A lot of web 2.0 tools are available today that can be useful for web-based public participation. However, these tools were not designed specifically for the purpose of public participation and may lack critical features and necessary process support which can often cause issues. Addressing these issues would not always require changing the technology. Good facilitation and a commitment to impact will go a long way.
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How urban planners should use social media to encourage and extend public involvement in the planning process. Given to the National Charrette Institute.
Slides for a webinar hosted by the gov't of Queensland, Australia, delivered by Matt Leighninger of the Deliberative Democracy Consortium, on 'Using Online Tools to Engage - and be Engaged by - the Public.
How urban planners should use social media to encourage and extend public involvement in the planning process. Given to the National Charrette Institute.
Participatory budgeting (PB) is quickly becoming a hot trend here in the US. PB sits right at the intersection of civic engagement, open government and technology. In short, it’s the perfect topic for SXSW.
Tiago Peixoto (World Bank), Marti Brown (City of Vallejo, CA) and myself hope to spread the word about this innovative process at next year's SXSW in Austin, TX to a broad audience of technology and civic innovators.
Please vote and comment to help us get there. Voting ends August 31, 2012. Thanks!
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Guest lecture on crowdsourcing with a difference. Presentation aims to drive towards the convergence of crowdsourcing and machine learning.
Guest lecture at University of Western Sydney
Participatory budgeting (PB) is quickly becoming a hot trend here in the US. PB sits right at the intersection of civic engagement, open government and technology. In short, it’s the perfect topic for SXSW.
Tiago Peixoto (World Bank), Marti Brown (City of Vallejo, CA) and myself hope to spread the word about this innovative process at next year's SXSW in Austin, TX to a broad audience of technology and civic innovators.
Please vote and comment to help us get there. Voting ends August 31, 2012. Thanks!
High-level outline for upcoming Zilino online dialogue event on mental health connecting students, teachers and staff from colleges and universities across the United States.
Digital Government Today: International Perspective and Lessons for the FutureRyan Androsoff
An overview of current trends in digital government with a focus on IT governance, digital service delivery, social media, and open data. All views expressed in the presentation are those of the author and should not be attributed to any organization mentioned or referenced.
Guest lecture on crowdsourcing with a difference. Presentation aims to drive towards the convergence of crowdsourcing and machine learning.
Guest lecture at University of Western Sydney
Learn about key considerations in designing, implementing and evaluating online, social, mobile and other digital participation tools. Presented by Susanna Haas Lyons, civic engagement specialist.
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Program Director, Pro Bono Net
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Jillian Theil
Training and Field Support Coordinator, Pro Bono Net
Mirenda Meghelli
LawHelp Interactive Program Coordinator, Pro Bono Net
Jenny Singleton
Legal Technology Project Manager, MN Legal Services State Support
Danielle Rebar
Website Manager, Northwest Justice Project
Elliott Fontenette Supervising Attorney, Texas Legal Services Center
Delivered this presentation on how to develop an Open Data Policy. This presentation overviews how the City of Houston approached the creation of an Open Data Policy, what elements were incorporated into the policy, and the challenges encountered from development to implementation. To ensure that an open data initiative achieves the best results for a government organization and its constituents, a well crafted Open Data Policy is needed to direct strategy and mitigate risk for the organization.
Welcome to the first live UiPath Community Day Dubai! Join us for this unique occasion to meet our local and global UiPath Community and leaders. You will get a full view of the MEA region's automation landscape and the AI Powered automation technology capabilities of UiPath. Also, hosted by our local partners Marc Ellis, you will enjoy a half-day packed with industry insights and automation peers networking.
📕 Curious on our agenda? Wait no more!
10:00 Welcome note - UiPath Community in Dubai
Lovely Sinha, UiPath Community Chapter Leader, UiPath MVPx3, Hyper-automation Consultant, First Abu Dhabi Bank
10:20 A UiPath cross-region MEA overview
Ashraf El Zarka, VP and Managing Director MEA, UiPath
10:35: Customer Success Journey
Deepthi Deepak, Head of Intelligent Automation CoE, First Abu Dhabi Bank
11:15 The UiPath approach to GenAI with our three principles: improve accuracy, supercharge productivity, and automate more
Boris Krumrey, Global VP, Automation Innovation, UiPath
12:15 To discover how Marc Ellis leverages tech-driven solutions in recruitment and managed services.
Brendan Lingam, Director of Sales and Business Development, Marc Ellis
The Metaverse and AI: how can decision-makers harness the Metaverse for their...Jen Stirrup
The Metaverse is popularized in science fiction, and now it is becoming closer to being a part of our daily lives through the use of social media and shopping companies. How can businesses survive in a world where Artificial Intelligence is becoming the present as well as the future of technology, and how does the Metaverse fit into business strategy when futurist ideas are developing into reality at accelerated rates? How do we do this when our data isn't up to scratch? How can we move towards success with our data so we are set up for the Metaverse when it arrives?
How can you help your company evolve, adapt, and succeed using Artificial Intelligence and the Metaverse to stay ahead of the competition? What are the potential issues, complications, and benefits that these technologies could bring to us and our organizations? In this session, Jen Stirrup will explain how to start thinking about these technologies as an organisation.
zkStudyClub - Reef: Fast Succinct Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Regex ProofsAlex Pruden
This paper presents Reef, a system for generating publicly verifiable succinct non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs that a committed document matches or does not match a regular expression. We describe applications such as proving the strength of passwords, the provenance of email despite redactions, the validity of oblivious DNS queries, and the existence of mutations in DNA. Reef supports the Perl Compatible Regular Expression syntax, including wildcards, alternation, ranges, capture groups, Kleene star, negations, and lookarounds. Reef introduces a new type of automata, Skipping Alternating Finite Automata (SAFA), that skips irrelevant parts of a document when producing proofs without undermining soundness, and instantiates SAFA with a lookup argument. Our experimental evaluation confirms that Reef can generate proofs for documents with 32M characters; the proofs are small and cheap to verify (under a second).
Paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1886
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.
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In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
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.
Le nuove frontiere dell'AI nell'RPA con UiPath Autopilot™UiPathCommunity
In questo evento online gratuito, organizzato dalla Community Italiana di UiPath, potrai esplorare le nuove funzionalità di Autopilot, il tool che integra l'Intelligenza Artificiale nei processi di sviluppo e utilizzo delle Automazioni.
📕 Vedremo insieme alcuni esempi dell'utilizzo di Autopilot in diversi tool della Suite UiPath:
Autopilot per Studio Web
Autopilot per Studio
Autopilot per Apps
Clipboard AI
GenAI applicata alla Document Understanding
👨🏫👨💻 Speakers:
Stefano Negro, UiPath MVPx3, RPA Tech Lead @ BSP Consultant
Flavio Martinelli, UiPath MVP 2023, Technical Account Manager @UiPath
Andrei Tasca, RPA Solutions Team Lead @NTT Data
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The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
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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.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
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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.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI support
Off-the-Shelf E-Participation? Five Recent Examples
1. Off-the-Shelf E-Participation?
Five Recent Examples
Tim Bonnemann, Founder and CEO, Intellitics, Inc.
IAP2 Mini-Symposium “The Future of Public Participation”
June 22, 2009 in San Francisco, CA
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3. Agenda
• A few terms and definitions
• Research methodology
• Today’s key take-aways
• Five recent examples of public participation efforts
using off-the-shelf social media and web 2.0 tools
• Q&A
4. Terms and Definitions
• Public participation is the process by which an
organization consults with... individuals,
organizations, and government entities before
making a decision.
• Social media is user-generated content plus social
infrastructure plus tools for sharing (e.g. blogs,
wikis, Flickr, Youtube, many social networks etc.).
• Web 2.0 is about the internet as platform and
applications that can harness collective intelligence.
5. Research Methodology
• Based on observations from over a dozen recent
projects and initiatives in the US
• Mostly manual tracking of project performance
metrics over time
• Both quantitative and qualitative data
• User feedback regarding tools and processes
• Convener involvement and follow-up
• Impact analysis
6. Key Take-Aways
• A lot of web 2.0 tools are available today that can
be useful for web-based public participation.
• However, these tools were not designed specifically
for the purpose of public participation and may
lack critical features and necessary process
support which can often cause issues.
• Addressing these issues would not always require
changing the technology. Good facilitation and a
commitment to impact will go a long way.
7. Rebuild the Party
Host A group of 40 GOP operatives
Collect grassroots input to expand on “10-
Objective
point action plan for the next RNC Chairman”
Duration November 7, 2008 through January 31, 2009
Type Idea collection and discussion
Tool UserVoice
1,000s of participants
Key participation
1,000s of ideas and comments
metrics
10,000s of votes
Information cascades
Challenges
Content overload
Impact Unclear
8.
9. Change.gov: “Join the
Discussion: Healthcare”
Host Barack Obama transition team
Objective Collect citizens’ feedback about top priorities
Duration November 26 through December 2, 2008
Type Discussion forum
Tool IntenseDebate
Key participation Comments: 3,701
metrics Words: ~485,000
Content overload
Challenges 25+ types of participant input
Poor site navigation
Impact Unclear
10.
11. Change.gov: “Open for
Questions”
Host Barack Obama transition team
Objective Allow citizens to ask any question
Duration December 10-12, 2008
Type Question collection
Tool Google Moderator
Participants: 20,468
Key participation Questions: 10,303
metrics Votes: 978,947
Words: ~300,000 (approx.)
Information cascades
Challenges
Lobbying (marijuana legalization)
Impact Select questions were answered
12.
13. Open Government
Dialogue (Phase I)
Host White House Office for Public Engagement
Objective Solicit ideas for Open Government Directive
Duration May 21-28, 2009
Type Idea collection and discussion
Tool IdeaScale
Participants: 3,543
Key participation Ideas: 1,040
metrics Comments: 1,945
Votes: 41,378
Spam/vandalism (Obama birth certificate)
Challenges
Too little convener involvement, guidance
Impact Input informed phase 2 + 3
14.
15. MyIdea4CA
Host Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger
Objectives Solicit ideas for balancing CA budget
Duration Started June 9, 2009 (ongoing)
Type Idea collection
Tool Twitter
Key participation
100s of ideas
metrics
Decentralized content
Challenges
No follow-up so far
Impact To be determined
18. Open Government
Dialogue (Phase 3)
Host White House Office for Public Engagement
Objective Collaboratively draft policy document
Duration Started June 22, 2009 (ongoing)
Type Wiki
Tool MixedInk
Key participation
n/a
metrics
Challenges n/a
Impact n/a
20. References
• Public participation definition by James L. Creighton
• Social media definition adapted from “Putting the Fun in
Functional” by Amy Jo Kim
http://www.slideshare.net/amyjokim/fun-in-functional-2009-
presentation
• Web 2.0 definition, see "Web 2.0 Compact Definition:
Trying Again" by Tim O’Reilly
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/12/web-20-
compact.html
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