Objectives: 1. Gain an understanding of key trends in ICT innovation which are influencing/disrupting crisis informatics. 2. Be able to trace these trends through discussions later this semester, and understand their influence and potential. 3. Introduce visualization lab
Slideshare lost the previous upload which had nearly 70K views. Re-uploading. http://knoesis.org/?q=node/2633
With the explosion in social media (1B+ Facebook users, 500M+ Twitter users) and ubiquitous mobile access (6B+ mobile phone subscribers) sharing their observations and opinions, we have unprecedented opportunities to extract social signals, create spatio-temporal mappings, perform analytics on social data, and support applications that vary from situational awareness during crisis response, preparedness and rebuilding phases to advanced analytics on social data, and gaining valuable insights to support improved decision making.This tutorial weaves three themes and corresponding relevant topics- a.) citizen sensing and crisis mapping, b.) technical challenges and recent research for leveraging citizen sensing to improve crisis response coordination, and c.) experiences in building robust and scalable platforms/systems. It will couple technical insights with identification of computational techniques and algorithms along with real-world examples. We will also do exemplary demos of the features in the Sahana, CrowdMap (Ushahidi's version) and Twitris platforms while elaborating on the practical issues and pitfalls of the development and operation of these large-scale platforms, especially during the real-time crisis response
Canada is a data and technological society. There is no sector that is uninformed by data or unmediated by code, algorithms, software and infrastructure. Consider the Internet of Things (IoT), smart cities, and precision agriculture; or smart fisheries, forestry, and energy and of course governing. In a data based and technological society, leadership is the responsibility of all citizens, a parent, teacher, scholar, administrator, public servant, nurse and doctor, mayor and councillor, fisher, builder, business person, industrialist, MP, MLA, PM, and so on. In other words leadership is distributed and requires people power. This form of citizenship, according to Andrew Feenberg, Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Technology, requires agency, knowledge and the capacity to act or power. In this GovMaker Keynote I will introduce the concept of technological citizenship, I will discuss what principled public interest governing might look like, and how we might go about critically applying philosophy in our daily practice. In terms of practice I will discuss innovative policy and regulation such as the right to repair movement, EU legislation such as the right to explanation, data subjects and the right to access and also data sovereignty from a globalization and an indigenous perspective.
This tutorial presents tools and techniques for effectively utilizing the Internet of Things (IoT) for building advanced applications, including the Physical-Cyber-Social (PCS) systems. The issues and challenges related to IoT, semantic data modelling, annotation, knowledge representation (e.g. modelling for constrained environments, complexity issues and time/location dependency of data), integration, analy- sis, and reasoning will be discussed. The tutorial will de- scribe recent developments on creating annotation models and semantic description frameworks for IoT data (e.g. such as W3C Semantic Sensor Network ontology). A review of enabling technologies and common scenarios for IoT applications from the data and knowledge engineering point of view will be discussed. Information processing, reasoning, and knowledge extraction, along with existing solutions re- lated to these topics will be presented. The tutorial summarizes state-of-the-art research and developments on PCS systems, IoT related ontology development, linked data, do- main knowledge integration and management, querying large- scale IoT data, and AI applications for automated knowledge extraction from real world data.
Related: Semantic Sensor Web: http://knoesis.org/projects/ssw
Physical-Cyber-Social Computing: http://wiki.knoesis.org/index.php/PCS
Building a Citizen Engaged Research Project
Earth Observation Summer School, ESA
ESRIN
Frascati (Rome) Italy
August 4, 2016
Summary: How can researchers incorporate citizen science into their work? Presenting some tools, best practices and techniques from Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, OpenStreetMap and Qatar Computing Research Institute.
About Summer School - https://earth.esa.int/web/eo-summer-school/home1
About HOT - https://hotosm.org/
Virtual Operations Support Teams - The Basics
Social media and social networking are rapidly growing forms of communication and social media is becoming an integral part of disaster response. It's shaping how crises are communicated and responses are coordinated and Emergency Managers need to consider the ongoing resource implications of engaging in social media.
Emergency Managers need to ensure that staff receive appropriate training in both the use of the social media tools and policies associated with their use. Emergency Managers will also have to make sure staff have enough time to validate social media content, push quality and timely information, monitor, moderate, respond to comments, archive and communicate actionable intelligence to decision makers.
What resources does your agency have to commit to the effort?
An innovative solution regarding these resourcing challenges is the development of a Virtual Operations Support Team (VOST).
Virtual Operations Support (VOS) for emergency management and disaster recovery makes use of new communication technologies and social media tools (free and paid for dependent on VOST).
A team of trained agents provide support via the internet to those on-site who may otherwise be overwhelmed by the volume of data generated during a disaster.
VOS Teams (VOST) are activated to perform specific functions in support of affected organizations & jurisdictions. Each VOST has a Team Leader that reports directly to the affected organization/ jurisdiction.
Additional VOSTs may be established and activated to coordinate the work and maintain an effective span of control.
Disclaimer: This presentation is a conceptual description and may vary and be subject to change as per emergency management agency requirements.
Presentation by Caroline Milligan ( @Caz_Milligan ) and Scott Reuter ( @sct_r )
Objectives: 1. Gain an understanding of key trends in ICT innovation which are influencing/disrupting crisis informatics. 2. Be able to trace these trends through discussions later this semester, and understand their influence and potential. 3. Introduce visualization lab
Slideshare lost the previous upload which had nearly 70K views. Re-uploading. http://knoesis.org/?q=node/2633
With the explosion in social media (1B+ Facebook users, 500M+ Twitter users) and ubiquitous mobile access (6B+ mobile phone subscribers) sharing their observations and opinions, we have unprecedented opportunities to extract social signals, create spatio-temporal mappings, perform analytics on social data, and support applications that vary from situational awareness during crisis response, preparedness and rebuilding phases to advanced analytics on social data, and gaining valuable insights to support improved decision making.This tutorial weaves three themes and corresponding relevant topics- a.) citizen sensing and crisis mapping, b.) technical challenges and recent research for leveraging citizen sensing to improve crisis response coordination, and c.) experiences in building robust and scalable platforms/systems. It will couple technical insights with identification of computational techniques and algorithms along with real-world examples. We will also do exemplary demos of the features in the Sahana, CrowdMap (Ushahidi's version) and Twitris platforms while elaborating on the practical issues and pitfalls of the development and operation of these large-scale platforms, especially during the real-time crisis response
Canada is a data and technological society. There is no sector that is uninformed by data or unmediated by code, algorithms, software and infrastructure. Consider the Internet of Things (IoT), smart cities, and precision agriculture; or smart fisheries, forestry, and energy and of course governing. In a data based and technological society, leadership is the responsibility of all citizens, a parent, teacher, scholar, administrator, public servant, nurse and doctor, mayor and councillor, fisher, builder, business person, industrialist, MP, MLA, PM, and so on. In other words leadership is distributed and requires people power. This form of citizenship, according to Andrew Feenberg, Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Technology, requires agency, knowledge and the capacity to act or power. In this GovMaker Keynote I will introduce the concept of technological citizenship, I will discuss what principled public interest governing might look like, and how we might go about critically applying philosophy in our daily practice. In terms of practice I will discuss innovative policy and regulation such as the right to repair movement, EU legislation such as the right to explanation, data subjects and the right to access and also data sovereignty from a globalization and an indigenous perspective.
This tutorial presents tools and techniques for effectively utilizing the Internet of Things (IoT) for building advanced applications, including the Physical-Cyber-Social (PCS) systems. The issues and challenges related to IoT, semantic data modelling, annotation, knowledge representation (e.g. modelling for constrained environments, complexity issues and time/location dependency of data), integration, analy- sis, and reasoning will be discussed. The tutorial will de- scribe recent developments on creating annotation models and semantic description frameworks for IoT data (e.g. such as W3C Semantic Sensor Network ontology). A review of enabling technologies and common scenarios for IoT applications from the data and knowledge engineering point of view will be discussed. Information processing, reasoning, and knowledge extraction, along with existing solutions re- lated to these topics will be presented. The tutorial summarizes state-of-the-art research and developments on PCS systems, IoT related ontology development, linked data, do- main knowledge integration and management, querying large- scale IoT data, and AI applications for automated knowledge extraction from real world data.
Related: Semantic Sensor Web: http://knoesis.org/projects/ssw
Physical-Cyber-Social Computing: http://wiki.knoesis.org/index.php/PCS
Building a Citizen Engaged Research Project
Earth Observation Summer School, ESA
ESRIN
Frascati (Rome) Italy
August 4, 2016
Summary: How can researchers incorporate citizen science into their work? Presenting some tools, best practices and techniques from Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, OpenStreetMap and Qatar Computing Research Institute.
About Summer School - https://earth.esa.int/web/eo-summer-school/home1
About HOT - https://hotosm.org/
Virtual Operations Support Teams - The Basics
Social media and social networking are rapidly growing forms of communication and social media is becoming an integral part of disaster response. It's shaping how crises are communicated and responses are coordinated and Emergency Managers need to consider the ongoing resource implications of engaging in social media.
Emergency Managers need to ensure that staff receive appropriate training in both the use of the social media tools and policies associated with their use. Emergency Managers will also have to make sure staff have enough time to validate social media content, push quality and timely information, monitor, moderate, respond to comments, archive and communicate actionable intelligence to decision makers.
What resources does your agency have to commit to the effort?
An innovative solution regarding these resourcing challenges is the development of a Virtual Operations Support Team (VOST).
Virtual Operations Support (VOS) for emergency management and disaster recovery makes use of new communication technologies and social media tools (free and paid for dependent on VOST).
A team of trained agents provide support via the internet to those on-site who may otherwise be overwhelmed by the volume of data generated during a disaster.
VOS Teams (VOST) are activated to perform specific functions in support of affected organizations & jurisdictions. Each VOST has a Team Leader that reports directly to the affected organization/ jurisdiction.
Additional VOSTs may be established and activated to coordinate the work and maintain an effective span of control.
Disclaimer: This presentation is a conceptual description and may vary and be subject to change as per emergency management agency requirements.
Presentation by Caroline Milligan ( @Caz_Milligan ) and Scott Reuter ( @sct_r )
A dystopian view of our evolving knowledge infrastructure. Talk in session "Reproducibility in new digital scholarship – bigger, faster, better?" at the Alan Turing Institute Symposium on Reproducibility for Data Centric Research, St Hugh's, Oxford, 7th April 2016
Data Science For Social Good: Tackling the Challenge of HomelessnessAnita Luthra
A talk presented at the Champions Leadership Conference Series - leveraging data provided by New York City’s Department of Homeless Services, software vendor Tibco partnered with SumAll.Org to help tackle the societal challenge of homelessness in New York City.
Kno.e.sis Approach to Impactful Research & Training for Exceptional CareersAmit Sheth
Abstract
Kno.e.sis (http://knoesis.org) is a world-class research center that uses semantic, cognitive, and perceptual computing for gathering insights from physical/IoT, cyber/Web, and social and enterprise (e.g., clinical) big data. We innovate and employ semantic web, machine learning, NLP/IR, data mining, network science and highly scalable computing techniques. Our highly interdisciplinary research impacts health and clinical applications, biomedical and translational research, epidemiology, cognitive science, social good, policy, development, etc. A majority of our $12+ million in active funds come from the NSF and NIH. In this talk, I will provide an overview of some of our major research projects.
Kno.e.sis is highly successful in its primary mission of exceptional student outcomes: our students have exceptional publication and real-world impact and our PhDs compete with their counterparts from top 10 schools for initial jobs in research universities, top industry research labs, and highly competitive companies. A key reason for Kno.e.sis' success is its unique work culture involving teamwork to solve complex problems. Practically all our work involves real-world challenges, real-world data, interdisciplinary collaborators, path-breaking research to solve challenges, real-world deployments, real-world use, and measurable real-world impact.
In this talk, I will also seek to discuss our choice of research topics and our unique ecosystem that prepares our students for exceptional careers.
Opening talk at the "Interdisciplinary Data Resources to Address the Challenges of Urban Living” Workshop at the Urban Big Data Centre, University of Glasgow, 4 April 2016
NZ VOST Training Guide
12th October 2012 v1
This guide was delivered to Civil Defence volunteers in 2012 by Caroline Milligan.
Authors: Team Lead Caroline Milligan ( Twitter: @Caz_Milligan ) and NZ VOST member Scott Reuter ( Twitter: @sct_r ) for New Zealand Virtual Operations Support Team (VOST) regional training.
This guide was published in 2012 and was updated in 2015 (contact @Caz_Milligan for details regarding new digital volunteer strategy, policy, SOP's, guidelines, training, exercises and resources).
Big Data Challenges for the Social SciencesDavid De Roure
Big Data: Challenges for the social sciences. Panel presentation at the World Social Science Forum, International Convention Centre, Durban, South Africa. Tuesday 15 September, 2015
Presented by Adele Waugaman, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative Fellow & Independent Consultant. October 15, 2012. Washington, D.C. "DC Design Week: Design for Disaster Relief," held in partnership with AIGA DC.
Open Government: Policy,Technology, and Community in the US & CanadaDeborah Bryant
Keynote Presentation to the OpenIsland OpenGov conference in Belfast, Northern Ireland focusing on the confluence of interests and energy between the open government, open data and open source software communities.
Web 2.0 Technology Building Situational Awareness: Free and Open Source Too...Connie White
covers ways to use web apps, smart phones and free disaster management software like Sahana Eden, which offer agencies free and open source tools to customize and build situational awareness for their own agency or organizational needs.
Keynote talk for NCRM Stream Analytics workshop, 19 January 2017, Manchester.
My talk is called "New and Emerging Forms of Data: Past, Present, and Future” and I will be giving a perspective from my role as one of the ESRC Strategic Advisers for Data Resources, in which I was responsible for new and emerging forms of data and realtime analytics. The talk also includes some of the current work in the Oxford e-Research Centre on Social Machines (the SOCIAM project) and an introduction to the PETRAS Internet of Things project.
The talk raises a number of important issues looking ahead, including massive scale of data that is already being supplied by Internet of Things, the implications of automation in our research, reproducibility and confidence in research results. I will also ask, how can the new forms of data and new research methods enable social scientists to work in new ways, and can we move on from the dependence on the traditional investment in longitudinal studies?
A dystopian view of our evolving knowledge infrastructure. Talk in session "Reproducibility in new digital scholarship – bigger, faster, better?" at the Alan Turing Institute Symposium on Reproducibility for Data Centric Research, St Hugh's, Oxford, 7th April 2016
Data Science For Social Good: Tackling the Challenge of HomelessnessAnita Luthra
A talk presented at the Champions Leadership Conference Series - leveraging data provided by New York City’s Department of Homeless Services, software vendor Tibco partnered with SumAll.Org to help tackle the societal challenge of homelessness in New York City.
Kno.e.sis Approach to Impactful Research & Training for Exceptional CareersAmit Sheth
Abstract
Kno.e.sis (http://knoesis.org) is a world-class research center that uses semantic, cognitive, and perceptual computing for gathering insights from physical/IoT, cyber/Web, and social and enterprise (e.g., clinical) big data. We innovate and employ semantic web, machine learning, NLP/IR, data mining, network science and highly scalable computing techniques. Our highly interdisciplinary research impacts health and clinical applications, biomedical and translational research, epidemiology, cognitive science, social good, policy, development, etc. A majority of our $12+ million in active funds come from the NSF and NIH. In this talk, I will provide an overview of some of our major research projects.
Kno.e.sis is highly successful in its primary mission of exceptional student outcomes: our students have exceptional publication and real-world impact and our PhDs compete with their counterparts from top 10 schools for initial jobs in research universities, top industry research labs, and highly competitive companies. A key reason for Kno.e.sis' success is its unique work culture involving teamwork to solve complex problems. Practically all our work involves real-world challenges, real-world data, interdisciplinary collaborators, path-breaking research to solve challenges, real-world deployments, real-world use, and measurable real-world impact.
In this talk, I will also seek to discuss our choice of research topics and our unique ecosystem that prepares our students for exceptional careers.
Opening talk at the "Interdisciplinary Data Resources to Address the Challenges of Urban Living” Workshop at the Urban Big Data Centre, University of Glasgow, 4 April 2016
NZ VOST Training Guide
12th October 2012 v1
This guide was delivered to Civil Defence volunteers in 2012 by Caroline Milligan.
Authors: Team Lead Caroline Milligan ( Twitter: @Caz_Milligan ) and NZ VOST member Scott Reuter ( Twitter: @sct_r ) for New Zealand Virtual Operations Support Team (VOST) regional training.
This guide was published in 2012 and was updated in 2015 (contact @Caz_Milligan for details regarding new digital volunteer strategy, policy, SOP's, guidelines, training, exercises and resources).
Big Data Challenges for the Social SciencesDavid De Roure
Big Data: Challenges for the social sciences. Panel presentation at the World Social Science Forum, International Convention Centre, Durban, South Africa. Tuesday 15 September, 2015
Presented by Adele Waugaman, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative Fellow & Independent Consultant. October 15, 2012. Washington, D.C. "DC Design Week: Design for Disaster Relief," held in partnership with AIGA DC.
Open Government: Policy,Technology, and Community in the US & CanadaDeborah Bryant
Keynote Presentation to the OpenIsland OpenGov conference in Belfast, Northern Ireland focusing on the confluence of interests and energy between the open government, open data and open source software communities.
Web 2.0 Technology Building Situational Awareness: Free and Open Source Too...Connie White
covers ways to use web apps, smart phones and free disaster management software like Sahana Eden, which offer agencies free and open source tools to customize and build situational awareness for their own agency or organizational needs.
Keynote talk for NCRM Stream Analytics workshop, 19 January 2017, Manchester.
My talk is called "New and Emerging Forms of Data: Past, Present, and Future” and I will be giving a perspective from my role as one of the ESRC Strategic Advisers for Data Resources, in which I was responsible for new and emerging forms of data and realtime analytics. The talk also includes some of the current work in the Oxford e-Research Centre on Social Machines (the SOCIAM project) and an introduction to the PETRAS Internet of Things project.
The talk raises a number of important issues looking ahead, including massive scale of data that is already being supplied by Internet of Things, the implications of automation in our research, reproducibility and confidence in research results. I will also ask, how can the new forms of data and new research methods enable social scientists to work in new ways, and can we move on from the dependence on the traditional investment in longitudinal studies?
Innovative Approaches to M&E and Project DesignAnahi Iacucci
This presentation uses two examples of projects covered by Internews to talk about the use of ICTs for M&E and innovative approaches to evaluate and collect data for Monitoring and Evaluation purposes.
This is a brief a brief review of current multi-disciplinary and collaborative projects at Kno.e.sis led by Prof. Amit Sheth. They cover research in big social data, IoT, semantic web, semantic sensor web, health informatics, personalized digital health, social data for social good, smart city, crisis informatics, digital data for material genome initiative, etc. Dec 2015 edition.
Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies ; 2016 (3)96–11DaliaCulbertson719
Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies ; 2016 (3):96–116
Chad Spensky, Jeffrey Stewart, Arkady Yerukhimovich, Richard Shay, Ari Trachtenberg, Rick
Housley, and Robert K. Cunningham
SoK: Privacy on Mobile Devices – It’s Complicated
Abstract: Modern mobile devices place a wide variety
of sensors and services within the personal space of their
users. As a result, these devices are capable of transpar-
ently monitoring many sensitive aspects of these users’
lives (e.g., location, health, or correspondences). Users
typically trade access to this data for convenient appli-
cations and features, in many cases without a full appre-
ciation of the nature and extent of the information that
they are exposing to a variety of third parties. Never-
theless, studies show that users remain concerned about
their privacy and vendors have similarly been increas-
ing their utilization of privacy-preserving technologies
in these devices. Still, despite significant efforts, these
technologies continue to fail in fundamental ways, leav-
ing users’ private data exposed.
In this work, we survey the numerous components of
mobile devices, giving particular attention to those that
collect, process, or protect users’ private data. Whereas
the individual components have been generally well
studied and understood, examining the entire mobile de-
vice ecosystem provides significant insights into its over-
whelming complexity. The numerous components of this
complex ecosystem are frequently built and controlled
by different parties with varying interests and incen-
tives. Moreover, most of these parties are unknown to
the typical user. The technologies that are employed to
protect the users’ privacy typically only do so within
a small slice of this ecosystem, abstracting away the
greater complexity of the system. Our analysis suggests
that this abstracted complexity is the major cause of
many privacy-related vulnerabilities, and that a funda-
mentally new, holistic, approach to privacy is needed
going forward. We thus highlight various existing tech-
nology gaps and propose several promising research di-
rections for addressing and reducing this complexity.
Keywords: privacy-preserving technologies, mobile, An-
droid, iOS
DOI 10.1515/popets-2016-0018
Received 2015-11-30; revised 2016-03-01; accepted 2016-03-02.
Chad Spensky: University of California, Santa Barbara,
[email protected]
Jeffrey Stewart: MIT Lincoln Laboratory,
[email protected]
1 Introduction
The rapid proliferation of mobile devices has seen them
become integral parts of many users’ lives. Indeed, these
devices provide their users with a variety of increasingly
essential services (e.g., navigation, communication, and
Internet connectivity), as well as useful functionality
(e.g., entertainment and photography). To accommo-
date these services, modern mobile devices are equipped
with various sensors, capable of collecting extremely rich
information about their users and their surroundings.
Users and de ...
Code for Africa - Building Demand-driven + Citizen-focused Open Data EcosystemsJustin Arenstein
An overview of the Code for Africa initiative, which embeds technologists into newsrooms / CSOs, with support from external teams of developers, tech incubators, and kickstarter funds, to help rewire the way that civic engagement happens.
Mobile Age: Open Data Mobile Apps to Support Independent LivingMobile Age Project
We present design insights for developing mobile services for senior citizens which have emerged through substantive engagement with end users and other stakeholders. We describe the aims of the Mobile Age project, and the ideas and rationale for applications that have emerged through a co-creation process. A trusted data platform is proposed along with apps that bring open data and mobile technology to work for an underserved population.
Christopher N. Bull
Will Simm
Bran Knowles
Oliver Bates
Nigel Davies
School of Computing and
Communications,
Lancaster University,
Lancaster, UK
c.bull@lancaster.ac.uk
branknowles9@gmail.com
w.simm@lancaster.ac.uk
o.bates@lancaster.ac.uk
n.a.davies@lancaster.ac.uk
Anindita Banerjee
Lucas Introna
Niall Hayes
Centre for the Study of Technology
and Organisation,
Lancaster University,
Lancaster, UK
a.banerjee2@lancaster.ac.uk
n.hayes@lancaster.ac.uk
l.introna@lancaster.ac.uk
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CHI'17 Extended Abstracts, May 06-11, 2017, Denver, CO, USA
ACM 978-1-4503-4656-6/17/05.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3027063.3053244
Future Technological Practices: Medical Librarians’ Skills and Information Structures for Continued Effectiveness in a Changing Environment
Patricia F. Anderson, Skye Bickett, AHIP, Joanne Doucette, Pamela R. Herring, AHIP, Judith Kammerer, AHIP, Andrea Kepsel, AHIP, Tierney Lyons, Scott McLachlan, Ingrid Tonnison, and Lin Wu, AHIP
Цифровая жизнь в 2025 году - 'эксперты предсказывают, что интернет станет менее видимым и более интегрированным в нашу жизнь
Expert predict the Internet will become 'like electricity' - less visible yet more deeply embedded in people's lives for good and ill
Safecast Report2017: Part 2.1-Issues-at-Fukushima-Daiichi-finalSafecast
This is part 2.1 of the 2017 Safecast Report. It is a 66-page A4-size print-quality pdf that provides a detailed description of conditions at the damaged powerplant. Sections are devoted to the overall plans for decomissioning, the spent fuel pools, contaminated water issues, the search for melted fuel debris and plans for extracting it, and other issues of importance. It begins with an 8-page introduction that describes the available sources of information, official and otherwise, and their relative credibility.
This is the Japanese translation of the Safecast Report 2016. It describes the activities of Safecast through March 2016, as well as developments at the Fukushima Daiichi NPP, and consequences for the environment, evacuees, food, and health.
Presented by Sean Bonner at SCAQMD "Making Sense of Sensors" conference, Sept 2017. Diamond Bar, CA
Safecast has been called "the most successful citizen science project yet." Started in March, 2011 in response to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Powerplant accident, it initially focussed on collecting and publishing independent radiation measurements from affected areas in Japan but quickly achieved global scale. The open Safecast radiation database now contains over 75 million measurements, the largest of it's kind ever. In addition to gaining influence within the IAEA and other corners of the radiation expert community, it has become the subject of research by data analysis and visualization specialists. This presentation will describe key aspects of the Safecast project, its primary principles, and lessons learned that may be of relevance to others seeking to implement similar environmental monitoring projects.
What Safecast does: A quick overview of the Safecast project, and some of the key milestones we’ve passed along the way.
Why open?: Openness is built into every aspect of the Safecast project. Why is this important?
Plan for success: Why it’s important to plan ahead for massive scaling of environmental datasets.
People, not devices: Without an active community, the devices are just chunks of plastic.
Agility: Safecast’s tiny development teams punch way above their weight. How do we do it?
Education is the best communication: People participate because they want to know, and once they do, they want to share it.
On the horizon: We have a few new things in the works.
Presentation from the “Nonexistent Data” session of the “Our World, Our Data” conference held at at MIT Media Lab on April 30, 2017. Organized by Safecast with sponsorship from the Shuttleworth Fund. Many thanks to Joi Ito, Director of the MIT Media Lab, and Ethan Zuckerman and Lorrie LeJeune of The Center for Civic Media.
https://www.media.mit.edu/events/our-world-our-data/
Presentation from the “Nonexistent Data” session of the “Our World, Our Data” conference held at at MIT Media Lab on April 30, 2017. Organized by Safecast with sponsorship from the Shuttleworth Fund. Many thanks to Joi Ito, Director of the MIT Media Lab, and Ethan Zuckerman and Lorrie LeJeune of The Center for Civic Media.
https://www.media.mit.edu/events/our-world-our-data/
Presentation from the “Uncomfortable Data” session of the “Our World, Our Data” conference held at at MIT Media Lab on April 30, 2017. Organized by Safecast with sponsorship from the Shuttleworth Fund. Many thanks to Joi Ito, Director of the MIT Media Lab, and Ethan Zuckerman and Lorrie LeJeune of The Center for Civic Media.
https://www.media.mit.edu/events/our-world-our-data/
Owpd 04-2-madeleine ball our world our dataSafecast
Presentation from the “Uncomfortable Data” session of the “Our World, Our Data” conference held at at MIT Media Lab on April 30, 2017. Organized by Safecast with sponsorship from the Shuttleworth Fund. Many thanks to Joi Ito, Director of the MIT Media Lab, and Ethan Zuckerman and Lorrie LeJeune of The Center for Civic Media.
https://www.media.mit.edu/events/our-world-our-data/
Presentation from the “Uncomfortable Data” session of the “Our World, Our Data” conference held at at MIT Media Lab on April 30, 2017. Organized by Safecast with sponsorship from the Shuttleworth Fund. Many thanks to Joi Ito, Director of the MIT Media Lab, and Ethan Zuckerman and Lorrie LeJeune of The Center for Civic Media.
https://www.media.mit.edu/events/our-world-our-data/
Presentation from the “Obscure Data” session of the “Our World, Our Data” conference held at at MIT Media Lab on April 30, 2017. Organized by Safecast with sponsorship from the Shuttleworth Fund. Many thanks to Joi Ito, Director of the MIT Media Lab, and Ethan Zuckerman and Lorrie LeJeune of The Center for Civic Media.
https://www.media.mit.edu/events/our-world-our-data/
Owod 03-2-abhijit rs data - obscurity to insightSafecast
Presentation from the “Obscure Data” session of the “Our World, Our Data” conference held at at MIT Media Lab on April 30, 2017. Organized by Safecast with sponsorship from the Shuttleworth Fund. Many thanks to Joi Ito, Director of the MIT Media Lab, and Ethan Zuckerman and Lorrie LeJeune of The Center for Civic Media.
https://www.media.mit.edu/events/our-world-our-data/
Presentation from the “Obscure Data” session of the “Our World, Our Data” conference held at at MIT Media Lab on April 30, 2017. Organized by Safecast with sponsorship from the Shuttleworth Fund. Many thanks to Joi Ito, Director of the MIT Media Lab, and Ethan Zuckerman and Lorrie LeJeune of The Center for Civic Media.
https://www.media.mit.edu/events/our-world-our-data/
Presentation from the “Government Data” session of the “Our World, Our Data” conference held at at MIT Media Lab on April 30, 2017. Organized by Safecast with sponsorship from the Shuttleworth Fund. Many thanks to Joi Ito, Director of the MIT Media Lab, and Ethan Zuckerman and Lorrie LeJeune of The Center for Civic Media.
https://www.media.mit.edu/events/our-world-our-data/
Presentation from the “Government Data” session of the “Our World, Our Data” conference held at at MIT Media Lab on April 30, 2017. Organized by Safecast with sponsorship from the Shuttleworth Fund. Many thanks to Joi Ito, Director of the MIT Media Lab, and Ethan Zuckerman and Lorrie LeJeune of The Center for Civic Media.
https://www.media.mit.edu/events/our-world-our-data/
Presentation from the “Corporate Data” session of the “Our World, Our Data” conference held at at MIT Media Lab on April 30, 2017. Organized by Safecast with sponsorship from the Shuttleworth Fund. Many thanks to Joi Ito, Director of the MIT Media Lab, and Ethan Zuckerman and Lorrie LeJeune of The Center for Civic Media.
https://www.media.mit.edu/events/our-world-our-data/
Presentation from the “Corporate Data” session of the “Our World, Our Data” conference held at at MIT Media Lab on April 30, 2017. Organized by Safecast with sponsorship from the Shuttleworth Fund. Many thanks to Joi Ito, Director of the MIT Media Lab, and Ethan Zuckerman and Lorrie LeJeune of The Center for Civic Media.
https://www.media.mit.edu/events/our-world-our-data/
Presentation from the “Corporate Data” session of the “Our World, Our Data” conference held at at MIT Media Lab on April 30, 2017. Organized by Safecast with sponsorship from the Shuttleworth Fund. Many thanks to Joi Ito, Director of the MIT Media Lab, and Ethan Zuckerman and Lorrie LeJeune of The Center for Civic Media. Details and speaker bios available here:
https://www.media.mit.edu/events/our-world-our-data/
WRI’s brand new “Food Service Playbook for Promoting Sustainable Food Choices” gives food service operators the very latest strategies for creating dining environments that empower consumers to choose sustainable, plant-rich dishes. This research builds off our first guide for food service, now with industry experience and insights from nearly 350 academic trials.
Natural farming @ Dr. Siddhartha S. Jena.pptxsidjena70
A brief about organic farming/ Natural farming/ Zero budget natural farming/ Subash Palekar Natural farming which keeps us and environment safe and healthy. Next gen Agricultural practices of chemical free farming.
Diabetes is a rapidly and serious health problem in Pakistan. This chronic condition is associated with serious long-term complications, including higher risk of heart disease and stroke. Aggressive treatment of hypertension and hyperlipideamia can result in a substantial reduction in cardiovascular events in patients with diabetes 1. Consequently pharmacist-led diabetes cardiovascular risk (DCVR) clinics have been established in both primary and secondary care sites in NHS Lothian during the past five years. An audit of the pharmaceutical care delivery at the clinics was conducted in order to evaluate practice and to standardize the pharmacists’ documentation of outcomes. Pharmaceutical care issues (PCI) and patient details were collected both prospectively and retrospectively from three DCVR clinics. The PCI`s were categorized according to a triangularised system consisting of multiple categories. These were ‘checks’, ‘changes’ (‘change in drug therapy process’ and ‘change in drug therapy’), ‘drug therapy problems’ and ‘quality assurance descriptors’ (‘timer perspective’ and ‘degree of change’). A verified medication assessment tool (MAT) for patients with chronic cardiovascular disease was applied to the patients from one of the clinics. The tool was used to quantify PCI`s and pharmacist actions that were centered on implementing or enforcing clinical guideline standards. A database was developed to be used as an assessment tool and to standardize the documentation of achievement of outcomes. Feedback on the audit of the pharmaceutical care delivery and the database was received from the DCVR clinic pharmacist at a focus group meeting.
Willie Nelson Net Worth: A Journey Through Music, Movies, and Business Venturesgreendigital
Willie Nelson is a name that resonates within the world of music and entertainment. Known for his unique voice, and masterful guitar skills. and an extraordinary career spanning several decades. Nelson has become a legend in the country music scene. But, his influence extends far beyond the realm of music. with ventures in acting, writing, activism, and business. This comprehensive article delves into Willie Nelson net worth. exploring the various facets of his career that have contributed to his large fortune.
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Introduction
Willie Nelson net worth is a testament to his enduring influence and success in many fields. Born on April 29, 1933, in Abbott, Texas. Nelson's journey from a humble beginning to becoming one of the most iconic figures in American music is nothing short of inspirational. His net worth, which estimated to be around $25 million as of 2024. reflects a career that is as diverse as it is prolific.
Early Life and Musical Beginnings
Humble Origins
Willie Hugh Nelson was born during the Great Depression. a time of significant economic hardship in the United States. Raised by his grandparents. Nelson found solace and inspiration in music from an early age. His grandmother taught him to play the guitar. setting the stage for what would become an illustrious career.
First Steps in Music
Nelson's initial foray into the music industry was fraught with challenges. He moved to Nashville, Tennessee, to pursue his dreams, but success did not come . Working as a songwriter, Nelson penned hits for other artists. which helped him gain a foothold in the competitive music scene. His songwriting skills contributed to his early earnings. laying the foundation for his net worth.
Rise to Stardom
Breakthrough Albums
The 1970s marked a turning point in Willie Nelson's career. His albums "Shotgun Willie" (1973), "Red Headed Stranger" (1975). and "Stardust" (1978) received critical acclaim and commercial success. These albums not only solidified his position in the country music genre. but also introduced his music to a broader audience. The success of these albums played a crucial role in boosting Willie Nelson net worth.
Iconic Songs
Willie Nelson net worth is also attributed to his extensive catalog of hit songs. Tracks like "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain," "On the Road Again," and "Always on My Mind" have become timeless classics. These songs have not only earned Nelson large royalties but have also ensured his continued relevance in the music industry.
Acting and Film Career
Hollywood Ventures
In addition to his music career, Willie Nelson has also made a mark in Hollywood. His distinctive personality and on-screen presence have landed him roles in several films and television shows. Notable appearances include roles in "The Electric Horseman" (1979), "Honeysuckle Rose" (1980), and "Barbarosa" (1982). These acting gigs have added a significant amount to Willie Nelson net worth.
Television Appearances
Nelson's char
UNDERSTANDING WHAT GREEN WASHING IS!.pdfJulietMogola
Many companies today use green washing to lure the public into thinking they are conserving the environment but in real sense they are doing more harm. There have been such several cases from very big companies here in Kenya and also globally. This ranges from various sectors from manufacturing and goes to consumer products. Educating people on greenwashing will enable people to make better choices based on their analysis and not on what they see on marketing sites.
Micro RNA genes and their likely influence in rice (Oryza sativa L.) dynamic ...Open Access Research Paper
Micro RNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNAs molecules having approximately 18-25 nucleotides, they are present in both plants and animals genomes. MiRNAs have diverse spatial expression patterns and regulate various developmental metabolisms, stress responses and other physiological processes. The dynamic gene expression playing major roles in phenotypic differences in organisms are believed to be controlled by miRNAs. Mutations in regions of regulatory factors, such as miRNA genes or transcription factors (TF) necessitated by dynamic environmental factors or pathogen infections, have tremendous effects on structure and expression of genes. The resultant novel gene products presents potential explanations for constant evolving desirable traits that have long been bred using conventional means, biotechnology or genetic engineering. Rice grain quality, yield, disease tolerance, climate-resilience and palatability properties are not exceptional to miRN Asmutations effects. There are new insights courtesy of high-throughput sequencing and improved proteomic techniques that organisms’ complexity and adaptations are highly contributed by miRNAs containing regulatory networks. This article aims to expound on how rice miRNAs could be driving evolution of traits and highlight the latest miRNA research progress. Moreover, the review accentuates miRNAs grey areas to be addressed and gives recommendations for further studies.
Artificial Reefs by Kuddle Life Foundation - May 2024punit537210
Situated in Pondicherry, India, Kuddle Life Foundation is a charitable, non-profit and non-governmental organization (NGO) dedicated to improving the living standards of coastal communities and simultaneously placing a strong emphasis on the protection of marine ecosystems.
One of the key areas we work in is Artificial Reefs. This presentation captures our journey so far and our learnings. We hope you get as excited about marine conservation and artificial reefs as we are.
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3. From the point of view of average citizens:
• Fear, need to decide soon whether to flee
• Information vacuum
• Official sources deemed untrustworthy
• Social media paints more dire picture
• Even knowledgeable people can’t find enough
reliable and useful data
After March 11, 2011:
4. -We developed devices
-We made a mapping system
-We built a community of motivated
citizen-scientists who want to measure
radiation.
In Response:
5.
6. Evolving according to needs:
Early Phase: “Reality Check”
Transitional Phase: “Enablement”
Long-term: “Alternatives”
7. SAFECAST today:
• International, ad-hoc volunteer network
• Non-heirarchical (but with “centers of gravity”)
• Includes radiation experts, hardware designers,
software designers, academics, tinkerers,
hackers, entrepreneurs, housewives, drivers,
students, etc.
• “Brain Trust” : Leaders in their fields
• We are neither pro- nor anti-nuclear.
We are Pro-Data !
8. Funding:
• Individual donations
• Crowdfunding: Global Giving
• Kickstarter campaigns
• Support from private foundations
• In-kind support from manufacturers, etc.
• Most importantly, people donate their time
11. bGeigie Nano
• 7th-generation mobile
detector
• Rugged
• Arduino-based
• GPS and data-logging
• LND 7317 2” pancake sensor
• OLED display
• Bluetooth and WiFi capable
• Open-source, open hardware,
open data
• Designed to be sold as a kit,
anyone can build it and
upload data
Current workhorse:
15. Map system:
• Database updated daily, now approx 10GB
• Both server-fed webmaps and smart-client iOS and
OSX apps
• API with query/filtering by time, location, device, etc.
• Approx 360 volunteers have uploaded data.
But 90% is contributed by the most active 10%.
• Data and system are open-source (Creative
Commons CC0 license).Anyone can download the
data, and we encourage independent efforts based
on our dataset.
16. Mar 2011
Oct 2011
Jan 2012 Jan 2013
Nov 2012
June 2013
Feb, 2014
Jan 2014 Jan 2015
July 2014
Dec 2014
May 2015
1 million
5 million
10 million
15 million
20 million
25 million
30 million
Growth of SAFECAST dataset
41. Our Teams
device hardware
API/ mapping
device softwareoutreach, education
administrative
Lots of multitasking, multi-competence
“connectors”
42. Building Community
• Safecast blog, discussion, Facebook,Twitter, etc
• Geiger-counter building workshops
• Talks and presentations
• Media interviews
We want to encourage people to get involved.
This requires skills in education and media.
49. The Street-by-Street program emerged from outreach
by Japanese Safecast volunteers who live in Fukushima.
Speaking to local government officials, they realized that
many municipalities would like to provide more detailed
contamination maps for their citizens, but were
constrained from doing so by budgetary and regulatory
decisions made at higher levels of government, and had
neither the funds nor expertise to do it independently.
Pro-bono lawyers helped us find a legal solution which
allowed Safecast to offer the service for free with
manpower provided by postal workers.
Our only condition was that all the data be made
openly available through our database.
Safecast Street-by-Street
54. This solution has proven very scalable, and quite inexpensive. To
date the towns of Minamisoma, Tamura, and Koriyama have been
surveyed through this program (a combined affected population of
over 400,000 people). Safecast is confident that every municipality
in Fukushima Pref. could be quickly measured in this way.
55. MEXT and other government agencies have publicized
quite a lot of radiation risk data, and can probably be
said to have exceeded IAEA and other advisory
guidelines in terms of its quantity and accessibility. But
in fact even more than 4 years later, many citizens are
still confused about where to find data about radiation
in their area, don’t know how it is collected or how
frequently, and find it frustrating to try to navigate the
online information systems.
We believe the SAFECAST information system
improves on official efforts in terms of coverage and
ease-of-use.
Coverage and ease-of-use
57. The primary MEXT/NRA web-based radiation map asks
users to first find their neighborhood monitoring post in
a list of hundreds.
For Iwaki,
choose from a
list of 475
locations!
58. Similarly, official data for food testing, decontamination,
health, etc., is often only available as lists and tables.
59. At the level of individual towns and neighborhoods,
official map detail is sparse.
(Koriyama: 7 data points visible for this neighborhood
each representing a single monitoring post)
63. SAFECAST also seeks to address gaps in coverage by
providing free online access to maps like this one showing the
boundaries of the evacuation zones in relation to roads.
No similar map is yet officially available.
64. Our experience after Fukushima suggests that in the
event of another large radiation emergency
additional manpower will be needed.
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69. Why is it that we’ve been able to get all
this done quickly and cheaply, while
government and official agencies haven’t?
We’re motivated (really, we started doing this
because we were worried).
We don’t wait to be asked, or ask permission.
We have no incentive to drag our heels.
Maybe, unlike bureaucracies:
70. The rise of citizen science in the digitally-enabled
DIY age is an irreversible phenomenon.
The experience of SAFECAST after Fukushima
shows that new creative structural relationships
between independent third-party groups and
government are in fact possible, and can be the
best way to serve the information needs of
citizens.
CONCLUSION:
This is a genie that won’t go back in the bottle.
71. Innumerable groups and individuals worldwide are
beginning to wield similar technical and information
capabilities, seeking to influence public opinion and
gain support for their positions.
Our experience leads us to suggest that the most
productive official response will be to streamline the
collection and distribution of data of concern to the
public, improve transparency, and to formally
acknowledge the important role third-parties can play.
CONCLUSION (cont’d):
This is a genie that won’t go back in the bottle.
72. Everything we do has been enabled by open
hardware and software, new DIY fab tools, and
social media.
It required putting into practice agile development
and iterative design - “Deploy or Die”
Our credibility depends on our openness.
Managing human networks is harder than managing
technical systems.
Govt agencies are accountable for people’s lives and
well-being. We aren’t, and that makes our work
easier than theirs.
SUMMARY: