The results of the RISCOSS evaluation have been presented in the PMI academic workshop 2016 at the United Nations Global Service Centre in Brindisi. Many thanks to PMI-NIC volunteers and to TAAS branch.
This document provides analysis of 9 pictures based on their angle, focus, lighting, positioning, adherence to the rule of thirds, category, purpose, and meaning. For each picture, these visual elements are described in 1-2 sentences to assess the intended message and use of the picture. Overall, the analyses aim to understand how photographic techniques are used to tell stories or convey specific information through visual media.
Revisionismo del Holocausto
"Toda verdad atraviesa tres fases. Primero es ridiculizada. Después recibe una violenta oposición. Finalmente es aceptada como hecho evidente." —Arthur Schopenhauer
Harry Elmer Barnes historiador por la Universidad de Columbia fue uno de los pioneros del revisionismo del Holocausto en Estados Unidos.
Mark Weber historiador estadounidense, otro gran difusor del revisionismo del Holocausto como director del Institute for Historical Review.
El revisionismo del Holocausto es una corriente histórica que tiene la finalidad de reinterpretar, a la luz de nuevas evidencias, los hechos acaecidos en Europa entre los años 1941 y 1946 y que fueron posteriormente tergiversados por los intereses políticos que impulsaron la creación del Estado de Israel en la región de Palestina en 1948.
La negación del Holocausto es a menudo la conclusión natural de la mayoría de los estudios revisionistas, al incluir nuevas pruebas forenses, análisis científicos y evidencia documental no disponible hace 60 años. Sin embargo, esta negación sólo comprende aspectos puntuales, como por ejemplo la existencia de cámaras de gas homicidas o la cifra de seis millones de víctimas judías. No niega la persecución de los judíos y otras minorías, el establecimiento de campos de concentración para grupos considerados como un riesgo para el Estado en guerra ni otros acontecimientos de la historia oficial.
Mark Dukes served in the U.S. Navy from 1979 to 1998, achieving the rank of Aviation Electronics Technician, Second Class. He completed extensive training in aviation electronics, including courses in basic electricity, communications fundamentals, and microelectronics repair. Dukes' transcript details his occupational experience maintaining and repairing electronic systems on aircraft as an Aviation Electronics Technician.
This document analyzes features across albums, trailers, and music videos from three different artists/groups - Imagine Dragons, Skepta, and The 1975 - to identify common branding elements. For Imagine Dragons, a consistent dark theme and atmosphere is used. Skepta prominently features a red stamp image of the artist across various products. The 1975 utilizes the color pink in multiple ways to relate to their target audience and establish a distinct visual identity with consistent fonts and color schemes.
Este documento presenta una introducción sobre los impactos negativos del desarrollo en el medio ambiente y los recursos naturales. Explica que a pesar de los esfuerzos de los gobiernos y las personas para promover la conservación, la contaminación y degradación continúan aumentando. Finalmente, señala que en Colombia el gobierno creó el Sistema Nacional Ambiental para coordinar acciones entre entidades estatales, investigadores y la sociedad civil con el fin de garantizar el derecho a un ambiente sano.
This document provides information about Bulgaria and Bulgarian culture through pictures, maps, and short passages of text. It discusses Bulgarian traditions like the Martenitsa holiday celebrated on March 1st, features of the Bulgarian flag and coat of arms, examples of traditional costumes that vary by region, and the history of Bulgarian pottery making. It also introduces Vasil Levski Secondary School and its patron Vasil Levski, a 19th century revolutionary hero of Bulgaria.
This document provides analysis of 9 pictures based on their angle, focus, lighting, positioning, adherence to the rule of thirds, category, purpose, and meaning. For each picture, these visual elements are described in 1-2 sentences to assess the intended message and use of the picture. Overall, the analyses aim to understand how photographic techniques are used to tell stories or convey specific information through visual media.
Revisionismo del Holocausto
"Toda verdad atraviesa tres fases. Primero es ridiculizada. Después recibe una violenta oposición. Finalmente es aceptada como hecho evidente." —Arthur Schopenhauer
Harry Elmer Barnes historiador por la Universidad de Columbia fue uno de los pioneros del revisionismo del Holocausto en Estados Unidos.
Mark Weber historiador estadounidense, otro gran difusor del revisionismo del Holocausto como director del Institute for Historical Review.
El revisionismo del Holocausto es una corriente histórica que tiene la finalidad de reinterpretar, a la luz de nuevas evidencias, los hechos acaecidos en Europa entre los años 1941 y 1946 y que fueron posteriormente tergiversados por los intereses políticos que impulsaron la creación del Estado de Israel en la región de Palestina en 1948.
La negación del Holocausto es a menudo la conclusión natural de la mayoría de los estudios revisionistas, al incluir nuevas pruebas forenses, análisis científicos y evidencia documental no disponible hace 60 años. Sin embargo, esta negación sólo comprende aspectos puntuales, como por ejemplo la existencia de cámaras de gas homicidas o la cifra de seis millones de víctimas judías. No niega la persecución de los judíos y otras minorías, el establecimiento de campos de concentración para grupos considerados como un riesgo para el Estado en guerra ni otros acontecimientos de la historia oficial.
Mark Dukes served in the U.S. Navy from 1979 to 1998, achieving the rank of Aviation Electronics Technician, Second Class. He completed extensive training in aviation electronics, including courses in basic electricity, communications fundamentals, and microelectronics repair. Dukes' transcript details his occupational experience maintaining and repairing electronic systems on aircraft as an Aviation Electronics Technician.
This document analyzes features across albums, trailers, and music videos from three different artists/groups - Imagine Dragons, Skepta, and The 1975 - to identify common branding elements. For Imagine Dragons, a consistent dark theme and atmosphere is used. Skepta prominently features a red stamp image of the artist across various products. The 1975 utilizes the color pink in multiple ways to relate to their target audience and establish a distinct visual identity with consistent fonts and color schemes.
Este documento presenta una introducción sobre los impactos negativos del desarrollo en el medio ambiente y los recursos naturales. Explica que a pesar de los esfuerzos de los gobiernos y las personas para promover la conservación, la contaminación y degradación continúan aumentando. Finalmente, señala que en Colombia el gobierno creó el Sistema Nacional Ambiental para coordinar acciones entre entidades estatales, investigadores y la sociedad civil con el fin de garantizar el derecho a un ambiente sano.
This document provides information about Bulgaria and Bulgarian culture through pictures, maps, and short passages of text. It discusses Bulgarian traditions like the Martenitsa holiday celebrated on March 1st, features of the Bulgarian flag and coat of arms, examples of traditional costumes that vary by region, and the history of Bulgarian pottery making. It also introduces Vasil Levski Secondary School and its patron Vasil Levski, a 19th century revolutionary hero of Bulgaria.
Entrepreneurship Bootcamp - The Art of the Start - How to start a venture bac...Michael Altendorf
The document provides guidance on starting a venture-capital backed company. It discusses important considerations such as developing a great founding team, creating a business plan, identifying sources of funding, defining the product and market, developing a go-to-market strategy, and managing finances and revenues. Key questions are presented to evaluate ideas, markets, competitors, and determine what investors will want to know. Iterative testing of assumptions is emphasized throughout the startup process.
This document provides an introduction to music videos, including their history and purpose. It discusses how music videos first emerged in the 1980s with the launch of MTV, which helped popularize the format and allowed artists to promote their music visually. The document also examines theories of how music videos can provide "visual pleasure" for audiences and be rewatched due to familiar visuals, shots, and intertextual references. Examples are given of highly viewed music videos like Taylor Swift's "Blank Space" that audiences find pleasurable to watch repeatedly due to creative visual elements.
O documento resume a história e aspectos da cidade de Luiz Alves, Santa Catarina. Foi fundada em 18 de julho de 1958 por imigrantes italianos e é conhecida como a terra da cachaça. Sua economia é baseada no agronegócio e turismo rural.
This document provides an overview of gout, including defining it as a medical condition characterized by recurrent attacks of acute inflammatory arthritis. Key points discussed include the signs and symptoms of pain, swelling and redness in affected joints; causes such as high uric acid levels in the blood which can be due to genetics, diet or medications; risk factors and complications; diagnosis through tests of synovial fluid, blood and x-rays; management through medications, diet changes and nursing care focused on pain management, mobility and anxiety reduction.
This document summarizes and analyzes the cover designs of several music albums. It discusses design elements like the use of color, images of the artist, mood, and text. For example, it notes that Coldplay's album uses bright colors to catch attention, while 67's album does not feature the band to draw focus to the music instead of the group. The document examines how design choices can appeal to audiences and represent different themes.
This document provides a summary of Mohammed Mustafa Awad's qualifications and experience. It outlines his educational background, including a Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering, relevant coursework in project planning and scheduling software, engineering skills including AutoCAD and structural analysis programs. It also lists his professional experience as a Project Coordination Engineer and Quantity Surveyor Engineer on precast concrete projects in Saudi Arabia and Jordan. References are provided.
a Analyst comment - JP Morgan on CarrekerMark Renfro
The document summarizes a briefing by St George Bank (SGB) on its Integrated Sales & Service (ISS) program. Key points: (1) ISS aims to improve customer service through standardized processes and empowered staff; (2) Implementation has been low cost and risks are low, with staff appearing well-motivated; (3) Early results are positive but long-term impacts remain unclear; (3) ISS could provide flexibility to manage costs and has been factored into SGB's earnings guidance.
Australia's Environmental Predictive CapabilityTERN Australia
Federating world-leading research, data and technical capabilities to create Australia’s National Environmental Prediction System (NEPS).
Community consultation presentation.
3-12 February 2020
Dr Michelle Barker (Facilitator)
(Presentation v5)
Understanding Continuous Design in F/OSS ProjectsBetsey Merkel
By authors Les Gasser1,2
gasser@uiuc.edu
Gabriel Ripoche1, 3
gripoche@uiuc.edu
Walt Scacchi2
wscacchi@ics.uci.edu
Bryan Penne1
bpenne@uiuc.edu
Abstract
Open Source Software (OSS) is in regular widespread use supporting critical
applications and infrastructure, including the Internet and World Wide Web themselves. The communities of OSS users and developers are often interwoven. The deep engagement of users and developers, coupled with the openness of systems lead to community-based system design and re-design activities that are continuous. Continuous redesign is facilitated by communication and knowledge-
sharing infrastructures such as persistent chat rooms, newsgroups, issue-
reporting/tracking repositories, sharable design representations and many kinds of
"software informalisms." These tools are arenas for managing the extensive, varied,
multimedia community knowledge that forms the foundation and the substance of
system requirements. Active community-based design processes and knowledge repositories create new ways of learning about, representing, and defining systems that challenge current models of representation and design. This paper presents several aspects of our research into continuous, open, community-based design
practices. We discuss several new insights into how communities represent
knowledge and capture requirements that derive from our qualitative empirical
studies of large (ca. 2GB+) repositories of problem-report data, primarily from the
Mozilla project.
The document summarizes a survey on hybrid software development approaches. It finds that most combinations follow a pattern where a traditional process model serves as a framework and agile practices are plugged in. It also finds that hybrid approaches are independent of company size and external triggers. The survey received responses from 69 participants and identified five major combination patterns. It concludes that hybrid approaches have become mainstream and are the result of natural process evolution driven by experience, learning, and pragmatism.
Measuring the impact of integrated systems research
Panel Speakers: Vincent Gitz, Natalia Estrada Estrada Carmona, Monica Biradavolu and Karl Hughes. Measuring the Impact of Integrated Systems Research (September 27, 2021 – September 30, 2021). Three-day virtual workshop co hosted by the CGIAR Research Programs on Water Land and Ecosystems (WLE); Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA); Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM); and SPIA, the Standing Panel on Impact Assessment of the CGIAR. The workshop took stock of existing and new methodological developments of monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment work, and discussed which are suitable to evaluate and assess complex, integrated systems research.
Usages of ICT : A user-oriented innovation processM@rsouin
The Gis M@rsouin is an interdisciplinary research center in Brittany that focuses on the study of internet usage and user-oriented innovation. It has three platforms - a technological platform, observatory, and laboratory experiment. The goals are to lead research programs, evaluate public policy, and collaborate with industry. The key areas of research are learning, social interaction, public policy, and markets. M@rsouin emphasizes interdisciplinary work, diversity of expertise, putting users at the core, observation in real contexts, and involving users throughout the innovation process.
University Public Driven Applications - Big Data and Organizational Design maria chiara pettenati
This document discusses improving access to and use of big data for university and public applications. It summarizes the discussions of a working group on this topic. The group examined current approaches to big data, potential future applications, and challenges. Recommendations focus on developing interdisciplinary education programs to train experts, providing open access to large datasets, and establishing frameworks and standards to support big data analysis. The goal is to leverage big data for addressing societal problems in areas like healthcare, transportation and the environment.
- The document discusses open risk analysis software, data, and methodologies. It introduces the Alliance for Global Open Risk Analysis (AGORA), which aims to promote open-source risk analysis tools and collaboration.
- AGORA includes universities and organizations that work to develop open-source risk software, share data and methodologies, and facilitate information exchange.
- An example project described is MIRISK, which intends to create a user-friendly tool using open-source software to help decision-makers assess natural hazard risks and vulnerabilities.
Foresight Methods and Practice: Lessons Learned from International Foresight ...Totti Könnölä
This document provides an overview of foresight methods and lessons learned from international foresight exercises. It discusses how foresight can contribute to the entire policy cycle from agenda setting to evaluation. It emphasizes that foresight designs must always be customized and that foresight tools should not be the first step, but should engage stakeholders. Key methods discussed include scenarios, roadmaps, and integrating different foresight techniques. Case studies from Chile and the IMS 2020 project are also summarized.
This document outlines common challenges faced by the UN in developing more impact-oriented monitoring and evaluation systems, and provides potential solutions. It notes that while some UN agencies conduct impact evaluations, many evaluations do not fully address attribution of impacts. It then presents examples of approaches that strengthen causal logic and frameworks to better assess attribution and aggregate evidence of impacts across levels, such as the GEF's Review of Outcome to Impact model and UNDP's meta-reviews of country program evaluations.
The EWG-DSS aims to encourage high-quality research collaboration within the decision support systems community. The group has experience in areas like multicriteria decision making, negotiation support systems, knowledge management, and innovative decision making methods. Member institutions are interested in projects involving collaborative decision making using social media data or applications related to smart cities and crisis management. The EWG-DSS homepage provides a summary of members' experience and contact information for coordinators to discuss potential collaboration opportunities.
FoME Symposium 2015 | Workshop 8: Current Evaluation Practices and Perspectiv...FOME2015
This presentation was held at the FoME Symposium, Oct. 1-2, 2015 at DW Akademie Bonn. FoME stands for "Forum Medien und Entwicklung". It's the German Forum "Media and Development", a network of institutions and individuals active in the field of media development cooperation.
Find the Symposium’s documentation here: http://fome.info/2015
Entrepreneurship Bootcamp - The Art of the Start - How to start a venture bac...Michael Altendorf
The document provides guidance on starting a venture-capital backed company. It discusses important considerations such as developing a great founding team, creating a business plan, identifying sources of funding, defining the product and market, developing a go-to-market strategy, and managing finances and revenues. Key questions are presented to evaluate ideas, markets, competitors, and determine what investors will want to know. Iterative testing of assumptions is emphasized throughout the startup process.
This document provides an introduction to music videos, including their history and purpose. It discusses how music videos first emerged in the 1980s with the launch of MTV, which helped popularize the format and allowed artists to promote their music visually. The document also examines theories of how music videos can provide "visual pleasure" for audiences and be rewatched due to familiar visuals, shots, and intertextual references. Examples are given of highly viewed music videos like Taylor Swift's "Blank Space" that audiences find pleasurable to watch repeatedly due to creative visual elements.
O documento resume a história e aspectos da cidade de Luiz Alves, Santa Catarina. Foi fundada em 18 de julho de 1958 por imigrantes italianos e é conhecida como a terra da cachaça. Sua economia é baseada no agronegócio e turismo rural.
This document provides an overview of gout, including defining it as a medical condition characterized by recurrent attacks of acute inflammatory arthritis. Key points discussed include the signs and symptoms of pain, swelling and redness in affected joints; causes such as high uric acid levels in the blood which can be due to genetics, diet or medications; risk factors and complications; diagnosis through tests of synovial fluid, blood and x-rays; management through medications, diet changes and nursing care focused on pain management, mobility and anxiety reduction.
This document summarizes and analyzes the cover designs of several music albums. It discusses design elements like the use of color, images of the artist, mood, and text. For example, it notes that Coldplay's album uses bright colors to catch attention, while 67's album does not feature the band to draw focus to the music instead of the group. The document examines how design choices can appeal to audiences and represent different themes.
This document provides a summary of Mohammed Mustafa Awad's qualifications and experience. It outlines his educational background, including a Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering, relevant coursework in project planning and scheduling software, engineering skills including AutoCAD and structural analysis programs. It also lists his professional experience as a Project Coordination Engineer and Quantity Surveyor Engineer on precast concrete projects in Saudi Arabia and Jordan. References are provided.
a Analyst comment - JP Morgan on CarrekerMark Renfro
The document summarizes a briefing by St George Bank (SGB) on its Integrated Sales & Service (ISS) program. Key points: (1) ISS aims to improve customer service through standardized processes and empowered staff; (2) Implementation has been low cost and risks are low, with staff appearing well-motivated; (3) Early results are positive but long-term impacts remain unclear; (3) ISS could provide flexibility to manage costs and has been factored into SGB's earnings guidance.
Australia's Environmental Predictive CapabilityTERN Australia
Federating world-leading research, data and technical capabilities to create Australia’s National Environmental Prediction System (NEPS).
Community consultation presentation.
3-12 February 2020
Dr Michelle Barker (Facilitator)
(Presentation v5)
Understanding Continuous Design in F/OSS ProjectsBetsey Merkel
By authors Les Gasser1,2
gasser@uiuc.edu
Gabriel Ripoche1, 3
gripoche@uiuc.edu
Walt Scacchi2
wscacchi@ics.uci.edu
Bryan Penne1
bpenne@uiuc.edu
Abstract
Open Source Software (OSS) is in regular widespread use supporting critical
applications and infrastructure, including the Internet and World Wide Web themselves. The communities of OSS users and developers are often interwoven. The deep engagement of users and developers, coupled with the openness of systems lead to community-based system design and re-design activities that are continuous. Continuous redesign is facilitated by communication and knowledge-
sharing infrastructures such as persistent chat rooms, newsgroups, issue-
reporting/tracking repositories, sharable design representations and many kinds of
"software informalisms." These tools are arenas for managing the extensive, varied,
multimedia community knowledge that forms the foundation and the substance of
system requirements. Active community-based design processes and knowledge repositories create new ways of learning about, representing, and defining systems that challenge current models of representation and design. This paper presents several aspects of our research into continuous, open, community-based design
practices. We discuss several new insights into how communities represent
knowledge and capture requirements that derive from our qualitative empirical
studies of large (ca. 2GB+) repositories of problem-report data, primarily from the
Mozilla project.
The document summarizes a survey on hybrid software development approaches. It finds that most combinations follow a pattern where a traditional process model serves as a framework and agile practices are plugged in. It also finds that hybrid approaches are independent of company size and external triggers. The survey received responses from 69 participants and identified five major combination patterns. It concludes that hybrid approaches have become mainstream and are the result of natural process evolution driven by experience, learning, and pragmatism.
Measuring the impact of integrated systems research
Panel Speakers: Vincent Gitz, Natalia Estrada Estrada Carmona, Monica Biradavolu and Karl Hughes. Measuring the Impact of Integrated Systems Research (September 27, 2021 – September 30, 2021). Three-day virtual workshop co hosted by the CGIAR Research Programs on Water Land and Ecosystems (WLE); Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA); Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM); and SPIA, the Standing Panel on Impact Assessment of the CGIAR. The workshop took stock of existing and new methodological developments of monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment work, and discussed which are suitable to evaluate and assess complex, integrated systems research.
Usages of ICT : A user-oriented innovation processM@rsouin
The Gis M@rsouin is an interdisciplinary research center in Brittany that focuses on the study of internet usage and user-oriented innovation. It has three platforms - a technological platform, observatory, and laboratory experiment. The goals are to lead research programs, evaluate public policy, and collaborate with industry. The key areas of research are learning, social interaction, public policy, and markets. M@rsouin emphasizes interdisciplinary work, diversity of expertise, putting users at the core, observation in real contexts, and involving users throughout the innovation process.
University Public Driven Applications - Big Data and Organizational Design maria chiara pettenati
This document discusses improving access to and use of big data for university and public applications. It summarizes the discussions of a working group on this topic. The group examined current approaches to big data, potential future applications, and challenges. Recommendations focus on developing interdisciplinary education programs to train experts, providing open access to large datasets, and establishing frameworks and standards to support big data analysis. The goal is to leverage big data for addressing societal problems in areas like healthcare, transportation and the environment.
- The document discusses open risk analysis software, data, and methodologies. It introduces the Alliance for Global Open Risk Analysis (AGORA), which aims to promote open-source risk analysis tools and collaboration.
- AGORA includes universities and organizations that work to develop open-source risk software, share data and methodologies, and facilitate information exchange.
- An example project described is MIRISK, which intends to create a user-friendly tool using open-source software to help decision-makers assess natural hazard risks and vulnerabilities.
Foresight Methods and Practice: Lessons Learned from International Foresight ...Totti Könnölä
This document provides an overview of foresight methods and lessons learned from international foresight exercises. It discusses how foresight can contribute to the entire policy cycle from agenda setting to evaluation. It emphasizes that foresight designs must always be customized and that foresight tools should not be the first step, but should engage stakeholders. Key methods discussed include scenarios, roadmaps, and integrating different foresight techniques. Case studies from Chile and the IMS 2020 project are also summarized.
This document outlines common challenges faced by the UN in developing more impact-oriented monitoring and evaluation systems, and provides potential solutions. It notes that while some UN agencies conduct impact evaluations, many evaluations do not fully address attribution of impacts. It then presents examples of approaches that strengthen causal logic and frameworks to better assess attribution and aggregate evidence of impacts across levels, such as the GEF's Review of Outcome to Impact model and UNDP's meta-reviews of country program evaluations.
The EWG-DSS aims to encourage high-quality research collaboration within the decision support systems community. The group has experience in areas like multicriteria decision making, negotiation support systems, knowledge management, and innovative decision making methods. Member institutions are interested in projects involving collaborative decision making using social media data or applications related to smart cities and crisis management. The EWG-DSS homepage provides a summary of members' experience and contact information for coordinators to discuss potential collaboration opportunities.
FoME Symposium 2015 | Workshop 8: Current Evaluation Practices and Perspectiv...FOME2015
This presentation was held at the FoME Symposium, Oct. 1-2, 2015 at DW Akademie Bonn. FoME stands for "Forum Medien und Entwicklung". It's the German Forum "Media and Development", a network of institutions and individuals active in the field of media development cooperation.
Find the Symposium’s documentation here: http://fome.info/2015
This presentation was provided by Patricia Anderson of the University of Michigan during the NISO virtual conference, That Cutting Edge: Technology's Impact on Scholarly Research Processes in the Library, held on October 24, 2018.
Integrating qualitative data analysis and interactive system designpbelouin
This document discusses using qualitative data analysis and social science methods to inform software development methodologies. It provides a brief history of software development methods, highlighting the shift from technology-focused to user-centered approaches. It proposes using tools from fields like sociology and conversation analysis to better understand human interactions in development. Specifically, it suggests applying discourse analysis, conversation analysis, and analyzing identity formation to a medical exam item banking project to directly influence its design.
This talk seeks to introduce the CHAOSS -Community Health Analytics for Open Source Projects- to the InnerSource practitioners. Metrics and KPIs are of importance for the InnerSource Commons as seen in the several talks and discussions during the last summits.
CHAOSS was born in 2017 under the Linux Foundation umbrella and this is a hub of OSS projects and organizations participating in the definition of metrics of interest for Open Source projects.
As active members of CHAOSS, there are some lessons learnt when dealing with those metrics and KPIs, either at the theoretical definition and from a software implementation that might be worth exploring across the InnerSource ecosystem.
This talk will bring this discussion and how to potentially build bridges between both
Call for Papers (Extended Abstracts): 5th International Conference of the UNE...Graciela Mariani
The Second call for Papers (Extended Abstracts) for the 5th International Conference of the UNESCO Chair in Technologies for Development has been officially launched.
Tech4Dev 2018, gives you an opportunity to:
Ø Present your research at a unique multidisciplinary Conference focused on innovative technology for social impact in the Global South.
Ø Network across disciplines and fields of technology, to promote the development, deployment, adaptation, and scaling of new solutions for the Global South.
Ø Identify opportunities for collaboration with diverse stakeholders – academics, students, engineers, entrepreneurs, policymakers, practitioners, and social scientists- interested in technological innovation in the Global South.
Ø Participate in the fabulous social event of the conference that will take place in the Lavaux Vineyards, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Ø Build capacity among students and young professionals to engage in multidisciplinary problem solving for social impact.
Tech4Dev 2018 invites researchers, students, practitioners, industry or anyone interested in critical issues in Technologies for Development to submit proposals for Papers (Extended Abstracts). Submissions should emphasize the value of technological innovation while also acknowledging the limits of technology in generating inclusive social and economic development.
Further information, templates and material can be found on the conference website https://cooperation.epfl.ch/Tech4Dev2018.
Workshop II on a Roadmap to Future GovernmentSamos2019Summit
In this session we proceed to presentations and discussion concerning the the development of the new roadmap for digital government. Two projects (Gov3.0 roadmap and Big Policy Canvas) will join forces in this exciting endeavor.
Organizers: Maria Wimmer, Professor, Koblentz University, Germany; Francesco Mureddu, Associate Directorr, Lisbon Council, Belgium; Juliane Schmeling Fraunhofer Institut FOKUS, Researcher, Germany; Shoumaya Ben Dhaou, Researcher, United Nations University, PT
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Why You Should Replace Windows 11 with Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 for enhanced perfor...SOFTTECHHUB
The choice of an operating system plays a pivotal role in shaping our computing experience. For decades, Microsoft's Windows has dominated the market, offering a familiar and widely adopted platform for personal and professional use. However, as technological advancements continue to push the boundaries of innovation, alternative operating systems have emerged, challenging the status quo and offering users a fresh perspective on computing.
One such alternative that has garnered significant attention and acclaim is Nitrux Linux 3.5.0, a sleek, powerful, and user-friendly Linux distribution that promises to redefine the way we interact with our devices. With its focus on performance, security, and customization, Nitrux Linux presents a compelling case for those seeking to break free from the constraints of proprietary software and embrace the freedom and flexibility of open-source computing.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 6DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 6. In this session, we will cover Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI webinar offers an in-depth exploration of leveraging cutting-edge technologies for test automation within the UiPath platform. Attendees will delve into the integration of generative AI, a test automation solution, with Open AI advanced natural language processing capabilities.
Throughout the session, participants will discover how this synergy empowers testers to automate repetitive tasks, enhance testing accuracy, and expedite the software testing life cycle. Topics covered include the seamless integration process, practical use cases, and the benefits of harnessing AI-driven automation for UiPath testing initiatives. By attending this webinar, testers, and automation professionals can gain valuable insights into harnessing the power of AI to optimize their test automation workflows within the UiPath ecosystem, ultimately driving efficiency and quality in software development processes.
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into integrating generative AI.
2. Understanding how this integration enhances test automation within the UiPath platform
3. Practical demonstrations
4. Exploration of real-world use cases illustrating the benefits of AI-driven test automation for UiPath
Topics covered:
What is generative AI
Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath integration with generative AI
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Full-RAG: A modern architecture for hyper-personalizationZilliz
Mike Del Balso, CEO & Co-Founder at Tecton, presents "Full RAG," a novel approach to AI recommendation systems, aiming to push beyond the limitations of traditional models through a deep integration of contextual insights and real-time data, leveraging the Retrieval-Augmented Generation architecture. This talk will outline Full RAG's potential to significantly enhance personalization, address engineering challenges such as data management and model training, and introduce data enrichment with reranking as a key solution. Attendees will gain crucial insights into the importance of hyperpersonalization in AI, the capabilities of Full RAG for advanced personalization, and strategies for managing complex data integrations for deploying cutting-edge AI solutions.
For the full video of this presentation, please visit: https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2024/06/building-and-scaling-ai-applications-with-the-nx-ai-manager-a-presentation-from-network-optix/
Robin van Emden, Senior Director of Data Science at Network Optix, presents the “Building and Scaling AI Applications with the Nx AI Manager,” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit.
In this presentation, van Emden covers the basics of scaling edge AI solutions using the Nx tool kit. He emphasizes the process of developing AI models and deploying them globally. He also showcases the conversion of AI models and the creation of effective edge AI pipelines, with a focus on pre-processing, model conversion, selecting the appropriate inference engine for the target hardware and post-processing.
van Emden shows how Nx can simplify the developer’s life and facilitate a rapid transition from concept to production-ready applications.He provides valuable insights into developing scalable and efficient edge AI solutions, with a strong focus on practical implementation.
TrustArc Webinar - 2024 Global Privacy SurveyTrustArc
How does your privacy program stack up against your peers? What challenges are privacy teams tackling and prioritizing in 2024?
In the fifth annual Global Privacy Benchmarks Survey, we asked over 1,800 global privacy professionals and business executives to share their perspectives on the current state of privacy inside and outside of their organizations. This year’s report focused on emerging areas of importance for privacy and compliance professionals, including considerations and implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, building brand trust, and different approaches for achieving higher privacy competence scores.
See how organizational priorities and strategic approaches to data security and privacy are evolving around the globe.
This webinar will review:
- The top 10 privacy insights from the fifth annual Global Privacy Benchmarks Survey
- The top challenges for privacy leaders, practitioners, and organizations in 2024
- Key themes to consider in developing and maintaining your privacy program
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RISCOSS platform: evaluation results
1. The RISCOSS project and
results
Angelo Susi (FBK)
and the RISCOSS team
susi@fbk.eu
2. Agenda
Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) at a glance
RISCOSS project
– Objectives, Methodology, Techniques
FBK and PMI - NIC
The experience:
– Preparation, Execution, Results
3. FBK ?
Fondazione Bruno Kessler was established on March 1° 2007.
It is a non-profit organization with public interest.
Its main mission is:
To promote, implement and develop research.
To promote and disseminate innovation.
Internationalization.
Technology transfer.
1962
Birth of the Istituto
Trentino di Cultura
(ITC)
1972
Free University
of Trento
becomes public
1973
ITC founds the
«Istituto storico italo-
germanico»
1975
Birth of the
«Istituto di
Scienze
Religiose»
1976
Establishment of
the «Istituto per la
Ricerca Scientifica e
Tecnologica»
2007
Birth of
«Fondazione
Bruno
Kessler»
4. FBK some numbers
• 620 people
• 2 hubs, one on science and technology, the
other on social science and humanities
• 7 research centers
• More than 380 researchers
• 220 undergrad and grad students, post-doctoral
researchers and visiting professors.
• 30 controlled spin-off and start-up
• More than 200 partnership e strategic
collaboration with local and international
companies
6. Center for Information and Communication
Technology
Founded in the second half of 1980s, the FBK-ICT Center is an international
research center that focuses on key areas of information technology
Staff:
> 200 people
Profile:
- 90 researchers
- 50 technologists
- 60 PhD students
- 5 project managers ( 4 PMP)
Excellence – H-index:
> 30: 12 researchers
> 20: 16 researchers
> 15: 16 researchers
Self-financing capability greater than 53% over 2008-14
• more than 11.3 M€ funds acquired on competitive basis in 2013-2015
• 31 active EU projects
• 16 Projects with Private Companies
7. Research Structure
ICT-irst is organized into three Research Lines (RL) and
three High Impact Initiatives (HII)
The Research Lines group units and
research projects with different
expertise but having common
themes and challenges, in order to
create a shared direction,
language, approach, infrastructure
and technologies.
High Impact Initiatives aim at
impacting on territory, market and
society in a systematic and
proactive way, integrating research
with business and impact on
territory.
8. Our Software Engineering group
Researchers:
Paolo Tonella (head)
Anna Perini
Angelo Susi
Mariano Ceccato
Roberto Tiella
PhD Students:
Gunel Jahangirova
Matteo Biagiola
Biniam Fisseha Demissie
Jacek Dabrowski
• Collaborations
University College London, UK; Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada; Wayne State University, Detroit, USA;
University of Trento; MIS, University of Haifa, Israel; University of Namur, Belgium; UPC Spain; UZH, Switzerland;
UFES, Brazil; …
Postdocs:
Andrea Avancini
Denisse Munante
Alberto Siena
Fitsum Meshesha Kifetew
Itzel Morales Ramirez
9. Risks and Open Source Software
Insufficient risk management has been reported (see
Gartner report in 2016) as one of the topmost mistakes
to avoid when implementing OSS-based solutions
Great opportunity
Possible risks
– Licenses of the components and integration
– Quality of the software components
– Intgration of the components in existing sofware
– Maintenance and evolution of the software
10. Il progetto RISCOSSRISCOSS project
Acronim Risks and Costs in Open Source Software Adoption
Start 01/11/2012
Duration 36 months
Call FP7‐ICT‐2011‐8, Objective 1.2
Keywords Open‐Source Software, Decision‐making Techniques, Risk Management
Budget 3.2 Million EU
@RiscossProjecthttp://www.riscoss.eu
11. Project Mission
Specification of risk identification, management and
mitigation methods
community-based and industry-supported Open
Source Software (OSS) development, composition
and life cycle management
individually and collaboratively manage OSS
adoption risks
for
to
12. … in particular
The RISCOSS framework will enable industrial stakeholders to:
practicing an effective management of OSS integration related
risks
controlling and reducing the costs derived from the adoption
of OSS
pushing for innovation to take the best of this strategic
movement
13. Project vision
Decisional level (risks, costs, …)
observations requests
requestssuggestions
OSS projects
and
components
produce
OSS projects and
components
information
Technical levels (software ecosystem)
OSS ECOSYSTEM
ADOPTER
COMMUNITY
14. Project Approach
Identification of foundational organisational and risk
domain concepts
Modelling of OSS ecosystems
Support the OSS adoption risk management and
mitigation strategies
Development of guidelines for the design and
implementation of a continuous improvement plan
Evaluation of the approach
15. 3-layer approach for risk assessment
Software and Business Model
Measurements
OSS project
indicators
OSS community
indicators
Contextual
indicators
Adopter
Analyst
Layer 3
Business analysis
Layer 2
Risk indicators
Layer 1
Data Gathering
Context
OSS projects
Community
16. Techniques
Statistics, Bayesian
networks
Logic based
Multi-criteria decision
making techniques
lives(community) v disappear(community) :- low_active(community). RULES
low_active(community) v high_active(community). FACTS
Model 1: disappear(community), low_active(community)
Model 2: lives(community), low_active(community)
Model 3: high_active(community)
18. PMI-NIC and FBK for RISCOSS
Common interest in the problem of risk management
RISCOSS has a focused topic on OSS
Exploring two directions:
– Risk in OSS in IT companies where PMI members are active
– Use of the RISCOSS method for other risk related problems
19. Preparing the evaluation
Agreement between PMI-NIC and FBK to start the
research activity
Then a call for volunteers:
– We had 6 volunteers that participated in the experience
– Volunteers are not new to the risk evaluation
– But are new in risk analysis with automated tools
Identification of a project manager from Project
Management Office of PMI-NIC for the RISCOSS
evaluation activity
A meeting to:
– explain the methodology
– make a demo of some of the functionalities of the platform
The evaluation
20. Steps for the evaluation
The volunteers are trained to use the platform
Evaluate risks on:
– predefined scenarios
– scenarios from their daily experience
Report the evaluation of the experience via a
questionnaire
– Replying to closed questions (in a [1,5] scale, 3 is neutral)
– Adding comments especially related to the actual
possibility of using the platform in the PM activity
21. Evaluation results 1/3
Usefulness of the method and supporting platform
– Using RISCOSS would enable to make decisions more
quickly, efficiently and effectively (on average 3.66, 4 and
3.83)
– Using the system it would increase the productivity (on
average 3.3)
– In general having a tool that supports in making decisions
is useful (on average 4.16)
22. Evaluation results 2/3
Interaction with the RISCOSS functionalities
– The objective of the risk management process in the
platform was clear (on average 3.66)
– Learning to operate the RISCOSS would be NOT so easy (on
average 2.66)
23. Evaluation results 3/3
Comments
– Appreciated the method and the possibility to have a level
of automation in risk assessment
– Appreciated the possibility to specify new risk models
– Some scepticism on the possibility to have a completely
automated risk assessment
– Possibility to exploit it in other fields (e.g., mechanical
engineering, logistic) where it is possible to specify new
risk models
24. Conclusion
Great human experience
Allowed the RISCOSS team to enter in contact with a
different environment with respect to the typical IT
area
About the questions
– Allowed to get an important feedback on the real
usefulness and problems of the RISCOSS methodology and
platform
About the comments
– New ideas
– New possible risk models
– New contexts for the application
25. Thanks to
The volunteers: Paolo Belleri, Andrea Centofante,
Massimo Cilloni, Silvio di Pasquale, Eustachio
Nicoletti, Cinzia Pellegrino
PMI-NIC and Branch Trentino Alto Adige/Südtirol:
Armando Beffani, Chiara Canavera, Andrea Cattani,
Silvia Valentini
26. Contact info
Angelo Susi
e-mail: susi@fbk.eu
phone: +39 0461 314344
Unit web page: https://se.fbk.eu/
ICT center web page: https://ict.fbk.eu/
To try RISCOSS:
– Write / Call us