Data in the Public Sector] run at the Institutional Web Management Workshop 2013 (IWMW 2013) event, University of Bath on 26 - 28th June 2013.
Open Data in Developing Countriestowards locally sustainable ecosystems
José M. Alonso, Program Manager, Open Data
World Wide Web Foundation
REEEP Open Data Workshop, Abu Dhabi, UAE
18 Jan 2011
On Languages and Sharing (open data), Eliana Trinaistic & Veronica CosteaEliana Trinaistic
This document discusses how open data can benefit the language industry. It begins with background on open data and examples of organizations working with open data. It then discusses challenges social purpose organizations in the language industry face in measuring their impact and how open data sharing can help with strategic clarity, effective advocacy, efficient planning and measurable outcomes. The document concludes by discussing the importance of collaboration and building trust to effectively use open data and advocating for language rights.
Open Source & Open Data Session report from imaGIne 2014 ConferenceGSDI Association
Session report from the imaGIne 2014 Conference held in Berlin, Germany, in October 2014. Session was chaired by Dr. Gabor Remetey-Fulopp, of HUNAGI, who were co-organisers for Session 8C1.
Ethics and Privacy in the Application of Learning Analytics (#EP4LA)Hendrik Drachsler
This document summarizes Hendrik Drachsler's presentation on ethics and privacy issues in learning analytics at an NSF expert meeting on Big Data and Privacy in Human Subjects Research. The presentation addressed several key issues:
1) Defining the boundaries of acceptable data collection for learning analytics purposes.
2) Concerns about outsourcing the collection and analysis of student data, including who owns the data.
3) Identifying circumstances where collecting student data would be unacceptable or undesirable.
4) Determining what types of data students should be able to access about themselves.
The presentation called for continued discussion on these issues to develop practical guidelines around privacy and ethics in learning analytics.
The document summarizes Hendrik Drachsler's presentation at an NSF expert meeting on big data and privacy in human subjects research. Some key points from Drachsler's presentation include:
- He discussed issues around learning analytics research and how privacy concerns often stop innovation;
- He questioned if big data should be considered the "new truth" and highlighted examples where big data provided inaccurate insights;
- Drachsler advocated for transparency, data security, informed consent and data anonymization to prevent issues like what happened with the inBloom student database project in the US.
This document summarizes a session from the imaGIne Conference 2014 on open source and open data for geographic information (GI). The session included presentations on open data policies and economic impacts from the European Commission, contributions to open standards and software, and open data and content as foundations for open educational resources. A panel discussion addressed how open source GI and European open data policy can drive wider use of GI. Key points included the anticipated impacts of revisions to the Public Sector Information Directive, opportunities and challenges around open data and skills gaps in handling large geospatial data. The session provided perspectives from policy, education, and technical viewpoints on enabling open data.
The Regional Openness Index of ACTION SEE, targets the countries of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro, Kosovo and Serbia, whereas Kosovo was ranked third. This index has an advanced methodology with around 100 indicators per institutions which measures their openness and Open Data.
In the last two measurements it has been identified that officials institutions are not familiar with concept of open data and even with what type of data they own which can be shared for a wider use. A more deeper look will be in connection to the data owned from the institutions and if they are released how it can beneficial to the interested parties. Also how Open Data Kosovo is working towards making governmental data accessible and free of usage.
CONNECT -collecting Nordic best practices within welfare technologyTHL
This document discusses the CONNECT initiative, a project aimed at developing a standardized process for implementing welfare technology across Nordic countries. The initiative is led by the Nordic Center for Welfare and Social Issues and involves 10 municipalities and 7 national authorities from Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Iceland. The goal is to establish a validated nine-step process and toolkit to guide municipalities on issues like vision, strategy, needs assessment, and monitoring. This is intended to facilitate knowledge sharing and make it easier for suppliers to access the Nordic market by having a common framework. The project seeks input from others and aims to finalize the process by the end of 2016.
The opportunities and challenges of data for public goodElasticsearch
The document discusses data for public good and the opportunities and challenges involved. It notes that data infrastructure is needed to deliver public good through data. There are almost endless opportunities to use data for public services, policy, and citizen benefits. However, challenges include legacy systems, data silos, unclear governance, and risk aversion. As a case study, it outlines how the UK Census 2021 addressed index faced challenges but showed progress on using data better, with lessons for continued public sector transformation.
Kimberly Silk presented on data management and discovery at the Martin Prosperity Institute. The MPI collects large social science datasets from various common and authoritative sources to support research. To better organize their growing collection, the MPI implemented an open data discovery platform called Dataverse to catalog and provide access to their datasets. Open data initiatives aim to make certain government data freely available to the public, but also present challenges around data preparation, support, and responsiveness. Big data refers to extremely large datasets beyond the capabilities of typical database tools, and data visualization is an important way to communicate insights from data.
A framework for designing and assessing government-led e-participationDamien Lanfrey
The document discusses the development of a framework for designing and assessing e-participation. It notes that existing approaches focus too much on technology and online interactions, and not enough on organizational, institutional and social context factors. The proposed framework aims to address these issues. It includes dimensions for preconditions and motivations for participation, the participation process design, and expected outcomes. The goal is to support more impactful, context-aware and multi-dimensional e-participation practices and raise the level of debate around the topic.
The document discusses estate planning challenges in light of changing federal estate tax laws. It outlines three potential scenarios for future estate tax rules depending on whether Congress acts, and the implications for estate planning. Estate plans now require an "if-then" approach - maximizing income tax savings if there is no estate tax, or traditional estate tax savings if taxes are reinstated. The document provides instructions for funding trusts to achieve these tax objectives under different potential tax regimes.
The document contains JavaScript code for decoding base64 encoded strings and encoding strings to base64. It also contains HTML and CSS code to display an overlay with an iframe for displaying advertising or other content to the user.
The document summarizes a presentation about charitable trusts and estate planning. It discusses how charitable remainder trusts can provide income for life, pass assets to heirs free of estate taxes, and leave remaining assets to charity. It also describes how charitable lead trusts can eliminate estate taxes by having charity receive income for a period before assets pass to heirs.
The document discusses estate planning and provides an overview of the traditional estate planning approach versus the "Truth Approach". It emphasizes the importance of developing a personalized plan through counselling to ensure client goals are met, maintaining and updating the plan over time, and properly transferring assets and wisdom to beneficiaries. The document also covers topics like mental disability planning, asset ownership, taxation, and funding trusts to reduce estate taxes.
B2: Open Up: Open Data in the Public SectorMarieke Guy
Parallel session [B2: Open Up: Open Data in the Public Sector] run at the Institutional Web Management Workshop 2013 (IWMW 2013) event, University of Bath on 26 - 28th June 2013.
Open Data in Developing Countriestowards locally sustainable ecosystems
José M. Alonso, Program Manager, Open Data
World Wide Web Foundation
REEEP Open Data Workshop, Abu Dhabi, UAE
18 Jan 2011
On Languages and Sharing (open data), Eliana Trinaistic & Veronica CosteaEliana Trinaistic
This document discusses how open data can benefit the language industry. It begins with background on open data and examples of organizations working with open data. It then discusses challenges social purpose organizations in the language industry face in measuring their impact and how open data sharing can help with strategic clarity, effective advocacy, efficient planning and measurable outcomes. The document concludes by discussing the importance of collaboration and building trust to effectively use open data and advocating for language rights.
Open Source & Open Data Session report from imaGIne 2014 ConferenceGSDI Association
Session report from the imaGIne 2014 Conference held in Berlin, Germany, in October 2014. Session was chaired by Dr. Gabor Remetey-Fulopp, of HUNAGI, who were co-organisers for Session 8C1.
Ethics and Privacy in the Application of Learning Analytics (#EP4LA)Hendrik Drachsler
This document summarizes Hendrik Drachsler's presentation on ethics and privacy issues in learning analytics at an NSF expert meeting on Big Data and Privacy in Human Subjects Research. The presentation addressed several key issues:
1) Defining the boundaries of acceptable data collection for learning analytics purposes.
2) Concerns about outsourcing the collection and analysis of student data, including who owns the data.
3) Identifying circumstances where collecting student data would be unacceptable or undesirable.
4) Determining what types of data students should be able to access about themselves.
The presentation called for continued discussion on these issues to develop practical guidelines around privacy and ethics in learning analytics.
The document summarizes Hendrik Drachsler's presentation at an NSF expert meeting on big data and privacy in human subjects research. Some key points from Drachsler's presentation include:
- He discussed issues around learning analytics research and how privacy concerns often stop innovation;
- He questioned if big data should be considered the "new truth" and highlighted examples where big data provided inaccurate insights;
- Drachsler advocated for transparency, data security, informed consent and data anonymization to prevent issues like what happened with the inBloom student database project in the US.
This document summarizes a session from the imaGIne Conference 2014 on open source and open data for geographic information (GI). The session included presentations on open data policies and economic impacts from the European Commission, contributions to open standards and software, and open data and content as foundations for open educational resources. A panel discussion addressed how open source GI and European open data policy can drive wider use of GI. Key points included the anticipated impacts of revisions to the Public Sector Information Directive, opportunities and challenges around open data and skills gaps in handling large geospatial data. The session provided perspectives from policy, education, and technical viewpoints on enabling open data.
The Regional Openness Index of ACTION SEE, targets the countries of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro, Kosovo and Serbia, whereas Kosovo was ranked third. This index has an advanced methodology with around 100 indicators per institutions which measures their openness and Open Data.
In the last two measurements it has been identified that officials institutions are not familiar with concept of open data and even with what type of data they own which can be shared for a wider use. A more deeper look will be in connection to the data owned from the institutions and if they are released how it can beneficial to the interested parties. Also how Open Data Kosovo is working towards making governmental data accessible and free of usage.
CONNECT -collecting Nordic best practices within welfare technologyTHL
This document discusses the CONNECT initiative, a project aimed at developing a standardized process for implementing welfare technology across Nordic countries. The initiative is led by the Nordic Center for Welfare and Social Issues and involves 10 municipalities and 7 national authorities from Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Iceland. The goal is to establish a validated nine-step process and toolkit to guide municipalities on issues like vision, strategy, needs assessment, and monitoring. This is intended to facilitate knowledge sharing and make it easier for suppliers to access the Nordic market by having a common framework. The project seeks input from others and aims to finalize the process by the end of 2016.
The opportunities and challenges of data for public goodElasticsearch
The document discusses data for public good and the opportunities and challenges involved. It notes that data infrastructure is needed to deliver public good through data. There are almost endless opportunities to use data for public services, policy, and citizen benefits. However, challenges include legacy systems, data silos, unclear governance, and risk aversion. As a case study, it outlines how the UK Census 2021 addressed index faced challenges but showed progress on using data better, with lessons for continued public sector transformation.
Kimberly Silk presented on data management and discovery at the Martin Prosperity Institute. The MPI collects large social science datasets from various common and authoritative sources to support research. To better organize their growing collection, the MPI implemented an open data discovery platform called Dataverse to catalog and provide access to their datasets. Open data initiatives aim to make certain government data freely available to the public, but also present challenges around data preparation, support, and responsiveness. Big data refers to extremely large datasets beyond the capabilities of typical database tools, and data visualization is an important way to communicate insights from data.
A framework for designing and assessing government-led e-participationDamien Lanfrey
The document discusses the development of a framework for designing and assessing e-participation. It notes that existing approaches focus too much on technology and online interactions, and not enough on organizational, institutional and social context factors. The proposed framework aims to address these issues. It includes dimensions for preconditions and motivations for participation, the participation process design, and expected outcomes. The goal is to support more impactful, context-aware and multi-dimensional e-participation practices and raise the level of debate around the topic.
The document discusses the development of a framework for designing and assessing e-participation. It notes that existing approaches focus too much on technology and online interactions, and not enough on organizational, institutional and social context factors. The proposed framework aims to address these issues. It includes dimensions for preconditions and motivations for participation, the participation process design, and expected outcomes. The goal is to support more impactful, context-aware and multi-dimensional e-participation practices and raise the level of debate around the topic.
Research and Innovation in transformation: the transition to Open ScienceJean-François Dechamp
The document discusses the European Commission's efforts to promote open science. It summarizes the EC's role in funding research and setting policies. It outlines the EC's open access and open research data policies in Horizon 2020 and plans for FP9. It also discusses challenges like skills development, metrics, and legal issues regarding open science. The overall aim is to kickstart a cultural change towards greater sharing and collaboration in research.
Open data for social and economic growthUNDP Eurasia
This document outlines the agenda for a two-day training workshop on open data for public officials from Central and Eastern Europe and CIS countries. The workshop will discuss how opening governmental data can benefit economic and social development, best practices for working with the open data ecosystem, and challenges countries may face in implementing open data policies. Experts from the World Bank, Open Data Institute, and Open Knowledge Foundation will deliver sessions on open data experiences, the process of publishing and formatting data for public use, and developing skills to work with open data.
The Isaacus -Digital Health HUB closing event 1.11.2018
"Health data, public institutions, and innovation –
Lessons learned from Finland"
Ville Aula, PhD Researcher
Data, Networks, and Society
Department of Media & Communications
Similar to Facts first: Locating and re-using government data in Norway (20)
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 .
Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing.pdfssuserfac0301
Read Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing to gain insights on AI adoption in the manufacturing industry, such as:
1. How quickly AI is being implemented in manufacturing.
2. Which barriers stand in the way of AI adoption.
3. How data quality and governance form the backbone of AI.
4. Organizational processes and structures that may inhibit effective AI adoption.
6. Ideas and approaches to help build your organization's AI strategy.
How information systems are built or acquired puts information, which is what they should be about, in a secondary place. Our language adapted accordingly, and we no longer talk about information systems but applications. Applications evolved in a way to break data into diverse fragments, tightly coupled with applications and expensive to integrate. The result is technical debt, which is re-paid by taking even bigger "loans", resulting in an ever-increasing technical debt. Software engineering and procurement practices work in sync with market forces to maintain this trend. This talk demonstrates how natural this situation is. The question is: can something be done to reverse the trend?
Conversational agents, or chatbots, are increasingly used to access all sorts of services using natural language. While open-domain chatbots - like ChatGPT - can converse on any topic, task-oriented chatbots - the focus of this paper - are designed for specific tasks, like booking a flight, obtaining customer support, or setting an appointment. Like any other software, task-oriented chatbots need to be properly tested, usually by defining and executing test scenarios (i.e., sequences of user-chatbot interactions). However, there is currently a lack of methods to quantify the completeness and strength of such test scenarios, which can lead to low-quality tests, and hence to buggy chatbots.
To fill this gap, we propose adapting mutation testing (MuT) for task-oriented chatbots. To this end, we introduce a set of mutation operators that emulate faults in chatbot designs, an architecture that enables MuT on chatbots built using heterogeneous technologies, and a practical realisation as an Eclipse plugin. Moreover, we evaluate the applicability, effectiveness and efficiency of our approach on open-source chatbots, with promising results.
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
Northern Engraving | Nameplate Manufacturing Process - 2024Northern Engraving
Manufacturing custom quality metal nameplates and badges involves several standard operations. Processes include sheet prep, lithography, screening, coating, punch press and inspection. All decoration is completed in the flat sheet with adhesive and tooling operations following. The possibilities for creating unique durable nameplates are endless. How will you create your brand identity? We can help!
5th LF Energy Power Grid Model Meet-up SlidesDanBrown980551
5th Power Grid Model Meet-up
It is with great pleasure that we extend to you an invitation to the 5th Power Grid Model Meet-up, scheduled for 6th June 2024. This event will adopt a hybrid format, allowing participants to join us either through an online Mircosoft Teams session or in person at TU/e located at Den Dolech 2, Eindhoven, Netherlands. The meet-up will be hosted by Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), a research university specializing in engineering science & technology.
Power Grid Model
The global energy transition is placing new and unprecedented demands on Distribution System Operators (DSOs). Alongside upgrades to grid capacity, processes such as digitization, capacity optimization, and congestion management are becoming vital for delivering reliable services.
Power Grid Model is an open source project from Linux Foundation Energy and provides a calculation engine that is increasingly essential for DSOs. It offers a standards-based foundation enabling real-time power systems analysis, simulations of electrical power grids, and sophisticated what-if analysis. In addition, it enables in-depth studies and analysis of the electrical power grid’s behavior and performance. This comprehensive model incorporates essential factors such as power generation capacity, electrical losses, voltage levels, power flows, and system stability.
Power Grid Model is currently being applied in a wide variety of use cases, including grid planning, expansion, reliability, and congestion studies. It can also help in analyzing the impact of renewable energy integration, assessing the effects of disturbances or faults, and developing strategies for grid control and optimization.
What to expect
For the upcoming meetup we are organizing, we have an exciting lineup of activities planned:
-Insightful presentations covering two practical applications of the Power Grid Model.
-An update on the latest advancements in Power Grid -Model technology during the first and second quarters of 2024.
-An interactive brainstorming session to discuss and propose new feature requests.
-An opportunity to connect with fellow Power Grid Model enthusiasts and users.
"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.
Connector Corner: Seamlessly power UiPath Apps, GenAI with prebuilt connectorsDianaGray10
Join us to learn how UiPath Apps can directly and easily interact with prebuilt connectors via Integration Service--including Salesforce, ServiceNow, Open GenAI, and more.
The best part is you can achieve this without building a custom workflow! Say goodbye to the hassle of using separate automations to call APIs. By seamlessly integrating within App Studio, you can now easily streamline your workflow, while gaining direct access to our Connector Catalog of popular applications.
We’ll discuss and demo the benefits of UiPath Apps and connectors including:
Creating a compelling user experience for any software, without the limitations of APIs.
Accelerating the app creation process, saving time and effort
Enjoying high-performance CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations, for
seamless data management.
Speakers:
Russell Alfeche, Technology Leader, RPA at qBotic and UiPath MVP
Charlie Greenberg, host
HCL Notes and Domino License Cost Reduction in the World of DLAUpanagenda
Webinar Recording: https://www.panagenda.com/webinars/hcl-notes-and-domino-license-cost-reduction-in-the-world-of-dlau/
The introduction of DLAU and the CCB & CCX licensing model caused quite a stir in the HCL community. As a Notes and Domino customer, you may have faced challenges with unexpected user counts and license costs. You probably have questions on how this new licensing approach works and how to benefit from it. Most importantly, you likely have budget constraints and want to save money where possible. Don’t worry, we can help with all of this!
We’ll show you how to fix common misconfigurations that cause higher-than-expected user counts, and how to identify accounts which you can deactivate to save money. There are also frequent patterns that can cause unnecessary cost, like using a person document instead of a mail-in for shared mailboxes. We’ll provide examples and solutions for those as well. And naturally we’ll explain the new licensing model.
Join HCL Ambassador Marc Thomas in this webinar with a special guest appearance from Franz Walder. It will give you the tools and know-how to stay on top of what is going on with Domino licensing. You will be able lower your cost through an optimized configuration and keep it low going forward.
These topics will be covered
- Reducing license cost by finding and fixing misconfigurations and superfluous accounts
- How do CCB and CCX licenses really work?
- Understanding the DLAU tool and how to best utilize it
- Tips for common problem areas, like team mailboxes, functional/test users, etc
- Practical examples and best practices to implement right away
Driving Business Innovation: Latest Generative AI Advancements & Success StorySafe Software
Are you ready to revolutionize how you handle data? Join us for a webinar where we’ll bring you up to speed with the latest advancements in Generative AI technology and discover how leveraging FME with tools from giants like Google Gemini, Amazon, and Microsoft OpenAI can supercharge your workflow efficiency.
During the hour, we’ll take you through:
Guest Speaker Segment with Hannah Barrington: Dive into the world of dynamic real estate marketing with Hannah, the Marketing Manager at Workspace Group. Hear firsthand how their team generates engaging descriptions for thousands of office units by integrating diverse data sources—from PDF floorplans to web pages—using FME transformers, like OpenAIVisionConnector and AnthropicVisionConnector. This use case will show you how GenAI can streamline content creation for marketing across the board.
Ollama Use Case: Learn how Scenario Specialist Dmitri Bagh has utilized Ollama within FME to input data, create custom models, and enhance security protocols. This segment will include demos to illustrate the full capabilities of FME in AI-driven processes.
Custom AI Models: Discover how to leverage FME to build personalized AI models using your data. Whether it’s populating a model with local data for added security or integrating public AI tools, find out how FME facilitates a versatile and secure approach to AI.
We’ll wrap up with a live Q&A session where you can engage with our experts on your specific use cases, and learn more about optimizing your data workflows with AI.
This webinar is ideal for professionals seeking to harness the power of AI within their data management systems while ensuring high levels of customization and security. Whether you're a novice or an expert, gain actionable insights and strategies to elevate your data processes. Join us to see how FME and AI can revolutionize how you work with data!
Have you ever been confused by the myriad of choices offered by AWS for hosting a website or an API?
Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, Lightsail, Amplify, S3 (and more!) can each host websites + APIs. But which one should we choose?
Which one is cheapest? Which one is fastest? Which one will scale to meet our needs?
Join me in this session as we dive into each AWS hosting service to determine which one is best for your scenario and explain why!
Skybuffer SAM4U tool for SAP license adoptionTatiana Kojar
Manage and optimize your license adoption and consumption with SAM4U, an SAP free customer software asset management tool.
SAM4U, an SAP complimentary software asset management tool for customers, delivers a detailed and well-structured overview of license inventory and usage with a user-friendly interface. We offer a hosted, cost-effective, and performance-optimized SAM4U setup in the Skybuffer Cloud environment. You retain ownership of the system and data, while we manage the ABAP 7.58 infrastructure, ensuring fixed Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and exceptional services through the SAP Fiori interface.
Generating privacy-protected synthetic data using Secludy and MilvusZilliz
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Introduction of Cybersecurity with OSS at Code Europe 2024Hiroshi SHIBATA
I develop the Ruby programming language, RubyGems, and Bundler, which are package managers for Ruby. Today, I will introduce how to enhance the security of your application using open-source software (OSS) examples from Ruby and RubyGems.
The first topic is CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures). I have published CVEs many times. But what exactly is a CVE? I'll provide a basic understanding of CVEs and explain how to detect and handle vulnerabilities in OSS.
Next, let's discuss package managers. Package managers play a critical role in the OSS ecosystem. I'll explain how to manage library dependencies in your application.
I'll share insights into how the Ruby and RubyGems core team works to keep our ecosystem safe. By the end of this talk, you'll have a better understanding of how to safeguard your code.
Started in August Looking for name for project blog where we would post news about open data issues and our own progress with the project. I quickly came to think about the famous quote &quot;Comment is free, but facts are sacred &quot;. The first part of that quote was used as the title of The Guardian's commentary website &quot;Comment is free&quot; - that's where I had heard about it originally.
Of course, the quote is from an article published in 1921 by CP Scott, the legendary editor and owner of the Guardian . &quot;Facts are sacred&quot; would be perfect as a title for our project. A direct translation into Norwegian does not work very well. &quot;Facts first &quot; resonates well with the traditional press ideology of keeping facts and opinion separated . &quot;Facts are sacred&quot; motto of The Guardian's &quot;Datablog&quot; This emphasis on journalism - our department's primary interest behind taking on the topic of open public sector data. Contributing to the development of journalism and in understanding the conditions for innovation in journalism . In this perspective we look at how facts can be used in journalism: As structured facts, data can be presented in ways that provide more insight into most areas of society , and they can empower citizens to act on issues that are important to them. Politics and the economy are obvious examples where data as structured facts can have an impact, but there are many more areas.
It was quickly clear that we needed to start with the most basic questions . Because very little information is available. - What and where are the government - public sector - data sources? - Are data available for re-use? - If not, what are the obstacles to making data available? Will briefly run through the main results and our recommendations . We have published our project report today on the web magazine Vox Publica.no, so you can check that out if you want to see all the findings in detail. ONLY in Norwegian, but an English summary.
FOUR MAIN ASPECTS OR FINDINGS we want to emphasize. First: There is generally a lack of information about data sources. We trawled 125 state agency websites. Only one third of the agencies have links to data source information on the homepage . We have been &quot;nice&quot; to them: Any information about statistics, data, numbers landed them a &quot;yes&quot; here. Looked for any information at all anywhere on the website, it turned out that two thirds had such information . But then it was in many cases really hard to find. Ideally, information about data sources should be visible on the homepage, and it should be possible to act on the information - it should be downloadable in formats developers want, with an API where that is relevant. The lesson here must be that a clear government policy on how to inform about data sources is sorely needed. Now users, if they find something, have to relate to all kinds of different ways of informing and presenting data. If, indeed there are data available at all.
THE SECOND MAIN ASPECT 2. No datastore: Some state agencies stand out by informing very well about their data sources, but these are exceptions . There is one necessary solution: A Norwegian data.gov . A central website where re-users can find data sources from all government agencies, and where the agencies themselves can register their data . This should be supplemented with regional and local datastores which cities etc can establish themselves. As you can see from that slide, there are enough examples to learn from. There are more than these. The most recent here is London which launched their datastore last week.
What we did was to simply start our own datastore using an open Google Spreadsheet. In a way to demonstrate that it doesn't have to be so difficult! With the help of a community of users we have registered some 130 sources there. That's information that the government can re-use itself when it gets its own data.gov up and running. We really think this is one of the most pressing issues now. Actually, only in the last few months there have been more initiatives to collect Norwegian data sources, and all are run by users on a voluntary basis.
THIRD MAIN ASPECT 3. Great potential: We did a survey among a selection of state agencies from across different sectors, from research institutes to environmental agencies to the parliament . We asked a set of questions about their data policies. The answers made us quite optimistic, actually. I want to highlight two tendencies : THIS SLIDE: Two out of three agencies say that they have data sets with a potential for re-use that they have not made available yet.
And six out of ten say that they plan to make more data available within the next year. Judging from the comments that we received in this survey and in interviews , it's reasonable to say that in many areas of the public sector there are well-informed people working actively to open up their data.
OK, THERE ARE DATA SOURCES, BUT WHAT ABOUT THE OBSTACLES? We asked about that in the survey. Costs are chosen by most. Clearly direct and indirect costs play a role , and this should be addressed when and if there will be political initiatives. One other, very important obstacle is also mentioned here: Personal data and privacy . In interviews that we had with local government agencies here in Bergen, this was THE major concern . We believe that this topic as well needs to be addressed. Ideally, agencies should have clear, practical guidelines so they can open up data at the necessary aggregated levels . Now there is maybe a tendency to keep data closed because they want to be on the safe side . That's understandable, but also a problem.
OUR FOURTH MAIN POINT. 4. Knowledge gaps: Interest in open data and the competence - how to do it right - varies strongly across the agencies we have surveyed and talked to. A lot needs to be done to improve conditions here. One of our suggestions is that the responsible government agencies - the ministry - formulate clear rules and guidelines about how to open up data in the correct way. Here we can learn from a Dutch project where they wrote a handbook in the form of a wiki and made this great poster that the promising data-bureaucrat can frame and hang above her desk! Don't worry , it does of course have a Creative Commons license! We have included this in our report .
I have mentioned some of our recommendations already, we have in all 10 in the report. But here are the most important ones: SAY MORE ABOUT EACH - Datastores: Data.gov, state/regional/local - Principles, licenses, guidelines, handbook - Personal data: special attention - Define and fund pilot projects – many examples how this is done, for example with the London datastore. We will also hear more about this later from Denmark. A general point about knowledge transfer: When I follow this field internationally now, I see almost daily new initiatives and ideas that can inspire and be copied here. From what I can understand, it has never been easier to transfer knowledge and experience between countries. I'm pretty certain we will leave today with more good ideas.
RETURN TO WIDER CONTEXT OF OPEN DATA I have taken for granted the underlying premise : That opening up government data is A Good Thing . When we talk about this in the most general terms , I think that is acceptable . The principle of re-use of government data has actually been implemented in the law across Europe as a result of an EU directive. In the Nordic countries, opening up data fits seamlessly into the tradition of transparency in government with quite far-reaching freedom of information legislation. The right of access to database information in public sector agencies has indeed been added to the freedom of information act. It was a logical step. But advancing from these very basic principles, there are plenty of other issues to address . When we get so far as to having more data at our disposal, what will we do with them?
This mashup was created by an IT developer in Britain immediately after membership lists of BNP were leaked and posted online a little more than a year ago. By using a standard Google Maps template, it makes it look like the BNP has taken over the UK completely. Criticized for various reasons, and the creator decided to take it down again . The data were stolen, confidential and not government data, and posting them online was definitely breaching these people's right to privacy. Some people, when they got hold of these data, were so eager to use them in their fight against the BNP that they forgot all about the usual privacy concerns . BUT: Public sphere worked. Extreme example, but interesting in our context. In less controversial areas, we risk ending up with misleading information instead of gaining insight from the mashup of different data sources. The concern that &quot;giving us our data&quot; will result in confusion was also frequently mentioned by the civil servants we talked to. But is it desirable or even possible to lock up data sources? It is hard to find convincing arguments for that. Just as the means of producing and distributing news and information now are available to all, data will also be at our fingertips. Our job must be to work for good tools, good practices and good results.
And we must keep the debates going. This is one way to frame them. GOOD PRACTICES: Create good examples, display them, criticize the bad. EMERGING COMMUNITY: You notice that there is already a very active community, how to knit them closer together? I hope we will cover some of these questions today, and I'm sure we will hear about many good examples of what can be done with public sector data. This is a question of opening up not only the public sector and politics, but also journalism itself . Opening up by letting other groups perform journalism-related work, and opening up by displaying our own data sources and inspire readers, users and citizens to work together with us.