The Finnish e-participation environment project aims to create a unified set of digital tools to enhance dialogue between citizens, politicians, and public servants. This will improve e-participation opportunities at local and national levels. The tools will include options for online discussions, consultations, initiatives, and representative monitoring. The program runs from 2010-2013, led by the Ministry of Justice. It involves partners from various levels of government and aims to develop an ecosystem of commercial and non-profit services to engage citizens in governance. The goals are to improve citizen participation, government transparency and efficiency, and the quality of public decisions.
How the Net can support local and state governance and citizen engagement.
Slides from a speech by Steven Clift to the NewOut.Org conference in Boston.
Fostering innovation - social media tools for local governmentKit England
A presentation I gave to the council's Innovation Forum on the roles and uses of social media, along with how the Community of Practice Platform has been used to support collaborative working across the council. It also provides a quick look at the future of the platform, including the development of the Knowledge Hub
Engaging Times: 20 Years of E-Democracy LessonsSteven Clift
Key lessons from twenty years of e-democracy, open government, civic technology, and citizen participation online.
Extended slide deck combining almost all slides used by Steven Clift across 14 presentations across Taiwan and the Philippines to different audiences.
How the Net can support local and state governance and citizen engagement.
Slides from a speech by Steven Clift to the NewOut.Org conference in Boston.
Fostering innovation - social media tools for local governmentKit England
A presentation I gave to the council's Innovation Forum on the roles and uses of social media, along with how the Community of Practice Platform has been used to support collaborative working across the council. It also provides a quick look at the future of the platform, including the development of the Knowledge Hub
Engaging Times: 20 Years of E-Democracy LessonsSteven Clift
Key lessons from twenty years of e-democracy, open government, civic technology, and citizen participation online.
Extended slide deck combining almost all slides used by Steven Clift across 14 presentations across Taiwan and the Philippines to different audiences.
Online Communities at EuroPCom - Steven Clift KHub.Net and E-Democracy.orgSteven Clift
Online Communities of Practice presentation at EuroPCom - European Conference for Public Communication by Steven Clift. Mixes lessons from UK-based Knowledge Hub http://khub.net with a few relevant experiences via http://E-Democracy.org
Using linked data and the semantic web - "powered by INSPIRE" conference pres...Alex Coley
The central commitment of the UK Government to Open Data and Open Data Standards has continued and this has built towards the desire to not only publish data in ways that are open but to do this with data that isin a way that is both useful and structured in a way that is useful. This has necessarily focused on both enabling innovation and improving public sector efficiencies. The UK Government Linked Data Working Group (UKGovLD) was formed as a commitment in the Open Data white paper, and grew from an UK INSPIRE Linked Data Working Group. UKGovLD is here to advise UK Government on the implementation of Linked Data technologies and associated business practices, highlighting areas of best practice and identifying projects that should be prioritised or amended. All to enable collaboration and the delivery of core projects for the benefit of the UK.
IWMW 2000: Town and Gown Finding Common Ground on the WebIWMW
Slides for the plenary talk on "Town and Gown Finding Common Ground on the Web" presented at the IWMW 2000 event held at the University of Bath on 6-8 September 2000.
See http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2000/sessions .html#rowlatt
Digital Exclusion: Implications for Human Services Practitioners SUE WATLING ...Sue Watling
Digital Exclusion: Implications for Human Services Practitioners (2010) SUE WATLING and KARIN CRAWFORD Journal of Technology in Human Services, 28:205–216,
Organisational Solutions for Overcoming Barriers to eGovernment ePractice.eu
Authors: Rebecca Eynon, Helen Margetts
This paper, based on the Breaking Barriers to eGovernment Project, presents seven categories of barriers to eGovernment progression and identifies eight associated legal areas that underpin these barriers.
The Finnish e-participation environment - IIEP IJW2011Teemu Ropponen
The Finnish e-participation environment - presentation at Immigrant Intergration by e-participation International Joint Workshop 2011, Helsinki, Nov 2-3
National e-participation environment presentation by Niklas Wilhelmsson, Ministry of Justice, Finland - Unit for Democracy, Language Affairs and Fundamental Rights. Steven Clit's slides from the same event here: https://db.tt/BOhhQ0Ex
Online Communities at EuroPCom - Steven Clift KHub.Net and E-Democracy.orgSteven Clift
Online Communities of Practice presentation at EuroPCom - European Conference for Public Communication by Steven Clift. Mixes lessons from UK-based Knowledge Hub http://khub.net with a few relevant experiences via http://E-Democracy.org
Using linked data and the semantic web - "powered by INSPIRE" conference pres...Alex Coley
The central commitment of the UK Government to Open Data and Open Data Standards has continued and this has built towards the desire to not only publish data in ways that are open but to do this with data that isin a way that is both useful and structured in a way that is useful. This has necessarily focused on both enabling innovation and improving public sector efficiencies. The UK Government Linked Data Working Group (UKGovLD) was formed as a commitment in the Open Data white paper, and grew from an UK INSPIRE Linked Data Working Group. UKGovLD is here to advise UK Government on the implementation of Linked Data technologies and associated business practices, highlighting areas of best practice and identifying projects that should be prioritised or amended. All to enable collaboration and the delivery of core projects for the benefit of the UK.
IWMW 2000: Town and Gown Finding Common Ground on the WebIWMW
Slides for the plenary talk on "Town and Gown Finding Common Ground on the Web" presented at the IWMW 2000 event held at the University of Bath on 6-8 September 2000.
See http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2000/sessions .html#rowlatt
Digital Exclusion: Implications for Human Services Practitioners SUE WATLING ...Sue Watling
Digital Exclusion: Implications for Human Services Practitioners (2010) SUE WATLING and KARIN CRAWFORD Journal of Technology in Human Services, 28:205–216,
Organisational Solutions for Overcoming Barriers to eGovernment ePractice.eu
Authors: Rebecca Eynon, Helen Margetts
This paper, based on the Breaking Barriers to eGovernment Project, presents seven categories of barriers to eGovernment progression and identifies eight associated legal areas that underpin these barriers.
The Finnish e-participation environment - IIEP IJW2011Teemu Ropponen
The Finnish e-participation environment - presentation at Immigrant Intergration by e-participation International Joint Workshop 2011, Helsinki, Nov 2-3
National e-participation environment presentation by Niklas Wilhelmsson, Ministry of Justice, Finland - Unit for Democracy, Language Affairs and Fundamental Rights. Steven Clit's slides from the same event here: https://db.tt/BOhhQ0Ex
eParticipation initiatives in Europe: Learning from PractitionersEfthimios Tambouris
Paper presented in ePart 2012 conference, IDHEAP, Switzerland. The paper is available from Springer (see http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-15158-3_5)
Networks for Citizen Consultation and Citizen Sourcing of Expertise: Explor...@cristobalcobo
"New ICTs + New Media = New Democracy? Communications policy and public life in the age of broadband"
Experts’ workshop
New America Foundation, 1899 L St NW, Washington, DC
September 20-22, 2011
www.americanthinktank.net
Cristobal Cobo, Ph.D
Research Fellow
Oxford Internet Institute
University of Oxford
Interoperability and community building for transformational eGovernment ePractice.eu
Author: Sylvia Archmann, Just Castillo Iglesias.
The latest technological progress has unveiled the enormous capacity for ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) to become a leading force in the modernisation of public administration and has raised the appearance of Transformational eGovernment.
Developments in e-Government: A comparative analysis between Ireland and The ...Studievereniging VRiSBI
The name that is given to the use of electronic means to deliver better government is E-government. It is important to note that E-government can never be a goal in itself; it is a way to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the government and its communications. In this paper, we compare the developments and integration of services regarding E-government in Ireland and The Netherlands. We looked at problems that were encountered by both countries, and how they were dealt with. Based on these findings, we formulated an advice on how to make further improvements to E-Government facilities in the near future for both countries.
Our research showed us several interesting things. What we saw was that developments and growth in E-Government Services and registered E-Government users in Ireland fall behind compared to the same kind of developments and growth going on in The Netherlands. There is not one cause that we can name for this outcome, but several reasons became clear during our research. The low internet penetration in Ireland could be one cause, only 52% of the population has an internet connection. Other reasons are that Irish people have always been suspicious regarding their government and the lack of a killer application.
HY Sosiaalisen Median Seminaari OSY 15.11.2011Teemu Ropponen
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Esitys Osallistumisympäristöstä HY:n
Sosiaalisen median seminaarissa
http://sosiaalisenmedianseminaarisarja.blogspot.com/2011/06/vaikuttaminen-osallisuus-ja-sosiaalinen.html
"Vaikuttaminen, osallisuus ja sosiaalinen media"
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
14. Our gov’t support to e-democracy? Feb 4 , 2010 (previous) government ’decision ” Finland to be among the top 10 counties in international e-democracy benchmarks”
15. Special groups Companies NGO’s Public servants Problems Knowledge Solutions Decisions Politicians Media Citizens Researchers
16. Is e-democracy/Gov 2.0 hype? Model: Gartner Note : In short term, effects of technology tend to be overrated – but on the long run, the effects are underrated.,
17. Oh no, more services to this bunch? Greg Verdino: http:// gregverdino.typepad.com / greg_verdinos_blog /2007/07/ social-media-ho.html
Editor's Notes
Tässä sanomani kiteytettynä: ” Osallistumisympäristö kokoaa verkkovälineitä kevytaktivismista lakialoitteiden tekemiseen”. Jo ensi talvesta alkaen käytännössä vaikuttaminen verkossa paranee.
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Tavoite vastaa myös aikoinaan eduskunnalle tehtyäosallisuusselontekoa jossa esitettiin 4 osallisuusmuotoa: Tietoosallisuus => oikeus tiedon saamiseen ja tuottamiseen, kuuleminen , kysely ihin vastaaminen ja palvelusitoumukset. Suunnitteluosallisuus => valmisteluun liittyvää vuorovaikutusta, kuten esimerkiksi yhteissuunnittelu ja kaupunkifoorumit Päätösosallisuus => osallistumista palvelujen tuottamista tai omaa asuinaluetta koskeviin päätöksiin esim. Aluelautakunnalle valtuuston delegoima päätöksenteko Toimintaosallisuus => esim. Palvelujen tuottaminen talkoovoimin Hankkeessa tuotettavat välineet mahdollistavat 3 ensimmäisen tason saavuttamisen
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Tässä muutosprojektissa siis pitää saada aikaan positiivinen onnistumisten kierre. Virkamiesten pitää innostua, mutta niin myös kansalaisten. Todellista muutosjohtajuutta, Esimerkkinä 20.09.11
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Hallinnossa, myös OM:ssä, on nyt ja on menneisyydessä ollut hyvinkin edistyksellisiä palveluita. OtaKantaa oli aikanaan suunnannäyttäjä, nykyajan hyvä esimerkki on vaikkapa Asunto-osakeyhtiälaki, joka on Facebookissa. Mutta, kuitenkin: Nykyiset palvelut ovat sirpaloituneet ympäriinsä. Ne tunnetaan huonosti , käytetään melko vähän. Osallistumiskäytännöt vaihtelevat valtavasti. 20.09.11
Meillä elää myytti siitä, että olemme tietoyhteiskunnan kärjessä. Olimme joskus, emme ole enää. Erilaisissa tutkimuksissa kuten YK:n E-participation indexissä, sijoituksemme ei ole likimainkaan sitä mitä kuvitellaan tai mitä sen pitäs olla. Tämä nivoutuu yhteen myös sen kanssa, että ylipäätään kuulemisessa on vähintäänkin paljon parantamisen varaa, esim, OECD:n mukaan, 20.09.11
” kilpailevat” maat kuten Islanti ovat meitä edellä ja luovat Islanti 2.0:aa. Esimerkkinä olette saattaneet huomata vaikkapa perustuslakiuudistuksen, jossa on mukana kansalaisia ja jotka verkossa luo uutta perustuslakia. Erittäin kiinnostavaa tässä on huomata perustelut: ” koko kansan projekti jotta epäluulo hallintoa kohtaan hälvenisi” Ei sinänsä yllätä finanssikriisin jälkeen, hallinto on ottanut opiksi 20.09.11
Tän tyyppinen projekti ei voi onnistua ilman tukea ja sitoutumista johdolta. Valtioneuvoston periaatepäätös n. 1,5 vuoden takaa toteaa, että tavoitteena on, että Suomi on verkkodemokratiavertailujen 10 kärkimaan joukkoon 2010-luvun loppuun mennessä. Verkkodemokratiaan liittyvät asiat, mukaan lukien ylipäätään kansalaisten parempi kuuleminen, ovat myös vahvasti esillä nykyisessä hallitusohjelamssa. Sikäli edellytykset ovat hyvät. Tämä hankkeen taustasta, käytännöstä vähän. 20.09.11