Gefion Thuermer gave a presentation on online participation and how to effectively engage people. She discussed what online participation is, why it is beneficial by allowing wide reach at low cost, but also challenges like not everyone having equal access. Factors like experience, resources, time, skills, and literacy are needed to participate. She encouraged considering participation goals and target audiences. Effective tools should be selected and multiple participation routes offered with support to make participation meaningful.
Presentation by Michele Ide-Smith and Paul Ormerod about community engagement with social media at the Customer Insight in Public Services Conference, September 2010.
Social media, community engagement & Big SocietyDavid Barrie
Talk at Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, London, September 29, 2010. Context: CABE Space Leaders program. One day workshop for local government parks and green space services managers on how to respond to U.K. Government policy program, 'Big Society'.
Presentation by Michele Ide-Smith and Paul Ormerod about community engagement with social media at the Customer Insight in Public Services Conference, September 2010.
Social media, community engagement & Big SocietyDavid Barrie
Talk at Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, London, September 29, 2010. Context: CABE Space Leaders program. One day workshop for local government parks and green space services managers on how to respond to U.K. Government policy program, 'Big Society'.
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of LinkedIn, people are uploading presentations about what they were doing 10 years ago. I co-founded and incorporated Socialtext during the same month. This is one of the first presentations I gave about the company back then.
Social Media & Networking - Boon or Bane?Yash Mittal
A presentation on Social Networking - a boon or bane? The presentation takes a person through the history of social networking - how people interact today as compared to earlier times and mentions the social networks used by today's generation. Then it reviews the advantages and disadvantages of Social Networking and follows up with some Do's and Don'ts.
Presentation about partnership between NY Council of Nonprofits, the statewide nonprofit association, and Creating Rural Opportunities Partnership, a provider of after school programs for 17 school districts in Otsego and Delaware Counties. The partnership involves NYCON providing social media training to help CROP create a social network to better connect parents and school districts, and ultimately help CROP develop a proposed foundation or friends group to support and solicit charitable contributions for sustaining after school programs.
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of LinkedIn, people are uploading presentations about what they were doing 10 years ago. I co-founded and incorporated Socialtext during the same month. This is one of the first presentations I gave about the company back then.
Social Media & Networking - Boon or Bane?Yash Mittal
A presentation on Social Networking - a boon or bane? The presentation takes a person through the history of social networking - how people interact today as compared to earlier times and mentions the social networks used by today's generation. Then it reviews the advantages and disadvantages of Social Networking and follows up with some Do's and Don'ts.
Presentation about partnership between NY Council of Nonprofits, the statewide nonprofit association, and Creating Rural Opportunities Partnership, a provider of after school programs for 17 school districts in Otsego and Delaware Counties. The partnership involves NYCON providing social media training to help CROP create a social network to better connect parents and school districts, and ultimately help CROP develop a proposed foundation or friends group to support and solicit charitable contributions for sustaining after school programs.
Open Scholarship: Social Media, Participation, and Online NetworksGeorge Veletsianos
Workshop delivered to Athabasca University's Faculty of Health Disciplines (Edmonton, Feb 2014). Focuses on online learning strategies, emerging technologies, the current status of higher education and online online education, open scholarship, social media, and what the future of higher education may hold. Part 3: Open Scholarship: Social Media, Participation, and Online Networks
Civic Tech to empower democracy and increase civic engagement: Local examples...mysociety
This was presented at mySociety's TICTeC Local 2019 conference, which was held on 1st November 2019 at City Hall in London. More details on the conference can be found here: https://tictec.mysociety.org/local/2019
Slides for a webinar hosted by the gov't of Queensland, Australia, delivered by Matt Leighninger of the Deliberative Democracy Consortium, on 'Using Online Tools to Engage - and be Engaged by - the Public.
More presentations from the NCVO Annual conference: http://www.ncvo-vol.org.uk/networking-discussions/blogs/20591
Social media is much more than an opportunity for you to share your messages and reach new audiences. It is a gold mine of experts and peers you can learn from in real time. This session will explore how social media channels bring new opportunities for learning and collaboration to your desktop or smart phone. You will hear how to use social media for your own professional development as well as find new ways to work together and share information more effectively.
Digital Inclusion strategies & Seattle's Community Technology Programdavidkeyes
An overview on strategies for local government to foster digital inclusion. Presentation by David Keyes for the 2013 National League of Cities Congress mobile digital inclusion workshop. This covers the digital inclusion framework, community assessment and Community Technology programs of the City of Seattle Department of Information Technology. Also IT Equity Project management tool. For more also see seattle.gov/tech
Web Futures: Inclusive, Intelligent, SustainableSteffen Staab
Almost from its very beginning, the Web has been ambivalent.
It has facilitated freedom for information, but this also included the freedom to spread misinformation. It has faciliated intelligent personalization, but at the cost of intrusion into our private lifes. It has included more people than any other system before, but at the risk of exploiting them.
The Web is full of such ambivalences and the usage of artificial intelligences threatens to further amplify these ambivalences. To further the good and to contain the negative consequences, we need a research agenda studying and engineering the Web, as well as numerous activities by societies at large. In this talk, I will present and discuss a joint effort by an interdisciplinary team of Web Scientists to prepare and pursue such an agenda.
Friending Community Technology Centers in the World of Social NetworksBrittney Fosbrook
Social networks and new web 2.0 technology tools are often heralded as having the potential to bring increased connectivity and broad scale social change. CTCs and the clients who frequent them, often multi-lingual and low-income, face unique challenges in accessing and utilizing these tools. How can we, as non-profit technology advocates, take responsibility for addressing gaps in accessibility and usability in technology tools that are meant to work across diverse communities and make the world a more just, equitable place?
Social media is an increasingly important part of work practices in higher education providing opportunities for promoting academic work, networking, and learning. However, alongside
opportunities, it poses challenges about how to engage and represent yourself online. This workshop asks about your use of social media and presents some ideas on engaging with social media.
These are the slides from the Izwe, FutureGov and SOLACE Enterprise event "Meeting the Cuts and Big Society Challenge."
If you would like any more information please feel free to contact us on hello@izwe.com.
Online civic engagement & community building workshop Seattle 3 25-14davidkeyes
Presentation materials and resources from a workshop on strategies and tools to organize online community building and e-activism. Presented to neighborhood and community groups 3/25/14 by the City of Seattle Department of Information Technology Community Technology Program & Department of Neighborhoods PACE program, along with Phillip Duggan of Pinehurst Community Council and CTTAB, and Joe Szilagyi, Westwood-Roxhill-Arbor Heights Community Council & West Seattle Transit Coalition.
A presentation at the launch of INDI (Infrastructure Network for Disability Information) South East on 28th September 2010. How organisations in the network can use social media to help them do their job.
Richard's entangled aventures in wonderlandRichard Gill
Since the loophole-free Bell experiments of 2020 and the Nobel prizes in physics of 2022, critics of Bell's work have retreated to the fortress of super-determinism. Now, super-determinism is a derogatory word - it just means "determinism". Palmer, Hance and Hossenfelder argue that quantum mechanics and determinism are not incompatible, using a sophisticated mathematical construction based on a subtle thinning of allowed states and measurements in quantum mechanics, such that what is left appears to make Bell's argument fail, without altering the empirical predictions of quantum mechanics. I think however that it is a smoke screen, and the slogan "lost in math" comes to my mind. I will discuss some other recent disproofs of Bell's theorem using the language of causality based on causal graphs. Causal thinking is also central to law and justice. I will mention surprising connections to my work on serial killer nurse cases, in particular the Dutch case of Lucia de Berk and the current UK case of Lucy Letby.
(May 29th, 2024) Advancements in Intravital Microscopy- Insights for Preclini...Scintica Instrumentation
Intravital microscopy (IVM) is a powerful tool utilized to study cellular behavior over time and space in vivo. Much of our understanding of cell biology has been accomplished using various in vitro and ex vivo methods; however, these studies do not necessarily reflect the natural dynamics of biological processes. Unlike traditional cell culture or fixed tissue imaging, IVM allows for the ultra-fast high-resolution imaging of cellular processes over time and space and were studied in its natural environment. Real-time visualization of biological processes in the context of an intact organism helps maintain physiological relevance and provide insights into the progression of disease, response to treatments or developmental processes.
In this webinar we give an overview of advanced applications of the IVM system in preclinical research. IVIM technology is a provider of all-in-one intravital microscopy systems and solutions optimized for in vivo imaging of live animal models at sub-micron resolution. The system’s unique features and user-friendly software enables researchers to probe fast dynamic biological processes such as immune cell tracking, cell-cell interaction as well as vascularization and tumor metastasis with exceptional detail. This webinar will also give an overview of IVM being utilized in drug development, offering a view into the intricate interaction between drugs/nanoparticles and tissues in vivo and allows for the evaluation of therapeutic intervention in a variety of tissues and organs. This interdisciplinary collaboration continues to drive the advancements of novel therapeutic strategies.
Multi-source connectivity as the driver of solar wind variability in the heli...Sérgio Sacani
The ambient solar wind that flls the heliosphere originates from multiple
sources in the solar corona and is highly structured. It is often described
as high-speed, relatively homogeneous, plasma streams from coronal
holes and slow-speed, highly variable, streams whose source regions are
under debate. A key goal of ESA/NASA’s Solar Orbiter mission is to identify
solar wind sources and understand what drives the complexity seen in the
heliosphere. By combining magnetic feld modelling and spectroscopic
techniques with high-resolution observations and measurements, we show
that the solar wind variability detected in situ by Solar Orbiter in March
2022 is driven by spatio-temporal changes in the magnetic connectivity to
multiple sources in the solar atmosphere. The magnetic feld footpoints
connected to the spacecraft moved from the boundaries of a coronal hole
to one active region (12961) and then across to another region (12957). This
is refected in the in situ measurements, which show the transition from fast
to highly Alfvénic then to slow solar wind that is disrupted by the arrival of
a coronal mass ejection. Our results describe solar wind variability at 0.5 au
but are applicable to near-Earth observatories.
The increased availability of biomedical data, particularly in the public domain, offers the opportunity to better understand human health and to develop effective therapeutics for a wide range of unmet medical needs. However, data scientists remain stymied by the fact that data remain hard to find and to productively reuse because data and their metadata i) are wholly inaccessible, ii) are in non-standard or incompatible representations, iii) do not conform to community standards, and iv) have unclear or highly restricted terms and conditions that preclude legitimate reuse. These limitations require a rethink on data can be made machine and AI-ready - the key motivation behind the FAIR Guiding Principles. Concurrently, while recent efforts have explored the use of deep learning to fuse disparate data into predictive models for a wide range of biomedical applications, these models often fail even when the correct answer is already known, and fail to explain individual predictions in terms that data scientists can appreciate. These limitations suggest that new methods to produce practical artificial intelligence are still needed.
In this talk, I will discuss our work in (1) building an integrative knowledge infrastructure to prepare FAIR and "AI-ready" data and services along with (2) neurosymbolic AI methods to improve the quality of predictions and to generate plausible explanations. Attention is given to standards, platforms, and methods to wrangle knowledge into simple, but effective semantic and latent representations, and to make these available into standards-compliant and discoverable interfaces that can be used in model building, validation, and explanation. Our work, and those of others in the field, creates a baseline for building trustworthy and easy to deploy AI models in biomedicine.
Bio
Dr. Michel Dumontier is the Distinguished Professor of Data Science at Maastricht University, founder and executive director of the Institute of Data Science, and co-founder of the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) data principles. His research explores socio-technological approaches for responsible discovery science, which includes collaborative multi-modal knowledge graphs, privacy-preserving distributed data mining, and AI methods for drug discovery and personalized medicine. His work is supported through the Dutch National Research Agenda, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, Horizon Europe, the European Open Science Cloud, the US National Institutes of Health, and a Marie-Curie Innovative Training Network. He is the editor-in-chief for the journal Data Science and is internationally recognized for his contributions in bioinformatics, biomedical informatics, and semantic technologies including ontologies and linked data.
Earliest Galaxies in the JADES Origins Field: Luminosity Function and Cosmic ...Sérgio Sacani
We characterize the earliest galaxy population in the JADES Origins Field (JOF), the deepest
imaging field observed with JWST. We make use of the ancillary Hubble optical images (5 filters
spanning 0.4−0.9µm) and novel JWST images with 14 filters spanning 0.8−5µm, including 7 mediumband filters, and reaching total exposure times of up to 46 hours per filter. We combine all our data
at > 2.3µm to construct an ultradeep image, reaching as deep as ≈ 31.4 AB mag in the stack and
30.3-31.0 AB mag (5σ, r = 0.1” circular aperture) in individual filters. We measure photometric
redshifts and use robust selection criteria to identify a sample of eight galaxy candidates at redshifts
z = 11.5 − 15. These objects show compact half-light radii of R1/2 ∼ 50 − 200pc, stellar masses of
M⋆ ∼ 107−108M⊙, and star-formation rates of SFR ∼ 0.1−1 M⊙ yr−1
. Our search finds no candidates
at 15 < z < 20, placing upper limits at these redshifts. We develop a forward modeling approach to
infer the properties of the evolving luminosity function without binning in redshift or luminosity that
marginalizes over the photometric redshift uncertainty of our candidate galaxies and incorporates the
impact of non-detections. We find a z = 12 luminosity function in good agreement with prior results,
and that the luminosity function normalization and UV luminosity density decline by a factor of ∼ 2.5
from z = 12 to z = 14. We discuss the possible implications of our results in the context of theoretical
models for evolution of the dark matter halo mass function.
This pdf is about the Schizophrenia.
For more details visit on YouTube; @SELF-EXPLANATORY;
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAiarMZDNhe1A3Rnpr_WkzA/videos
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Nutraceutical market, scope and growth: Herbal drug technologyLokesh Patil
As consumer awareness of health and wellness rises, the nutraceutical market—which includes goods like functional meals, drinks, and dietary supplements that provide health advantages beyond basic nutrition—is growing significantly. As healthcare expenses rise, the population ages, and people want natural and preventative health solutions more and more, this industry is increasing quickly. Further driving market expansion are product formulation innovations and the use of cutting-edge technology for customized nutrition. With its worldwide reach, the nutraceutical industry is expected to keep growing and provide significant chances for research and investment in a number of categories, including vitamins, minerals, probiotics, and herbal supplements.
1. Successful
Online Participation
And how to (not) mess it up
Gefion Thuermer (MSc)
University of Southampton, CDT Web Science
Lobbying the EU, Brussels, 11/12/2015
2. What am I talking about?
Online Participation
• What it is
• Why it is great
• Why it maybe isn‘t so easy
• Why you should care
• What you can do
3. Who am I and what am I doing
here?
• Cultural Sciences BA, Web Science MSc
• PhD candidate at University of Southampton
• Researching how political parties can use the web
to improve participation
• Former Pirate Party Germany executive board
member
5. What is online participation?
CC BY 2.0 - BotMultichillTCC-0CC-0
CC BY-SA 3.0
Wikimedia Foundation
CC BY 3.0 – Jason Tropp CC BY-SA 3.0 – John WIlkins
6. Why is online participation great?
Cost Scale
CC 0 CC 0
7. Why is it not so easy?
Everyone is equal online!
CC BY-SA 3.0 – O Seo Messias
9. Who uses Social Media?
http://www.statista.com/statistics/430555/internet-twitter-usage-germany
10. Some Science on this
• Halford & Savage
• Social inequalities are reproduced online
• Zhang
• Disadvantaged groups do not have access to either
capitals needed for participation online
If you are disadvantaged offline, the web
alone is not sufficient to change that
11. What is needed to participate?
Experience
Money (Access,
Hardware)
Time (Leisure)
Skills
(Education)
Literacy
12. Why should you care?
Diversity Equality
CC BY-SA 2.0 Scott Maxwell CC 0
13. What can you do?
https://plus.google.com/+ThibautDelp/posts/c47isxURfwN
14. How can online participation
work?
• Be aware of issues
• Consider your participation goals
• and your target group
• Pick your tools right
• Offer different routes
• Engage & Support
• Make it meaningful
16. References
• Brock, A., Kvasny, L. & Hales, K., 2010. CULTURAL
APPROPRIATIONS OF TECHNICAL CAPITAL. Information,
Communication & Society, 13(7), pp.1040–1059.
• Dunne, K., 2010. Can Online Forums Address Political
Disengagement for Local Government? Journal of Information
Technology & Politics, 7(4), pp.300–317.
• Gil de Zúñiga, H. et al., 2010. Digital Democracy: Reimagining
Pathways to Political Participation. Journal of Information
Technology & Politics, 7(1), pp.36–51.
• Halford, S. & Savage, M., 2010. RECONCEPTUALIZING DIGITAL
SOCIAL INEQUALITY. Information, Communication & Society,
13(7), pp.937–955.
• Zhang, W., 2010. TECHNICAL CAPITAL AND PARTICIPATORY
INEQUALITY IN EDELIBERATION. Information, Communication &
Society, 13(7), pp.1019–1039.
Editor's Notes
Often seen as using Social Media, interacting with people that can support an effort – a party, a movement - online
There are various tools, all of which do different things. Most of these will be very familiar to most of you.
Websites – ideally those that allow for comments or other interaction.
Email – queries, individual communication
Mailing lists – mainly group communication
Forums – discussion, troll-problem if too open
Direct messengers – group and 1-1 communication. Jabber
Social Media – Twitter, Facebook etc. interaction, spreading messages, offering easy access points. But: limitations through network-effects, bubble.
Wikis – documentation, some discussion
VoIP– audio conversations, group meetings – Mumble, Skype
Etherpads – collaborative writing
Surveys – polls, such as LimeSurvey, SurveyMonkey
Voting tools – actual decisions – arguably, depending on implementation, Liquid Feedback
Argument Mapping tools – collaboratively develop arguments. BPTArguments, Discuto
But it can be much more.
Costs – it is far more cost effective than leaflets or face to face conversations.
Scalability - it is easy to administer and work with so many people, many more than would be possible through traditional, offline, methods.
There is a load of assumptions about the benefits of the web – and with it, online participation.
Everyone can participate, from their home, or wherever they are, no matter if rich or poor, in cities or the countryside, …
Because nobody knows who you are, race and gender and wealth do not matter.
The web automatically educates people, so if they have access they will become more aware of what affects their lifes, and automatically be interested in political causes.
But if that were true – why are there so many cat pictures and so little serious talk about politics online?
Spoiler: Most of these assumptions are wrong.
In some ways it is true that everyone is equal online. But it is more true the other way around. Everyone online is more or less equal.
That‘s because everyone who makes it to any of these online tools and really participates is already rather privileged.
Just below 80% of the EU population are using the web (http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats9.htm)
Variance by country – 56% in Bulgaria and Romania, 96% in Denmark. Germany has most users in numbers (72m), followed by the UK (59m) and France (55m)
Roughly 5 million people in Germany use Twitter regularly.
http://www.statista.com/statistics/430555/internet-twitter-usage-germany/
For Facebook it is 22 million, so about ~ 28 % of our 80-million population.
http://www.statista.com/statistics/268136/top-15-countries-based-on-number-of-facebook-users/
Social Media is limited to people that use the network, and by network effects (it is hard to reach new people).
Halford & Savage
analyse the relationship between ICT and inequalities
Social inequalities are reproduced: not everyone has access, and those who do derive unequal benefits
Zhang
case studies about reproduction of existing inequalities through technology
technical capital is needed for participation online, but is not equally distributed, because linked to social & financial capital
disadvantaged groups do not have access to either
if you are disadvantaged offline, going online is not sufficient to remove your disadvantages
They are literate. – 15% of Germans are functional illiterate (e.g. unable to read and write basic information)
They have the skills to know how to use the web, and what to do there – (the education)
They have spare time to spend on participation – (the leasure)
They have the necessary hardware – (the money for it)
They know their way around – (the experience)
Or people that can help them and show them around – (the social contacts)
There‘s more missing: Access to the web, Digital Literacy ….
Here‘s the thing: To really participapte successfully, you need ALL of these.
There‘s two sides to why this is relevant, and they are both linked.
Diversity should be important to you whatever you do. As an organisation, especially in politics, you should have a general interest in involving as many people as you can.
The more diverse your participants are, the better: Different points of view, more ideas, new thoughts, wider audience. You also counteract network effects!
Equality is more relevant if you are working in a democratic context. In Democratic Theory, everyone should be included in decisions that affect their life.
So if your organisation is interested in democratic decisions, you need to make sure everyone has an equal opportunity to participate in decisions. If decisions are purely online, that is not the case.
Equality / Diversity is not achieved by treating people equally. There is no one-size-fits-all solution.
Treating people equal is not treating them fairly. You have to treat people different to treat them equal.
You have to offer different routes to participation, if you want everyone to be able to participate.
Diversity does not happen automatically – the ‘generic’ web crowd is always the same.
The groups that are most disadvantaged – and could gain most from participation – are often those that can participate least.
You want to reach out to these groups specifically and engage them, if you want their involvement.
Beware: We haven‘t even spoken about accessibility. There‘s another load of thigs to think about, especially online.
Be aware of these issues
Know your target group – whom do you want to involve? Be aware of their requirements
Think about what you want to use participation for.
Engage the groups you want to be involved.
Pick your tools right - what is the best ways to involve your target group?
Offer different routes for participation. This will likely mean, don‘t go ‚online only‘
Support your participants – make sure those that want to participate are enabled. This may involve moderation, maintenance, buy-in – and it will take time and effort.
Make it meaningful – If you do not take participation seriously, nobody will.
