[These are my notes from my talk at TEDxAntananarivo in Madagascar on Nov 27, 2010.]
This is mostly pictures, find the rest on my blog:
http://whiteafrican.com/2010/11/27/finding-africas-innovators/
Presentation by Sander Muilerman, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture
Session: TechTalk for Agriculture
on 7 Nov 2013
ICT4Ag, Kigali, Rwanda
Lo sport ha da sempre avuto una stretta relazione con il mondo militare, si può dire che è una rappresentazione dell’“arte della guerra”. Se si intende l’aggressività come componente antropologica ineliminabile, non si può negare che lo sport è nella sua forma attuale un campo di battaglia sostanzialmente pacifico, dove l’uomo può esprimere la sua voglia di primeggiare sull’altro.
Se fin dall’antichità il rapporto era fondamentalmente di utilizzo da parte dei militari della pratica sportiva come un allenamento o una riproposizione mascherata della battaglia e della vittoria, una volta che lo sport a partire dal secondo dopoguerra ha assunto una sua caratterizzazione come fenomeno a sé stante con le sue regole e i suoi valori, è stato esso stesso ad usufruire delle istituzioni militari per ottenerne supporto e sostegno, economico ed organizzativo. Questo è avvenuto nei Paesi del blocco sovietico in chiave ideologica, ancora legata ad un’idea bellicosa dello sport, ma anche in chiave soprattutto utilitaristica in Italia, con un sistema che negli anni è andato rafforzandosi sempre più.
Puntualmente ad ogni edizione dei Giochi Olimpici si aprono le polemiche sugli atleti italiani appartenenti ai diversi gruppi sportivi militari, stipendiati dallo Stato e quindi a carico dei cittadini, che appare un’ulteriore spesa pubblica. Nonostante le vittorie sportive e le medaglie olimpiche, che rappresentano la maggior parte di quelle conquistate dalla delegazione italiana, possono appagare un senso di orgoglio nazionale, c’è sempre un serpeggiante malcontento pensando ad atleti a tutti gli effetti soldati ed agenti, ma esonerati dal mestiere ovvero pagati per svolgere l’attività sportiva professionale a tempo pieno. Il sistema è divenuto indispensabile per lo sport italiano di vertice, in quanto i grandi gruppi polisportivi militari sono gli unici, salvo alcune eccezioni, a garantire un sostegno pieno e di livello assoluto per permettere ai migliori atleti di primeggiare nelle grandi manifestazioni internazionali.
Il seguente lavoro si distinguerà in tre parti. Nella prima verrà messo in luce come la nascita delle pratiche sportive sia strettamente legata l’attività della guerra, e l’utilizzo in chiave di educazione militare e ideologica dello sport nel corso della storia. Nella seconda parte verrà analizzato il sistema del sostegno pubblico italiano dello sport di alto livello tramite i Gruppi sportivi delle Forze Armate (Esercito, Marna, Aeronautica, Carabinieri) e di Polizia (Guardia di Finanza, Polizia di Stato, Polizia Penitenziaria, Guardia Forestale e Vigili del Fuoco) dal punto di vista organizzativo e legislativo. Nella terza ed ultima parte verranno posti in esame i diversi modelli del sostegno militare di tre potenze sportive europee come Francia, Germania e Russia.
Lecture presented at the PLAI National Congress on the theme “Libraries: Preservers and Promoters of Culture and the Arts" held at Punta Villa Resort, Iloilo City
Presentation by Sander Muilerman, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture
Session: TechTalk for Agriculture
on 7 Nov 2013
ICT4Ag, Kigali, Rwanda
Lo sport ha da sempre avuto una stretta relazione con il mondo militare, si può dire che è una rappresentazione dell’“arte della guerra”. Se si intende l’aggressività come componente antropologica ineliminabile, non si può negare che lo sport è nella sua forma attuale un campo di battaglia sostanzialmente pacifico, dove l’uomo può esprimere la sua voglia di primeggiare sull’altro.
Se fin dall’antichità il rapporto era fondamentalmente di utilizzo da parte dei militari della pratica sportiva come un allenamento o una riproposizione mascherata della battaglia e della vittoria, una volta che lo sport a partire dal secondo dopoguerra ha assunto una sua caratterizzazione come fenomeno a sé stante con le sue regole e i suoi valori, è stato esso stesso ad usufruire delle istituzioni militari per ottenerne supporto e sostegno, economico ed organizzativo. Questo è avvenuto nei Paesi del blocco sovietico in chiave ideologica, ancora legata ad un’idea bellicosa dello sport, ma anche in chiave soprattutto utilitaristica in Italia, con un sistema che negli anni è andato rafforzandosi sempre più.
Puntualmente ad ogni edizione dei Giochi Olimpici si aprono le polemiche sugli atleti italiani appartenenti ai diversi gruppi sportivi militari, stipendiati dallo Stato e quindi a carico dei cittadini, che appare un’ulteriore spesa pubblica. Nonostante le vittorie sportive e le medaglie olimpiche, che rappresentano la maggior parte di quelle conquistate dalla delegazione italiana, possono appagare un senso di orgoglio nazionale, c’è sempre un serpeggiante malcontento pensando ad atleti a tutti gli effetti soldati ed agenti, ma esonerati dal mestiere ovvero pagati per svolgere l’attività sportiva professionale a tempo pieno. Il sistema è divenuto indispensabile per lo sport italiano di vertice, in quanto i grandi gruppi polisportivi militari sono gli unici, salvo alcune eccezioni, a garantire un sostegno pieno e di livello assoluto per permettere ai migliori atleti di primeggiare nelle grandi manifestazioni internazionali.
Il seguente lavoro si distinguerà in tre parti. Nella prima verrà messo in luce come la nascita delle pratiche sportive sia strettamente legata l’attività della guerra, e l’utilizzo in chiave di educazione militare e ideologica dello sport nel corso della storia. Nella seconda parte verrà analizzato il sistema del sostegno pubblico italiano dello sport di alto livello tramite i Gruppi sportivi delle Forze Armate (Esercito, Marna, Aeronautica, Carabinieri) e di Polizia (Guardia di Finanza, Polizia di Stato, Polizia Penitenziaria, Guardia Forestale e Vigili del Fuoco) dal punto di vista organizzativo e legislativo. Nella terza ed ultima parte verranno posti in esame i diversi modelli del sostegno militare di tre potenze sportive europee come Francia, Germania e Russia.
Lecture presented at the PLAI National Congress on the theme “Libraries: Preservers and Promoters of Culture and the Arts" held at Punta Villa Resort, Iloilo City
I was a guest speaker for the University of Toronto / Sheridan College Web Culture and Design program in March 2015. My presentation looks at web design through the lens of this new web culture and proposes that technology consumption has a direct impact on culture. The hypothesis is that consumption, especially among youth, tweens and teens has created a cultural dysfunction. As a guest speaker for the Web Culture and Design classes, my intention was to provide new insights that will challenge their existing design paradigms and foster new ways of thinking and approaching design.
Bit by Bit: Issues of Future Technology and Cultural DevelopmentJeremy Pesner
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African solutions to African problems: the role of research management tools ...Reed Elsevier
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The Intersection of Culture and Technology: Capturing Improvement Where it Ha...KaiNexus
KaiNexus webinar presented by Matthew Cannistraro of J.C. Cannistraro.
In this webinar, you will learn:
Background of JC Cannistraro and the factors that led to the need for improvement software
The importance of and methods for capturing improvement where it happens
Examples of bottom-up improvement that you can learn from
The role of technology in spreading bottom-up improvement
Actionable advice for launching improvement software in your own organization
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How do you test the usability of a mobile phone’s address book for users in rural India who’ve never had an address… yet alone an analog address book?
As cheap PCs and inexpensive mobile phones flood the global market, usability and user experience professionals will encounter more and more questions like these. Questions that challenge not only our research tools and methodologies, but our fundamental assumptions about how people engage with technology.
In this keynote, Rachel will share her thoughts on the challenges and opportunities the current cultural watershed will present to our industry as well as the metamorphosis our field must undergo in order to create great experience across different cultures.
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The last two days I’ve been part of the human rights “Soul of the New Machine” conference in Berkeley, California. I talked about mobile phones, especially about gathering and disseminating information via PDAs and normal mobile phones. Here are my notes for the talk.
Never as useful without the context of the talk itself, but still interesting. You can see my notes at
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This is from my talk on mobile phones in Africa, at the Picnic conference in Amsterdam this morning.
Africa is brimming with innovative people, projects and organizations.
I had this presentation set on "loop" at last week's NetSquared mashup challenge in California (which we won). Makes more sense if someone talks to it, but you'll get the idea.
Pushing the limits of ePRTC: 100ns holdover for 100 daysAdtran
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I was a guest speaker for the University of Toronto / Sheridan College Web Culture and Design program in March 2015. My presentation looks at web design through the lens of this new web culture and proposes that technology consumption has a direct impact on culture. The hypothesis is that consumption, especially among youth, tweens and teens has created a cultural dysfunction. As a guest speaker for the Web Culture and Design classes, my intention was to provide new insights that will challenge their existing design paradigms and foster new ways of thinking and approaching design.
Bit by Bit: Issues of Future Technology and Cultural DevelopmentJeremy Pesner
A talk I gave at the 2015 World Future Society conference in San Francisco. I covered three major topics relating the future of technology: the customization of life, the lack of long-term technological innovation and how open source versus closed source affects how users understand technology.
African solutions to African problems: the role of research management tools ...Reed Elsevier
Describes SciVal as an efficient tool to find potential research collaborators on the African continent to support the ideology of African solutions to African problems.
The Intersection of Culture and Technology: Capturing Improvement Where it Ha...KaiNexus
KaiNexus webinar presented by Matthew Cannistraro of J.C. Cannistraro.
In this webinar, you will learn:
Background of JC Cannistraro and the factors that led to the need for improvement software
The importance of and methods for capturing improvement where it happens
Examples of bottom-up improvement that you can learn from
The role of technology in spreading bottom-up improvement
Actionable advice for launching improvement software in your own organization
How do you design a mobile money service for people in rural Uganda who’ve never had a bank account?
How do you test the usability of a mobile phone’s address book for users in rural India who’ve never had an address… yet alone an analog address book?
As cheap PCs and inexpensive mobile phones flood the global market, usability and user experience professionals will encounter more and more questions like these. Questions that challenge not only our research tools and methodologies, but our fundamental assumptions about how people engage with technology.
In this keynote, Rachel will share her thoughts on the challenges and opportunities the current cultural watershed will present to our industry as well as the metamorphosis our field must undergo in order to create great experience across different cultures.
This lecture looks at Determinism and Technological Determinism. This lecture is part of the Media and Cultural Theories module on the MSc and MA in Creative Technology and Creative Games at The University of Salford.
The last two days I’ve been part of the human rights “Soul of the New Machine” conference in Berkeley, California. I talked about mobile phones, especially about gathering and disseminating information via PDAs and normal mobile phones. Here are my notes for the talk.
Never as useful without the context of the talk itself, but still interesting. You can see my notes at
MobileActive '08 Survey Results by ClyralErik Hersman
While at MobileActive \'08, Mark and Andy (of Clyral, a South African mobile and web company) used the first two days to survey a number of the attendees asking multiple questions about the projects they run and the work that they do with mobile phones.
This is from my talk on mobile phones in Africa, at the Picnic conference in Amsterdam this morning.
Africa is brimming with innovative people, projects and organizations.
I had this presentation set on "loop" at last week's NetSquared mashup challenge in California (which we won). Makes more sense if someone talks to it, but you'll get the idea.
Pushing the limits of ePRTC: 100ns holdover for 100 daysAdtran
At WSTS 2024, Alon Stern explored the topic of parametric holdover and explained how recent research findings can be implemented in real-world PNT networks to achieve 100 nanoseconds of accuracy for up to 100 days.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
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However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
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Why You Should Replace Windows 11 with Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 for enhanced perfor...SOFTTECHHUB
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📕 Vedremo insieme alcuni esempi dell'utilizzo di Autopilot in diversi tool della Suite UiPath:
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GenAI applicata alla Document Understanding
👨🏫👨💻 Speakers:
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The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
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State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
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Cyberattack types and targets
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Attacks on counties – USA
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Axis of attacks – Europe
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Download the full report from here:
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