Презентација на Ненад Митровиќ од Министерството за информатичко општество на тркалезна маса за улогата на јавните точки за пристап на интернет во развојот на локалната демократија, организирана од Метаморфозис
Презентација на Ненад Митровиќ од Министерството за информатичко општество на тркалезна маса за улогата на јавните точки за пристап на интернет во развојот на локалната демократија, организирана од Метаморфозис
Openlaws.eu is funded by JUST/2013/ACTION GRANTS Grant Agreement Number 4562, led by the University of Amsterdam during the period March 2014-2016. The case study is of the European institutions' provision of free access to European Union law, in terms of cases, legislation, regulatory instruments and academic-expert analysis. The analysis explains how and whether the environment (institutions, policies and the legal community) is finally developing in which open access models such as openlaws.eu can take root and flourish. The key functionalities of the existing legal publishing system are summarized and described. This activity involves a review of the existing information systems and legal databases already in use and will produce a specification of the requirements of the system on the basis of the analysis of social, legal and market requirements. The case studies represent the key socio-economic and legal aspects of the services and illustrate the main functionalities, structure and operation of the proposed services. The findings are informed by key informant interviews and form a working assumption. The interviews are supported by the literature review, and the insights of workshops (including the LASPSI workshop on 3 September 2014).
The breadth of stakeholders interviewed is broad and includes experts from: academia, Non-Departmental Public Bodies (NDPB), trading funds, private entrepreneurs, corporations, standards bodies, non-governmental organizations and government policy officials with both domestic and international responsibilities. Note that the case studies rely on a Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) framework in order to identify the key components of the problem and provide the key specifications for the system that is to be built, while the third activity will rely on a combination of desk research, in-depth interviews, and focus groups.
Argument (598 words):
We argue that the European legal informatics space is unique in seven respects compared to national case studies.
1. The decision to make access to documentation freely available at production and then no charge was made in the context of no developed market actors to challenge the decision to ‘super-nationalise’ the state provision of legal information and case law reportage. There was no precedent for a multilingual economic and political area such as this, with four original languages and a precedent setting ‘Supreme Court’.
2. The essential role of European law in creating the ‘acquis communitaire’ led to a political decision to make law as widely available as possible. The benefits in creating an essential knowledge of European law amongst a critical mass of advocates at national levels was considered so important from the 1950s onwards that there was no serious resistance beyond basic budgetary questions.
As a result, it may be argued that European legal data is so open to reuse and access that it is the ‘exception that proves the rule’.
The Edinburgh and its surrounding area are well served by an efficient bus network. The City of Edinburgh Council (CEC) have worked with
the locally owned bus company (Lothian Buses) and a system supplier (INEO Systrans) to deliver real-time information to meet passengers’ needs, initially through bus-stop displays and then a website. This case study described how it was later extended to smartphone users through a cooperative and flexible approach with two individuals who had developed Apps for iPhone and Android phones.
This service is currently being upgraded in the light of experience over the first three years’ operation to include a better user interface, with more consideration for accessibility issues, better capacity and a more efficient and controlled route for accessing the data through smar tphones.
This is one of two case studies showing the different approaches taken by the City of Edinburgh Council (CEC) in developing content and services aimed at users of smartphones and other mobile devices. The second case study describes the approach taken by the Library and Information Services department of the City of Edinburgh Council to work with commercial App developers to reach the users of mobile devices as part of a wide-ranging social media and digital communication strategy.
Smart Cities Brief No.19
Presentation from the 11th Bled Forum on Europe Foresight Conference "The Future of Information Society and Challenges for Good Governance" held in Bled, Slovenia 10th - 12th March 2010.
Helen Davies
Transport for West Midlands (TfWM)
The Commission on Travel Demand is an expert group established as part of CREDS (Centre for Research into Energy Demand Solutions) to explore how to reduce the energy and carbon emissions associated with transport.
Municipal e-points, FOSS in local government by Tose Misevski, Project Manage...Metamorphosis
Presentation by: Tose Misevski, Project Manager, UNDP at the third International
Conference e-Society.Mk: Municipal e-points, November 29, 2007, Skopje Macedonia
Smart Cities - Your library - supporting mobile users in edinburghSmart Cities Project
The Library and Information Services department of the City of Edinburgh Council has been extending its service provision for citizens and engaging with the wider community. This case study shows how
it has made innovative use of services and applications (Apps) for mobile devices. It makes it clear that support for mobile devices is
best seen in the context of a wide-ranging social media and digital communication strategy. This case study covers the relationship with the digital communications service providers and the suppliers of the library management suite. It also considers other content and services available to mobile devices including as eBooks and audio content.
This is one of two case studies showing the different approaches taken by the City of Edinburgh Council (CEC) in developing content and services aimed at users of smartphones and other mobile devices. A complementary case study describes the approach taken by Edinburgh’s Transport department which started by working with the locally owned bus company and a system supplier to deliver information to meet passengers’ needs, initially through bus stop displays and then through a website. This was extended to smartphone users through a cooperative and flexible approach to working with two individuals who had chosen to develop Apps for iPhone and Android phones.
Role of Public Domain, CC, FOSS in e-Government Development by Mr. Misa Popov...Metamorphosis
Presentation by Mr. Misa Popovik, Free Software Macedonia at the third International Conference e-Society.Mk: Role of Public Domain, CC, FOSS in e-Government Development, November 29, 2007, Skopje Macedonia
Openlaws.eu is funded by JUST/2013/ACTION GRANTS Grant Agreement Number 4562, led by the University of Amsterdam during the period March 2014-2016. The case study is of the European institutions' provision of free access to European Union law, in terms of cases, legislation, regulatory instruments and academic-expert analysis. The analysis explains how and whether the environment (institutions, policies and the legal community) is finally developing in which open access models such as openlaws.eu can take root and flourish. The key functionalities of the existing legal publishing system are summarized and described. This activity involves a review of the existing information systems and legal databases already in use and will produce a specification of the requirements of the system on the basis of the analysis of social, legal and market requirements. The case studies represent the key socio-economic and legal aspects of the services and illustrate the main functionalities, structure and operation of the proposed services. The findings are informed by key informant interviews and form a working assumption. The interviews are supported by the literature review, and the insights of workshops (including the LASPSI workshop on 3 September 2014).
The breadth of stakeholders interviewed is broad and includes experts from: academia, Non-Departmental Public Bodies (NDPB), trading funds, private entrepreneurs, corporations, standards bodies, non-governmental organizations and government policy officials with both domestic and international responsibilities. Note that the case studies rely on a Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) framework in order to identify the key components of the problem and provide the key specifications for the system that is to be built, while the third activity will rely on a combination of desk research, in-depth interviews, and focus groups.
Argument (598 words):
We argue that the European legal informatics space is unique in seven respects compared to national case studies.
1. The decision to make access to documentation freely available at production and then no charge was made in the context of no developed market actors to challenge the decision to ‘super-nationalise’ the state provision of legal information and case law reportage. There was no precedent for a multilingual economic and political area such as this, with four original languages and a precedent setting ‘Supreme Court’.
2. The essential role of European law in creating the ‘acquis communitaire’ led to a political decision to make law as widely available as possible. The benefits in creating an essential knowledge of European law amongst a critical mass of advocates at national levels was considered so important from the 1950s onwards that there was no serious resistance beyond basic budgetary questions.
As a result, it may be argued that European legal data is so open to reuse and access that it is the ‘exception that proves the rule’.
The Edinburgh and its surrounding area are well served by an efficient bus network. The City of Edinburgh Council (CEC) have worked with
the locally owned bus company (Lothian Buses) and a system supplier (INEO Systrans) to deliver real-time information to meet passengers’ needs, initially through bus-stop displays and then a website. This case study described how it was later extended to smartphone users through a cooperative and flexible approach with two individuals who had developed Apps for iPhone and Android phones.
This service is currently being upgraded in the light of experience over the first three years’ operation to include a better user interface, with more consideration for accessibility issues, better capacity and a more efficient and controlled route for accessing the data through smar tphones.
This is one of two case studies showing the different approaches taken by the City of Edinburgh Council (CEC) in developing content and services aimed at users of smartphones and other mobile devices. The second case study describes the approach taken by the Library and Information Services department of the City of Edinburgh Council to work with commercial App developers to reach the users of mobile devices as part of a wide-ranging social media and digital communication strategy.
Smart Cities Brief No.19
Presentation from the 11th Bled Forum on Europe Foresight Conference "The Future of Information Society and Challenges for Good Governance" held in Bled, Slovenia 10th - 12th March 2010.
Helen Davies
Transport for West Midlands (TfWM)
The Commission on Travel Demand is an expert group established as part of CREDS (Centre for Research into Energy Demand Solutions) to explore how to reduce the energy and carbon emissions associated with transport.
Municipal e-points, FOSS in local government by Tose Misevski, Project Manage...Metamorphosis
Presentation by: Tose Misevski, Project Manager, UNDP at the third International
Conference e-Society.Mk: Municipal e-points, November 29, 2007, Skopje Macedonia
Smart Cities - Your library - supporting mobile users in edinburghSmart Cities Project
The Library and Information Services department of the City of Edinburgh Council has been extending its service provision for citizens and engaging with the wider community. This case study shows how
it has made innovative use of services and applications (Apps) for mobile devices. It makes it clear that support for mobile devices is
best seen in the context of a wide-ranging social media and digital communication strategy. This case study covers the relationship with the digital communications service providers and the suppliers of the library management suite. It also considers other content and services available to mobile devices including as eBooks and audio content.
This is one of two case studies showing the different approaches taken by the City of Edinburgh Council (CEC) in developing content and services aimed at users of smartphones and other mobile devices. A complementary case study describes the approach taken by Edinburgh’s Transport department which started by working with the locally owned bus company and a system supplier to deliver information to meet passengers’ needs, initially through bus stop displays and then through a website. This was extended to smartphone users through a cooperative and flexible approach to working with two individuals who had chosen to develop Apps for iPhone and Android phones.
Role of Public Domain, CC, FOSS in e-Government Development by Mr. Misa Popov...Metamorphosis
Presentation by Mr. Misa Popovik, Free Software Macedonia at the third International Conference e-Society.Mk: Role of Public Domain, CC, FOSS in e-Government Development, November 29, 2007, Skopje Macedonia
Interoperability and community building for transformational eGovernment ePractice.eu
Author: Sylvia Archmann, Just Castillo Iglesias.
The latest technological progress has unveiled the enormous capacity for ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) to become a leading force in the modernisation of public administration and has raised the appearance of Transformational eGovernment.
EU principles in modernisation of Justice and the Turkish IT project UYAPePractice.eu
Author: Ali Riza Cam
Information and computer technologies play a major role in the development and improvement of the judicial process. It helps to deal with growing complexities of litigation and makes hearings faster and more efficient. Creation and maintenance of an effective, modern and capable judiciary is one of the main aims of the Union, and a continuing obligation of EU membership.
The presentation discusses the experience of Spain with the national catalogue of ICT standards, the legal act which implements it (the National Interoperability Framework), the process and lessons learned about its development, implementation, maintenance and its relationship with the catalogue of services for reuse, with links to the current European context and activities.
All information available at: https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/146056
Local Digital Twins Conversations: Framing the Green + Digital TransitionSlim Turki, Dr.
Slim Turki, Dr. - slim.turki@list.lu
Soenke Zehle, Dr. - sz@k8.design
Contribution to the Webinar
"Bringing AI closer to citizens – smart communities", part of the conference "AI: What's in it for the Public Sector?" https://ai-watch.ec.europa.eu/ai-whats-it-public-sector_en
Data ecosystems: turning data into public valueSlim Turki, Dr.
Africa Information Highway Live Exchange #Session 7
8 October 2021
The AIH Live Exchange between the Africa Information Highway Team, partners and countries is a free monthly webinar hosted by the African Development Bank to discuss topics related to government data and statistics. This webinar series is the main platform for countries to share their experiences and best practices around open data including using their Open Data Platform of the AIH.
This session is co-organized with the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) which is a mission-driven Research and Technology Organization (RTO) that develops advanced technologies and delivers innovative products and services to industry and society. These innovations can also be used to solve several societal challenges, particularly in the areas of the environment, security, education and culture, sustainable development, as well as the efficient use of resources.
Official statistical data are recognized as high-value datasets for the society and economy, to enrich research, inform decision making or develop new products and services. The use of these authoritative data sources contributes to building a society with more empowered people, better policies, more effective and accountable decision-making, greater participation and stronger democratic mechanisms.
Official statistics are produced to be used and re-used to make an impact on society through a higher degree of openness and transparency while ensuring confidentiality and, at the same time, providing equal access to information to citizens.
The value of data lies in its use and re-use. In this interactive webinar, you will learn new techniques to improve the use and re-use of your statistical data, going beyond the provision logic and adopting the ecosystem mindset. You will:
● Sharpen your capacity at identifying and engaging users and re-users and stakeholders (data ecosystem mapping)?
● Effectively tackle technical and organizational barriers to stimulate data use and re-use?
● Smartly orchestrate a self-sustainable data ecosystem to increase the impact of statistical data.
This session is an opportunity for Regional members countries to '' Sharpen their skills in making data used and re-used by developing an ecosystem mindset to effectively build sustainable community of users around their Open Data Platform thus promoting transparency and better decision-making”
Presentation given at the conference "open data for impact"
Erasmus+ project "Public Makers"
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/wide-luxembourg_opendata-publicmakers-activity-6818166878473596928-7ImU/
Webinar - INSPIRE 2020 Virtual Conference
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How Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs) can evolve into Data Ecosystems?
This is the main question that the ongoing study addressing “Data ecosystems for geospatial data - Evolution of Spatial Data Infrastructures” (JRC/IPR/2019/MVP/2781) is addressing. It is performed by the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) in close collaboration with the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission.
The purpose of this study is to identify and analyse a set of successful data ecosystems and to address recommendations in support of the implementation of data-driven innovation in line with the recently published European Strategy for Data. It investigates factors such as relevant actors, their responsibilities and data value chains, emerging data sources (e.g. the Internet of Things) and technical/architectural approaches (e.g. digital platforms, mobile-by-default, Application Programming Interfaces). It also addresses the interoperability between data ecosystems in different sectors and/or different countries and crosscutting requirements for geospatial data.
This session is intended to share with the audience the study approach, methodological approach and first identified Data Ecosystems, and to learn from their experiences with Data Ecosystems: emergence, barriers, opportunities, sustainability, interoperability between ecosystems, etc.
AGENDA
14.00 - Welcome, Introduction to the context of the study (JRC)
14.10 - Study approach and methodological framework (LIST)
14.20 - Identified data ecosystems and selection criteria (LIST)
14.25 - Illustration of data ecosystem analysis (LIST)
Ghislain Delabie, Simon Saint-Georges, Urban Rennes Data Interface
Sean Wiid, UP42
Charles Moszkowicz, ENEO • Interactive session (All, 20)
Next activities, Goodbye.
Keynote talk given during the 9th Conf. on Artificial Intelligence in Security and Defence, AISD2019, Beirut, 26th-29th March,
2019
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Open data in disaster management
The UN General Assembly defined in February 2017 a disaster as “A serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a society at any scale due to hazardous events interacting with conditions of exposure, vulnerability and capacity, leading to one or more of the following human, material, economic and environmental losses and impacts. It is deeply intertwined with the broader concept of risks, defined by the European commission as a “combination of the probability of occurrence of a hazard generating harm in a given scenario and the severity of that harm.”
Managing these uncertainties requires a large spectrum of data coming from different sources, government being one of the most important. Open Government Data (OGD) is a philosophy and a set of policies that promotes transparency, accountability and value creation by making government data available to all. According to the OGD 8 principles, defined in 2007, Sebastopol, California, these data should be: complete, primary, timely, accessible, machine processable, non-discriminatory, non-proprietary, license-free.
One goal of Open Government Data is to rise the interest of third-parties stakeholders and their (open) innovation capabilities, Open Data is providing trusted information which is important in a troubled context, with a lot of rumors (see also the emergence of fake news). As governments are among the largest data creators and providers, OGD is a central issue for disaster management or risk mitigation, for example through the provision of costly and/or rare data, like data related to infrastructures, weather data or satellite imagery. By definition, OGD is contributing to remove the data silos created by the different information systems of different bodies of government, administration or external stakeholders, allowing a cross-boundary information sharing. It is also a tool to improve cooperation among stakeholders in case of emergency. All of this is of paramount importance regarding disaster management.
Through a set of use cases, this talk will highlight (1) how OGD has been or could be used during the whole of the disaster management cycle, from prevention and preparedness, emergency management, response, and recovery; (2) its current or potential benefits and possible improvements through its linkage with other sources of information, structured and unstructured, such social media and crowdsourcing ; and (3) its identified barriers regarding data availability and quality, organizational readiness, multi-stakeholders involvement, and cooperation.
BE-GOOD: Building an Ecosystem to Generate Opportunities in Open DataSlim Turki, Dr.
Presentation at the 8th Samos 2018 Summit On ICT-enabled Governance “Government 3.0“
2- 4 July 2018, Samos, Greece
http://samos-summit.blogspot.com/p/the-8th-samos-2018-summit-on-ict.html
http://http://www.nweurope.eu/begood
Value creation from open data growth faces several challenges, e.g; they risk to be too supply-driven, or that they lack of incentives for the re-use. This paper reports an ongoing research/programme on the stimulation role in an open data ecosystem to mitigate these concerns. First, we present the empirical roots of this role that can be drawn from several initiatives undertaken in different countries and trying to bypass the obstacles faced by potential open data re-users. We discuss the importance of a legal framework inductive to foster innovation and transnationality of the re-use. Then, we introduce the BE-GOOD programme which aims to develop new methods to build an open data ecosystem.
Slim Turki, Sébastien Martin, Samuel Renault
{slim.turki, sebastien.martin, samuel.renault}@list.lu
Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST.lu)
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3129787
http://www.researchgate.net/publication/317278867_How_open_data_ecosystems_are_stimulated
BE-GOOD is a pioneering project aiming to unlock, re-use and extract value from Public Sector Information (PSI) to develop innovative data-driven services in the area of infrastructure & environment.
BE-GOOD’s main outputs: 10 novel commercial PSI-based services prototyped operationally, with the aim to commercialise 5.
Examples: applications, visualisations, software, algorithms for traffic management, air and water quality monitoring, infrastructure maintenance planning.
http://www.nweurope.eu/begood
Service innovation: the hidden value of open dataSlim Turki, Dr.
> Presented at the Share-PSI Krems Workshop: A self sustaining business model for open data
- http://www.w3.org/2013/share-psi/workshop/krems/papers/ServiceInnovation-theHiddenValueOfOpenData
- http://www.w3.org/2013/share-psi/workshop/krems/
> Summary
The development of a data driven economy has been a major orientation of economic policies over the past few years based on (i) the wider availability of data promoted in particular by the Open Data movement and (ii) the development of dedicated tools to support heterogeneous data and data in large quantities (Big data). Reports anticipate the creation of enormous amounts of economic activity and growth opportunities. However the promise of the data-driven economy lies to a large extent in the development of new services. The return on investment of open data policies for instance should be evaluated from the services created based on open data sets. Open data promoters couple more and more open data initiatives with actions dedicated to the promotion of the datasets for the creation of new services. Nevertheless the results in terms of services created remain below the expectations of open data promoters. Indeed most services created are not sustainable and / or do not use the variety of datasets. They are to a wide extent relying on a limited number of very popular datasets. In order to make the promise of the data-driven economy a reality, it is therefore necessary to increase reuse and value extracted by services from data. Our hypothesis is that service innovation approaches can help understand the mechanisms that drive the creation of services. We therefore propose to analyse the roles that the data can have in the design of services based on a theoretical framework of service innovation.
The data-driven economy promises the creation of enormous amounts of economic activity and growth opportunities. However these projections lie to a large extent in the development of new services. Currently, the results in terms of service creation remain below the expectations of open data promoters. Indeed most services created are not sustainable and / or do not use the variety of datasets. They are to a wide extent relying on a limited number of very popular datasets. To increase the reuse and the value extracted by services from data, our hypothesis is that service innovation approaches can help understand the mechanisms that drive the creation of services. We therefore propose a review the current approaches to encouraging the creation of services based on data, an analysis of the creation of services from two open data platforms, in the UK and in Singapore, and a description of the roles that the data can have in the design of services based on a theoretical framework of service innovation.
Muriel Foulonneau 1, Slim Turki 1, Géradine Vidou 1, Sébastien Martin 2
1 Public Research Centre Henri Tudor, Luxembourg-Kirchberg, Kirchberg
2 Université Paris 8, Vincennes-Saint-Denis, France
muriel.foulonneau@tudor.lu
slim.turki@tudor.lu
geraldine.vidou@tudor.lu
Proceedings of 14th European Conference on eGovernment – ECEG 2014
12-13 June 2014
Brasov, Romania
The Open Data movement has mainly been a data provision movement. The release of Open Data is usually motivated by (i) government transparency (citizen access to government data), (ii) the development of services by third parties for the benefit for citizens and companies (typically smart city approach), or (iii) the development of new services that stimulate the economy. The success of the Open Data movement and its return on investment should therefore be assessed among other criteria by the number and impact of the services created based on those data. In this paper, we study the development of services based on open data and means to make the data opening process more effective.
Authors:
Muriel Foulonneau, Sébastien Martin, Slim Turki
Public Research Centre Henri Tudor, Luxembourg
{name.surname}@tudor.lu
IESS 2014 – 5th Int. Conf. on Exploring Services Science
5-7 February 2014
Geneva, Switzerland
The full paper is available here: http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-04810-9_3
1-5 stars: Metadata on the Openness Level of Open Data Sets in EuropeSlim Turki, Dr.
Authors: Sébastien Martin, Muriel Foulonneau, Slim Turki
Paris VIII University, France
Public Research Centre Henri Tudor, Luxembourg
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-03437-9_24
Presented during MTSR 2013 / 7th Metadata and Semantics Research Conference
http://mtsr2013.teithe.gr/
Abstract. The development of open data requires a better reusability of data. Indeed, the catalogs listing data dispersed in different countries have a crucial role. However, the degree of openness is also a key success factor for open data. In this paper, we study the PublicData.eu catalogue, which allows accessing open datasets from European countries and analyse the metadata recorded for each dataset. The objectives are to (i) identify the quality of a sample of metadata properties, which are critical to enable data reuse and to (ii) study the stated level of data openness. The study uses the Tim Berners-Lee’s five star evaluation scale.
SPOCS: A semantic interoperability layer to support the implementation of the...Slim Turki, Dr.
The main purpose of the paper is to present a case study of the use of semantic technologies within e‐
Government context. We aim to describe the semantic layer that was designed in the scope of the SPOCS project to enable the validation of documents in the scope of cross border procedures. The SPOCS project (Simple Procedures Online for Cross‐ Border Services) focuses in particular on the transfer of documents to European administrations in the scope of procedures to deliver services across borders. One of the problems that arise is the heterogeneity of documents between countries even they have the same role. With the increase of cross border activities encouraged by the service directive in particular, electronic procedures are more important than ever. The project has therefore set up an infrastructure
including the transfer of documents in a metadata container and the validation of documents. Cross‐border service pilots
have been implemented to show the added value of the SPOCS infrastructure. To overcome the problem of semantic equivalence of documents, the European Commission has encouraged the implementation of a semantic layer to support the interoperability between administrative systems and the reuse of resources across government bodies. In the scope of the SPOCS project, we have implemented a set of pilots to illustrate the added value of implementing a semantic
interoperability layer and developing common models and vocabularies. Common ontologies have been designed to describe documents, equivalences, and procedures. Specific access mechanisms have been implemented to automatically verify the status of European companies. Finally, semantic rules have been created to determine the procedure that needs to be used in order to provide a cross border service. SPOCS resources are posted to the JoinUp portal.
Open Data: Barriers, Risks, and OpportunitiesSlim Turki, Dr.
Despite the development of Open Data platforms, the wider deployment of Open Data still faces significant barriers. It requires identifying the obstacles that have prevented e-government bodies either from implementing an Open Data strategy or from ensuring its sustainability.
This paper presents the results of a study carried out between June and November 2012, in which we analyzed three cases of Open Data development through their platforms, in a medium size city (Rennes, France), a large city (Berlin, Germany), and at national level (UK). It aims to draw a clear typology of challenges, risks, limitations and barriers related to Open Data. Indeed the issues and constraints faced by re-users of public data differ from the ones encountered by the public data providers. Through the analysis of the experiences in opening data, we attempt to identify how barriers were overcome and how risks were managed. Beyond passionate debates in favor or against Open Data, we propose to consider the development of an Open Data initiative in terms of risks, contingency actions, and expected opportunities. We therefore present in this paper the risks to Open Data organized in 7 categories: (1) governance, (2) economic issues, (3) licenses and legal frameworks, (4) data characteristics, (5) metadata, (6) access, and (7) skills.
Sébastien Martin 1, Muriel Foulonneau 2, Slim Turki 2, Madjid Ihadjadene 1
1 Université Paris 8, Vincennes-Saint-Denis, France
2 PRC Henri Tudor, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
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.
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.
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/
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
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.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
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Welocme to ViralQR, your best QR code generator.ViralQR
Welcome to ViralQR, your best QR code generator available on the market!
At ViralQR, we design static and dynamic QR codes. Our mission is to make business operations easier and customer engagement more powerful through the use of QR technology. Be it a small-scale business or a huge enterprise, our easy-to-use platform provides multiple choices that can be tailored according to your company's branding and marketing strategies.
Our Vision
We are here to make the process of creating QR codes easy and smooth, thus enhancing customer interaction and making business more fluid. We very strongly believe in the ability of QR codes to change the world for businesses in their interaction with customers and are set on making that technology accessible and usable far and wide.
Our Achievements
Ever since its inception, we have successfully served many clients by offering QR codes in their marketing, service delivery, and collection of feedback across various industries. Our platform has been recognized for its ease of use and amazing features, which helped a business to make QR codes.
Our Services
At ViralQR, here is a comprehensive suite of services that caters to your very needs:
Static QR Codes: Create free static QR codes. These QR codes are able to store significant information such as URLs, vCards, plain text, emails and SMS, Wi-Fi credentials, and Bitcoin addresses.
Dynamic QR codes: These also have all the advanced features but are subscription-based. They can directly link to PDF files, images, micro-landing pages, social accounts, review forms, business pages, and applications. In addition, they can be branded with CTAs, frames, patterns, colors, and logos to enhance your branding.
Pricing and Packages
Additionally, there is a 14-day free offer to ViralQR, which is an exceptional opportunity for new users to take a feel of this platform. One can easily subscribe from there and experience the full dynamic of using QR codes. The subscription plans are not only meant for business; they are priced very flexibly so that literally every business could afford to benefit from our service.
Why choose us?
ViralQR will provide services for marketing, advertising, catering, retail, and the like. The QR codes can be posted on fliers, packaging, merchandise, and banners, as well as to substitute for cash and cards in a restaurant or coffee shop. With QR codes integrated into your business, improve customer engagement and streamline operations.
Comprehensive Analytics
Subscribers of ViralQR receive detailed analytics and tracking tools in light of having a view of the core values of QR code performance. Our analytics dashboard shows aggregate views and unique views, as well as detailed information about each impression, including time, device, browser, and estimated location by city and country.
So, thank you for choosing ViralQR; we have an offer of nothing but the best in terms of QR code services to meet business diversity!
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
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Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
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Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
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- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to ProductionAggregage
Join Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, in this new session where he'll share a practical framework to transform Gen AI prototypes into impactful products! He'll delve into the complexities of data collection and management, model selection and optimization, and ensuring security, scalability, and responsible use.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.