To answer the pressing challenges encountered by agencies working in the Dadaab camp, NetHope, Inveneo and Cisco came together to create a new collaboration network that enables humanitarian agencies to function better, to communicate better with other organizations and to better support operations.
Harnessing The Value Of Vod by Value Partnersvalentina77
On-demand delivery of video content over broadband will undoubtedly be one of the
most disruptive changes in the television industry over the next decade, with widereaching ramifications across the media, telecoms and technology industries. In this
article, two Value Partners Management Consulting professionals discuss the likely impact of VOD on viewing patterns, advertising spend, and business models, and explore the key issues for the many stakeholders in the VOD value chain.
The consumer bible picks it's 'Best Buy' for broadband from across the industry. The big boys are left flailing and the results further enhance the credibility of the Utility Warehouse Discount Club
Presentation at IIR Mobile Instant Messaging Asia, 27 June 2007, Hong Kong
Diversifying Messaging Applications To Sustain Future Growth Beyond SMS: New Service Opportunities In Mobile IM
• Driving the demand for other mobile data services
• Allowing group communications with mobile and fixed terminals and richer content sharing
• Examining other forms of PC to mobile IM
• Assessing current and projected demand for messaging based m-commerce
• Examining 3G, IMS and instant messaging directions
www.iir-conferences.com/mimasia
Video services delivered over mobile broadband data networks are both a dream and a nightmare for network builders. Mobile video is in high demand, and consumers are willing to pay for it. However, poor design and high usage can lead to network congestion, negative user experiences and, ultimately, customer churn. While video is often viewed as a killer application for mobile broadband access, it lacks the requisite linear revenue-to-usage business case that has characterized killer applications such as voice and SMS in the past.
In this webinar, Yankee Group Distinguished Research Fellow Chris Nicoll and Analyst Terry Cudmore investigate the pressing issues of mobile video delivery and provide recommendations to ensure that video becomes a killer application, not a network-killing service.
Overview
What are 3G & 4G TECHNOLOGIES?
•Evolution Wireless System
•Difference between 3G & 4G
•Features And Advantages of 3G & 4G TECHNOLOGIES
•Disadvantages of 3G & 4G TECHNOLOGIES
•Application of 3G & 4G TECHNOLOGIES
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Harnessing The Value Of Vod by Value Partnersvalentina77
On-demand delivery of video content over broadband will undoubtedly be one of the
most disruptive changes in the television industry over the next decade, with widereaching ramifications across the media, telecoms and technology industries. In this
article, two Value Partners Management Consulting professionals discuss the likely impact of VOD on viewing patterns, advertising spend, and business models, and explore the key issues for the many stakeholders in the VOD value chain.
The consumer bible picks it's 'Best Buy' for broadband from across the industry. The big boys are left flailing and the results further enhance the credibility of the Utility Warehouse Discount Club
Presentation at IIR Mobile Instant Messaging Asia, 27 June 2007, Hong Kong
Diversifying Messaging Applications To Sustain Future Growth Beyond SMS: New Service Opportunities In Mobile IM
• Driving the demand for other mobile data services
• Allowing group communications with mobile and fixed terminals and richer content sharing
• Examining other forms of PC to mobile IM
• Assessing current and projected demand for messaging based m-commerce
• Examining 3G, IMS and instant messaging directions
www.iir-conferences.com/mimasia
Video services delivered over mobile broadband data networks are both a dream and a nightmare for network builders. Mobile video is in high demand, and consumers are willing to pay for it. However, poor design and high usage can lead to network congestion, negative user experiences and, ultimately, customer churn. While video is often viewed as a killer application for mobile broadband access, it lacks the requisite linear revenue-to-usage business case that has characterized killer applications such as voice and SMS in the past.
In this webinar, Yankee Group Distinguished Research Fellow Chris Nicoll and Analyst Terry Cudmore investigate the pressing issues of mobile video delivery and provide recommendations to ensure that video becomes a killer application, not a network-killing service.
Overview
What are 3G & 4G TECHNOLOGIES?
•Evolution Wireless System
•Difference between 3G & 4G
•Features And Advantages of 3G & 4G TECHNOLOGIES
•Disadvantages of 3G & 4G TECHNOLOGIES
•Application of 3G & 4G TECHNOLOGIES
Read this article from here: http://www.ikhlasrahman.com/3g-4g-communication/
to read More tech related topics visit here: http://www.ikhlasrahman.com/
Region: France
Industry: Public sector
Employees: 1500
Business Issue: Transformation of city and citizen service
BACKGROUND
• Drancy was one of the poorest cities in France in 2000.
• City was losing population and experiencing high crime rates.
• Lack of business infrastructure discouraged new employers.
GOAL
• Reverse the net outflow of citizens from the city, decrease crime, and attract more businesses by transforming Drancy into a leading technology and commerce center through investments in new networking and collaborative video tools.
SOLUTION
• Cisco TelePresence implemented for global communication.
• Cisco WebEx adopted for critical supplier communication.
• Cisco Flip Video camcorders and software engaged to speed time to communicate and improve clarity of messaging.
• Cisco Video Surveillance Manager, in combinations with Cisco Physical Access Control, for local and national police safety and security activities.
• Fiber network managed by Cisco Nexus 7000 series switch to enable virtualization, data center growth, and high performance.
RESULTS
• Attracted new site for Eurocopter, resulting in 750 new jobs
• Attracted top engineering school, which will bring 1700 students and 200 professors to area
• Reduced crime by 30 percent to become the second-safest suburb of Paris
• Initiated program to provide computer education to 7000 schoolchildren
• Saved thousands of Euros in travel time and related expenses. Increased productivity, bridging government and suppliers
Kelvin Cantafio, Vice Chair of NetHope, will be delivering a keynote address on the Power of Innovation, using information technology as a lever for social change. He will share both innovative organizational models as well as case examples of technology benefiting humanity, based on his global experience with within the ngo sector. He will also describe the partnerships and relationships, facilitated by technology, that have been central to NetHope’s success. NetHope is a new-generation information technology collaboration of 29 leading international nongovernmental organizations (ngo's) representing more than $30 billion of humanitarian development, emergency relief, healthcare, micro-finance and conservation programs serving tens of millions of beneficiaries in more than 180 countries. For more information, visit
www.nethope.org.
Arnaud Tawuo Has Served DirecTV as the Chief Architectchrisjohnsub
Arnaud Tawuo is a networking professional with over 10 years of experience. He has expertise in design, development and deployment of large-scale networking & cloud computing solutions around the world.
This talk will introduce the group to an important communications asset we citizens own right here in the Valley, i.e. our community fiber optic network. Who uses it? Where is it? The key question, however, which we'll put to our attendees, is, "How might we truly put community squarely into the heart of the Valley Community Fiber Network?" What will it take? What tools are we missing? What's the potential? Who is interested? What are the roadblocks? How can we innovate?
Open Humanitarian Initiative -- Google+ Hangout w/ Gisli OlafssonNetHopeOrg
NetHope and its partners are working on an ambitious 5 year initiative to revolutionize information sharing during times of crisis. During this G+ hangout we will introduce you to some of the key aspects of the Open Humanitarian Initiative and then open up for a dialog around this important issue.
Mobile Money Agent Network Development in HaitiNetHopeOrg
The Payment Innovations working group welcomed Nick Lesher of Open Revolution (www.openrev.com) to speak with Cameron Peake of Mercy Corps (www.mercycorps.org) on their experiences with mobile money agent network development in Haiti. We examine how NGOs can play a role in the development of healthy and sustainable mobile money agent networks.
I4Education webinar: IFRC learning network case study. Presented June 21, 2012 by Reda Sadki, Senior officer for Learning systems International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
Innovations for Youth Capacity and Engagement (IYCE) aims to utilize the power of innovative technology,
including serious games, to empower, engage and educate youth and assist them in their transition to adulthood. April 2012 update.
Sarah Rotman of CGAP was kind enough to present on the basics of branchless banking to NetHope's Payment Innovations Working Group in March 2012, which is open to all NetHope members. Please contact hamilton.mcnutt@nethope.org for more information.
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/
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.
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.
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.
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!
Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdfPaige Cruz
Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
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.
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.
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
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
2. The worst drought and famine
in more than 60 years have
threatened the livelihood of 9.5
million people in the Horn of
Africa since early 2011. Refugees
from Somalia continue to arrive in
Kenya by the tens of thousands,
making the Dadaab complex now
the world’s largest refugee camp
ever with almost 500,000 counted
and perhaps as many as 100,000 Chief of Party, NetHope, a consortium of 34
more unregistered. member NGOs, sent their Connectivity and
Emergency Response directors, Joe Simmons
The United Nations High Commission for and Gisli Olafsson, to Dadaab to explore the
Refugees (UNHCR) is the lead agency potential to improve and reduce the cost of
responding to the crisis, along with World Food connectivity for the UN and NGOs operating
Program, UNICEF and other Non-Governmental in the region. Inveneo and Cisco Tactical
Organizations including Care, Save the Children, Operations (TacOps) were subsequently invited
Kenya Red Cross, Oxfam, International Rescue by NetHope to identify opportunities to bring
Committee and Norwegian Refugee Council. better, more reliable Internet and interagency
These agencies provide critical life-sustaining communications to the NetHope members and
services such as food distribution, housing, other humanitarian agencies working in the
sanitation and medical relief to those in Dadaab. region. NetHope and Inveneo mobilized a team
Teams are stretched to their limits. To make to travel to Dadaab and assess the situation in
matters even more difficult, al Shebaab, the detail.
Somali-based terrorist organization, recently
escalated activities in and around the camps. On the ground in Dadaab, it was clear from
Security practices and protocols have been the UN and NGO community that bringing
ramped up to ensure the safety of contractors, incremental, reliable and affordable Internet
staff and refugees. access would increase staff productivity,
especially in delivering essential food, housing
How Better Connectivity Can Help and medical services. It would also lead to
better overall coordination, security and
In September 2011, based on a request from
communications. If Inveneo and TacOps could
the USAID Global Broadband Innovations (GBI)
install and configure a local high-speed network,
1
3. the Dadaab organizations could immediately collaboration technologies like file sharing, video
begin to collaborate and share information more conferencing designed by Cisco and voice over
effectively. An existing UNHCR-led network IP telephony applications. This collaboration
initiative for smaller NGOs and community network, DadaabNET, would also provide a
centers needed to be substantively reviewed to Cisco router-based failover configuration to
ensure that any new networking designs would switch agency traffic to a 4-Mbps, UNHCR-
be compatible, complimentary and synergistic. provided satellite system in the event of
primary connection failure. This effort involved
NetHope, Inveneo and TacOps secured a IP addressing and configuration support from
commitment from Cisco to donate equipment both Cisco and Inveneo as well as consultative
and commitments from USAID, Microsoft and engineering support from UNHCR and the
UNHCR for funding. It was determined that there Dadaab Aid Agency IT staff.
were two major areas where we could help.
Status and Results
I. First, Inveneo would initiate and lead a
strategic business and engineering partnership NetHope negotiated discount pricing and
with Orange, a local Kenyan mobile and landline capacity commitments for Dadaab with two
telecommunications service provider, to extend local Kenyan service providers in January 2012.
new data services into the Dadaab compound Phase One of this project was successfully
using Inveneo’s long-distance WiFi solution. implemented in March 2012.
NetHope aggregated the demand for the new
service among the Dadaab aid community During the week of March 12, Orange hosted
and Orange committed to a preferred pricing an Inveneo-led classroom training session in
arrangement as well as to adequate initial Nairobi that provided hands-on instruction on
and ongoing capacity. Orange is making their long distance WiFi. Inveneo offered a custom
highly reliable Internet connectivity available by practical curriculum in both network design
providing backhaul from their existing Dadaab and installation as well as tower safety to
tower to international fiber networks. Inveneo prequalified Orange and Dadaab-based NGO
designed a local distribution network and technical staff.
training plan to enable Orange and prequalified
During the week of March 19, Inveneo, NetHope,
Dadaab IT staff to quickly grasp, support
[photo right] Skinny guy Inveneo’s local partner SetRight and Cisco’s
and connect to the Inveneo-designed access
wire masts are always local gold partner Dimension Data team traveled
more “interesting” to solution.
climb than the big to Dadaab. Monday and Tuesday, Inveneo
telecom towers. They II. Second, Inveneo and Cisco TacOps worked side-by-side with the newly trained
tend to sway a bit.
would co-design a high-speed network to NGO, Orange and SetRight teams in Dadaab,
Inveneo CTO Andris
Bjornson climbs the connect the Dadaab agencies locally and to giving them the guidance and confidence to
UNHCR mast in Dadaab. successfully complete Orange and UNHCR tower
enable bandwidth-intensive, intra-agency
2
4. Counsel, Care, Oxfam and Kenya Red Cross so
it was truly an interagency support group. The
expectation was that four or five sites could
be installed, and then reviewed and verified
when the Inveneo team returned. Thursday, in
Dadaab, Inveneo found their expectations were
far exceeded. The DadaabNET team installed
19 radios at ten agency locations. On Thursday
and Friday, Inveneo verified the work and fine-
tuned the implementations. Future installs and
troubleshooting can now be properly completed
[photo left] Joe Simmons
of NetHope and Mark
Summer of Inveneo work
in the core equipment
room of the Dadaab
Collaboration Network.
[photo above] Trainees installations. The Orange tower is the hub for the
from Orange Kenya,
access network and the UNHCR tower is the hub
Inveneo ICIP Setright, and
Dadaab-based IT staffs for DadaabNET. Dimension Data was also busy
assemble an Ubiquiti meeting with IT staff at the installation sites:
Rocket Dish.
consulting with Cisco-led TacOps engineers,
training local staff and completing the initial
router configurations.
As part of the training and skills building plan,
the Inveneo team left Dadaab late Tuesday
afternoon to cover training the Orange
Network Operations Center in Nairobi. Inveneo
challenged the six newly trained agency staff
with the installation of Customer Premise
Equipment for both the access and DadaabNET by the local IT team with Inveneo positioned
networks. The team includes staff from UNHCR, to provide remote support for existing and
World Food Programe, Norwegian Refugee ongoing humanitarian agency installations. The
3
5. DadaabNET team has taken full ownership of the This connectivity is already enabling the
networks. All future troubleshooting, support humanitarian agencies to function better, to
and installations will be managed frontline by communicate between agencies, and to support
the local DadaabNET interagency team. By the overall operations. Some agencies are now
same count, Dimension Data, working with Cisco purchasing bandwidth from multiple Kenyan
TacOps successfully implemented and tested service providers, who based on NetHope
routing at all ten newly installed locations and negotiations now offer reliable highly discounted
ensured a good hand-off to the DadaabNET competitively priced services to Dadaab-based
team. agencies. Since provider’s access routes are
physically diverse, purchasing from both is
[photo below] Edwin
The initial bandwidth contracted was fully recommended to improve uptime and reliability.
from Inveneo partner
Setright mounts installed. Orange intends to add triple the They also have plans to move more costly VSAT
RocketM5s and AirMax amount available over the next 60 days to keep
sectors on a tower systems to failover mode. As the new network
standoff. We save a lot pace with demand and to meet new service architecture is tried and proven to be more
of time by pre-installing order expectations. reliable and cost effective, it will be extended to
standoffs before hauling
them up the tower. the general population via sustainable outreach
community centers that support learning,
resettlement and economic empowerment.
“With the strong reliable connectivity offered
by the DadaabNET project, humanitarian
organizations will be able to better respond
to crisis in the area. This is the model we want
to bring to scale,” said Bill Brindley, NetHope
Executive Director and CEO.
“Dadaab is a challenging environment, but by
bringing together the right technologists, local
partners and innovative technical tools, its
humanitarian agencies are now better connected
than ever. We are increasingly using this unique,
ecosystem approach to connect development
organizations to high quality broadband in
under-served regions around the world,” Kristin
Peterson, CEO and Co-Founder of Inveneo.
The Inveneo, Cisco and NetHope partnership,
fortified and proven successful during earlier
4
6. collaborations in Haiti and elsewhere, is now and collaboration so that there will be ever
expanding to embrace a broader alliance with increasing opportunities to extend the
USAID, UNHCR, WFP, Microsoft and others. The broadband across rural Kenya and beyond.
Haiti and Dadaab models have the necessary
ingredients and momentum to rapidly bring The Dadaab Connect project is funded by
sustainable rural broadband connectivity and USAID’s Global Broadband Innovations
value-added applications to scale in selected partnership with NetHope, Inveneo’s Broadband
underserved communities. Our immediate focus for Good Program, Microsoft, Cisco, UNHCR, and
now is Phase 2, which brings IP telephony, Craig Newmark and the Orr Foundation.
conferencing web services, cloud computing
and sustainable community outreach education
centers to the Dadaab community.
Inveneo, Cisco, NetHope and Orange will
also continue to grow their partnership
[photo left] Trainees
are under Inveneo’s
CTO Andris Bjornson’s
guidance, to learn safe
climbing techniques on
50 Meter towers.
5
7. For more information, visit www.NetHope.org.
Follow us on Twitter @NetHope_Org
& find us on Facebook at /NetHopeOrg