The document discusses how to prepare future "technology ministers" to serve "digital natives." It begins by drawing lessons from previous mass migrations like urbanization. It notes that digital-immigrant parents and teachers are not fluent in parenting/teaching digital native children. The document then outlines opportunities and threats from technology for digital natives. It proposes a Masters in Science, Technology, Society and Ministry program to equip future Chief Digital Officers and technology staff. The program would take an incarnational approach and balance technical training with practical ministry skills. It concludes by asking how the proposed program could partner with other institutions.
Literature in digital environments: Changes and emerging trends in Australian...Judy O'Connell
Igniting a passion for reading and research is core business for school libraries, inevitably placing the library at the centre of the 21st century reading and learning experience. It is in this context that digital literature creates some challenging questions for teachers and librarians in schools, while the emergence of digital technology and/or device options also offers a great many opportunities. Collection development in school libraries encompasses an understanding of the need to contextualise these e-literature needs within the learning and teaching experiences in the school. The Australian Library and Information Association’s 2013 statement Future of collections 50:50 predicted that library print and ebook collections in libraries would establish a 50:50 equilibrium by 2020 and that this balance would be maintained for the foreseeable future. This statement from the Australian professional body raised the need to know more about e-collections in school libraries. For teacher librarians in Australian schools, the nature of online collections, and the integration of ebooks into the evolving reading culture is influenced by the range and diversity of texts, interfaces, devices, and experiences available to complement existing print and media collections or services. Management and budget constraints also influence e-collections. By undertaking a review of the literature, a discussion of the education context, and a critical analysis of the trends evidenced by national survey data, this paper presents an overview of the changes and emerging trends in digital literature and ebook collections in school library services in Australia today.
This presentation provides 30 pointed citations from the book: Online Education and Learning Management Systems. The book is freely available via my homepage at http://home.nki.no/morten/
Literature in digital environments: Changes and emerging trends in Australian...Judy O'Connell
Igniting a passion for reading and research is core business for school libraries, inevitably placing the library at the centre of the 21st century reading and learning experience. It is in this context that digital literature creates some challenging questions for teachers and librarians in schools, while the emergence of digital technology and/or device options also offers a great many opportunities. Collection development in school libraries encompasses an understanding of the need to contextualise these e-literature needs within the learning and teaching experiences in the school. The Australian Library and Information Association’s 2013 statement Future of collections 50:50 predicted that library print and ebook collections in libraries would establish a 50:50 equilibrium by 2020 and that this balance would be maintained for the foreseeable future. This statement from the Australian professional body raised the need to know more about e-collections in school libraries. For teacher librarians in Australian schools, the nature of online collections, and the integration of ebooks into the evolving reading culture is influenced by the range and diversity of texts, interfaces, devices, and experiences available to complement existing print and media collections or services. Management and budget constraints also influence e-collections. By undertaking a review of the literature, a discussion of the education context, and a critical analysis of the trends evidenced by national survey data, this paper presents an overview of the changes and emerging trends in digital literature and ebook collections in school library services in Australia today.
This presentation provides 30 pointed citations from the book: Online Education and Learning Management Systems. The book is freely available via my homepage at http://home.nki.no/morten/
HOW THE INFORMATION SOCIETY IS CHANGING THE WAY OF LEARNINGIngrid Noguera
Presentation at the FMSH (Paris) about how the information society and the Net Generation are promoting changes in education related to the use of ICT.
"From Open Data to Open Pedagogy: An Introduction to Integrating Open Practices into the Classroom" is a hands-on workshop offered by UTA Libraries during Open Education Week 2017.
Inaugural Lecture: It’s Third Space, Jim, but not as we know it: universities...Alex Dunedin
This is a podcast of the Inaugural Lecture of Professor Keith Smyth at the University of the Highlands and Islands: "It’s Third Space, Jim, but not as we know it: universities, community and digital practice"
Keith Smyth talks about the new and innovative ways that the digital can be used to support learning, and how the idea of empowering the learners can be an important space to set up for inventive learning and education. Getting the tools to create and the latitude to be creative can often be a missing element from education.
The lecture covers a great deal of ground which you can listen to and see the slides which accompany his talk when he officially accepted the Professorial role in the UHI.
http://wp.me/p4EpjT-3RU
#thirdspacejim @smythkrs
This presentation describes how indicators for Connected Learning are present in the extra-mural presences that two University of Cape Town students created.
Online education final dec. 2013 - thu an duongOfficience
Reflexion on How Online Education have, are and will affect the world, by Thu An Duong (Linkedin: http://goo.gl/TM3zXA)
To read and share without moderation! #whitepaper #OnlineEducation
Five Technology Trends Every Nonprofit Needs to KnowAzavea
Are you tired of hearing about big data, social media, web 2.0, and other buzzwords? This session will introduce five emerging technology trends that will fundamentally impact the independent sector. Join us and learn how to incorporate them into your current plans to better reach your donors, engage your constituents, and maximize your impact.
This overview of OpenTreeMap, software for collaborative, geography enabled urban tree inventory, was given as part of the Alliance for Community Trees webcast training on January 17, 2013 - Tree Technology - Part V: Urban Forest Mapping. For more information, visit www.opentreemap.org.
HOW THE INFORMATION SOCIETY IS CHANGING THE WAY OF LEARNINGIngrid Noguera
Presentation at the FMSH (Paris) about how the information society and the Net Generation are promoting changes in education related to the use of ICT.
"From Open Data to Open Pedagogy: An Introduction to Integrating Open Practices into the Classroom" is a hands-on workshop offered by UTA Libraries during Open Education Week 2017.
Inaugural Lecture: It’s Third Space, Jim, but not as we know it: universities...Alex Dunedin
This is a podcast of the Inaugural Lecture of Professor Keith Smyth at the University of the Highlands and Islands: "It’s Third Space, Jim, but not as we know it: universities, community and digital practice"
Keith Smyth talks about the new and innovative ways that the digital can be used to support learning, and how the idea of empowering the learners can be an important space to set up for inventive learning and education. Getting the tools to create and the latitude to be creative can often be a missing element from education.
The lecture covers a great deal of ground which you can listen to and see the slides which accompany his talk when he officially accepted the Professorial role in the UHI.
http://wp.me/p4EpjT-3RU
#thirdspacejim @smythkrs
This presentation describes how indicators for Connected Learning are present in the extra-mural presences that two University of Cape Town students created.
Online education final dec. 2013 - thu an duongOfficience
Reflexion on How Online Education have, are and will affect the world, by Thu An Duong (Linkedin: http://goo.gl/TM3zXA)
To read and share without moderation! #whitepaper #OnlineEducation
Five Technology Trends Every Nonprofit Needs to KnowAzavea
Are you tired of hearing about big data, social media, web 2.0, and other buzzwords? This session will introduce five emerging technology trends that will fundamentally impact the independent sector. Join us and learn how to incorporate them into your current plans to better reach your donors, engage your constituents, and maximize your impact.
This overview of OpenTreeMap, software for collaborative, geography enabled urban tree inventory, was given as part of the Alliance for Community Trees webcast training on January 17, 2013 - Tree Technology - Part V: Urban Forest Mapping. For more information, visit www.opentreemap.org.
10 Steps to a Successful Social Media Marketing StrategyJeff Bullas
Social media marketing success is something that business is now starting to see as vital as part of their marketing plans. Just having a Facebook page or a Twitter account is just the start. Planning and creating a strategy is vital if you want to succeed long term. In this presentation we look at the 10 steps you need to implement. We also look at some specific tactics and case studies of brands and businesses that have been successful at social media marketing.
A Complete Guide To The Best Times To Post On Social Media (And More!)TrackMaven
Do you know the most effective times to post on social media, send an email, or publish a blog? We've broken down the data behind the most effective times to post content on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Content Marketing, and Email.
“If you were to give a one-sentence tip to a small business owner just started out with social media, what would you say?”
That’s the question we’ve been asking a lot over the last few weeks.
We’ve asked: business owners, marketers, social media experts, bloggers, entrepreneurs, best-selling authors, and a ton of other people who have achieved success on social media.
Most stuck to one sentence. Some cheated a little.
But all provided helpful tips that any business can use when getting started.
Now, it’s your turn! “If you were to give a one-sentence tip to a small business owner just started out with social media, what would you say?” Let us know on our blog: http://ow.ly/A1gr1
Things I will tell my kids if they become entrepreneursLaurent Haug
The lessons I learned in 20 years as an entrepreneur. Partly inspired by Sam Altman's excellent course on How to start a startup, available on http://startupclass.samaltman.com
Feedback on laurenthaug at gmail dot com
Information Education in Thailand
Assoc.Prof.Dr. Kulthida Tuamsuk
Information & Communication Management Program
Khon Kaen University, Thailand
Presented at Sukhothai Thammatirat Open University
21 September 2009
Thoughts leaders shall share their thoughts and insights on What will education look like in 2020? and How will information technology evolve to meet the needs of the students, faculty and administration?
Presentation of Beyond Current Horizons programme in relation to non formal learning for the UK Youth, St George's Hall, Futurelab event 'Vision not Division'
Many institutions see technology as a strategy to increase revenues and decrease campus-bases classrooms and resources. However, as emerging technologies shift the course from teaching-centered to learning-centered, historically effective strategies may no longer provide the same return on investment. This session examines how we can maximize the return on value of technology to increase learner engagement, add instructional options, and improve faculty efficacy.
We all talk about how important education is, but not necessarily what makes education high quality. This was originally a webinar for a national NGO, Women Graduates, about our work on United Nations Sustainable Development Goals #4: Quality Education. It's based on bits and pieces of doctoral work at the University of California--Los Angeles, plus research on the UN campus in NYC.
These are the slides for our free course. You can find the course on Udemy at:
https://www.udemy.com/academic-program-development-and-accreditation/
and the YouTube Course Playlist at:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXa3JWoXGD0VhgBZxVBfZUmt49heXPnhh
Instructional Design for Online and Blended Learning Course SlidesCity Vision University
These are the slides for our free course on Udemy at:
https://www.udemy.com/disruptive-innovation-in-higher-education/
You can find the course videos at:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXa3JWoXGD0WFaRBmLZAyhGPII1SGMEaL
Here are how the course will work:
1. The course will start with a template for you to conduct needs analysis and research for your course.
2. You will then design learning outcomes and use our templates to develop a learner-centered syllabus to meet requirements of accreditors and a course introduction.
3. You will then use our Course Blueprint template to build each week of your course. While you do that, you will use the OSCAR course evaluation rubric to evaluate your course for best practices.
4. We will share all we know about how to use the latest technology, videos and screencasts to improve the engagement of your course.
5. For those who come from faith-based institutions, we will provide sections on how to integrate faith into learning in your course. For those who do not come from faith based sections, you can skip this section.
6. You will use the course blueprint you developed to create and publish your course using Canvas.
Disruptive Innovation and Accreditation in Christian Higher Education for the...City Vision University
Talk on Disruptive Innovation and Accreditation in Christian Higher Education for the Majority World at ICETE Panama on November 1, 2018 by Andrew Sears
What Disruptive Innovation Means for ABHE Schools Presented at Association for Biblical Higher Education (ABHE) National Conference in Orlando FL, February, 23, 2018.
Majority World Christian Leadership Development and Disruptive InnovationCity Vision University
This workshop was presented by Andrew Sears with ProMeta in Colorado Springs and William Carey International University. The focus was on how we need a new system for Christian education based around the needs of the majority world. You can also find slides on SlideShare.
GC4 and Alternative Models for Christian Accreditation for the Majority WorldCity Vision University
This presentation explains the purpose of the Global Christian College Credit Consortium (GC4) and looks at Alternative Models for Christian Accreditation for the Majority World.
It was presented as a part of the Aqueduct Project Webinar on "The Role of the Accreditation Agency in the Task of Global Pastoral Training” on Friday, April 21, 2017.
The Redemption of Technology Workshop (Theology of Technology) by Andrew SearsCity Vision University
This was a 5 hour workshop presented to the Boston Fellows program covering the following topics: Vocation, Theology of Technology, Theology of Work, Media Addiction and Life Balance.
Principles for Building a Modular Global Christian Educational EcosystemCity Vision University
As we move to a world driven by platforms, the strategy of Christian higher education needs to adjust. This presentation lays out a vision for how Christian higher education might adjust its strategy to compete in a global world dominated by platforms. Learn more at: http://www.globalchristiancollege.org and http://www.cheia.org
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdbfvMWl-_o
If this were a "flipped classroom," here would be my discussion questions:
Do you buy this vision and strategy? How can it be improved?
If you do buy this, how can we become change agents to get the larger movement of Christian higher education to adapt its strategy? Who are the key influencers that we need to reach? How can we help bring the change that is needed?
The intended audience for this presentation is change agents rather than skeptics. I realize that there would need to be a different presentation targeting skeptics, but honestly, I think the best way to win them over will be not through presentations, but by creating new wineskins that demonstrate that this works.
Learn how to balance your use of media and technology through this lesson using a media nutrition pyramid. This lesson provides templates that will help you log your media use, graph into a pyramid and then develop your own media nutrition plan. Available on TED Ed at: http://ed.ted.com/on/VoRBADci
Slides from Andrew Sears's presentation on What Disruptive Innovation Means for DEAC Schools at the Distance Education Accreditation Commission Conference in April 2016 .
Discusses how the Christian worldview provides resources for affirming the dignity of work; guiding one's ethical decisions in work; reforming your vocation to have a Biblical perspective on humanity & creation; finding balance between work, rest, and other responsibilities; and showing how work has eternal value and reward.
Discussion of how the Christian worldview can help you find your calling, from City Vision University's Vocation, Calling, and the Purpose of Work class.
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.
Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
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.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
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/
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.
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.
Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing DaysKari Kakkonen
My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
Climate impact / sustainability of software testing discussed on the talk. ICT and testing must carry their part of global responsibility to help with the climat warming. We can minimize the carbon footprint but we can also have a carbon handprint, a positive impact on the climate. Quality characteristics can be added with sustainability, and then measured continuously. Test environments can be used less, and in smaller scale and on demand. Test techniques can be used in optimizing or minimizing number of tests. Test automation can be used to speed up testing.
Alt. GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using ...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.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...sonjaschweigert1
Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navy’s DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
- Reduction in onboarding time from 5 weeks to 1 day
- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
Development teams can ship efficiently and ensure applications are cyber ready for Navy Authorizing Officials (AOs). In this webinar, Sigma Defense and Anchore will give attendees a look behind the scenes and demo secure pipeline automation and security artifacts that speed up application ATO and time to production.
We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
In his public lecture, Christian Timmerer provides insights into the fascinating history of video streaming, starting from its humble beginnings before YouTube to the groundbreaking technologies that now dominate platforms like Netflix and ORF ON. Timmerer also presents provocative contributions of his own that have significantly influenced the industry. He concludes by looking at future challenges and invites the audience to join in a discussion.
Welcome to the first live UiPath Community Day Dubai! Join us for this unique occasion to meet our local and global UiPath Community and leaders. You will get a full view of the MEA region's automation landscape and the AI Powered automation technology capabilities of UiPath. Also, hosted by our local partners Marc Ellis, you will enjoy a half-day packed with industry insights and automation peers networking.
📕 Curious on our agenda? Wait no more!
10:00 Welcome note - UiPath Community in Dubai
Lovely Sinha, UiPath Community Chapter Leader, UiPath MVPx3, Hyper-automation Consultant, First Abu Dhabi Bank
10:20 A UiPath cross-region MEA overview
Ashraf El Zarka, VP and Managing Director MEA, UiPath
10:35: Customer Success Journey
Deepthi Deepak, Head of Intelligent Automation CoE, First Abu Dhabi Bank
11:15 The UiPath approach to GenAI with our three principles: improve accuracy, supercharge productivity, and automate more
Boris Krumrey, Global VP, Automation Innovation, UiPath
12:15 To discover how Marc Ellis leverages tech-driven solutions in recruitment and managed services.
Brendan Lingam, Director of Sales and Business Development, Marc Ellis
Jesus Geeks: Equipping Technology Ministers to Serve Digital Natives (AccessEd Conference)
1. Andrew Sears
President, City Vision College
Executive Director, TechMission
Jesus Geeks:
Equipping Technology Ministers
to Serve Digital Natives
2. Lessons on How to Serve Digital Natives
Based on Past Mass Migrations
Rural
Urba
n
Online/
Digital
3.
4.
5.
6. Lessons from Urbanization
1. Urbanization presents new problems and
opportunities
2. Rural parents not fluent in parenting urban
children
3. Need balanced urban-culture fluent parenting
and teaching
4. Need to teach new models for ministry to
address new opportunities and problems
7. Lessons for Virtualization
1. Online world presents new problems and
opportunities
2. Digital-immigrant parents/teachers not fluent in
parenting/teaching digital native children
3. Need balanced digital-culture fluent parenting
& teaching
4. Need to teach new models for ministry to
address new opportunities and problems
8. Opportunities and Threats from Technology for
Digital Natives
Opportunities Threats
Growth in diversity Growth in deviance
Many options/connections Shallow focus &
relationships
More information More temptation
Less global poverty More domestic inequality
Decreased autocracy Decreased accountability
Viral church growth Viral cults
Megachurch network growth Wal-Mart Effect on Churches
Increased specialization Holistic church decrease
Increased Capacity for Good Increased Capacity for Evil
9. How Do You Prepare Future Technology
Ministers to Address These Needs?
14. Incarnational Ministry among Digital Natives
Are we becoming bilingual/bicultural by
immersing ourselves in their culture?
Are we meeting them where they are or forcing
them to meet us on our cultural terms?
Are we preparing them to live in the world we
grew up in or the world they will live in?
What indigenous leadership development of
tech leaders strategy do you have?
15. Masters in Science, Technology, Society &
Ministry Program Design
Modeled after similar programs at MIT & Stanford
◦ Interdisciplinary like Science, Technology & Society programs, but
much more practical ministry focus
Designed…
◦ To balance out training of tech staff in Christian organizations
◦ To function as an incubator/startup accelerator for technology
ministries
◦ To equip future Chief Digital Officers
◦ Around project based learning
17. MSTSM Courses
Required Courses
Theology of Technology
Theology of Work in STEM
Professions
Systems Thinking
Emerging Media Ministry
Appropriate Technology in
the IT Field
Capstone Design
Capstone Project
Electives
History and Case
Studies of Technology in
the Church
Technology and
Addiction
High Tech Social
Entrepreneurship
Grant & Proposal Writing
18. Examples of Helpful Responses to
Issues with Digital Natives
Lack of ability to focus in depth: “The Shallows”
Device distractions in the classroom
Tech addictions
Tablets with kids
Spiritual formation online
19. Questions for Discussion
1. General comments or questions
2. What advice or suggestions do you have to
make the MSTSM program more effective?
3. How would you change this program to better
meet the needs of tech staff and students from
your institution?
4. Ideas for ways City Vision could partner with
your school?
21. MSTSM Program Outcomes
1. Theology of Technology: understand the philosophy, theology and historical context
of technology in ministry and how to apply that in professional settings
2. Identity and Calling: understand the vocation of Science, Technology, Engineering
and Math (STEM) careers and their unique identity and role within their field in a way
that maximizes their calling and enables ministry
3. Systems: understand complex systems in a way that helps them to effectively lead
others and apply technology in ministry and professional environments
4. Appropriate Technology: develop effective technology programs in a way that takes
into account the unique cultures they will be serving and how to use technology to
serve the poor and cross-cultural communities
5. Limits of Technology: understand some of the limits of technology and how to
counter some of the negative implications of technology and its effect on relationships
and creation of new addictions
6. Sustainability: develop effective strategies for sustainable technology ministry
initiatives by monitoring and understanding the latest theories, trends, tools and
opportunities in technology in ministry and business professions.
22. Re-imagining Internships
What if the internship replaced the campus as the center
of education?
What if every class had a major project designed to be
applied in an internship or ministry setting?
◦ Each class provides a lens to be applied at internship
CityVisionInternships.org
◦ Designed as a Christian counterpart to AmeriCorps based on 9-
year AmeriCorps program placing 500+ interns
◦ Over 500 applicants annually to be placed in about 50 ministries
◦ Ministry sites pay tuition of interns
23. Past Debates: Writing
Key Debate: Will writing hurt learning?
“For this invention [writing] will produce forgetfulness in the minds of
those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory.
Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no
part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within
them.”
– Socrates in Phaedrus 274c-275b)
Writing enabled knowledge discovery to be modularized
from rest of learning process
24. Past Debates: Books
Big Debate: Should a professor only teach from
books they wrote?
◦ “…If we use Sasso’s book, theywill say what our
students have learned, they have learned from Sasso,
not from us” –John Paul Nicolas, 1588, expressing
concerns about not using grammer books that they
had written themselves
Books became modularized from rest of
learning process
25. A Potential Future: by 2030-40…
More than half of majority culture US Christian
colleges will either close or will shrink by more
than 50%
Non-western Christian colleges will grow by 10-
fold
◦ May have cost structure 1/10 of Western colleges
More than two-thirds of enrollments will be
online
General education courses online will be
commoditized and will be offered by a few large
centralized players (i.e. Amazon.com of
education)
26. Potential Future by 2030-40:
4 Models of Colleges
1. Resort College
◦ Residential colleges become counterpart to elite
private high schools
◦ For the rich and upper middle class (Saks Fifth
Avenue)
◦ Costs will continue to go up
2. Inexpensive online & community colleges
◦ For middle and low income (Target, Walmart)
3. Inexpensive international colleges
4. Non-accredited free educational programs
27. TechMission/City Vision Strategy
How do you lead in a disruptive technology
environment in Christian higher education?
1. Gather the Christian disruptive tech
leaders (Jesus-Tech)
2. Retail Strategy: Provide innovative (tech)
Christian university for serving at-risk
communities (Jesus, Justice)
3. Wholesale Strategy: Provide tech capacity
(tech) to Christian minority-culture schools
(Jesus-Justice)
29. U of A U of B
Virtually Integrated University
Univ.
Unbundled University
Open
Lessons
Open
Courses
Study
Groups
Adjunct
Faculty
Adjunct
Faculty
Faculty
Networks
Churches
Internship
Univ.
Univ.
Univ.
Research
Lab
Corporations Individuals
Open
Content
Publishers
Self-
Publish
Univ.
Knowledge
Discovery
Written
Knowledge
Course
Materials
Faculty
Community
Student
Community
The Unbundled University
Knowledge
Discovery
Written
Knowledge
Course
Materials
Faculty
Community
Student
Community
Churches
U of C U of D
30. Strengths of STEM Christians
• Logic and analysis, Rational/methodical
• Objective/data driven
• Meritocracy
• Innovation/Efficiency
• Collaborative, Open
• High leverage
Weaknesses of STEM Christians
• Analysis paralysis
• Lower emotional IQ
• Perfectionism
• Communication/Public speaking/Shyness
• Isolated (personally, society)
• Risk adverse
• Distant from end use
• Unknown whether you are helping others
• Arrogance of rationality
• One part of many/anonymous
Opportunities for STEM Christians
• Tent Makers
• Natural missionaries to STEM fields
• People leadership in tech field
• Create stuff that helps those in need
• Magnify reach of other Christians
Threats/Challenges to STEM Christians
• Faith in rationality/logic/numbers
• Attacked for faith
• Legalism
• Working for wealth
• Limited work in STEM for direct ministry
• Isolation: from gadgets
• Addiction to gadgets
• Loneliness
• More frequent crises of faith
• Instant gratification/impatience
31. Tech & Missions
ICCM, Lightsys, MAF,
GEM, EMI, WIN, OB
VisionSynergy, AIBI
Wycliffe IT, CheckItOut
Tech & Ministry
Internet Evangelism Day,
Mobile Ministry Forum,
YouVersion, ABS, Cru
Christian College STEM Programs
AccessED, ACU, Calvin, Taylor, Baylor
Biola, Olivet, Fuller, Wheaton, Liberty
Christian Media
Online, Magazines, Software
Publishers, Radio & TV
Church Tech
LifeChurch, Menlo Park
Saddleback, Willow Creek
Christians in Tech Companies
Code for the Kingdom,
Christians in Tech (FB & LinkedIn)
Christian STEM Academics
Christians Engineering Society,
Intervarsity Faculty, Cru Faculty, ASA,
ISCAST, ASA, CSS
Christian Tech Writers
Media Ecology, Ministry,
Marketplace Ministry
Economic Development
Business as Mission
Tentmaking
For ProfitNonprofit
General
Tech Specific
Churches
Parachurches
Christian Education
My Name is Andrew Sears, I’m the president of City Vision College. Give you some background. I grew up as a techie with a Commodore 64, in the bulletin board era in the 80’s. Went to school at MIT, studied under one of the fathers of the Internet. Cofounded the Internet Telecoms consortium, multidisciplinary group to understand the social and business implications of the InternetI worked consulting to venture capital and Internet startupsI’ve spent the past 15 years running TechMission, which is a ministry that equips Christians to use technology for the kingdom6 Years ago we acquired Rescue College. Many of you know Michael Liimatta. It became City Vision College, and I became a college presidentSpent the past 6 years learning how to be a college president. We have seen our school grow at an average of about 30% a year since then.Many of you have heard of the term Jesus Freak, from the Jesus people movement in the 1960’sI like to talk about another group: Jesus Geek: Technology Ministers & Digital Natives.
The basic analogy I’m going to use for my talk is the lessons that the church has learned from urbanization, which is the largest mass migration in history. I would like to argue that we are going through another mass migration, to the virtualization of the world into online and digital formats. There are lessons that we can learn from how the church responded to urbanization that we can apply to this second mass migration.
If you look at the Bible, it starts in a garden, but it ends in a City. We are in the middle of the largest mass migration in history. Just recently, more people now globally live in urban rather than rural environments. The blue line represents the percentage of people in urban environments and the green represents the percentage in rural.
Now there is a much more rapid migration happening in the virtualization of the world into online and digital formats. The yellow line represents the percentage of the world online, the blue is the developed world and the red is the developing world. Now I recognize that the analogy of urbanization to virtualization doesn’t exactly fit, because people actually don’t move from cities to a “virtual world,” but just work with me.The reason why I want to use this analogy is that it is helpful in providing a cultural and ministry framework.
The same type of thing has been happening in our use of media. You might say that our time has been getting colonized by the virtual world of media
Why do people move to cities? New opportunities: jobs, education, churches, better transportation. The challenge is that cities create new problems: slums, gangs, violence, anonymizing, drugs, addictionIn summary cities make good more efficient and evil more efficient2. Rural parents not fluent in parenting urban childrenThe typical story is that a naive rural individual comes to the city, and quickly gets robbed. Then their kids get caught up in gangs and drugs.I grew up in inner city Kansas City. Both my parents were raised in rural environments. When you are on the farm, you can just let your kids go unsupervised outside. In the city, they will get into trouble and get hurt. I saw most of my friends start using drugs and having sex in elementary school. The problem was that we had parents that didn’t have the parenting skills they need to live in the city.3. Need balancedurban-culture fluent parenting and teachingNow, I’m raising my children in an urban environment. I know the risks and know how to moderate those risk because I’m fluent in urban culture. Hundreds of urban interns: walk down these streets, and don’t walk down those streets at nightIf you are raising your kids in an urban environment, then avoidance is not the solution: urban culture = bad. We are called to be in the world, but not of it.Parentsalso shouldn’t be too permissive. That results in children being exposed to urban dangers because of lack of street-savvy of parents4. New modelsSo how did Christian schools adapt? They had to develop new models for teach people to address new opportunities and problems. Now they are called schools of Urban Ministry, and they deal with urban problems.So let’s apply the similar lessons to this digital migration.
Online world presents new problems and opportunitiesOpportunities: world’s information at our fingertips, online education, instant communicationProblems:, tech addiction, pornography, online affairs, online predators, fraud/gangs, terrorist are globalized2. Digital-immigrant parents not fluent in parenting digital native childrenWhathappened to me in my childhood effect of being unsupervised in an urban environment is happening to a whole generatoin. A whole generation is growing up online unsupervised exposed to the online underworld: theft is the norm, exposed to porn, predators, becoming addicted. I mentioned that I was an early adopter among digital natives, but I was unsupervised. I used my commodore 64 to became a computer hacker, and saw a lot of my friends go to jail for hacking.3.Need balanced digital-culture fluent parenting & teachingExtreme avoidance: ethnocentric view of all tech = bad. I remember having a friend growing up who never played a video game; honestly he was a social outcast. It was like he spoke a different language than the other kids. I know some parents that are raising kids without any media: TV, video games, etc. I’m concerned they will be like children who grow up with over-restrictive parents, and then once they are on their own, they are like sheep before wolves and go wildExtreme permissiveness: expose children to online dangers because of lack of tech fluency to know healthy online boundaries. Five year old having bad dreams because he was playing an NC-17 violent video game with his older brother. Computers and tablets with no monitoring alone in kids’ rooms. What happens when you start with regular access to hard core-pornography in elementary school? You become like one of the teensI worked with where her friends regularly had parties with their teen friends that were orgies. 4.Need new models for ministry to address new opportunities and problemsIf we developed schools of urban ministry to deal with urban problems, we need to develop Schools of Technology MinistryWhat are the major opportunities and threats
What are the megatrends that are being caused by this virtualization? I’ve spent much of my past 20 years researching this starting at MIT where I co-founded the Internet Telecoms consortium and then consulting to venture capitalist and then at the at TechMission where we live out the values of Jesus, Justice & Technology.Since eating of the tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, Mankind has been increasing in its knowledge of Good and EvilThe real question is how do we maximize the strengths of this new model while offsetting the weaknessesThat will be the struggle of the next few generations
That was my introduction. The real question is how do you prepare future technology ministers to help address these needs? I spent the past several years interviewing Christian experts in all types of fields to help answer this question. Part of the reason why I wanted to give this talk was to get input from this group on this question. Before I open it up for discussion, I want to explain our best attempt at designing a program to help prepare future technology ministers to address these needs.
You start by recognizing that technology is actually a culture. That gives a good framework for missions. In urban missions, we call this incarnational ministry, based on how Jesus incarnated and came to us where we are. It is summarized by the phrase from Paul, “I became a Jew to the Jews and a Greek to the Greeks.”So what does that look like for technology ministers. It requires just a slight translation to modernize it for techies.
What does it mean to contextualize the gospel to techies and the digital native generation?There are a lot of ways to do that. One is to start with the language of that group, immerse yourself. Recently there has been criticism of the fact that all the pictures of Jesus are white Europeans. Then you see Black Jesus, Asian Jesus. What does it mean to present Jesus in a way that techies can understand? I personally like to think of Jesus as the first techie. The word the Bible uses to describe Jesus is Tekton, which has the same root as where we get our word for technology. He used the tools of the day to build things. If Jesus were born today, I like to think he might be a computer programmer. My point obviously isn’t that we should start putting glasses on Jesus to contextualize him to techies, but that we need to be asking the question: how do we contexualize Jesus to techies and digital natives.
Many of you have probably heard the quote by Alan Kay: “Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff”If we understand technology is a culture, then we understand that our own view toward technology will be generationally specific so we can avoid being ethno-centric
Who here is familiar with the diffusion of innovation curve. It comes from Everett Rogers. The basic idea is that as a new technology comes, it takes a period of time before it is adopted. The yellow line shows the period until everyone is using a technology. The blue line shows the distribution of people into how quickly they adopt that technology. I’m using this curve to show the diffusion of digital culture. Might be more analogous to when immigrants move to the US, how does fluency in English diffuse. For the kids it is fairly quick. Many parents don’t even make the attempt.
What we’ve done at City Vision is to design a whole Master’s program to prepare Technology Ministers with these questions in mind.
Unique Needs of Techies1. Theology & moral dilemmas: whether tech will ultimately help or hurt people. Theology of technology. Integrate theology and technology worlds rather than compartmentalize them.2. Unique Identity Issues: STEM fields are not affirmed as ministry, Young earth creationism are a much bigger deal that for typical Christians and has identity implication. How to affirm someone who was picked on in high school, but will be your boss in work. Ethnic identity development for tech culture. Why are all the geeks sitting together in the cafeteria? Solidifying identity as a Christian techie and enable it to be an integrated identity rather than compartmentalize worlds.3. Unique Language. Systems is a common language that people from STEM fields can understand. Need to understand how to navigate organizations. Organizational Systems4. Summary of Bible is Love God, Love others. How to use technology to help people? and in particular the poor. Appropriate technology as a framework for thinking about technology in missions.5. Limits: Need to understand limits of quantitative methods & how to respond to negative aspects of technology. Technology Addiction. Marshall Mccluhan developed the interdisciplinary field of media ecology. There are new fields needed: media nutrition how we consume media by crossing the fields of nutrition and media. Technology & addiction: cross fields of addiction recovery with media6. Techies often think about tech, but not the business side and how to keep it funded. Sustainability.
In this next part I would like to take these frameworks and this incarnational ministry approach, and apply it to some delimmasShallows: multitask so much that it is difficult to focus. In the rural to urban migration, might analogous to parents lamenting about the lack of physical exercise. The reality was that the jobs of the future required knowledge skills, but there is still a need for physical exercise as shown in the obesity epidemic. So we have gyms where we workout—a concept that would seem so foreign a century ago. Why do that?What is the modern counterpart to a gym? Mindfulness and training on boundaries that enable focus. Prayer & meditation.Device distractions in the classroom: professors complaining that no one pays attention to their lectureRespond with a flipped classroom, recorded lecture, recorded discussion, no notes, no devices. By being very tech savvy, you gain authority to limit technology.How well would it work with me as a white guy going to some black gang memberWhite people who go into the Black community and lecture them on how they should be vs. Black pastor who are has lived a life giving him street cred, challenging themChanges the Nature of Responding to Tech AddictionsStaff with tech addictionsI’m a techie. I tell them the story about how I was so strung out on Civilization 3 that I played for 24 hours without eating and only had 1 hour of sleep and almost passed out. Tablets with kidsI became an expert curator of educational apps for kids. I could write a book or blog as good or better than any out thereGive my kids unlimited access to educational games: like all you can eat salad bar 24 hoursThey get non-educational games like desert. On special occasions.Spiritual Formation OnlineWe run 12 step groups online, with huge spiritual transformationMost compelling stories are those who cannot access offline communities: Use Online Technology for what it’s good forOnline is good for matching, content distribution and communicating across many surface relationships Online is limited for in-depth spiritual formationOnline becomes a mechanism to more effectively match people for in-person relationships and spiritual formation offline: internships, volunteer opportunities, Christian housing, churches, small groups,
Be all things to all people vs. specialization
Move from a vertically integrated university to a modular networked universityDoes the university have to be all things to all peopleMost instructors can never compete for teaching with the podcasts I listen toIn some cases this will be better and in other cases it will be much worseBut it is what the trend is toward