This document discusses using information and communication technologies (ICTs) to enhance agricultural development in rural Pakistan. It notes that while mobile phone access is widespread, phones are primarily personal devices not used for business. Literacy levels are low so ICT solutions should leverage visuals like pictures and videos. Regional differences require flexible, non-uniform approaches. Augmented reality shows promise but applications must be simple initially. The Freedom Phone and Farmphone systems enable voice-based group communication. The "Seeing is Believing" app facilitates accessing agricultural extension materials via iPad. The author advocates participatory, context-specific design of ICT solutions to ensure usefulness and use. Technologies should augment rather than replace existing systems and relationships. Both benefits
A presentation given at the institutional Web Managers Workshop 2012 (#IWMW).
The session was aimed at providing some useful resources for the HE sector exploring mobile in their institutional context, and provide an opportunity for sharing practice and experiences.
A presentation given at the institutional Web Managers Workshop 2012 (#IWMW).
The session was aimed at providing some useful resources for the HE sector exploring mobile in their institutional context, and provide an opportunity for sharing practice and experiences.
In June 2010, Laura Efurd addressed the FCC Advisory Committee on Diversity for Communications in the Digital Age.
On behalf of ZeroDivide, Ms. Efurd presented recommendations to the FCC regarding policies and practices that will further enhance the ability of minorities and women to participate in telecommunications and related industries.
SCL digital leadership - trends and recommendations slides June 2014Ben Lee
Presentation given to the Society of Chief Librarians at the Warwick Seminar 5-7 June 2014. Part of the digital leadership and libraries research being conducted for SCL by Shared Intelligence.
The ESTeM Teaching and Learning Innovation Showcase was held in the Inspire Centre on 13 May 2014. More than 60 UC staff attended to hear about the work that has been undertaken over the last 18 months. Presentations on Mastery Learning and M-Teach were given in the Flexispace area and then in the TEAL room ESTeM staff manned their augmented reality posters and delved deep in response to questions from their colleagues.
In June 2010, Laura Efurd addressed the FCC Advisory Committee on Diversity for Communications in the Digital Age.
On behalf of ZeroDivide, Ms. Efurd presented recommendations to the FCC regarding policies and practices that will further enhance the ability of minorities and women to participate in telecommunications and related industries.
SCL digital leadership - trends and recommendations slides June 2014Ben Lee
Presentation given to the Society of Chief Librarians at the Warwick Seminar 5-7 June 2014. Part of the digital leadership and libraries research being conducted for SCL by Shared Intelligence.
The ESTeM Teaching and Learning Innovation Showcase was held in the Inspire Centre on 13 May 2014. More than 60 UC staff attended to hear about the work that has been undertaken over the last 18 months. Presentations on Mastery Learning and M-Teach were given in the Flexispace area and then in the TEAL room ESTeM staff manned their augmented reality posters and delved deep in response to questions from their colleagues.
Presentazione realizzata dagli alunni della scuola \"Bartolena\" di Livorno sulla figura di don Roberto Angeli, prete nella resistenza, e sulla realtà dei campi di sterminio nazisti
The Digital Landscape of Scottish Schools - Napier University Keynote Present...Ollie Bray
Ollie Bray's Keynote presentation on the 'Digital Landscape of Scottish Schools' delivered at Napier Universities whole staff conference in January 2010.
An attempt to cut through the jargon and restore the ordinary citizen back to the centre of all the 'Smart' and 'Digital' initiatives (and hype). Design thinking is crucial for this to happen. Introducing the Deccan Centre for Innovation & Design, a community & training hub for Social Entrepreneurship.
9. aprillil 2010 seminaril “Uuendus ja loovus keskkonnahariduses”
ettekande teemal "Ökoloogiline uus veeb ja selle kasutamine keskkonnahariduses"
Täpsustav tekst:
http://www.slideshare.net/RECEstonia/kai-pata-koloogiline-uus-veeb-ja-selle-kasutamine-keskkonnahariduses-3611205
ICT Workplan
1. Establish a Farmphone system based on Freedomfone in Sindh province.
2. Demonstrate and test the “Seeing is Believing” app developed by ACIAR/UC
3. Conduct youth survey to specifically explore the establishment of an ICT skills project (Community Service Centre model)
4. Establish links with UAF’s CyberExtension project Zarai Baithak (http://zaraibaithak.com/)
5. Connect with Dairy, Citrus and Mango teams once the ICT trials have been undertaken in March
Innovative Approaches to M&E and Project DesignAnahi Iacucci
This presentation uses two examples of projects covered by Internews to talk about the use of ICTs for M&E and innovative approaches to evaluate and collect data for Monitoring and Evaluation purposes.
Presentation by Andrea Bohn, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
In collaboration with:
Mark Bell, University of California at Davis
Shahid Akbar, Bangladesh Institute for ICT in Development
Phil Malone, Access Agriculture
Plenary Session: Extension in ICT Overdrive
on 6 Nov 2013
ICT4Ag, Kigali, Rwanda
Being human (Human Computer Interaction)Rahul Singh
The presentation describes the increasing dependence of the human kind on the Computer systems. The increased variable usage of the machine and much more.
Large Techno Social Systems (LTSS) involve leveraging technological advancements and digital platforms to improve access to essential services, enhance quality of life, and ensure social inclusivity. In LTSS, people cannot be mere users of networked technologies and services designed for optimization purposes. Their behaviour should become one of the key levers for designing technologies turning them into real “Smart citizens” that teach their surrounding environment (and embedded devices) but learn reciprocally from it. LTSS can be realized by promoting smart communities which leverage technology, data, and innovation to improve the quality of life for its residents, enhance sustainability, and optimize the use of resources. Human-centric technology can empower citizens to actively engage in societal decision-making processes, participate in deliberative systems, and contribute to societal welfare. On the other hand, technological advancements, including data analytics and artificial intelligence, can inform evidence-based policymaking and planning processes. Indeed, digital technologies have the potential to influence human behaviour change by providing information, personalized feedback, social support, targeted interventions, and opportunities for learning. This work explores two approaches to realize LTSS driven smart communities that leverage digital technologies to achieve a higher collaboration and reciprocal learning between machines and people. On one hand, co-production in smart communities promotes behaviour change by empowering citizens in the co-design and co-delivery process, designing user-centric solutions, leveraging local knowledge, fostering collaboration, and facilitating capacity building. On the other hand, Citizen Science can inspire and enable behaviour change that leads to more sustainable, responsible, and community-oriented actions by promoting awareness, empowering individuals, and facilitating collaboration.
social production for social entrepreneursMark Herringer
For application developers and social entrepreneurs to be able to collaborate and develop applications that address social change there needs to be a communication link that enables an agile development process.
Media X at Stanford University - DescriptionMartha Russell
Media X at Stanford University is an industry partner program of the HSTAR Institute (Human Sciences Advanced Technology Research.) Contact: Dr. Martha Russell, Associate Director, martha.russell@stanford.edu; Chuck House, Executive Director, chouse@stanford.edu; Professor Byron Reeves, Faculty Co-Director and Co-Founder; Professor Roy Pea, Faculty Co-Director and Co-Founder; Dr. Keith Devlin, Co-Founder and Executive Director HSTAR, devlin@stanford.edu.
Current Disruptions in Media: Earthquakes or New Openings? Stanford as CatalystMartha Russell
Across the globe, new word-of-mouth messaging methods are emerging. Many of these involve new technologies. The strategic use of media has become a game changer for both local and global businesses. Traditional media platforms are outpaced by the speed of flash movements as they unfold. Technical discoveries outpace the scientific journals available to announce them. Journalists, entertainers, academics, scientists, and citizens are experimenting with new tools and platforms for content creation, consumption and curation.
When the news about Tahir Square, or Occupy Wall Street or, more recently the Brazilian protests, hit the headlines of newspapers and magazines, they were already outdated. Documentaries were equally incapable of tracking and fully describing these movements. Traditional narratives – and the technologies used to tell them - fall short of accurately portraying the ideas and behaviors that are emerging through new modes of communication. Information travels so fast, that news is no longer "new". Ubiquitous media disintermediates traditional business ecosystems. And every company must take on roles of a media company.
The world of digital content is experiencing an explosion of innovation in both creation and consumption of media. It may well have been consumer applications that ignited the transformation, but business, enterprise and government interests have joined the party. Across the entire innovation ecosystem of media, new technologies and new uses of it by people are creating a sea change in the way people participate and in the responses they expect, Streaming coverage, both amateur and professional – both business and community, is powered by cutting edge technology in combinations of smartphones, 4G, drone cameras and, even, Google Glass can report on events and movements, products and services. The new role of the Chief Digital Officer has emerged in many organizations - to help management bridge the changing roles usually played by Chief Information Officers, Chief Marketing Officers, and Chief Technology Officers.
Labs affiliated with mediaX at Stanford University study how people and information technology interact. We invite discovery collaborations on the future of content for business, education, and entertainment.
From a SOCITM Meeting June 2014 (Society of Information Technology Managers). A 10 minute presentation on how ICT in Learning is developing, a few requirements to provide the right infrastructure to support essential technology rich learning environments and how a vision and framework can support this.
The presentation discusses the potentials of using ICT as a means of inclusion for PwDs and suggests QFD and Co-creation as a tool to better manage the stakeholders priorities
presentation by Marwan Awad and Osama Khair
Learning, design and technology developmental evaluation and the experience api Charles Darwin University
Learning, design and technology developmental evaluation and the experience api. Invited presentation to Global Mindset 12th thought leading conference on Assessment and Learning on 29 Oct 2014.The conference is all about students and teachers and how they can improve learning through better understanding of:
- current state of assessment and learning
- future of assessment and learning
The keynote is by Eric Mazur, Professor Physics Harvard, recipient of Minerva Prize.
INSPIRE: A new learning centre, a new learning environment. Presentation to the 3rd Annual Learning Space Design Summit, 23 November 2012, Sydney AUSTRALIA
The new field of Learning Design provides ways to describe innovative teaching strategies, and methods for their online implementation. Last Monday Professor James Dalziel, Director, Macquarie E-Learning Centre Of Excellence (MELCOE), Macquarie University ran a workshop at INSPIRE on this topic. James was in Canberra as part of his Australian Learning and Teaching Council National Teaching Fellowship. The first half of this workshop covered Learning Design concepts and implementation, examples from the "LAMS" Learning Design system, and a discussion of recent development and future prospects for the field. The second half of the workshop was opened up for discussion, questions and exploration of examples, including consideration of the connections between Learning Design and Curriculum Design. Keith Lyons has blogged about the workshop here and the James's powerpoint slides are here.
learning in a networked world: the role of social media and augmented learning.
Keynote presentation to the New Educator Program Hedley Beare Centre for Teaching and Learning 23-25 August 2011
ASLP2 - Agriculture Sector Linkages Program in Pakistan (Phase 2). Applying ICT for communication, collaboration and development through participatory means.
Presentation to ANU's Learning Communities group on the topic of "Creating and Supporting Online and Dispersed Communities", 4 May 2011, Burton & Garran Hall, ANU
ACT Principals Conference 2011 - 2/2 of the networked learning presentation for ACT Principals 2011. Special thanks to Professor George Siemens.
Part 1 by Mark Huxley http://prezi.com/rld6etcgbg-q/act-principals-conference-2011/
Presentation to the Gaggle Meeting at the Australian National University, 19 May 2009. The Expert panel debate considered "Educational Design in 2009: The Hot Topics" and featured Profesor Yoni Ryan, Allan Herrmann and Dr Robert Fitzgerald.
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
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.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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/
1. “Learning in the cloud, feet in the village”
Professor Robert Fitzgerald
ASLP2 - Agriculture Sector Linkages Program in Pakistan (Phase
2)
2.
3. Social research objectives
1. To engage the poor and marginalized groups that
can potentially benefit from participating in the
selected value chains of ASLP2
2. To enhance collaboration across project teams
3. To assess and enhance information and
communication modalities and technologies for
collaboration and value chain enhancement
4. To foster effective collaborative development in
rural Pakistan
4. Baseline Survey: Implications
• Good access to mobile phones but they are
personal not business devices
• Limited use of SMS, mainly for recreation.
• Limited access to computers and internet
• Low literacy levels - consider the demonstration
effect – pictures & videos to tell a story
• Regional differences, no one size solution will fit all
• Consider different approaches, modalities and
technologies
• Need to address different languages: English, Urdu
and Sindhi
5. tools to think with
...focus our attention, not
narrow our focus
http://www.ideo.com
http://www.tpck.org
6. ICT4D
• Augment - increase the size, amount or
value of something
• From passive to active
• Multi modal, multimedia, multi-user
• Addressing diversity – literacy and
language
• From problem solving to problem design
• AR - beginning with simple marker-based
projects e.g. labels, images, packing
7. AR – but just one view
Santana-Fernández, J.; Gómez-Gil, J.; Del-Pozo-San-Cirilo, L. Design and
Implementation of a GPS Guidance System for Agricultural Tractors Using
Augmented Reality Technology. Sensors 2010, 10, 10435-10447.
8. Robust but lite AR
• Life is a bit messier where we work
• Wide range of users
• Wide range of mobile technologies
• Limited internet connectivity – but
expanding
• Connect up and integrate existing work
11. “Seeing is Believing” (SIB)
app
• SIB is an iPad app linked to a web database that
allows extension workers to quickly locate and
present high quality extension material
• SIB is based on the following principles:
– Applying research methodologies to application,
design and replication
– Best practice in extension of agricultural research
methodologies
– A review and evaluation cycle
14. Example: A presentation assembled “on the
fly” from four video resources located in the
data base
15. Approach: Users in context
• Our approach to exploring possible applications of low-cost
ICTs is participatory – we use the same basic participatory
approach as we do in our research – to ensure the technology
is useful and used
• We focus on flexible, two-way communication systems that
can be adapted by different communities of users to meet
their particular information and communication needs
• Developing more complex and nuanced understandings of
how ICTs work to reconfigure social relationships and
networks will allow us to move beyond simple technical
impact studies and understand the device in context
• Question everything!
16. Neil Postman
“Anyone who has studied the history of technology knows
that technological change is always a Faustian bargain:
Technology giveth and technology taketh away, and not
always in equal measure. A new technology sometimes
creates more than it destroys. Sometimes, it destroys more
than it creates. But it is never one-sided.”
17. Six “design” questions (Postman)
What is the problem to which this technology is the solution
Whose problem is it
Which people and what institutions might be most seriously harmed by a
technological solution
What new problems might be created because we have solved this
problem
What sort of people and institutions might acquire special economic and
political power because of technological change
What changes in language are being enforced by new technologies, and
what is being gained and lost by such changes
Editor's Notes
Education still needs to address the challenge of ICT integration in teaching and learning. Too much emphasis on “online” education and too little on the effective integration of technology.
At INSPIRE we are interested in practical research that follows an iterative design process.
“There is nothing as practical as good theory” - Kurt Lewin