During the COVID-19 Global Pandemic, there were multiple lessons provided to the world. In this talk, I set the stage for the discussion, highlight the issues we faced (and still face), I speak to an effort that contributed to help address one of those issues, then speak to future challenges and our responsibilities going forward.
The media plays an important role in defining who we are, what we desire and what is acceptable (or not) in our reality.
In this talk, we discuss the current state of affairs and discuss how we improve upon it.
This is the actual slides presented at Arizona State University on February 10th, 2014
How Can Media Reconnect Us With Our Humanity? (FULL DECK)Tyrone Grandison
The media plays an important role in defining who we are, what we desire and what is acceptable (or not) in our reality.
In this talk, we discuss the current state of affairs and discuss how we improve upon it.
Systemic Barriers in Technology: Striving for Equity and AccessTyrone Grandison
Technology is an integral part of our everyday lives through broad-band internet usage, protection of cyber-security security, or the usage of artificial intelligence (AI) to mimic human-operations. Historically, technology has perpetuated racial discrimination with biases in algorthims used in the health-care system, facial recognition in the criminal justice system, to Black and Latinx students lacking access to technological resources. This panel will discuss the historical context of racism in technology, current technology access issues in communities of color, as well as strategies and policies that dismantle systemic racism in technology.
We all use foresight every day, in a foresight-action cycle, to predict, create, and lead the future. Foresight professionals are anyone tasked to think about probable, possible, preferable, or preventable (“Four Ps”) futures, over any time horizon. Foresight is both a set of time-tested practices and emerging models of adaptiveness and values, rooted in psychology and complex systems research. The more we use good foresight practices, the better our futures become. This presentation is a brief intro to my new book, Introduction to Foresight: Personal, Team, and Organizational Adaptiveness, available on Amazon now (March 2022).
The media plays an important role in defining who we are, what we desire and what is acceptable (or not) in our reality.
In this talk, we discuss the current state of affairs and discuss how we improve upon it.
This is the actual slides presented at Arizona State University on February 10th, 2014
How Can Media Reconnect Us With Our Humanity? (FULL DECK)Tyrone Grandison
The media plays an important role in defining who we are, what we desire and what is acceptable (or not) in our reality.
In this talk, we discuss the current state of affairs and discuss how we improve upon it.
Systemic Barriers in Technology: Striving for Equity and AccessTyrone Grandison
Technology is an integral part of our everyday lives through broad-band internet usage, protection of cyber-security security, or the usage of artificial intelligence (AI) to mimic human-operations. Historically, technology has perpetuated racial discrimination with biases in algorthims used in the health-care system, facial recognition in the criminal justice system, to Black and Latinx students lacking access to technological resources. This panel will discuss the historical context of racism in technology, current technology access issues in communities of color, as well as strategies and policies that dismantle systemic racism in technology.
We all use foresight every day, in a foresight-action cycle, to predict, create, and lead the future. Foresight professionals are anyone tasked to think about probable, possible, preferable, or preventable (“Four Ps”) futures, over any time horizon. Foresight is both a set of time-tested practices and emerging models of adaptiveness and values, rooted in psychology and complex systems research. The more we use good foresight practices, the better our futures become. This presentation is a brief intro to my new book, Introduction to Foresight: Personal, Team, and Organizational Adaptiveness, available on Amazon now (March 2022).
Diplomacy and Foreign Relations in the Social Media Age: By Nalaka Gunawarden...Nalaka Gunawardene
I made this presentation on 14 November 2015 to students of the Certificate Course in Creative Diplomacy, conducted by the Regional Centre for Strategic Studies (RCSS) in Colombo, Sri Lanka – a think tank on international relations.
In this, I introduce and briefly explore the new kind of real-time, public diplomacy that is being ushered in with the spreading of social media. I show how diplomats and other government officials can no longer ignore this mass medium, but at the same time their traditional ways of communications need to be reoriented to suit the realities of this new information ecosystem that is informal, irreverent and fleeting.
As I spoke on the day after the ISIS terrorist attacks in France, I used (among others) the latest examples of how Gérard Araud, France’s Ambassador to the US, tweeted live as multiple terror attacks unfolded in Paris on Nov 13 night.
To see the bigger picture, I’ve distilled some wisdom of key researchers in this area including: Anne-Marie Slaughter, former Princeton Academic and ex-Director of Policy Planning, US State Department; Philip Seib, Professor of Journalism and Public Diplomacy, University of Southern California; and Ramesh Thakur, Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University (ANU).
I dedicated this presentation to a diplomat and scholar whose mentoring I was privileged to receive 20 years ago: Dr Harlan Cleveland (1918 - 2008) who served as US Ambassador to NATO, 1965–1969 (Johnson Administration), and earlier as US Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, 1961–1965 (Kennedy Administration).
Tell Me More's social storytelling series using #NPRBlacksinTech ends on December 20th. Since Decem- ber 2nd, black tech innovators from all over the country have spent a day tweeting about their lives. The social media series is creating new storytelling opportunities that run parallel to what Tell Me More does every day on the radio.
If you have been engaging with the #NPRBlacksinTech hashtag, please share your thoughts, comments and suggestions.
Over 300 stakeholders from 12 countries representing the private sector, government, training institutions, academia, philanthropy, and youth attended the Impact Sourcing (IS) Conference held on November 13th and 14th at the Polo Club in Johannesburg, South Africa.
The event was hosted by Rockefeller Foundation Africa regional office Managing Director Mamadou Biteye and the Digital Jobs Africa Team, and was officially opened by Dr. Edmund Katiti, director of the Africa Program for the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD).
This powerpoint is a project we had to do on Digital Divide. :) Enjoy! btw, credit the works
By: Megan, Noah and Jessendra
do not copyright
you will be punished
:D
Change IT!
S. Revi Sterling, University of Colorado Boulder
Voices 2015 - www.globaltechwomen.com
Session Length: 1 Hour
Dr. Revi Sterling founded and directs the only Information and Communication Technology for Development graduate program in the United States. This talk would demonstrate how IT (ICT as the rest of the world calls it) has given a quantum boost to international development efforts, and will give examples of what works and what doesn’t when technologists turn humanitarians. This talk will open avenues for technologists of all types and levels to truly make impact with their ideas, while promoting collaboration rather than competition. Sterling will point audiences to helpful resources while catalyzing their creativity.
Presentation of Technology Cross Cultural Organizations and the Poor for course as a part of the Technology and Ministry Masters program in City Vision College.
JVS Debra Ruh Disability Inclusion and Employabilitykmzook
Featuring Debra Ruh | Global Disability-Inclusion Strategist
HR Professionals, Employers and Business Leaders:
Join industry experts at this educational and networking event to learn strategies for creating diverse workplaces.
Diplomacy and Foreign Relations in the Social Media Age: By Nalaka Gunawarden...Nalaka Gunawardene
I made this presentation on 14 November 2015 to students of the Certificate Course in Creative Diplomacy, conducted by the Regional Centre for Strategic Studies (RCSS) in Colombo, Sri Lanka – a think tank on international relations.
In this, I introduce and briefly explore the new kind of real-time, public diplomacy that is being ushered in with the spreading of social media. I show how diplomats and other government officials can no longer ignore this mass medium, but at the same time their traditional ways of communications need to be reoriented to suit the realities of this new information ecosystem that is informal, irreverent and fleeting.
As I spoke on the day after the ISIS terrorist attacks in France, I used (among others) the latest examples of how Gérard Araud, France’s Ambassador to the US, tweeted live as multiple terror attacks unfolded in Paris on Nov 13 night.
To see the bigger picture, I’ve distilled some wisdom of key researchers in this area including: Anne-Marie Slaughter, former Princeton Academic and ex-Director of Policy Planning, US State Department; Philip Seib, Professor of Journalism and Public Diplomacy, University of Southern California; and Ramesh Thakur, Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University (ANU).
I dedicated this presentation to a diplomat and scholar whose mentoring I was privileged to receive 20 years ago: Dr Harlan Cleveland (1918 - 2008) who served as US Ambassador to NATO, 1965–1969 (Johnson Administration), and earlier as US Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, 1961–1965 (Kennedy Administration).
Tell Me More's social storytelling series using #NPRBlacksinTech ends on December 20th. Since Decem- ber 2nd, black tech innovators from all over the country have spent a day tweeting about their lives. The social media series is creating new storytelling opportunities that run parallel to what Tell Me More does every day on the radio.
If you have been engaging with the #NPRBlacksinTech hashtag, please share your thoughts, comments and suggestions.
Over 300 stakeholders from 12 countries representing the private sector, government, training institutions, academia, philanthropy, and youth attended the Impact Sourcing (IS) Conference held on November 13th and 14th at the Polo Club in Johannesburg, South Africa.
The event was hosted by Rockefeller Foundation Africa regional office Managing Director Mamadou Biteye and the Digital Jobs Africa Team, and was officially opened by Dr. Edmund Katiti, director of the Africa Program for the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD).
This powerpoint is a project we had to do on Digital Divide. :) Enjoy! btw, credit the works
By: Megan, Noah and Jessendra
do not copyright
you will be punished
:D
Change IT!
S. Revi Sterling, University of Colorado Boulder
Voices 2015 - www.globaltechwomen.com
Session Length: 1 Hour
Dr. Revi Sterling founded and directs the only Information and Communication Technology for Development graduate program in the United States. This talk would demonstrate how IT (ICT as the rest of the world calls it) has given a quantum boost to international development efforts, and will give examples of what works and what doesn’t when technologists turn humanitarians. This talk will open avenues for technologists of all types and levels to truly make impact with their ideas, while promoting collaboration rather than competition. Sterling will point audiences to helpful resources while catalyzing their creativity.
Presentation of Technology Cross Cultural Organizations and the Poor for course as a part of the Technology and Ministry Masters program in City Vision College.
JVS Debra Ruh Disability Inclusion and Employabilitykmzook
Featuring Debra Ruh | Global Disability-Inclusion Strategist
HR Professionals, Employers and Business Leaders:
Join industry experts at this educational and networking event to learn strategies for creating diverse workplaces.
Social Media - A Connected Way of Life: Lessons from using social media to ad...Sarah Amani
The role of social media in enhancing connection and communities has been under question for some time. Using several case studies, a case is made to improve the digital literacy and social media capabilities of healthcare staff in order to amplify their effect and impact.
Presentation on "Choosing the Right Social Media Tools to Get Your Message Out". Some of the tools may have changes since 2012 but this is all about the basics to help you no matter what comes and goes.
"Wikis, Blogs, Texting, and More" presentation at the U.S. Conference on AIDS in San Francisco on October 30, 2009. Facilitated by Michelle Samplin-Salgado and Miguel Gomez.
Keynote Presentation: Mayo Clinic Embraces Social Media to Improve Clinical Practice, Research & Education
Presented by: Dr. Farris Timimi, Medical Director, Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media, Mayo Clinic
Dr. Timimi, a practicing Cardiologist, will share how Mayo Clinic fosters conversations and improves care with patients through social technologies. Dr. Timimi will provide specific case study examples of how The Center for Social Media at Mayo clinic is helping transition the patient-provider relationship from its current transactional nature to the future two-way partnership and open engagement model. Dr. Timimi will also present how social media progresses the patient education process.
www.bdionline.com
The Office of Minority Health (OMH) and AIDS.gov to host a New Media Webinar Training on January 28, 2010 from 2:00–3:00 p.m. (EST). OMH and AIDS.gov are collaborating to provide information to grantees on:
1. HHS’s new media objectives
2. What is new media?
3. The steps for developing a new media strategy
4. New media tools that are used by HIV programs targeting youth
Participants will have an opportunity to ask questions and to share their own New Media experiences.
Global Scientific Research as a Tool to Unlock and Engage Talent and Expand t...Tyrone Grandison
‘Science for social justice’ may only be achieved when politicians, decision-makers and science-policymakers set a considered and thoughtful agenda to utilize science, in reasoned and innovative ways, as a driving force for positive societal change to promote equity through innovation. However, to date, tangible results in many contexts have been mixed at best, especially in delivering a reliable mechanism for, or a path to, sustainable social equity and justice for all. As global inequality increases and much political decision-making remains myopic and contingent, the emotive and essential power of ‘science for social justice’ can be lost as scientists and decision-makers struggle to actualize meaningful change. We, as scientists, in collaboration with our decision-making peers, have a golden opportunity to correct this through clear and novel proposals for meaningful projects based on advanced research opportunities. In this regard, we contend that ‘science for social justice’ can only be fully realized if it is symbiotically connected to providing scientific opportunity, where no such opportunity previously existed. This inevitably foments and sustains prosperity, an essential factor for social justice to grow. Therefore, the goal must be to establish opportunity that serves as the bridge to prosperity. How can we accomplish this when most of the world relies on relatively few countries for new scientific advances and technologies?
Are There Ethical Limits to What Science Can Achieve or Should Pursue?Tyrone Grandison
As a computer scientist and data scientist, this is a nuanced question that requires prinicpled treatment. There are multiple factors that determine the answer to this prompt. The path that I take is going back to first principles and presenting a framework for evaluation.
The current model of invention needs to be augmented. We have to include user feedback more integrally and we need to invent to reduce unintended consequences.
We live in an amazing time. The only barrier to impact is execution. Every individual has the opportunity to take an idea from inception to invaluable and innovative solution in a matter of months. Every nation has the capacity, and the capability, to create a solid foundation for its citizens that has the potential to transform lives and sustain a thriving innovation ecosystem. This talk will examine the part that each of us must play in creating an innovation nation.
The mission of the IHME is to apply rigorous measurement and analysis to help policy makers make better decisions on a range of health policy issues. Like other organizations, the IHME have embraced containers and micro-services aggressively to better support hundreds of collaborating researchers.
In addition to containerized workloads, the IHME run a wide-variety of traditional analytic, simulation and high-performance computing workloads on an HPC cluster with 15,000 cores and 13PB of storage. Researchers increasingly need to combine both containerized and non-containerized elements into workflow pipelines, and a key challenge has been ensuring SLAs for various departments and avoiding duplicate infrastructure and unnecessary data movement and duplication. In collaboration with industry partners, IHME have deployed a unique solution based on Univa’s Navops technology that allows them to combine containerized and traditional analytic and high-performance application workloads on a single shared Kubernetes cluster, ensuring departmental SLAs and helping contain infrastructure costs.
In this talk Dr. Grandison will discuss IHME, their experience deploying containerized applications and how they went about using Kubernetes to support a variety of new containerized applications as well as a variety of traditional analytic applications.
It often goes unnoticed that the majority of innovations today stems from investments by government bodies to produce platforms, software and data for the greater societal good. The Internet, the Global Positioning System, voice-controlled software are all examples of these investments. The private industry has no business case for undertaking these efforts; as the business model and return on investment is often unknown. These well-known examples started as military projects in search of ethical commercial use cases. Private industry is often the biggest benefactors of the production of these systems. In this talk, I will speak about the cycle of open innovation, highlight a few examples, discuss what went and is wrong, and highlight course corrections. Specifically, the focus will be initiatives that were intentionally meant to be open , like weather data from NOAA, survey data from the Census Bureau, GDP (Gross Domestic Product) data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, and public health data from the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation.
The Federal Government has vast open data resources. This talk will present a few APIs: One from the Department of Labor that serves up the data on the goods and products made with forced and child labor, one from the US Census Bureau, and another from the Department of Commerce and tangles Income Inequality.
The Creative Economy within the United States of AmericaTyrone Grandison
The creative economy spans multiple industries and spaces. I show highlights of how the US Department of Commerce supports the American Creative Economy
The U.S. Department of Commerce collects, processes and disseminates data on a range of issues that impact our nation. Having a host of data and ensuring that this data is open and accessible to all are two separate issues. This session will cover the Commerce Data Usability Project (CDUP) - a community-driven public-private partnership to help data scientists, programmers and other users to access open knowledge from our open data.
Creating a Data-Driven Government: Big Data With PurposeTyrone Grandison
The U.S. Department of Commerce collects, processes and disseminates data on a range of issues that impact our nation. Whether it's data on the economy, the environment, or technology, data is critical in fulfilling the Department's mission of creating the conditions for economic growth and opportunity. It is this data that provides insight, drives innovation, and transforms our lives. The U.S. Department of Commerce has become known as "America's Data Agency" due to the tens of thousands of datasets including satellite imagery, material standards and demographic surveys.
But having a host of data and ensuring that this data is open and accessible to all are two separate issues. The latter, expanding open data access, is now a key pillar of the Commerce Department's mission. It was this focus on enhancing open data that led to the creation of the Commerce Data Service (CDS).
The mission at the Commerce Data Service is to enable more people to use big data from across the department in innovative ways and across multiple fields. In this talk, I will explore how we are using big data to create a data-driven government.
This talk is a keynote given at the Texas tech University's Big Data Symposium.
General tips to students at the Biomedical Data Science Mentoring Workshop at the Symposium of Health Informatics in Latin America and the Caribbean (SHILAC) 2015.
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.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
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.
3. • Chief Technology Officer, Hodos
Health
• Executive Leadership Advisor,
Democracy Works
• Chief Security Officer, Citizens for
Citizens
• VP of Data, U.Group
• Chief Technology Officer, Pearl Long
Term Care Solutions
• Chief Technology Officer, The
TeleHealth Market
• Chief Information Officer, Institute
for Health Metrics and Evaluation
• Deputy Chief Data Officer, US
Department of Commerce
• Presidential Innovation Fellow, US
White House (Obama
Administration)
• Researcher, IBM Almaden.
Background
• Fellow, Healthcare Information and
Management Systems Society
(HIMSS).
• Fellow, British Computer Society
• Innovator Fellow, Cambia Grove
• Distinguished Engineer, ACM
• Senior Member, IEEE
• IEEE Technical Achievement
Award for "pioneering contributions
to Secure and Private Data
Management"
• Master Inventor, IBM
• Invention Ambassador, AAAS-
Lemelson Foundation
• Founding Member, New Voices in
Sciences, Engineering and Medicine,
National Academy of Sciences
• Laureate, Global Young Academy
• Commissioner, Seattle Human Rights
Commission
6. Technology
• the application of scientific knowledge
for practical purposes, especially in
industry.
• machinery and equipment developed
from the application of scientific
knowledge.
7. Environment
A solution should factor in elements from each of these categories.
Some problems may not require a technical solution.
Business Legal
Technical Societal
8. The Nature of Technology
Tech X is Good Tech Y is Bad
16. Elders - the best predictive
indicator for the rest of us
17. 1. Decreased Standard of Living
• Lowering purchase power
2. Deteriorating Mental Health
• Increase in loneliness
3. Increased susceptibility
• To their echo chambers
• To misinformation
4. Increase in abuse and neglect
• People, substances, things
Immediate Problems:
The Rest Of Us
19. Jennifer for
COVID-19:
An NLP-Powered
Chatbot Built for the
People and by the
People to Combat
COVID-19
Misinformation
Yunyao Li, Tyrone Grandison, Patricia Silveyra, Ali Douraghy, Xinyu Guan, Thomas
Kieselbach, Chengkai Li, and Haiqi Zhang. 2020. Jennifer for COVID-19: An NLP-
Powered Chatbot Built for the People and by the People to Combat Misinformation.
In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on NLP for COVID-19 at ACL 2020, Online.
Association for Computational Linguistics.
21. create a platform of evidence-based
information from reliable sources, curated
by scientists, that the public would find
easy to interact with.
22. Design Consideration Design Choices
Rapid Development
Ease of Access
Ease of Maintenance
Quality Assurance
Extensibility
Using an existing platform
Chatbot available on multiple
ways
Maintainable without
programming by crowd
Rigorous process with clear
separation of tasks with
different levels of oversights
Extensible without
programming
24. Juji Base System
• Expressive visual dialog flow design
• Maintainable directly via UI
• Deployable as Web and Facebook bots
• Extensible via QA pairs in spreadsheet
• IR-style QA to match a user question against an
existing question
[Xiao, et al CHI’2020]
Design
Teste
Deployment
Launch Develop
< 24 hours
March 7
March 8
25. Main Capabilities: QA Pairs
• Crowdsourced: Majority of the efforts
• Auto-Generation: With manually-curated templates +CDC/WHO data
Current focus: statisticson case and death#s.
28. Multilingual support
Plans to expand Jennifer to other languages were initiated.
Sofía (Spanish chatbot)
- QA pairs manually translated
from the Jennifer QA pairs.
- Maintained and manually
curated by a group of bilingual
Spanish-English certified medical
interpreters.
- Uses information from Spanish
language verified sources
29. Preliminary Results (as of June 18,2020)
• 1056 sessions
• 1,480 questions (excluding questions selected via menus)
• Answered 1,059 of them (response rate = 71%)
• Average engagement duration = 3 min 15 sec
• COVID-19 Question Bank (COQB)
https://www.newvoicesnasem.org/data-downloads
• 3,924 COVID-19-related questions in 944 groups
30. Lessons Learned
• People are eager to help.
• Process and communication are Important.
• Effective and dedicated management is critical.
• Human-machine conversation requires a
proactive design
31. Open Challenges
• Scalable Crowdsourced Fact Checking Platform
• Minimize human efforts without sacrificing quality
• Zero-Shot Empathetic Natural Language Generation
• Identify resources and compose answers
• Competing Information Sources and Public Trust
• Requires more than technical solutions
38. This is the best time to be ALIVE
Knowledge
Access
Drive
Commitment
39. What will YOU & GUST do?
To Solve the Most Pressing Problems Around You?
For the Community Around GUST?
For Kuwait?
40. • Mental Health
• There is a crisis looming globally
• How do we support?
• Misinformation and Disinformation
• It is easier to create an alternative reality than it is to
have evidence believed
• Proactive attack de-escalation
• Effective post-attack impact reduction
• Standard of Living
• What solutions can be deployed to improve Standard of
Living for everyone?
• It is a team effort
• Abuse & Neglect
• Elder abuse & neglect may not be cultural relevant
• Mechanisms to limit abuse & empower abused
41. • Equality for All
• Human Rights and Inclusion are non-negotiable
• Being a non-Kuwaiti living in Kuwait is hard
• It creates two separate worlds; one for ~30% of the population,
and another for the other ~70%.
• Roads and Traffic
• Smart roads? Identifying choke points and critical times?
Enabling smarter city planning and expansion?
• Educational Attainment
• 2018: Bachelors – 11.1%, Masters – 0.5% (Source: World
Bank)
• Land Use
• Technology can enable innovative uses of Kuwaiti land
• How can GUST Engineering, CS, and Data Science help?
Thank you to Dr Hussain and the entire organizing committee for inviting me.
I am inspired by the sessions, by the students, and by the discussions.
Today, I want to have a discussion. I am going to 1) share more about myself, 2) set the context on my perspective, 3) take you on a journey into the future, 4) tell you about a project I worked on during the first few months of the COVID-19 Global Pandemic, 5) Share some bad news, 6) share some good news, 7) issue a call to action, and finally share the lessons that I have learned during this time.
Let’s go.
First, people are normally confused when they look at LinkedIn or ask me what I do.
I am recovering academic – I love research. I love interacting with students. The rest I could do without.
I have worked in the Federal Government, Fortune 100, startups, nonprofits, consulting.
Currently, I am the Founder and Board Chairman of the nonprofit, The Data-Driven Institute. ….
Currently, I am the Director of Global Partner Technology Strategy for Public Sector for Microsoft.
Currently, I am adjunct faculty at the University of Technology Jamaica where I teach Software Engineering, CyberSecurity, and Data Science.
I have had a lot of roles. I aim to use my skills to improve the world around me.
During the first 2 years of the COVID-19, I have co-founded startups in chronic disease management, telehealth, and long term care.
I was also an Innovation Fellow for the parent company for a large healthcare provider and payer in the PNW, was in the founding cohort of a National Academies program, and co-chaired the Seattle Human Rights Commission.
I was that engaged because I firmly believe that those of us with the skills, knowledge, and abilities to positively contribute to society MUST do this.
It is not optional for me – and it is not optional for you.
I always like to start discussions ensuring that we are all talking from the same set of facts and with the same definitions.
Let’s talk Technology, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship.
Let me first point out that Technology goes beyond Computers, Data, and Information. It refers to the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes.
So, everything from a shovel in pre-industrial times to the steam engine in the 1st Industrial revolution, to the assembly line to in the 2nd Industrial Revolution to calculators and computers in the 3rd Industrial Revolution to Artificial Intelligence in the 4th Industrial Revolution are technology.
The things that I want to us to all understand is that:
Technology is a means to an end,
Technology does not exist in a vacuum. It is an embodiment of some “thing” that needs to get done – and it lives somewhere – it lives in an environment
Every single solution, technical or non-technical, has elements, components, constraints that address the factors in each of these categories.
Business refers to the business models and motivations driving investment and optimization decision by executives. e.g. Facebook’s business model and hyper growth constraints impact how they think about user solutions.
Legal refers to the laws and policies in place by all your governmental jurisdictions that dictate what can be legally done or not.
Technical refers to machinery and equipment necessary to solve the problem.
Societal refers to the cultural factors that dictate the acceptance/rejection of solution, that dictate the suitability of the solution for the intended user group, that highlight the social and behaviors elements that must be included.
Important to mention that not every problem requires a technology solution. (<-REPEAT).
Source: https://www.slideshare.net/tgrandison/realizing-the-potential-of-trust-management
Technology has no polarity – no charge
Technology is neutral.
The net effect or impact of technology occurs when a person sets a piece of technology to a specific purpose or use.
Quick Example: Clustering technologies that are commonplace in the AI world are used to provide you with movie recommendations. They have also been used to build online models of you so that companies like Cambridge Analytica can manipulate your behavior and steer elections and referendum in the direction of the clients.
Same technology. In different hands. Used for different purposes. One purpose: Okay. Sorta good. Another purpose: Definitely not good (for most people)
To drive innovation, one needs two things: Knowledge & Will.
Knowledge:
Knowledge of a meaningful problem.
Knowledge of people, how they experience the problem, and what the solution should be shaped like.
Foundational, Technical Knowledge to execute and bring solutions to life.
Knowledge of the landscape that every solution lives in, i.e. Business, Legal, Social.
Will:
The perseverance to constantly engage with your users and relentlessly believe in your path to push your idea into the world.
Now that we are all on the same page with regards to basics.
Let’s talk about what is to come.
And you are saying to yourself …. How accurate is your crystal ball?
Right now, looking back.
In the United States on February 29th, 2020, we had the first reported death from COVID-19 (that was heavily reported on by the media).
The deceased was a man in his sixties with no travel history to China living at the Evergreen Health Medical Center in Kirkland, Washington.
Two deaths that occurred on February 26th at a nearby nursing home would later be recorded as the first COVID-19 deaths to occur in the United States.
Source: https://khn.org/news/nursing-home-outbreak-spotlights-coronavirus-risk-in-elder-care-facilities/
Seniors are going through tough economic times. Most lived on fixed budgets, heavily dependent on the state and federal government. Those their incomes reduced and are making difficult financial decisions.
Seniors are dying from COVID at higher rates than other demographic groups.
Shelter-in-place and physical distancing measures are leading to “documented and reported” spikes in mental health episodes in our elderly communities.
The availability of medical care that older populations need is decreasing due to attention being needed elsewhere and the medical personnel themselves being impacted by COVID.
Our elders no longer have the option to be first responders because of the threat that COVID poses to them.
Before pandemic, Financial and physical abuse of the elderly were hidden and rampant Abuses in the world of elder guardianship in the US impacts an estimated 1.5 million adults with estates worth more than $250 billion—and that is rife with financial fraud and elder abuse. This has accelerated during the pandemic.
The world is getting older. This demographic shift is happening everywhere – and no country is immune to the consequences.
This is what happens when life expectancy increases and birth rates decline.
The speed of ageing, across all nations, is accelerating.
So, all countries are getting older faster.
This means that by 2050, 20% of the world will be people over 60.
Of those people, 80% of them will live in low- and middle-income countries.
, similar to other behavioral attacks, that threaten the social contracts between government and governed