The Agri-water Share Fair was held on the 3rd February 2011 on the ILRI Campus, Ethiopia. It was organised by the International Water Management Institute with support from Peter Ballantyne, ILRI and Nadia Manning-Thomas, CGIAR ICT-KM/ILRI.
The Agri-water mini Share Fair took place on the 3rd February 2011 on the ILRI Campus, Ethiopia. It was organised by the International Water Management Institute with support from Peter Ballantyne, ILRI and Nadia Manning-Thomas, CGIAR ICT-KM/ILRI. This report was compiled using some innovative methods for analysis, reporting and sharing.
Growing forest partnerships and the investing in locally controlled initiativeCIFOR-ICRAF
Chris Buss
IUCN
Estebancio Castro Diaz
International Alliance of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples of Tropical Forests
Presentation for the conference on
Taking stock of smallholders and community forestry
Montpellier France
March 24-26, 2010
The Agri-water Share Fair was held on the 3rd February 2011 on the ILRI Campus, Ethiopia. It was organised by the International Water Management Institute with support from Peter Ballantyne, ILRI and Nadia Manning-Thomas, CGIAR ICT-KM/ILRI.
The Agri-water mini Share Fair took place on the 3rd February 2011 on the ILRI Campus, Ethiopia. It was organised by the International Water Management Institute with support from Peter Ballantyne, ILRI and Nadia Manning-Thomas, CGIAR ICT-KM/ILRI. This report was compiled using some innovative methods for analysis, reporting and sharing.
Growing forest partnerships and the investing in locally controlled initiativeCIFOR-ICRAF
Chris Buss
IUCN
Estebancio Castro Diaz
International Alliance of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples of Tropical Forests
Presentation for the conference on
Taking stock of smallholders and community forestry
Montpellier France
March 24-26, 2010
Improved Governance Structures and Commitment for Disaster Risk Reduction and...Global Risk Forum GRFDavos
Improved Governance Structures and Commitment for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation through National and Sub-national Platforms Based on HFA
Benefit sharing from a multilevel governance perspectiveCIFOR-ICRAF
This presentation was delivered by Anne M Larson, January 2016, in Brussels.
It examines the opportunity, transaction and implementation costs of REDD+ at national and subnational levels, multilevel governance and rights, and assesses perspectives of equity at different levels.
What Works and What Doesn't? Introducing CIFOR's Benefit Sharing Knowledge ToolCIFOR-ICRAF
This presentation was delivered at the third Asia-Pacific Forestry Week 2016, in Clark Freeport Zone, Philippines.
The five sub-thematic streams at APFW 2016 included:
Pathways to prosperity: Future trade and markets
Tackling climate change: challenges and opportunities
Serving society: forestry and people
New institutions, new governance
Our green future: green investment and growing our natural assets
Keep in mind that the Land & Water days will contribute to document good practices and positive experiences on land and water management. They will enable the identification of critical actions that may contribute to significant improvement in agriculture water management for food security in the Near East and North Africa. The LWDs will also provide a forum for the discussion on the Regional Collaborative Strategy on Agriculture Water Management, Land and Water Days in Near East & North Africa, 15-18 December 2013, Amman, Jordan
Resource Guide for Advanced Learning on Climate Change and CitiesUN CC:Learn
This guidance document aims at facilitating access to learning by providing a “guided tour” to materials that are already available, focusing mainly on those available from within the UN system. This Guide is part of a series developed through UN CC:Learn to facilitate access to existing state-of the-art materials relevant for climate change learning on particular topics. The interactive version is available here: http://www.uncclearn.org/climate-change-and-cities-interactive-version
Looking REDD at landscape level: learning from CBNRM in NepalCIFOR-ICRAF
This presentation by Naya Sharma Paudel and Dil Bahadur Khatri Experiences of CF talks about watershed and landscape level forest management initiatives, REDD/PES piloting at different scale and lessons & insights on institutional aspects.
Presentation by Dr. Christopher Cox, Programme Director of the Caribbean Environmental Health Institute (CEHI) at the 5th Annual High Level Session of the Global Water Partnership-Caribbean (GWP-C).
Presentation of invited speech (in English - only title slide in Greek), of Workshop on E-Services, Technological Educational Institution of Ionian Islands, Lefkas, Greece
Improved Governance Structures and Commitment for Disaster Risk Reduction and...Global Risk Forum GRFDavos
Improved Governance Structures and Commitment for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation through National and Sub-national Platforms Based on HFA
Benefit sharing from a multilevel governance perspectiveCIFOR-ICRAF
This presentation was delivered by Anne M Larson, January 2016, in Brussels.
It examines the opportunity, transaction and implementation costs of REDD+ at national and subnational levels, multilevel governance and rights, and assesses perspectives of equity at different levels.
What Works and What Doesn't? Introducing CIFOR's Benefit Sharing Knowledge ToolCIFOR-ICRAF
This presentation was delivered at the third Asia-Pacific Forestry Week 2016, in Clark Freeport Zone, Philippines.
The five sub-thematic streams at APFW 2016 included:
Pathways to prosperity: Future trade and markets
Tackling climate change: challenges and opportunities
Serving society: forestry and people
New institutions, new governance
Our green future: green investment and growing our natural assets
Keep in mind that the Land & Water days will contribute to document good practices and positive experiences on land and water management. They will enable the identification of critical actions that may contribute to significant improvement in agriculture water management for food security in the Near East and North Africa. The LWDs will also provide a forum for the discussion on the Regional Collaborative Strategy on Agriculture Water Management, Land and Water Days in Near East & North Africa, 15-18 December 2013, Amman, Jordan
Resource Guide for Advanced Learning on Climate Change and CitiesUN CC:Learn
This guidance document aims at facilitating access to learning by providing a “guided tour” to materials that are already available, focusing mainly on those available from within the UN system. This Guide is part of a series developed through UN CC:Learn to facilitate access to existing state-of the-art materials relevant for climate change learning on particular topics. The interactive version is available here: http://www.uncclearn.org/climate-change-and-cities-interactive-version
Looking REDD at landscape level: learning from CBNRM in NepalCIFOR-ICRAF
This presentation by Naya Sharma Paudel and Dil Bahadur Khatri Experiences of CF talks about watershed and landscape level forest management initiatives, REDD/PES piloting at different scale and lessons & insights on institutional aspects.
Presentation by Dr. Christopher Cox, Programme Director of the Caribbean Environmental Health Institute (CEHI) at the 5th Annual High Level Session of the Global Water Partnership-Caribbean (GWP-C).
Presentation of invited speech (in English - only title slide in Greek), of Workshop on E-Services, Technological Educational Institution of Ionian Islands, Lefkas, Greece
People have created and modified tools to address their needs since prehistoric times. But since a few generations we simply buy the tools we need and use them in the way they have been designed. With the current pervasive presence of digital technology, these digital 'tools' are increasingly defining how we live, communicate, learn and work.
Many think of this as nauseating and constraining. We feel that we are forced to live the way big corporations have designed it for us. We feel no longer free to do what we want.
Why can't we design our own tools anymore? Is it really true that corporations always know better what we want? What about those people who fall outside of the mainstream, and have needs and contexts of life that require special tools, that these people can design themselves better than anyone else? And are we not all sometimes out of the mainstream?
In fact, we are increasingly becoming tech tinkerers, adapting our digital tools to a great variety of human needs.
This phenomenon has only just started. The open source hardware revolution has hardly kicked off, also due to the fact that digital technology that surrounds us is not always easy to modify.
But what would our world be like if technology was easy to modify? Would there be more empowerment? Innovation? Democracy? Participation? What could be in it for business? What could this all mean for people in emerging markets and for the future web of things?
'Internet is een fantastische leeromgeving' - Essay voor Stichting KennisnetProven Partners
Waarom wordt internet als leeromgeving
niet vaker als uitgangspunt genomen binnen het leerproces? Oké, internet is een multimediaal
platform met een overvloed aan informatie. Maar weerspiegelt dat niet de werkelijkheid van
alledag? Juist het vermogen om door dit complexe informatielandschap te kunnen navigeren is van toenemend belang. Internet is juist een fantastische leeromgeving! De leeropbrengsten hiervan zijn zelfstandigere en creatievere leerlingen die optimaal gebruik maken van de grootste informatie database aller tijden: internet.
The HELP Davao Network is committed to engaging a full spectrum of water stakeholders to work collectively for management of water for all. Formed in 2004, our efforts have focused on ensuring decision key stakeholders have had access to sound science that can better inform complex decisions and hard choices in relation to the management and wise use of water.
Introducing session 'The Business Case for Integrated Energy-Water Planning and Investments' at 2014 UN-Water Annual International Zaragoza Conference. Preparing for World Water Day 2014: Partnerships for improving water and energy access, efficiency and sustainability. 13-16 January 2014
Best practice showcase for the Catchment-Based ApproachCaBASupport
In recent years it has been increasingly recognised that enhancing the delivery of ecosystem services through better catchment management should not only be the responsibility of the public sector, but also the private and third sectors.
Alongside this movement towards shared responsibility, there is also now a growing body of evidence that far greater environmental improvements can be achieved if all of the groups actively involved in regulation, land management, scientific research or wildlife conservation in
a catchment area are drawn together with landowners and other interest groups to form a catchment management partnership.
In response to this increased understanding of the potential benefits of participatory catchment planning, undertaken with local stakeholders and knowledge providers, in 2011,
Defra announced that the UK Government was committed to adopting a more ‘catchment-based approach’ to sharing information, working together and coordinating efforts to protect England’s water environment.
Now in 2014, there are 109 newly formed Catchment-Based Approach partnerships covering catchments across the whole of England and the cross-border areas of Wales and Scotland.
GWP South East Asia Supporting Institutional reform for better Water Resource...Global Water Partnership
Address to the Global Water Partnership (GWP)'s Consulting Partners Meeting 2009, on the subject of supporting Institutional reform in South East Asia to support Water Resource Management
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.
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.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
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.
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
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
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
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
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.
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
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.
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
To Graph or Not to Graph Knowledge Graph Architectures and LLMs
Gwp Tool Box Presentation
1. by Dr. Ma. Cecilia G. Soriano GWP-SEA Regional ToolBox Hub November 25, 2008 Davao City, Philippines IWRM ToolBox of the Global Water Partnership (GWP)
14. IWRM CASE STUDY PROPOSAL New ToolBox material Please, submit the completed form to [email_address] Format and structure of abstracts (one page proposal) Contact: Contact name, organisation, address, zip code, city, country, telephone and email address Keywords: Main Tools Used: Show the most important ones by referring to the tools listed above (max 4 tools) Note: list tools, not simply main headings, e.g. A1.2 Policies with relation to water resources, C7.1 Pricing services Description Action taken Lessons learned Importance for IWRM Text under these headings should show: the main issues addressed, the approach taken, the lessons learned, and, most important, how the case illustrates an integrated approach to water resource management (Max. 350 words) Case title: up to 12 words including country/region (will be displayed at web site) Eg: Costa Rica: Introducing water resource charges