Workshop on Higher Education and Professional Responsibility in CBRN Applied Sciences and Technology across the Sub-Mediterranean Region
3-4 April 2012. Palazzo Zorzi, Venice
Keynote Address
NAutonomy and Advice: Preparing and Encouraging Young Scientists to be involv...UNESCO Venice Office
Workshop on Higher Education and Professional Responsibility in CBRN Applied Sciences and Technology across the Sub-Mediterranean Region
3-4 April 2012. Palazzo Zorzi, Venice
Session 4. Future Directions - Higher Education and Responsible Science
Call for Papers (Extended Abstracts): 5th International Conference of the UNE...Graciela Mariani
The Second call for Papers (Extended Abstracts) for the 5th International Conference of the UNESCO Chair in Technologies for Development has been officially launched.
Tech4Dev 2018, gives you an opportunity to:
Ø Present your research at a unique multidisciplinary Conference focused on innovative technology for social impact in the Global South.
Ø Network across disciplines and fields of technology, to promote the development, deployment, adaptation, and scaling of new solutions for the Global South.
Ø Identify opportunities for collaboration with diverse stakeholders – academics, students, engineers, entrepreneurs, policymakers, practitioners, and social scientists- interested in technological innovation in the Global South.
Ø Participate in the fabulous social event of the conference that will take place in the Lavaux Vineyards, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Ø Build capacity among students and young professionals to engage in multidisciplinary problem solving for social impact.
Tech4Dev 2018 invites researchers, students, practitioners, industry or anyone interested in critical issues in Technologies for Development to submit proposals for Papers (Extended Abstracts). Submissions should emphasize the value of technological innovation while also acknowledging the limits of technology in generating inclusive social and economic development.
Further information, templates and material can be found on the conference website https://cooperation.epfl.ch/Tech4Dev2018.
concepts in the design of cultural toys and The Symbolic Arts in Buddhist Literatures on the Himmapan Creatures in
Multi-cultures Case studies of Thailand, Myanmar, Laos
Digital transformation is enabling rapid change in every industry and across every aspect of our lives. As a direct result of three fundamental ICT forces—mobility, broadband and the cloud—a new service economy is emerging where value chains are being reshaped, business models are becoming digitalized, distance is being overcome and increasingly, people can share goods and services instead of buying and owning them—all examples of how the digital age is unleashing innovative new business models and changing lives.
The new Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs, set out a shared global agenda for human development based on prosperity, social inclusion and environmental sustainability. The SDGs include several bold objectives to be achieved by the year 2030, including universal coverage in health, education, poverty eradication and modern energy services. This is the 2030 Agenda.
Five ways ICT can help
According to the OECD, “more ubiquitous access to and use of broadband Internet networks, which are available in a competitive market and at affordable prices, will help foster innovation and drive the growth of the Internet Economy and the economy in general.”4
To achieve the SDGs ICT needs to be combined with innovative policies, services and solutions to deliver transformation at unprecedented speed and scale. It can be a powerful means of implementation in five major ways:
1. Accelerated upscaling of critical services in health, education, financial services, smart agriculture, and low-carbon energy systems.
2. Reduced deployment costs.
3. Enhanced public awareness and engagement.
4. Innovation, connectivity, productivity and efficiency across many sectors.
5. Faster upgrading in the quality of services and jobs.
Issues and Challenges
No technology is without risks and widespread uptake of ICT raises a number of issues that will need to be addressed and managed. Several issues have been identified which governments, industry and other stakeholders must work together to address:
1. Privacy and surveillance
2. Cybersecurity
3. Loss of human skills
4. Possible public concern about health effects
5. Electronic waste and carbon emissions
6. Digital exclusion
7. Child protection and the Internet
5th International Disaster and Risk Conference IDRC 2014 Integrative Risk Management - The role of science, technology & practice 24-28 August 2014 in Davos, Switzerland
https://www.academia.edu/30644826/Transforming_the_future_of_minerals_exploration
Abstract
The future of minerals exploration remains uncertain as geological, economic, environmental and socio-political
issues impact upon the funding and land access required for exploration. Technology, innovation and improved
skills and education are often cited as general methods for resolving geological and even economic difficulties in
exploration, however, this leaves critical environmental and socio-political issues unresolved. A recent scenario
planning workshop, via an emergent and collective decision, investigated the interaction of technology, skills
and education and the environmental and socio-political issues prevailing on explorers. The scenarios workshop
used the Oxford Scenario Planning Approach and started out with purely strategic intentions. The initial findings
suggested that technology and education played a key role in societal development overall and therefore the
exploration industry could use these to enhance its reputation, and in turn overall access to search space.
However, the systemic reputational vulnerability of the mining industry, where one incident by an industry party
beyond the actors control, can damage the reputation of everyone in the industry, means this ‘reputation-based’
strategy is very difficult to pursue individually, and thus collective action is required. With this realisation, the
workshop moved into a transformative scenarios approach, more focused on galvanising social action towards a
better future. As such two future scenarios were envisioned – a negative ‘Two Peoples’ scenario, where the
world is trapped in cycle of revolution caused by inequity between the ‘haves’ and ‘have not’s’; and a positive
‘iWorld’ scenario, which breaks the cycle creating a prosperous yet more equitable society. Clearly, the
collective aim of the mining industry should be to move towards the iWorld scenario. To transition into this
future, explorers must not only become more technologically sophisticated and innovative, but also more
collaborative with both local communities, and national and supranational governments. This concept is
described as ‘big exploration’ where the importance of ‘boots on the ground’ is not just geological, but sociopolitical.
Whether companies, professionals, and the professional societies involved in exploration are ready for
this transition remains an unanswered question.
Keywords: Transformation, scenarios, technology, education, society, future, mining, exploration.
John P Sykes
The University of Western Australia, Centre for Exploration Targeting, Graduate Student
NAutonomy and Advice: Preparing and Encouraging Young Scientists to be involv...UNESCO Venice Office
Workshop on Higher Education and Professional Responsibility in CBRN Applied Sciences and Technology across the Sub-Mediterranean Region
3-4 April 2012. Palazzo Zorzi, Venice
Session 4. Future Directions - Higher Education and Responsible Science
Call for Papers (Extended Abstracts): 5th International Conference of the UNE...Graciela Mariani
The Second call for Papers (Extended Abstracts) for the 5th International Conference of the UNESCO Chair in Technologies for Development has been officially launched.
Tech4Dev 2018, gives you an opportunity to:
Ø Present your research at a unique multidisciplinary Conference focused on innovative technology for social impact in the Global South.
Ø Network across disciplines and fields of technology, to promote the development, deployment, adaptation, and scaling of new solutions for the Global South.
Ø Identify opportunities for collaboration with diverse stakeholders – academics, students, engineers, entrepreneurs, policymakers, practitioners, and social scientists- interested in technological innovation in the Global South.
Ø Participate in the fabulous social event of the conference that will take place in the Lavaux Vineyards, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Ø Build capacity among students and young professionals to engage in multidisciplinary problem solving for social impact.
Tech4Dev 2018 invites researchers, students, practitioners, industry or anyone interested in critical issues in Technologies for Development to submit proposals for Papers (Extended Abstracts). Submissions should emphasize the value of technological innovation while also acknowledging the limits of technology in generating inclusive social and economic development.
Further information, templates and material can be found on the conference website https://cooperation.epfl.ch/Tech4Dev2018.
concepts in the design of cultural toys and The Symbolic Arts in Buddhist Literatures on the Himmapan Creatures in
Multi-cultures Case studies of Thailand, Myanmar, Laos
Digital transformation is enabling rapid change in every industry and across every aspect of our lives. As a direct result of three fundamental ICT forces—mobility, broadband and the cloud—a new service economy is emerging where value chains are being reshaped, business models are becoming digitalized, distance is being overcome and increasingly, people can share goods and services instead of buying and owning them—all examples of how the digital age is unleashing innovative new business models and changing lives.
The new Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs, set out a shared global agenda for human development based on prosperity, social inclusion and environmental sustainability. The SDGs include several bold objectives to be achieved by the year 2030, including universal coverage in health, education, poverty eradication and modern energy services. This is the 2030 Agenda.
Five ways ICT can help
According to the OECD, “more ubiquitous access to and use of broadband Internet networks, which are available in a competitive market and at affordable prices, will help foster innovation and drive the growth of the Internet Economy and the economy in general.”4
To achieve the SDGs ICT needs to be combined with innovative policies, services and solutions to deliver transformation at unprecedented speed and scale. It can be a powerful means of implementation in five major ways:
1. Accelerated upscaling of critical services in health, education, financial services, smart agriculture, and low-carbon energy systems.
2. Reduced deployment costs.
3. Enhanced public awareness and engagement.
4. Innovation, connectivity, productivity and efficiency across many sectors.
5. Faster upgrading in the quality of services and jobs.
Issues and Challenges
No technology is without risks and widespread uptake of ICT raises a number of issues that will need to be addressed and managed. Several issues have been identified which governments, industry and other stakeholders must work together to address:
1. Privacy and surveillance
2. Cybersecurity
3. Loss of human skills
4. Possible public concern about health effects
5. Electronic waste and carbon emissions
6. Digital exclusion
7. Child protection and the Internet
5th International Disaster and Risk Conference IDRC 2014 Integrative Risk Management - The role of science, technology & practice 24-28 August 2014 in Davos, Switzerland
https://www.academia.edu/30644826/Transforming_the_future_of_minerals_exploration
Abstract
The future of minerals exploration remains uncertain as geological, economic, environmental and socio-political
issues impact upon the funding and land access required for exploration. Technology, innovation and improved
skills and education are often cited as general methods for resolving geological and even economic difficulties in
exploration, however, this leaves critical environmental and socio-political issues unresolved. A recent scenario
planning workshop, via an emergent and collective decision, investigated the interaction of technology, skills
and education and the environmental and socio-political issues prevailing on explorers. The scenarios workshop
used the Oxford Scenario Planning Approach and started out with purely strategic intentions. The initial findings
suggested that technology and education played a key role in societal development overall and therefore the
exploration industry could use these to enhance its reputation, and in turn overall access to search space.
However, the systemic reputational vulnerability of the mining industry, where one incident by an industry party
beyond the actors control, can damage the reputation of everyone in the industry, means this ‘reputation-based’
strategy is very difficult to pursue individually, and thus collective action is required. With this realisation, the
workshop moved into a transformative scenarios approach, more focused on galvanising social action towards a
better future. As such two future scenarios were envisioned – a negative ‘Two Peoples’ scenario, where the
world is trapped in cycle of revolution caused by inequity between the ‘haves’ and ‘have not’s’; and a positive
‘iWorld’ scenario, which breaks the cycle creating a prosperous yet more equitable society. Clearly, the
collective aim of the mining industry should be to move towards the iWorld scenario. To transition into this
future, explorers must not only become more technologically sophisticated and innovative, but also more
collaborative with both local communities, and national and supranational governments. This concept is
described as ‘big exploration’ where the importance of ‘boots on the ground’ is not just geological, but sociopolitical.
Whether companies, professionals, and the professional societies involved in exploration are ready for
this transition remains an unanswered question.
Keywords: Transformation, scenarios, technology, education, society, future, mining, exploration.
John P Sykes
The University of Western Australia, Centre for Exploration Targeting, Graduate Student
The Global Innovation Index Report - covering 143 countries with its 81 criteria,
and an uncontested leader in the field for the past 4 year, viz., Switzerland -
sets the stage every year setting out a benchmark reference for innovation
round the world. “It is a tool that can be readily understood both by public and
private persons and operators, adopting a stance between micro and macro
visions for innovation and its component parts”, says Bruno Lanvin, Executive
Director of INSEAD’s European Competitiveness Initiative (IECI) and co-author
of the report, which has been published since 2007 by Cornell University
(USA), INSEAD and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) an
agency of the United Nations. The Global Innovation Index reviews the main
factors conducive to innovation and the performance figures for the 143
countries with respect to the criteria. Each year a special thematic is chosen:
the 2014 Edition focuses i=ion the role of human ‘capital’ resources in the
innovation process, throwing light on the increased level of interest shown
by enterprises and governments alike to identify and stimulate individual
innovator-creators and associate groups.
Involvement of non-state actors in securing the maritime sector – B BlédéSWAIMSProject
Presentation at ECOWAS Stakeholder Meeting nn Maritime Safety and Security,
Accra, Ghana 5th–7th September 2023
By Col Barthelémy Blédé
SWAIMS Key Expert, in charge of the private sector and civil society, Liaison Officer at CRESMAO
Innovation, Incubation & Start-Up Culture in Asia : Examples From Singapore &...Vivek Chandrasekharan
Vivek Chandrasekharan, a strategy & innovation consultant
based in Toronto, Canada, gave a talk on innovation
culture of Singapore, at SQU. His background
is primarily in Innovation & Technology Management, Marketing & Product Strategy. He started his career working for large companies like HP and Dell before he joined a risk management software start-up company in New York (Cura Software) that went on to be acquired by a public listed company. He then moved to Singapore where , as a Mentor & Innovation Programs Manager, he helped advise early stage start-ups funded by the government of Singapore's innovation commercialization funds. He has over 10 yeas of global work experience and studied computer engineering in his native India and attended graduate school at the University of Florida.
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Dr. Sean Tan, Head of Data Science, Changi Airport Group
Discover how Changi Airport Group (CAG) leverages graph technologies and generative AI to revolutionize their search capabilities. This session delves into the unique search needs of CAG’s diverse passengers and customers, showcasing how graph data structures enhance the accuracy and relevance of AI-generated search results, mitigating the risk of “hallucinations” and improving the overall customer journey.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
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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.
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Bob Boule
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Gopinath Rebala
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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.
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HRH Princess Sumaya bint El Hassan [President of El Hassan Science City and the Royal Scientific Society, Jordan] - video message
1. ‘Higher Education and Professional Responsibility
in CBRN Applied Sciences and Technology across
the Sub-Mediterranean Region’
UNESCO, ISESCO & LNCV
March 3rd, 2012
Palazzo Zorzi, UNESCO Venice Office
Video Message
by
HRH Princess Sumaya bint El Hassan
I
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Ladies and Gentlemen: It is a very great honour for me to act as patron
of this important and innovative event. I feel privileged indeed to
address you across borders on these vital issues that know no borders.
Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear threats are chilling
when faced alone. In the company of friends, colleagues and
committed regionalists, the challenges seem evermore manageable -
Solutions become evermore real. I am only sorry that I cannot be with
youall in person to share your experiences and to contribute to your
efforts. Be assured that I am among you in spirit and with you in
commitment.
1
2. I am delighted to say that our particular work here in Jordan,at EL
Hassan Science City, will be ably and eloquently presented by Dr
Nisreen AL-Hmoud, Head of the Biosafety Unit and Division Head of
the Environmental Laboratories at the Royal Scientific Society. Dr
Nisreen is a credit to our scientific staff and is also the dedicated
President and Chairperson of BBIC, Jordan.She will report to you all on
the progress we have made here since BBIC-2007 and will update you
on the exciting preparations for BBIC-2013.
II
Ladies and Gentlemen:The tectonic political and economic shifts that
continue to rock our Euro-MENA region can only remind us that
borders have little meaning when it comes to the welfare of our
people. Those primary concerns of so many of our citizens – poverty,
thirst, environmental degradation and disease – are shared and
suffered together. We all know that the Life Sciences offer an infinite
number of responses to the myriad everyday challenges that face our
region. This workshop will help to set the foundations for future
achievements. Harnessing the talent of scientists and academics is
essential to promoting sustainable growth and security, but their
efforts will mean nothing unless we can match their vision with the
agendas of business and policy-making.
Indeed, those greatest threats that we face to safety and stability do
not recognise borders – However, so many of our regional decision-
makers are confined by them, and are bound by state structures that
cannot produce the innovations that we desperately need. Here in the
Euro-MENA region, we face many shared challenges but we also benefit
from a pool of talent and ingenuity that can overcome so many
obstacles. We share a debt to our people, whether as scientists or
public representatives, to keep them safe from harm and to ensure
their wellbeing at all times.
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3. This International Workshop on Applied Sciences and Technology
Across the Sub-Mediterranean Region will do much to identify
challenges and strengthen networks for creative solutions. UNESCO,
ISESCO and the Landau Network-Centro Volta have combined to create
an impressive forum for promoting a strong culture of safety and
security in CBRN applied sciences and technology. Drawing together
universities and the international scientific community within the Sub-
Mediterranean Region is a vital first step to action and outreach.
Indeed, this multidisciplinary approach reminds us that we are all
stakeholders in building a world in which ‘Responsible Science’ defines
policy.
Establishing the status of Education, Outreach and Adherence to
International Standards is a vital first step to identifying priorities. All
too often in the past, scientific initiatives dealing with public safety
and security have been structured from the top down, making them
bureaucratic, unresponsive and inaccessible. I am delighted to note
that this Workshop is very much focused on bringing science into the
service of people.It is also vital that we facilitate the empowerment of
the next generation of scientists in our region. It is important that we
give them the correct tools for responding to challenges in a
multidisciplinary and sensitive manner. We must ensure that ethical
issues are broached and discussed in an open and honest way.
At El Hassan Science City, we have learnt that capacity-building in any
area of science is a many-faceted thing. We begin at the academic level
by devising curricula and teaching methods that respond to the needs
of research and policy. Much of our focus at Princess Sumaya
University for Technology is on providing tomorrow’s scientists with
the tools that will make them full contributors to future STI agendas.
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4. We introduce them to networks in the region and beyond where codes
of conduct join scientists in a common pursuit of excellence. We teach
our young scientists the importance of placing standards above
subjective values, so that science can respond appropriately to cross-
border and cross-cultural challenges. Indeed, this is often a two-way
process. It is always a learning experience, even for the most
experienced scientists, to share the future visions and hopes for
professional responsibility of young scientists and researchers. This is
particularly true in the various fields of CBRN, where issues are
evolving and threats are shared across borders AND generations.
Of course, we are aware that CBRN education in our region is sorely
under-resourced. As part of our efforts to remedy this, we are building
our own networks and creating a quality mentoring system to bring
the best experience and talent to our campus. We hope that your own
Regional Network, which engages universities and institutes to
promote awareness on CBRN issues, will help our young engineers and
technologists to build the skills that will help them in the future.And,
of course, academia and the scientific community of the Sub-
Mediterranean Region must coordinate their activities with all of the
relevant stakeholders. A Culture of Safety and Security must be
inclusive in order to function properly.
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The collaboration between Landau Network - Centro Volta (LNCV) and
RSS is of great importance to us. I am indeed delighted that RSS is
a partner organization in the evolving International Network of
Universities and Institutions to Raise Awareness on Dual Use Concerns
in Bio-Technology. This EU-backed project will help to strengthen the
framework for the CBRN Centers of Excellence initiative. I have no
doubt that this project marks beginning of a long-lasting and deeply
productive collaboration in biosafety and biosecurity for our region.
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5. I am also pleased to note that the Center of Excellence for CBRN in the
Middle East will be located at MESIS, on the El Hassan Science City
campus.The Middle East Science Institute for Security is, indeed, a
fitting base for any initiative that seeks to construct the appropriate
security architecture for our communities.
Last September, we at El Hassan Science City were delighted to
welcome delegates for the 3rd Biosafety and Biosecurity International
Conference (BBIC). The event reminded me of the importance of cross-
border cooperation in CBRN activities and reinforced to me how much
of a difference working together on common challenges can make. We
BBIC participants had all shared an eventful journey from Abu Dhabi
to Casablanca and then to Amman. Along the way we learnt much
from each other and from our varied disciplines and experiences.
Today, as the issues facing our region are placed in an evermore
challenging and exciting political context, Jordan has taken on the
BBIC Presidency and is dedicated to contributing its commitment and
expertise to making our region a safer and more secure for its people.
Conclusion
Ladies and Gentlemen: Science must focus on identifying priorities for
Society and applying New Technologies to today’s challenges. The
bond of trust between Scientists and society has come under much
strain in recent decades and we have a long to go before we can
persuade the most vulnerable in our communities that science is here
to help. The vital commercial, private sector which has often coopted
science for profit, not for people, must also be brought into our
collaborative community. A coordinated regional strategy for CBRN
risk mitigation must be developed by all of us working together.
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6. Your focus on Higher Education and Professional Responsibility in
CBRN Applied Sciences and Technology will do much to spawn
sustainable programs with the potential to improve many lives.
Perhaps more importantly, you will do much to change a mindset that
holds scientific intervention to be far removed from our citizens’
everyday needs. Weather we are dealing with the ongoing existential
challenges of our region, or planning for inevitable cross-border
catastrophes, technology and innovation provide the tools that we
need to secure our people.
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