The document discusses how free and open source software can help advance information and communication technologies for underserved communities. It notes that while technology has advanced, many people have yet to benefit. However, free and open source tools enable grassroots movements to access high-quality software. The document advocates working with non-profits to bring free and open source technology to new areas in order to empower communities and support social movements.
"Social Innovation Hacktivism: from here to assemblages"
My slides from the First International Workshop on Social Innovation and Social Media (SISoM 2011), July, 21 2011, Barcelona, Spain
http://www.sites.google.com/site/sisom2011/
Blog link here >> http://goo.gl/Z8P6Q
(context/introduction of the presentation)
This is the presentation I used for my talk at the IDCAMP.
I tried to put together two things:
- an analysis of the new practices we need to create enduring and impacting enterprise in a time of radical change
- a practical 10 rules guide to be adopted.
All the material produced on my own is CC-BY-NC.
BlogWell New York Social Media Case Study: McGraw-Hill Companies, presented b...SocialMedia.org
In his BlogWell New York presentation, McGraw-Hill Companies' Senior Director of Global New Media, Patrick Durando, shares how they use social media to connect 26,000 employees.
Patrick goes into detail about their internal social network, McGraw-Hill Buzz, and how they use it to keep employees worldwide engaged with the company.
Watch the video of this presentation here: https://vimeo.com/51618066
Meaningful Interactions in a Tech Laden World - Anthony Scavarelli (Luminarti...IoT613
MEANINGFUL INTERACTIONS IN A TECHNOLOGY LADEN WORLD
In this talk we will first explore what meaningful interactions might mean, and some examples of how this ideal has been reached when working with new technologies.
ABOUT ANTHONY
Anthony is an interactive/experience artist with an undergraduate degree in Interactive Multimedia and Design and a MASc of Human-Computer Interaction at Carleton University, with a focus on reality-based interfaces. His passions lie in exploring and experimenting with new technology mediums to create meaningful and experiential participant interactions.
"Social Innovation Hacktivism: from here to assemblages"
My slides from the First International Workshop on Social Innovation and Social Media (SISoM 2011), July, 21 2011, Barcelona, Spain
http://www.sites.google.com/site/sisom2011/
Blog link here >> http://goo.gl/Z8P6Q
(context/introduction of the presentation)
This is the presentation I used for my talk at the IDCAMP.
I tried to put together two things:
- an analysis of the new practices we need to create enduring and impacting enterprise in a time of radical change
- a practical 10 rules guide to be adopted.
All the material produced on my own is CC-BY-NC.
BlogWell New York Social Media Case Study: McGraw-Hill Companies, presented b...SocialMedia.org
In his BlogWell New York presentation, McGraw-Hill Companies' Senior Director of Global New Media, Patrick Durando, shares how they use social media to connect 26,000 employees.
Patrick goes into detail about their internal social network, McGraw-Hill Buzz, and how they use it to keep employees worldwide engaged with the company.
Watch the video of this presentation here: https://vimeo.com/51618066
Meaningful Interactions in a Tech Laden World - Anthony Scavarelli (Luminarti...IoT613
MEANINGFUL INTERACTIONS IN A TECHNOLOGY LADEN WORLD
In this talk we will first explore what meaningful interactions might mean, and some examples of how this ideal has been reached when working with new technologies.
ABOUT ANTHONY
Anthony is an interactive/experience artist with an undergraduate degree in Interactive Multimedia and Design and a MASc of Human-Computer Interaction at Carleton University, with a focus on reality-based interfaces. His passions lie in exploring and experimenting with new technology mediums to create meaningful and experiential participant interactions.
The emergence and adoption of freely available digital curation tools has shown a public desire to locate, evaluate and organise web content into manageable, shareable collections. These tools occupy a unique niche, often overlapping with other web tools. This necessitates a clear definition of tools laying claim to this space and suggestion and direction for the use of digital curation to build student engagement. A definition is suggested, as well as a discussion on the emotional design principles and how they build sustained engagement with users.
Presentacion Ushahidi - #redflexion Madrid Nov 2012ondula
Presentación utilizada por Emmanuel Kala para su ponencia en la jornada de #REDflexion: Mapeando para el cambio social, en International Lab, Madrid 22-Nov-2012
Brand Engagement and the Future of the InterfaceAmber Case
This was an in-depth talk on the future of technology, brand engagement. It focused on the next generation of the interface – discussing calm technology, mobile and sensor technology (location, triggers, buttons) and the future of sharing.
The talk was given at SAY:CREATE 2012 in Carmel, California on Tuesday, Sept 11, 2012.
John Blue - Farmers, Ranchers, Social Media: Where are they and how do I find...John Blue
Farmers, Ranchers, Social Media: Where are they and how do I find them? - John Blue. From the 2012 eXtension National Conference, Oct 2, 2012, Oklahoma City, OK, USA.
https://learn.extension.org/conferences/nexc2012/events/688
Lesson made for Software Engineering course at Roma Tre University.
An overview of how the social media are spreading all over the web connecting people toghether and empowering their conversations
Debating the meaning and the practice of social design, design thinking and socially responsive design with the students of the MA design and communication for the University of Aveiro.
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/
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
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.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
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.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
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.
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.
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
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
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...
Foss and ict for the people
1. Free and Open Source
Software in Advancing
ICT for the People
Rick Bahague
National Coordinator
Computer Professionals’ Union
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2. Free and Open Source
ICT for the People
Alternative ICT
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3. Could technology have prevented this?
http://gb-sb.blogspot.com/2012/08/pagasa-red-signal-habagat-bring-70-of.html
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4. Could technology helped in
this kind of rescue efforts?
http://theworshipwarriorbride.wordpress.com/2012/08/08/habagat-august-2012/
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5. “This was their farm before the mining
operations started in the nearby mountain.”
Could technology have prevented this?
http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/11904064/image/91469936-from-farm-to-gravel-and-sand
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6. Do we have existing
technology to actually
help them?
http://www.demotix.com/news/546907/how-man-turns-sea-brown-philippines/all-media
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7. Even with the recent
advances in ICT, majority
of the people are yet to
Photo: Clemente Bautista
benefit from it.
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8. What can we do?
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9. We create tools to support
grassroots movements.
We get involve on their struggles.
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18. Free and Open Source Software
enables grassroots movements
access the same quality of tools
available to businesses.
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19. Free and Open Source
0. The freedom to run the program for any purpose
1. The freedom to study how the program works,
and change it to make it do what you wish
2. The freedom to redistribute copies so you can
help your neighbor.
3. The freedom to improve the program, and
release your improvements (and modified versions
in general) to the public, so that the whole
community benefits.
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20. Alternative ICT
join / work with non-profit organizations
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21. together, we’ll bring free and open source
technology to unexpected areas.
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