A presentation focusing on "Raising Awareness for Sustainable Energy". Presented at a workshop of the Joint European Summer School for Doctoral Candidates on Technology Enhanced Learning (JTEL 2013), held in Limassol, Cyprus in May, 2013. This presentation shows best learning practices for environmental awareness and presents state of the art applications in the field of sustainability and energy savings. The psychological factors and motivational patterns that lead these applications to succeed are discussed through the presentation.
The workshop was moderated by Andreas Kamilaris, postdoc researcher at the University of Cyprus and Sotiris Themistokleous, assistant director at the research institute CARDET.
The Global Knowledge Center Network (GKCN) with The Global University System ...Ed Dodds
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our projects given by Dr. Hans Rudolf Herren of Millennium Institute, Profs. Victor Lawrence and Ali Mostashari of Stevens Institute of Technology, Dr. Greg Cole of the University of Tennessee, Mr. Francisco Bozzano-Barnes, Mr. Daniel P. Molina and many others.
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Community Awareness is generally defined as knowledge created through interaction between community people and its environment, a setting bounded in space and time. It involves states of knowledge as well as dynamic process of perception and action. It is the knowledge that must be maintained and kept updated to complete some tasks in the environment. Community Awareness generation is considered as core element of successful disaster risk reduction.
ROOZE-TERRA Terrorism and Radicalisation a European network based prevention ...Global Risk Forum GRFDavos
5th International Disaster and Risk Conference IDRC 2014 Integrative Risk Management - The role of science, technology & practice 24-28 August 2014 in Davos, Switzerland
Civic Media: My Presentation to Social Media Breakfast BostonCauseShift
On December 16, 2010, Scott Henderson shared these insights of how Unicef is using emerging media to help communities in developing countries solve their shared problems.
Developing a community based learning approach partnership education action ...Peter Day
This presentation introduces a community-based learning approach developed by Community Media 4 Kenya @ University of Brighton - Partnership Education: Action Research & Learning Scenarios (PEARLS).
The Global Knowledge Center Network (GKCN) with The Global University System ...Ed Dodds
Acknowledgements: The author’s sincere gratitude goes to extraordinary cooperation and help for
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Chairman, GLObal Systems Analysis and Simulation Association
in the U.S.A. (GLOSAS/USA)
43-23 Colden Street, #9L, Flushing, NY 11355-5913
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Chairman: Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D.; Vice Chairman: Louis Padulo, Ph.D.;
Board Members: David Johnson, Ph.D., Peter Knight, Ph.D., Joseph Pelton, Ph.D., Tapio Varis, Ph.D.; Treasurer: Hisae Utsumi
Community Awareness is generally defined as knowledge created through interaction between community people and its environment, a setting bounded in space and time. It involves states of knowledge as well as dynamic process of perception and action. It is the knowledge that must be maintained and kept updated to complete some tasks in the environment. Community Awareness generation is considered as core element of successful disaster risk reduction.
ROOZE-TERRA Terrorism and Radicalisation a European network based prevention ...Global Risk Forum GRFDavos
5th International Disaster and Risk Conference IDRC 2014 Integrative Risk Management - The role of science, technology & practice 24-28 August 2014 in Davos, Switzerland
Civic Media: My Presentation to Social Media Breakfast BostonCauseShift
On December 16, 2010, Scott Henderson shared these insights of how Unicef is using emerging media to help communities in developing countries solve their shared problems.
Developing a community based learning approach partnership education action ...Peter Day
This presentation introduces a community-based learning approach developed by Community Media 4 Kenya @ University of Brighton - Partnership Education: Action Research & Learning Scenarios (PEARLS).
Social media may advance water managementXeniaTheo
Internet and its social media have connected people, communicated ideas, made people aware of issues, events and advancement. You might think that social media are for teenagers and youngsters, but undoubtedly, they bring options in climate change and water issue awareness as well as solution possibilities among the professionals. However, do they really build communities of practice, help knowledge management and transfer and can they truly improve water management? Can they help bridge the communication gap between research, policy and industry? How do they facilitate communication to non-scientists and the wider public?Internet and its social media have connected people, communicated ideas, made people aware of issues, events and advancement. You might think that social media are for teenagers and youngsters, but undoubtedly, they bring options in climate change and water issue awareness as well as solution possibilities among the professionals. However, do they really build communities of practice, help knowledge management and transfer and can they truly improve water management? Can they help bridge the communication gap between research, policy and industry? How do they facilitate communication to non-scientists and the wider public?
The presentation will discuss the possibilities and glitches based on the presenters’ experience gathered from two EU-funded projects and the WISE-RTD Water Knowledge Portal as well as other social media. The presenter hopes to highlight social media’s upsides and downsides and how they can provide a strong communication channel to scientists, policy makers and implementers, water professionals and the public.
Water is a scarce resource and it is vital for all. However, we are faced with enormous challenges in preserving water as a resource and of good quality. The stakeholders are many and very diverse making Water Management very challenging. The presentation explores how social media may reach the diverse stakeholder audiences based on the experiences from an EU-funded project STEP-WISE. XPRO Consulting was responsible for the Communication and Dissemination activities of the two-year project.
From the ideal to the real: Top 20 lessons learned from scaling up innovation...Soren Gigler
Top 20 lessons learned on scaling up innovations from the Open Data Initiative at the World Bank. The Open Data Initiative has transformed the way the World Bank shares and publishes its data enabling users to have free, open and easy access to data instead of a previously mostly proprietary data policy.
How did such a radical change come about? How was it possible that our early very modest endeavors to implement innovations in governance could be scaled up and be replicated across so many different areas at the Bank? How could a vibrant community of innovators from within and outside the Bank come together share experiences, learn from each other and, most important, help to make an important institutional change -- launch an Open Data initiative and empower citizens to provide direct feedback on development programs?
Slides - Leveraging institutional open practices to promote access- AVU Confe...Kathleen Ludewig Omollo
These slides are from a workshop called Leveraging Institutional Open Practices to Promote Access to Education at the African Virtual University 1st International Conference on November 20, 2013 (http://www.avu.org/1st-International-Conference-of-the-AVU-2013/pre-conference-workshops-november-20th-2013.html). The workshop was facilitated by Kathleen Ludewig Omollo and James Glapa-Grossklag. This and other materials from the workshop are available at http://tinyurl.com/levopenws-avu13. Editable versions are available at http://open.umich.edu/node/7497/. Workshop materials are copyright 2013 The Regents of the University of Michigan and College of the Canyons, shared under a CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
To celebrate its 10th anniversary, Sciencewise held a webinar on the 8th September 2014, 13.00-14 to discuss our latest publication which reviews ten years of thought leadership papers. The aim of the webinar was to draw out key themes, valuable insights and learning from the programme’s 10 years of thought leadership research. These are the slides of our presentation.
Community collections: what are the challenges? PaolaMarchionni
This brief presentation discusses some of the key challenges in setting up community collections/corwdsourcing projects. There are some notes attached to the slides with a bit of background on the projects mentioned on the slides.
How to become an effective knowledge managerAberdeen CES
This presentation asks what it takes to become an effective manager of knowledge beyond the individual, to the classroom, community and international scales. At these scales, might social learning provide a mechanism through which we can facilitate the spread of new ideas, and perhaps even attitudes and behaviours? The session will consider the possibilities, using case studies from the Sustainable Uplands project at the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, considering how we can each become more effective knowledge managers, and so affect change far beyond our immediate sphere of influence.
Social media may advance water managementXeniaTheo
Internet and its social media have connected people, communicated ideas, made people aware of issues, events and advancement. You might think that social media are for teenagers and youngsters, but undoubtedly, they bring options in climate change and water issue awareness as well as solution possibilities among the professionals. However, do they really build communities of practice, help knowledge management and transfer and can they truly improve water management? Can they help bridge the communication gap between research, policy and industry? How do they facilitate communication to non-scientists and the wider public?Internet and its social media have connected people, communicated ideas, made people aware of issues, events and advancement. You might think that social media are for teenagers and youngsters, but undoubtedly, they bring options in climate change and water issue awareness as well as solution possibilities among the professionals. However, do they really build communities of practice, help knowledge management and transfer and can they truly improve water management? Can they help bridge the communication gap between research, policy and industry? How do they facilitate communication to non-scientists and the wider public?
The presentation will discuss the possibilities and glitches based on the presenters’ experience gathered from two EU-funded projects and the WISE-RTD Water Knowledge Portal as well as other social media. The presenter hopes to highlight social media’s upsides and downsides and how they can provide a strong communication channel to scientists, policy makers and implementers, water professionals and the public.
Water is a scarce resource and it is vital for all. However, we are faced with enormous challenges in preserving water as a resource and of good quality. The stakeholders are many and very diverse making Water Management very challenging. The presentation explores how social media may reach the diverse stakeholder audiences based on the experiences from an EU-funded project STEP-WISE. XPRO Consulting was responsible for the Communication and Dissemination activities of the two-year project.
From the ideal to the real: Top 20 lessons learned from scaling up innovation...Soren Gigler
Top 20 lessons learned on scaling up innovations from the Open Data Initiative at the World Bank. The Open Data Initiative has transformed the way the World Bank shares and publishes its data enabling users to have free, open and easy access to data instead of a previously mostly proprietary data policy.
How did such a radical change come about? How was it possible that our early very modest endeavors to implement innovations in governance could be scaled up and be replicated across so many different areas at the Bank? How could a vibrant community of innovators from within and outside the Bank come together share experiences, learn from each other and, most important, help to make an important institutional change -- launch an Open Data initiative and empower citizens to provide direct feedback on development programs?
Slides - Leveraging institutional open practices to promote access- AVU Confe...Kathleen Ludewig Omollo
These slides are from a workshop called Leveraging Institutional Open Practices to Promote Access to Education at the African Virtual University 1st International Conference on November 20, 2013 (http://www.avu.org/1st-International-Conference-of-the-AVU-2013/pre-conference-workshops-november-20th-2013.html). The workshop was facilitated by Kathleen Ludewig Omollo and James Glapa-Grossklag. This and other materials from the workshop are available at http://tinyurl.com/levopenws-avu13. Editable versions are available at http://open.umich.edu/node/7497/. Workshop materials are copyright 2013 The Regents of the University of Michigan and College of the Canyons, shared under a CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
To celebrate its 10th anniversary, Sciencewise held a webinar on the 8th September 2014, 13.00-14 to discuss our latest publication which reviews ten years of thought leadership papers. The aim of the webinar was to draw out key themes, valuable insights and learning from the programme’s 10 years of thought leadership research. These are the slides of our presentation.
Community collections: what are the challenges? PaolaMarchionni
This brief presentation discusses some of the key challenges in setting up community collections/corwdsourcing projects. There are some notes attached to the slides with a bit of background on the projects mentioned on the slides.
How to become an effective knowledge managerAberdeen CES
This presentation asks what it takes to become an effective manager of knowledge beyond the individual, to the classroom, community and international scales. At these scales, might social learning provide a mechanism through which we can facilitate the spread of new ideas, and perhaps even attitudes and behaviours? The session will consider the possibilities, using case studies from the Sustainable Uplands project at the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, considering how we can each become more effective knowledge managers, and so affect change far beyond our immediate sphere of influence.
many countries are going to harvest the renewable energies from the biosphere. Renewable energy sources are the alternate to the fossil fuels.. so we must go towards the renewable energy sources.
Raising Awareness and Learning Practices of Citizens for Energy SavingsAndreas Kamilaris
This presentation has been presented as an invited talk at the School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore (NUS), at Singapore in April, 2014. It focuses on eco-feedback approaches and techniques for raising the awareness of occupants of residential and commercial buildings and offices, aiming to encourage them to save energy. Two recent social eco-feedback Web platforms, Social Electricity deployed in Cyprus and NUS Social Energy deployed in Singapore are presented, together with some observations and initial findings.
Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social InnovationP2Pvalue
Loretta Anania (CAPS project officer) presented the CAPS call for proposals at an Info Day In Barcelona, February 9th 2015 http://p2pvalue.eu/blog/caps-infoday-barcelona-9th-feb
Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation - ICT10Nathalie Danse
Presentation given by Johanna Schepers during the Information Day on Horizon 2020 - Call 2 in Brussels on 6 February 2015 on ICT10 Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation
Applying accredited community-based learning and research into your curriculu...CampusEngage
The Campus Engage Participate Programme presentation was delivered to Higher Education Educators as part of the Universal Design Conference, November 2015
Linking the spaces between unitec research symposium presentationJay_dub
Presentation to the Unitec Institute of Technology annual Research Symposium, 2 October 2014, relating the scale and scope of a community media project in Auckland, New Zealand. The project is comprised of layers: the creation of documentaries for broadcast, with student involvement and community stakeholder engagement, as well as a research component As the work is in progress, this presentation gave the opportunity to review and reflect on the multiple challenges and opportunities inherent in this collaborative work.
Large Techno Social Systems (LTSS) involve leveraging technological advancements and digital platforms to improve access to essential services, enhance quality of life, and ensure social inclusivity. In LTSS, people cannot be mere users of networked technologies and services designed for optimization purposes. Their behaviour should become one of the key levers for designing technologies turning them into real “Smart citizens” that teach their surrounding environment (and embedded devices) but learn reciprocally from it. LTSS can be realized by promoting smart communities which leverage technology, data, and innovation to improve the quality of life for its residents, enhance sustainability, and optimize the use of resources. Human-centric technology can empower citizens to actively engage in societal decision-making processes, participate in deliberative systems, and contribute to societal welfare. On the other hand, technological advancements, including data analytics and artificial intelligence, can inform evidence-based policymaking and planning processes. Indeed, digital technologies have the potential to influence human behaviour change by providing information, personalized feedback, social support, targeted interventions, and opportunities for learning. This work explores two approaches to realize LTSS driven smart communities that leverage digital technologies to achieve a higher collaboration and reciprocal learning between machines and people. On one hand, co-production in smart communities promotes behaviour change by empowering citizens in the co-design and co-delivery process, designing user-centric solutions, leveraging local knowledge, fostering collaboration, and facilitating capacity building. On the other hand, Citizen Science can inspire and enable behaviour change that leads to more sustainable, responsible, and community-oriented actions by promoting awareness, empowering individuals, and facilitating collaboration.
Experiences from the use of CovTracer: A contact tracing tool deployed in Cyp...Andreas Kamilaris
How can an app help the fight against COVID-19?
Combating the spread of the COVID-19 epidemic requires the rapid identification of people who have come into recent contact with confirmed cases of the SARS-Cov-2 virus. This allows for timely interventions such as evacuation and disinfection of spaces and for assistance in locating people who have been close to a carrier or have been exposed to the virus, so that they too can be appropriately tested or treated.
CovTracer is a mobile app for location tracking. It has been used at a country-scale experiment in Cyprus with more than 10,000 users. The app aims to contribute to the reduction of the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) in our country. The app was developed by a team of researchers and experts at RISE. Andreas Kamilaris is an MRG leader at RISE and the key topics of this presentations are:
- Need for ICT and mobile apps
- CovTracer features
- Aspects of privacy in contact tracing
- Initial results
- Future plans
Transferring manure from livestock farms to be used as fertilizer in crop fieldsAndreas Kamilaris
Presented my research work on the topic of "Transferring manure from livestock farms to be used as fertilizer in crop fields"to the Workshop on Agricultural Robotics at AgriFoodTech 2019, in Netherlands.
Training deep learning models to count using synthetic imagesAndreas Kamilaris
This presentation describes preliminary work in the recent promising approach of generating synthetic training data for facilitating the learning procedure of deep learning (DL) models, with a focus on aerial photos produced by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). The general concept and methodology are described, and preliminary results are presented, based on a classification problem of fire identification in forests as well as a counting problem of estimating number of houses in urban areas. The proposed technique constitutes a new possibility for the DL community, especially related to UAV-based imagery analysis, with much potential, promising results, and unexplored ground for further research.
Geospatial Analysis and Internet of Things in Environmental InformaticsAndreas Kamilaris
Geospatial analysis offers large potential for better understanding, modelling and visualizing our natural and artificial ecosystems, using Internet of Things as a pervasive sensing infrastructure. This presentation performs a review of research work based on the IoT, in which geospatial analysis has been employed in environmental informatics. Six different geospatial analysis methods have been identified, presented together with 26 relevant IoT initiatives adopting some of these techniques. Analysis is performed in relation to the type of IoT devices used, their deployment status and data transmission standards, data types employed, and reliability of measurements. This paper scratches the surface of this combination of technologies and techniques, providing indications of how IoT, together with geospatial analysis, are currently being used in the domain of environmental research.
Presented at EnviroInfo 2018 at Munich, Germany.
A Review on the Application of Natural Computing in Environmental InformaticsAndreas Kamilaris
Natural computing offers new opportunities to understand, model and analyze the complexity of the physical and human-created environment. This presentation examines the application of natural computing in environmental informatics, by investigating related work in this research field. Various nature-inspired techniques are presented, which have been employed to solve different relevant problems. Advantages and disadvantages of these techniques are discussed, together with analysis of how natural computing is generally used in environmental research.
Presented at EnviroInfo 2018 at Munich, Germany (September 2018)
The evolution of pervasive computing towards a Web of ThingsAndreas Kamilaris
This presentation observes and describes the evolution of pervasive computing towards a global, real-time digital web of physical objects and everyday things. Applications in real life are presented, together with future challenges and projections.
AgriBigCAT: An Online Platform for Estimating the Impact of Livestock Agricul...Andreas Kamilaris
Intensive farming has been linked to excessive accumulation of heavy metals and other contaminants on soil, and to significant groundwater pollution with nitrates. Hence, it is necessary to develop a common body of knowledge, so as to allow an effective monitoring of cropping systems, fertilization and water demands, and impacts of climate change, with a focus on the sustainability and the protection of the physical environment. In this presentation, we describe AgriBigCAT, an online software platform that uses geophysical information from various diverse sources, employing geospatial and big data analysis, together with web technologies, in order to estimate the impact of the agricultural sector on the environment. It considers land, water, biodiversity and natural areas requiring protection, such as forests and wetlands. This platform can assist both the farmers' decision-taking processes and the administration planning and policy-making, with the ultimate objective of meeting the challenge of increasing food production at a lower environmental impact. An online application of AgriBigCAT, focusing on the local environmental issues of the agricultural sector of Catalonia, is presented and described, together with some preliminary analysis findings. This presentation has been prepared for the EFITA 2017 Congress in Montpellier.
Estimating the Environmental Impact of Agriculture by means of Geospatial and...Andreas Kamilaris
Intensive farming has been linked to significant degradation of land, water and air. A common body of knowledge is needed, to allow an effective monitoring of cropping systems, fertilization and water demands, and impacts of climate change, with a focus on sustainability and protection of the physical environment. In this presentation, we describe AgriBigCAT, an online software platform that uses geo-physical information from various diverse sources, employing geospatial and big data analysis, together with web technologies, in order to estimate the impact of the agricultural sector on the environment, considering land, water, biodiversity and natural areas requiring protection, such as forests and wetlands. This platform can assist both the farmers' decision-taking processes and the administration planning and policy making, with the ultimate objective of meeting the challenge of increasing food production at a lower environmental impact. Presentation at the EnviroInfo 2017 Conference in Luxembourg.
Disaster Monitoring using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Deep LearningAndreas Kamilaris
Monitoring and identification of disasters are crucial for mitigating their effects on the
environment and on human population, and can be facilitated by the use of unmanned aerial vehicles
(UAV), equipped with camera sensors which can produce frequent aerial photos of the areas of interest. A
modern, promising technique for recognition of events based on aerial photos is deep learning. In this paper,
we present the state of the art work related to the use of deep learning techniques for disaster monitoring
and identification. Moreover, we demonstrate the potential of this technique in identifying disasters
automatically, with high accuracy, by means of a relatively simple deep learning model. Based on a small
dataset of 544 images (containing images of disasters such as fires, earthquakes, collapsed buildings,
tsunami and flooding, as well as “non-disaster” scenes), our preliminary results show an accuracy of 91%
achieved, indicating that deep learning, combined with UAV equipped with camera sensors, have the
potential to predict disasters with high accuracy in the near future. Presented at the EnviroInfo 2017 Conference in Luxembourg.
A Web of Things Based Eco-System for Urban Computing - Towards Smarter CitiesAndreas Kamilaris
Environmental awareness and knowledge may help people to take more informed decisions in their everyday lives, ensuring their health and safety. The Web of Things enables embedded sensors to become easily deployed in urban areas for environmental monitoring such as air quality, electromagnetism, radiation, etc. In this presentation, we propose an eco-system for urban computing which combines the concept of the Web of Things, together with big data analysis and event processing, towards the vision of smarter cities that offer real-time information to their habitants about the urban environment. We touch upon near real-time web-based discovery of sensory services, citizen participation, semantic technologies and mobile computing, helping people to take more informed everyday decisions when interacting with their urban landscape. We then present a case study where we demonstrate the feasibility and usefulness of this eco-system to the everyday lives of citizens.
This research has been supported by the P-SPHERE project, which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skodowska-Curie grant agreement No 665919.
Big data analysis and Integration of Geophysical information from the Catalan...Andreas Kamilaris
The intensification of agriculture in Catalunya creates serious concerns over its impact on the physical environment, in terms of deteriorating the air, soils as well as rivers and lakes. It is particularly important to quantify and understand this impact, in order to perceive overall implications and to develop effective strategies to mitigate its effects. In this presentation, I describe our efforts in combining geospatial information and big data analysis in order to measure the environmental impact of agriculture, with a focus on animal manure. The problems and issues of discovering, locating and understanding relevant datasets are discussed, together with suggestions on how data could become more open and easier to reach and understand.
Estimating the Impact of Agriculture on the Environment of Catalunya by means...Andreas Kamilaris
Because of insufficient accessible arable land, intensive farming has been linked to excessive accumulation of phosphorous, heavy metals, and other soil contaminants, as well as to significant groundwater pollution with nitrate. Deterioration of soil water quality is especially worrying at the bioclimatic Mediterranean area, especially under the current context of climate change. Hence, it is necessary to develop a common body of knowledge, shared at the local and regional levels of the countries involved and affected, so as to allow an effective monitoring of cropping systems, fertilization and water demands, and impacts of climate change, with a focus on the sustainability and the protection of the physical environment.
In this presentation, we describe AgriBigCAT, an online software platform that combines geophysical information from various diverse sources, together with big data analysis, in order to estimate the impact of the agricultural sector on the environment, considering land, water, biodiversity and natural areas requiring protection, such as forests and wetlands. Based on the P-Sphere project, this platform intends to promote more sustainable agriculture, by designing and developing an information and knowledge-based platform, using a big data approach for managing and analyzing a wide range of geospatial and mainstream information, which can be accessible by standard communication technologies such as the internet/web and mobile apps. this platform can also assist both the farmers' decision-taking processes and the administration planning and policy making, with the ultimate objective of meeting the challenge of increasing food production at a lower environmental impact.
Agri-IoT: A Semantic Framework for Internet of Things-enabled Smart Farming A...Andreas Kamilaris
With the recent advancement of the Internet of Things (IoT), it is now possible to process a large number of sensor data streams using different large-scale IoT platforms. These IoT frameworks are used to collect, process and analyse data streams in real-time and facilitate provision of smart solutions
designed to provide decision support. Existing IoT-based solutions are mainly domain-dependent, providing stream processing and analytics focusing on specific areas (smart cities, healthcare etc.). In the context of agri-food industry, a variety of external parameters belonging to different domains (e.g. weather conditions, regulations etc.) have a major influence over the food supply chain, while flexible and adaptive IoT frameworks, essential to truly realize the concept of smart farming, are currently inexistent. In this presentation, we propose Agri-IoT, a semantic framework for IoT-based smart farming applications, which supports reasoning over
various heterogeneous sensor data streams in real-time. Agri-
IoT can integrate multiple cross-domain data streams, providing
a complete semantic processing pipeline, offering a common
framework for smart farming applications. Agri-IoT supports
large-scale data analytics and event detection, ensuring seamless interoperability among sensors, services, processes, operations, farmers and other relevant actors, including online information sources and linked open datasets and streams available on the Web.
Do ”Web of Things Platforms” Truly Follow the Web of Things?Andreas Kamilaris
The Web of Things (WoT) aspires to bring interoperability at the application layer, on top of the Internet of Things. Many state of the art platforms and frameworks claim to support
the WoT, following its principles towards the seamless integration of heterogeneous physical devices and real-world services at the web. But do these platforms truly comply to the concepts of the WoT or only follow some of its characteristics? Do designers understand the WoT when claiming that their products follow the WoT specifications? This publication lists the main elements of the WoT, as defined by pioneering works in the field and examines 26 popular platforms and frameworks, aiming to shed light on how the WoT is understood and applied, both in academia and commerce.
WOTS2E: A Search Engine for a Semantic Web of ThingsAndreas Kamilaris
A Semantic Web of Things (SWoT) brings together the Semantic Web and the Web of Things (WoT), associating
semantically annotated information to web-enabled physical de-
vices, services and their data, towards seamless data integration and better understanding of real-world information. A missing element in order to realize SWoT is a standardized, scalable and flexible way to globally discover in (near) real time web-connected embedded devices, as well as their semantic data. To address this gap, we propose WOT Semantic Search Engine (WOTS2E), which is a search engine for the SWoT, based on web crawling, being able to discover Linked Data endpoints and, through them, WoT-enabled devices and their services. In this presentation, we describe the design, development and implementation of WOTS2E, as well as an evaluation procedure showing its operation and performance across the web.
Enabling the physical world to the Internet and potential benefits for agricu...Andreas Kamilaris
The Internet of Things (IoT) allows physical devices that live inside smart homes, offices, roads, electricity networks and city infrastructures to seamlessly communicate through the Internet while the forthcoming Web of Things (WoT) ensures interoperability at the application level through standardized Web technologies and protocols. In this presentation, we explain the concepts of the IoT and the WoT and their potential through various applications in the aforementioned domains. Then, we examine how the IoT/WoT can be used in the agri-food industry in order to enable novel smart farming technologies and applications,considering the recent technological opportunities for big data analysis.
A comprehensive user manual of the Social Electricity application, including information related to how to register/login/use the main features of the app.
Social Electricity is an online application helping people to manage their personal consumption collaboratively, by interacting and comparing with friends, neighbours and other users from the Social Electricity community.
An online application helping people to manage their personal consumption collaboratively, by interacting and comparing with friends, neighbours and other users from the Social Electricity community.
Social Electricity Online Platform (SEOP) EU Project DescriptionAndreas Kamilaris
Social Electricity Online Platform (SEOP) is a European project funded by the Lifelong Learning Programme. Started officially in January, 2014 with mission to develop online learning modules, educational content and online eco-feedback platforms, to raise the awareness and knowledge of citizens about energy, the environment and sustainability, by using modern educational techniques and learning approaches. An important achievement is Social Electricity, an online application helping people to manage their personal consumption collaboratively, by interacting and comparing with friends, neighbors and other users.
website: http://www.seop-project.eu/
Social Electricity:http://www.social-electricity.com
Read| The latest issue of The Challenger is here! We are thrilled to announce that our school paper has qualified for the NATIONAL SCHOOLS PRESS CONFERENCE (NSPC) 2024. Thank you for your unwavering support and trust. Dive into the stories that made us stand out!
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
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• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
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Raising Awareness for Sustainable Energy: Best Learning Practices and State of the Art Applications
1. Raising Awareness and Learning Practices
for Sustainable Energy
Joint European Summer School for Doctoral Candidates on
Technology Enhanced Learning (JTEL 2013)
Limassol, Cyprus May, 2013
Sotiris Themistokleous
CARDET Assistant Director
sotiris@cardet.org
www.cardet.org
Andreas Kamilaris
Postdoc Researcher, Uni. Of Cyprus
camel9@gmail.com
2. Raising Awareness is the process of informing
a group‟s norms, attitudes, beliefs and actions and
influencing the group to change/transform/ re-
assess its norms, attitudes, beliefs and actions
towards a theoretical or a practical issue.
Raising Awareness Theoretical Framework
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3. Raising Awareness as other information and learning initiatives are
highly influenced by:
1. The medium/tool/action used to transmit information
2. The perceptions and experiences of the communicators and
the receivers
3. The social, political and economic environment in which an
initiative takes place(cultural trends, meanings attached to the
message). Such environment may not have a direct connection
with the initiative
4. Diversity of the target groups
Factors Influencing Awareness Raising
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4. Focus on the Local Level to achieve a Global Change
• Local experiences of a community in managing energy are
applicable in numerous other communities around the globe
• Local institutions can act as transmission belts of policies and
practices between the community, the region and the globe
• Local stakeholders can influence directly the community and
promote global actions on the local level
• Local stakeholders are more effective in reaching citizens in
the community and adapting global trends in the needs of the
local community
• Local success stories generate domino effects at global scale
(Social Media)
Raising Awareness from Local to Global
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5. How Social Change occurs (OXFAM International)
Social Change
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Knowledge
–
Understand
the cause
Approval
–
Accept the
cause
Intention
–
Decision to
apply
Practice
–
Application
of the cause
in a
sustainable
manner
Advocacy
– Promote
the cause to
others
6. • Know the purpose of your awareness raising campaign
• How would the purpose inform the message
• Study your target groups
• Map the potential challenges and provide solutions
• How would you build trust with your target groups
• Apply the right tools and mediums and use the appropriate
language to reflect your target groups profile
• Manage the quantity of the information you transmit
• Establish formative and summative evaluation tools to measure
outreach and impact
Designing an Action Plan
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7. • CARDET‟s Project, “Raising Awareness on Development
Cooperation” www.developmenteducation.org
• Collaboration between academia and civil society
organizations to raise awareness on sustainable development
Raising Awareness Case Study
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9. Project Based Learning Framework
• Practical and obvious relevance with the real world
• Motivation to get involved and learn
• Life long learning approach
• Community level with local citizens
• Sustainable knowledge
• Tasks with tangible outcomes
• Social media and networks
• Assessment methods
Getting Involved, Acting and Learning
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10. Samples of Local Projects
• Measure energy efficiency of your neighborhood and
compare it with others (i.e. Social Electricity Project)
• Perform energy audits to your neighbors and suggest
methods to reduce energy consumption
• Depending on the location of your community develop
a small local hydroelectic, solar, wind system of
producing energy for the community
• Design and implement a raising awareness campaign
for your neighborhood
Getting Involved, Acting and Learning
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11. Case Study - Global Campus
• CARDET „s EuropeAid Project “Global Campus”
• Focus on Raising Awareness among Students on
Sustainable Development
• Train students to carry out, on campus, awareness
raising and learning activities
• Assign a project related to sustainable development to
volunteer students in collaboration with a local community
Getting Involved, Acting and Learning
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12. Networks of Learning
• Preserve Relevance
• Value of Participation
• Distribute-Communicate Resources
• Effective access, valuable return, timely efficient
• Commitment
• Common Objectives
• Valid action plan and targets
• Flexibility in administration and participation
• Inter-Network Collaboration-Communication
Getting Involved, Acting and Learning
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13. Case Study: Life Long Learning Project “Community
Learning Social Networks - NetBox (www.netboxproject.eu)
• NetBox will capitalize on the pervasiveness of, and
acquiescence to social computing in today‟s society.
• NetBox responds to the challenge of supporting smart,
sustainable and inclusive growth and the priorities of the
transversal programme
• NetBox exploits ICT-based social networking tools and
platforms to connect people of all ages and educational
dispositions to public services, learning and civic engagement
Getting Involved, Acting and Learning
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14. Mediums/Tools
Three information and communications technologies underlie
the explosion of the “social web”, (Willard, 2009):
• Mobile Communications – extending Internet access through a
new generation of mobile phones and handheld computers;
• Social Media – enabling individuals to easily upload their own
content (text, photos, video) and to find (and discuss) the
content generated by others; and
• Online Social Networking – enabling people to maintain and to
extend their personal and professional networks, as well as to
facilitate the flow of information through these networks.
Social Media and Networks - Communicating,
Informing, Networking and Learning
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15. Securing Sustainability :
• Promote interaction
• Organize regular meetings F2F, via phone or via online tools
• Provide a minimum diversity of tools according to the needs
and the objectives of the network (blogs, wikis, social networks
ect.)
• Establish clear management and administration process, roles
and hierarchy
• Support interactions with other networks and other fields
• Free exchange of ideas
Social Media and Networks - Communicating,
Informing, Networking and Learning
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16. Case Study: Competencies and Transferable Skills for the
Green Energy Sector (Lifelong Learning Project –
CARDET)
• Development of an online analytical tool with a project
focus on investigating transferability of competence
between renewable energy and traditional energy
production subsectors
• Collaborative Skills Development
• Inputs and Feedback from EU stakeholders
Social Media and Networks - Communicating,
Informing, Networking and Learning
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17. The Value of Online Social Networking:
• Sustainable Energy principles and practices are diffused
through peers and network members
• Specialized knowledge is becoming visible to all
members of the network and its extended periphery
• Local progress, practices and initiatives can be
extended/transmitted and adopted on a global scale
• Direct communication and reflection from numerous
users
• Interdisplinary contributions, feedback and solutions
Networking for Sustainable Energy
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Raising Awareness: Feedback through Google
Power Meter Project
Timely feedback of domestic electrical consumption can
contribute in reducing the amount consumed by 5-15%.
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Raising Awareness: Metering is not enough…
• Employed techniques are limited as they tend to use a “one
size fits all" approach.
• Same feedback to individuals who have different motivations
and experiences in energy saving.
• The long-term effect is limited.
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Raising Awareness: Social Factors
"Comparative feedback, in which one's energy use is contrasted
with those of others, can generating feelings of competition,
social comparison or social pressure"
“People tend to follow what other
people do and adapt their behaviour
and practices according to the stimuli
received by their friends, relatives
and neighbours”.
“Social norms can motivate
people to question their
attitude, if they discover it is
not ”normal”.
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Raising Awareness: Social Influence
• Informational: People serve as a valuable source of information
to accurately evaluate one's behavior.
• Normative: People have a tendency to agree on the values,
beliefs, attitudes or behaviors of others.
• Descriptive: Depict what happens in a given situation based on
informational and normative influence.
• Injunctive: Describe what should happen in a given situation.
Important for avoiding the boomerang effect.
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Raising Awareness: Social Influence
"Strong participation in social movements is most likely
when activities can be easily integrated into daily life."
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Raising Awareness: Social Influence
“People are willing to compete in online social networks
and compare with real and known people”
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Raising Awareness: Success of Online Social
Networking
“Persuasion in online social networks follows regular,
observable patterns. This conclusion has interesting implications.
First, software developers can tap into these patterns to
create applications that are more likely to succeed.
That some applications succeed and others fail is not
based on pure chance; success can be learned and replicated.
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