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Skills Assessment for National Adaptation Planning: How Countries Can Identif...UN CC:Learn
This activity report highlights a way of assessing the skills gap that a country may have in designing and implementing a national adaptation plan. To achieve this, the document proposes a skills assessment framework. The report is also available in French and can be download from UN CC:Learn website.
GCARD2: Briefing paper Foresight Guiding Research and Innovation at regional...GCARD Conferences
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Visit the conference site for more information: http://www.egfar.org/gcard-2012
La question abordée concerne la mise en place d’actions collectives au niveau régional afin d’intégrer les résultats de nombreux travaux de la prospective (du niveau mondial, régional, national et local) déjà réalisés dans les actions stratégiques régionales visant les orientations à long terme. C’est aussi une nécessité de partager ces perspectives puisque les initiatives régionales ne sont pas indépendantes de celles nationales et mondiales et par conséquent ont besoin d’être articulées. Par ailleurs, la prospective relative aux activités est plus développée dans certaines régions dont les expériences peuvent être utiles pour d’autres régions.
Visitez le site web de la GCARD2 pour plus d'informations: http://www.egfar.org/gcard-2012
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Read related blog post: Industrious ants, or lone leopards? http://ccafs.cgiar.org/blog/industrious-ants-or-lone-leopards
CCAFS and ECI Oxford are organizing regional socio-economic scenarios in CCAFS regions to build regional capacity for governance: improving food security, environments and livelihoods across sectors under uncertainty.
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The problem being addressed is that of building collective actions at regional level in order to incorporate the outcomes of many foresight works (from global, regional, national and local) already conducted into regional strategic actions looking at longer term orientations. There is also a need to share these perspectives as regional initiatives are not independent from both national and global and therefore need to be articulated. Further, foresight related activities are more developed in some regions and sharing their experiences is useful for other regions.
Visit the conference site for more information: http://www.egfar.org/gcard-2012
La question abordée concerne la mise en place d’actions collectives au niveau régional afin d’intégrer les résultats de nombreux travaux de la prospective (du niveau mondial, régional, national et local) déjà réalisés dans les actions stratégiques régionales visant les orientations à long terme. C’est aussi une nécessité de partager ces perspectives puisque les initiatives régionales ne sont pas indépendantes de celles nationales et mondiales et par conséquent ont besoin d’être articulées. Par ailleurs, la prospective relative aux activités est plus développée dans certaines régions dont les expériences peuvent être utiles pour d’autres régions.
Visitez le site web de la GCARD2 pour plus d'informations: http://www.egfar.org/gcard-2012
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Scope of the global climate agreement, Forest Day 3
Sunday, 13 December 2009
Copenhagen, Denmark
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International Association for Impact Assessment Training Courses
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(env. eng., MSc, PhD)
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STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT (SEA) current practices, future demands an...zubeditufail
International Association for Impact Assessment Training Courses
STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT (SEA) current practices, future demands and capacity-building needs
by Maria Rosário Partidário
(env. eng., MSc, PhD)
Presentation for Mobility 2011 convention November 27th 2011 at the David Intercontinental Hotel at Tel Aviv. Presentation discusses the implication of the mobile and smartphone revolution on Enterprise IT departments.Everyone agrees that mobile is by far the largest digital revolution of the decade, but many organizations fail to build a good enough infrastructure and platform in order to create an effective mobile communication channel. In the presentation I would present realcommerce approach to the way organization should plan and implement their mobile development efforts
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Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
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Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
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I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
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In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
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Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
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Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
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A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish Caching
GWP CEE Integrated Drought Management Programme by Sabina Bokal
1. From national to regional plans
GWP CEE Integrated Drought
Management Programme
High-Level Meeting on National Drought Policy
Geneva, 11 March 2013
Sabina Bokal, Ania Grobicki, Janusz Kindler, Danka Thalmeinerova
1
2. Future climate
• better drought
monitoring
• better drought
increased management system
frequency of • better social
extreme weather response to manage
events the drought risk
2
3. … about what?
How it all began?
Drought situation in CEE and inception phase
Regional programme proposal
Structure of the project & main outputs
Role of advocacy in IDMP activities
3
4. Bottom-up
Sharing best approach
practices
and
knowledge
Drought
FROM NATIONAL TO management
REGIONAL PLANS plans
Vertical and
horizontal
connection Transnational
cooperation
4
5. 1. How it all began?
• collectively working on improving drought
management through a risk-based approach
• spatial scope of the WMO/GWP
programme is global
Results will be policy relevant and
tailored to specific regional and
national needs and requirements
5
6. FOUR KEY PRINCIPLES OF WMO/GWP PROGRAMME
1. From REACTIVE to PROACTIVE
2. Integration: regional, national, local & all
sectors impacted by drought
3. Sharing knowledge with stakeholders
across sectors at all levels
4. Capacity building
6
7. 2. Inception phase
Review of:
• Drought situation,
existing drought risks
• Policies and strategies
• National and regional initiatives
… in GWP CEE region
7
8. DROUGHT and CEE REGION
• Variability and change in
precipitation
• Warm and slightly drier summers
• Increased frequency of extreme
weather events
• Agriculture the most vulnerable to
drought
• Well developed meteorological
and hydrological monitoring but not as a support for decision
makers.
• No sharing of information and knowledge between countries
8
9. DROUGHT MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES in CEE
COUNTRIES
• There is no regional strategy as such;
• all CEE countries have more or less advanced documents
with some instructions how to cope with drought events;
• need to improve national drought monitoring and
management policies – to increase preparedness and
reducing drought effects;
• most CEE countries have well developed meteorological
and hydrological monitoring – not for support for the
decision makers.
9
10. 3. Regional programme proposal
Inception phase was closed by the regional workshop in
Slovakia (October 2012).
Principal programme objectives:
• Policy and management guidance
• sharing best practices and knowledge for drought
management,
• Coordinated regional framework for drought
monitoring, early warning, prediction and management
• Develop guidelines and tools for the development of
regional, national and local drought policies and plans
• Capacity building
10
11. IDM PROGRAMME
Estimated duration: 2013 – 2015
Project team: GWP CEE and CWPs, together with their
national (e.g. National Meteorological and Hydrological
Services) and international drought management related
partners.
Partners: more then 40 organizations from 9 CEE
countries (intergovermental (UN Agencies, Regional
Drought Centers, especially DMCSEE), govermental &
non-govermental)
11
12. 4. Structure of the programme
Policy advice + practical experiences
Focuses on integrated approach not on fragmented
solutions
Elements of the IDMP Programme:
• Policy advices
• Demonstration projects
• Capacity building & knowledge management
• Regional cooperation & transnational integrated
approach
12
13. 4 OUTPUTS
Countries
Innovative
supported to
solutions to
incorporated
enhance
drought
drought
management
resilience of
issues into their
countries
national plans
Building
capacity of
Capacity
GWP network
building and
and enhance
knowledge
regional/
transfer
country level of
fund raising
13
14. 8 WORK PACKAGES
Regional and
Trasboundary
Cooperation
Governance National planning
and processes
Fundraising
Investments
Knowledge and
Projects
awareness
Proposals
Capacity Demonstration
Development Projects
14
15. MAIN OUTPUTS
• Coordinated regional framework for drought monitoring,
early warning, prediction and management,
• guidelines for the preparation of the Drought Management
Plans,
• national consultation dialogues,
• map of the areas most vulnerable to drought,
• case studies – mitigation measures for reducing drought
impacts,
• workshops & capacity building trainings,
• investment schemes of selected demonstration projects,
• good practice compendium, …
15
16. IDMP BENEFICIARIES
• People living in drought prone areas
• government institutions responsible for developing
drought management policies, monitoring and systems
for drought risk mitigation, prediction and response at
different scales;
• Decision-makers and managers implementing these
policies and systems at different levels;
• NGOs involved in drought advocacy, awareness and
response effects
• ultimate target group - population and all stakeholders
vulnerable to drought
16
17. 5. Role of advocacy in IDMP activities
• Advocacy is about influencing people, policies,
structures and systems in order to bring about
change
• Developing guidelines together with the
stakeholders (at workshops) - support tool for
preparation of the drought management plans
• National consultation dialogues – to support
process of the development of the DMPs
• Capacity building trainings – to build capacity of
key actors to implement the process of the
preparation of the DMP
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