Presented by Heather Leson @ Public Safety Canada, the Ontario Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services and the University of Toronto
Conference on Social Media for Emergency Management and Crisis Communications, held at the University of Toronto in downtown Toronto, March 29, 2012.
Volunteer Mappers: Building community resilience with citizen mediaUshahidi
Building community resilience with citizen media
Canadian Risks and Hazards Conference
October 18, 2011
Presented by Heather Leson, Director of Community Engagement, Ushahidi
Data Science for Social Good and Ushahidi - Final PresentationUshahidi
The Data Science for Social Good Fellows (dssg.io) collaborated with Ushahidi (Ushahidi.com)
Presented: August 20, 2013
Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eK8HjVG2m0
Tool - http://dssg.ushahididev.com/
Volunteer Mappers: Building community resilience with citizen mediaUshahidi
Building community resilience with citizen media
Canadian Risks and Hazards Conference
October 18, 2011
Presented by Heather Leson, Director of Community Engagement, Ushahidi
Data Science for Social Good and Ushahidi - Final PresentationUshahidi
The Data Science for Social Good Fellows (dssg.io) collaborated with Ushahidi (Ushahidi.com)
Presented: August 20, 2013
Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eK8HjVG2m0
Tool - http://dssg.ushahididev.com/
Around the world citizens and organizations are using online reporting tools, including Ushahidi to tell their story, amplify and action responses. This is part 2 of a summary of mapping projects. More on our wiki - https://wiki.ushahidi.com/display/WIKI/Anti-Corruption+and+Transparency
Anti-Corruption Mapping (April 2013, part 1)Ushahidi
Around the world citizens and organizations are using online reporting tools, including Ushahidi to tell their story, amplify and action responses.
This is part 1 of a summary of mapping projects.
More on our wiki - https://wiki.ushahidi.com/display/WIKI/Anti-Corruption+and+Transparency
Ushahidi spoke with our community about how to make Ushahidi 3.0. We are building it with their input. Here are some of the original thoughts based on Community input from June - August 2013. There are updated wireframes available.
https://wiki.ushahidi.com/display/WIKI/Ushahidi+Platform%2C+v3.X
Around the Globe Corruption Mapping (part 2)Ushahidi
Around the Globe Corruption Mapping using Ushahidi and Crowdmap. (Part 2) Prepared for the 15th International Anti-Corruption Conference, Brasilia, Brazil. November 7, 2012. By Heather Leson
Around the Globe Corruption Mapping (part 1)Ushahidi
Around the Globe Corruption Mapping using Ushahidi and Crowdmap. (Part 1) Prepared for the 15th International Anti-Corruption Conference, Brasilia, Brazil. November 7, 2012. By Heather Leson
The Kenya Ushahidi Evaluation Project was 9-month Ushahidi evaluation project in partnership with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative supported by the Knight Foundation. Jennifer Chan and Melissa Tully conducted research which lead to the creation of case studies and toolboxes. (2011) This is Toolbox #3: Real-Time Evaluation.
The Kenya Ushahidi Evaluation Project was 9-month Ushahidi evaluation project in partnership with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative supported by the Knight Foundation. Jennifer Chan and Melissa Tully conducted research which lead to the creation of case studies and toolboxes. (2011) This is Toolbox #2: Implementation.
The Kenya Ushahidi Evaluation Project was 9-month Ushahidi evaluation project in partnership with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative supported by the Knight Foundation. Jennifer Chan and Melissa Tully conducted research which lead to the creation of case studies and toolboxes. (2011) This is Toolbox #1: Assessment.
Kenya Ushahidi Evaluation: Unsung Peace Heros/Building BridgesUshahidi
The Kenya Ushahidi Evaluation Project was 9-month Ushahidi evaluation project in partnership with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative supported by the Knight Foundation. Jennifer Chan and Melissa Tully conducted research, created case studies and toolboxes. (2011) The Unsung Peace Heros/Building Bridges Case Study was created by Melissa Tully.
The Kenya Ushahidi Evaluation Project was 9-month Ushahidi evaluation project in partnership with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative supported by the Knight Foundation. Jennifer Chan and Melissa Tully conducted research, created cases studies and toolboxes. (2011) The Uchaguzi Case Study was created by Jennifer Chan.
The Kenya Ushahidi Evaluation Project was 9-month Ushahidi Evaluation Project in partnership with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative supported by the Knight Foundation. Jennifer Chan and Melissa Tully conducted research, created use cases and toolboxes. (2011) The following are blog posts about their work. (previously posted on blog.ushahidi.com)
Ushahidi is incorporating user feedback as we plan for our next stages of the software development.
Gabriel White of Small Surfaces has prepared these User Personas and Scenarios
Testimony
Mesh 2012
May 23, 2012 Toronto Canada
Heather Leson
meshconference.com
Discussion focused on maps for change with a number of Canadian examples.
TedxSilkRoad presentation by Heather Leson on April 11, 2012 in Istanbul, Turkey.
This presentation featured a number of Ushahidi and Crowdmap deployments used for election monitoring, crisis response and civil society activities. The video will be available at a later date.
Ushahidi introduction: Re-imagining Citizen Engagement
Webinar provided to the Urban Sustainability Director's Network (USDN)
By Heather Leson
February 24, 2012
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
Around the world citizens and organizations are using online reporting tools, including Ushahidi to tell their story, amplify and action responses. This is part 2 of a summary of mapping projects. More on our wiki - https://wiki.ushahidi.com/display/WIKI/Anti-Corruption+and+Transparency
Anti-Corruption Mapping (April 2013, part 1)Ushahidi
Around the world citizens and organizations are using online reporting tools, including Ushahidi to tell their story, amplify and action responses.
This is part 1 of a summary of mapping projects.
More on our wiki - https://wiki.ushahidi.com/display/WIKI/Anti-Corruption+and+Transparency
Ushahidi spoke with our community about how to make Ushahidi 3.0. We are building it with their input. Here are some of the original thoughts based on Community input from June - August 2013. There are updated wireframes available.
https://wiki.ushahidi.com/display/WIKI/Ushahidi+Platform%2C+v3.X
Around the Globe Corruption Mapping (part 2)Ushahidi
Around the Globe Corruption Mapping using Ushahidi and Crowdmap. (Part 2) Prepared for the 15th International Anti-Corruption Conference, Brasilia, Brazil. November 7, 2012. By Heather Leson
Around the Globe Corruption Mapping (part 1)Ushahidi
Around the Globe Corruption Mapping using Ushahidi and Crowdmap. (Part 1) Prepared for the 15th International Anti-Corruption Conference, Brasilia, Brazil. November 7, 2012. By Heather Leson
The Kenya Ushahidi Evaluation Project was 9-month Ushahidi evaluation project in partnership with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative supported by the Knight Foundation. Jennifer Chan and Melissa Tully conducted research which lead to the creation of case studies and toolboxes. (2011) This is Toolbox #3: Real-Time Evaluation.
The Kenya Ushahidi Evaluation Project was 9-month Ushahidi evaluation project in partnership with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative supported by the Knight Foundation. Jennifer Chan and Melissa Tully conducted research which lead to the creation of case studies and toolboxes. (2011) This is Toolbox #2: Implementation.
The Kenya Ushahidi Evaluation Project was 9-month Ushahidi evaluation project in partnership with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative supported by the Knight Foundation. Jennifer Chan and Melissa Tully conducted research which lead to the creation of case studies and toolboxes. (2011) This is Toolbox #1: Assessment.
Kenya Ushahidi Evaluation: Unsung Peace Heros/Building BridgesUshahidi
The Kenya Ushahidi Evaluation Project was 9-month Ushahidi evaluation project in partnership with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative supported by the Knight Foundation. Jennifer Chan and Melissa Tully conducted research, created case studies and toolboxes. (2011) The Unsung Peace Heros/Building Bridges Case Study was created by Melissa Tully.
The Kenya Ushahidi Evaluation Project was 9-month Ushahidi evaluation project in partnership with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative supported by the Knight Foundation. Jennifer Chan and Melissa Tully conducted research, created cases studies and toolboxes. (2011) The Uchaguzi Case Study was created by Jennifer Chan.
The Kenya Ushahidi Evaluation Project was 9-month Ushahidi Evaluation Project in partnership with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative supported by the Knight Foundation. Jennifer Chan and Melissa Tully conducted research, created use cases and toolboxes. (2011) The following are blog posts about their work. (previously posted on blog.ushahidi.com)
Ushahidi is incorporating user feedback as we plan for our next stages of the software development.
Gabriel White of Small Surfaces has prepared these User Personas and Scenarios
Testimony
Mesh 2012
May 23, 2012 Toronto Canada
Heather Leson
meshconference.com
Discussion focused on maps for change with a number of Canadian examples.
TedxSilkRoad presentation by Heather Leson on April 11, 2012 in Istanbul, Turkey.
This presentation featured a number of Ushahidi and Crowdmap deployments used for election monitoring, crisis response and civil society activities. The video will be available at a later date.
Ushahidi introduction: Re-imagining Citizen Engagement
Webinar provided to the Urban Sustainability Director's Network (USDN)
By Heather Leson
February 24, 2012
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
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Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
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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.
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
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
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.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
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.
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.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
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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/
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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.
To Graph or Not to Graph Knowledge Graph Architectures and LLMs
Map it, Make it, Hack it
1. Map it, Make it, Hack it
Heather Leson Digital Media for Emergency Management
@heatherleson and Crisis Communications
hleson@ushahidi.com Thursday, March 29, 2012
Ushahidi is a global free open source software provider. We create tools for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping. Our team is committed to support the communities of people around the world. This overview will not just discuss Ushahidi, but also give an overview of some of the other digital response communities. Thanks to Patrice Cloutier for inviting me to share these stories. \n
We are all sensors. We emit data in all that we do. Think of that person in the airport. What data are they transmitting about the situation? Are they using their phone?\n\nWe have knowledge and information at our fingertips. We have to Rethink how the Internet and devices like sensors connect us. Our humanity and digital collaboration are colliding. Outline details on the water hackathon to connect citizen data, scientists, maps and sensors to solve wicked problems (Jon Kolko, Wicked Problems (book)) Download - https://www.wickedproblems.com/\n\nWhat if we are connected to the sensors to collaborate and make changes.\n(photo taken by Heather Leson)\n
rhok.org: 30 cities, 1000s of people, twice a year. In Canada so far - Rhok Toronto (3 main events) Rhok Mtl (1) as well the RHOK Water Hackathon in October 2011. \n
Gwob.org. Geeks without Bounds is a growing technical community that looks to partner with Humanitarian organizations. One major goal of their work is to take the best projects from RHoK and elsewhere, supports and incubates. \n
HOT-OSM is the future of community mapping. They build capacity and train resilience. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team Their work is open source, collaborative mapping. \n
What is a digital volunteer? Why is that borderless and important? standbytaskforce.com = 750 volunteers around the world. Waiting for you to ask for help. They map it, change it. They can do it 24 hours, in shifts, skilled and coordinated. They learn from each event. \nThis is Melissa Elliot, Mom, Canadian, Mapper. She is part of the core team of the Standby Task Force and leads the Reports Team. The group has built a field of out volunteering. They have open source documentation on how to be a crowdsourced mapping project. Anyone can use it for their projects. Melissa is a busy professional and mom. She is also one of the world leaders in changing how information is collected and used during emergencies. And, She is part of many who do so from the comfort of her home. Laptop, knowledge and a desire to be part of the journey. \n\nSBTF on the process of mapping (complex to do, needs solid outreach\nWe are teaching to hack the map. Meaning: first it is teaching the prototype potential. Wrapping your head around your position to use these tools to engage and change yourself and your world are just at the surface. When they mapped in Libya, they were human sensors sifting through the barrage of information\n\n
Use all the Communication channels.\n\nI am fascinated with all how all the parts fit together. How do we communicate? How should we? This is a training device is in the Nairobi Railway Museum (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nairobi_Railway_Museum) to teach railway conductors in Kenya. All the parts move together. This is how information should flow. Do you have all the missing pieces? What do you do with the large influx of information. Using all the communication channels we can potentially improve situational awareness during an emergency. (Photo taken by Heather Leson, Nairobi, KE)\n
What is a map? https://rcrcsahel.crowdmap.com/ Ushahidi is information collection, visualization and interactive mapping software. We’re a non-profit. This is one of many maps that people use to tell visual stories and collaborate. It has been used for election monitoring, crisis and emergency response, civil society and city building. what is it made of? Map, types of info, types of communication channels, mission/topic, and the key to action (people and outreach) Reports can come from all the communication channels (sms, web form, mobile apps, twitter, facebook, analog device (manual) and email.) Anyone can do it. But, the technology is one part. The rest is the mission, the plan and the outreach. \n\nEach red dot is a report. Each report is assigned a category, geolocated, given a description and added to the map. The heavy lifting is in the analysis of the data. The map is one part of the equation. \n\n\n
On March 2nd, UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) requested the Stand-By Task Force be activated in Libya. The SBTF is training people around the world to prepare. And, they are building on each exercise, activation and volunteer deployment. http://standbytaskforce.com/. And, a blog post by AndrejVerity on how SBTF changed OCHA - http://blog.standbytaskforce.com/sbtf-libya-impact/\n\n\n
Lessons in partnerships and community. At 8:30 EST Feb. 22nd, I saw a tweet from a friend. I knew at that very instant that we would all be logging online, dividing into groups and mapping. We had contacts in NZ but not in Christchurch. It started with three maps and a few hundred people. Existing online communities began to share and cross-train. I contacted the Standby Task Force for help. How to train volunteers overnight? How to divide up the tasks? I’ve never been to NZ. But, the global community of crisismappers is small. We know each other and are just the sort of mad men and women to stay up all night trying. The Christchurch and Wellington teams took over the map. They connected with volunteers. These things can happen concurrently to official resources. They searched for important helpful items (petrol, open pharmacies). What do you see? what do you need?\n
What can we learn from the Tohoku? (Japan Earthquake and Tsunami)\n\nDirector of OpenStreetMap Foundation Japan sent this message to members. They had 100s of Japanese volunteers. Hal Seki was one of the core leaders for this project. Plus a global support OSM and other communities. Provide and aggregate disaster information by formatting them using geolocation data. Results - over 12, 000 reports ,1 million page views in the first month, 500, 000 unique visitors, Most viewed from Sendai. The OSM Japan team already had an instance of Ushahidi setup. This made it possible to prepare beyond the technology. Deploy quickly, get feedback. Needs of disaster area is always changing. Late output will miss the opportunity.\nA large majority of these reports came via twitter. Phone networks were down. Twitter was not. \n\n\n
Using all the communication channels, new methods of information collection and collaborating with the various communities is the key to new crisis/emergency response. Citizen mapping and making will continue. Emergency managers should consider this human sensor data just as critical as a phone call. And, build collaboration with digital communities. \n
Aerial Mapping by Public Lab. Union Square, NYC. April 24, 2012. http://publiclaboratory.org/home\n
