Building community resilience with citizen media
Canadian Risks and Hazards Conference
October 18, 2011
Presented by Heather Leson, Director of Community Engagement, Ushahidi
In this presentation I consider the nature of current state of "crowdsourcing" designs, and pose that the management of information can be a potent form of collaborative participation with "civic media."
"Civic media is any form of communication that strengthens the social bonds within a community or creates a strong sense of civic engagement among its residents. Civic media goes beyond news gathering and reporting." - http://civic.mit.edu/
I base my thoughts on experiences with http://haiti.ushahidi.com.
Source is on github: http://github.com/unthinkingly/ICCM-2010-Presentation
Healthy City Community Planning and Development webinarHealthy City
This customized webinar is for individuals working in Community Planning & Development that are interested in learning new strategies and tools to create healthier living environments in our communities. Working within a social justice framework, this webinar will demonstrate useful practices for planners utilizing the HealthyCity.org website. It will focus on how to use HealthyCity.org to promote a deeper understanding of community assets, characteristics, and the physical environment in order to inform and enhance the planning process. It will also highlight successful methods to engage community members in planning efforts, particularly around sharing local knowledge about the built environment. The webinar will also feature a guest presenter from Legal Services of Northern California to share their experience and successes using data and maps for advocacy and community building.
In this presentation I consider the nature of current state of "crowdsourcing" designs, and pose that the management of information can be a potent form of collaborative participation with "civic media."
"Civic media is any form of communication that strengthens the social bonds within a community or creates a strong sense of civic engagement among its residents. Civic media goes beyond news gathering and reporting." - http://civic.mit.edu/
I base my thoughts on experiences with http://haiti.ushahidi.com.
Source is on github: http://github.com/unthinkingly/ICCM-2010-Presentation
Healthy City Community Planning and Development webinarHealthy City
This customized webinar is for individuals working in Community Planning & Development that are interested in learning new strategies and tools to create healthier living environments in our communities. Working within a social justice framework, this webinar will demonstrate useful practices for planners utilizing the HealthyCity.org website. It will focus on how to use HealthyCity.org to promote a deeper understanding of community assets, characteristics, and the physical environment in order to inform and enhance the planning process. It will also highlight successful methods to engage community members in planning efforts, particularly around sharing local knowledge about the built environment. The webinar will also feature a guest presenter from Legal Services of Northern California to share their experience and successes using data and maps for advocacy and community building.
Computer Vision & Communities - State of The Map LatAm 2016 - Sao PauloClaudio Cossio
Computer Vision and communities are a powerful mix to create opportunities for society, empowering individuals to co-create with the information extracted from images on a map. Discuss the use cases where organizations are leveraging photomapping
How Social Media is changing the face of Emergency Management, especially in the realm of community resilience. Case studies of the Queensland Floods, Japan Earthquake/Tsunami and Bushfire Connect
Digital Intermediation: Automating our Media DIversity through Unseen Infrast...University of Sydney
Public lecture delivered to the Monash Culture, Media, Economy Focus Program: https://www.monash.edu/arts/media-film-journalism/news-and-events/events/events/digital-intermediation-automating-our-media-diversity
TechSoup Global and Guardian Seminar: Transforming your charity by bringing your data to life seminar. Presentation by Nathaniel Manning, Director of Business Development and Strategy at Ushahidi illustrated how they use crowdsourcing, big data and the opensource tools they have developed to help with disaster relief, political accountability and other development issues. Mobile phones were identified as one of the key ways that data is provided and collected in developing countries.
TechSoup Global and Guardian seminar: Transforming your charity by bringing your data to life: Presentation by Marnie Webb, Co-CEO and Paul van Haver, Director of Global Data Services of TechSoup Global highlighted the need for charities to help transform the way they engage with and service their community through the use of data. Presentation: We are “Big Data” (and so can you!)
Know Your Community: Data Power to the PeopleData Con LA
Data Con LA 2020
Description
The City of Los Angeles launched its open data program in 2013, making department-level data open to the public. This initial release of data was welcomed by the research and data science community. However, focus groups and discussions with citizens revealed that it was less accessible to a broad public audience. To address this, the City of Los Angeles is making the data more accessible through the Know Your Community platform which makes neighborhood-level insights and training sessions available for the public.
Speaker
Preston Mills, City of Los Angeles, Community Data Manager
Computer Vision & Communities - State of The Map LatAm 2016 - Sao PauloClaudio Cossio
Computer Vision and communities are a powerful mix to create opportunities for society, empowering individuals to co-create with the information extracted from images on a map. Discuss the use cases where organizations are leveraging photomapping
How Social Media is changing the face of Emergency Management, especially in the realm of community resilience. Case studies of the Queensland Floods, Japan Earthquake/Tsunami and Bushfire Connect
Digital Intermediation: Automating our Media DIversity through Unseen Infrast...University of Sydney
Public lecture delivered to the Monash Culture, Media, Economy Focus Program: https://www.monash.edu/arts/media-film-journalism/news-and-events/events/events/digital-intermediation-automating-our-media-diversity
TechSoup Global and Guardian Seminar: Transforming your charity by bringing your data to life seminar. Presentation by Nathaniel Manning, Director of Business Development and Strategy at Ushahidi illustrated how they use crowdsourcing, big data and the opensource tools they have developed to help with disaster relief, political accountability and other development issues. Mobile phones were identified as one of the key ways that data is provided and collected in developing countries.
TechSoup Global and Guardian seminar: Transforming your charity by bringing your data to life: Presentation by Marnie Webb, Co-CEO and Paul van Haver, Director of Global Data Services of TechSoup Global highlighted the need for charities to help transform the way they engage with and service their community through the use of data. Presentation: We are “Big Data” (and so can you!)
Know Your Community: Data Power to the PeopleData Con LA
Data Con LA 2020
Description
The City of Los Angeles launched its open data program in 2013, making department-level data open to the public. This initial release of data was welcomed by the research and data science community. However, focus groups and discussions with citizens revealed that it was less accessible to a broad public audience. To address this, the City of Los Angeles is making the data more accessible through the Know Your Community platform which makes neighborhood-level insights and training sessions available for the public.
Speaker
Preston Mills, City of Los Angeles, Community Data Manager
Discover 5 conferences related to entrepreneurship and technology field and learn how you can volunteer them and attend for free. We have a bonus one at the end of the presentation.
Why we all need to practice emotional first aidTED Talks
We go to the doctor when we feel sick. So why don’t we see a health professional when we feel emotional pain: guilt, loss, loneliness? Guy Winch makes a compelling case to practice emotional hygiene — taking care of our emotions, our minds, with the same diligence we take care of our bodies.
A 1-day staff Fire Awareness workshop. Presentation is an abstract from an instructor-led session, so certain elements are not fully active; video clips were also contained in the original. A full working version can be obtained from HJA: info@hollandjones.com.
Drinking excessive alcohol can contribute to the risk of developing breast cancer. Alcohol contains a lot of calories that can lead to excess weight, which in turn can increase our risk of breast cancer.
We’re all trying to find that idea or spark that will turn a good project into a great project. Creativity plays a huge role in the outcome of our work. Harnessing the power of collaboration and open source, we can make great strides towards excellence. Not just for designers, this talk can be applicable to many different roles – even development. In this talk, Seasoned Creative Director Sara Cannon is going to share some secrets about creative methodology, collaboration, and the strong role that open source can play in our work.
The 4 degrees of separation between pain and pleasureDeborah Davis
Do you feel any sort of foot pain whenever you go for a walk? There are a number of things you can do either to prevent or lessen the pain. For starters, you should regularly exercise your feet by doing some morning stretches. You can also use some orthotics or shoe inserts. To learn more about foot pain, check out these slides from Docpods.
I had this presentation set on "loop" at last week's NetSquared mashup challenge in California (which we won). Makes more sense if someone talks to it, but you'll get the idea.
Meenakshi Nagarajan,Amit Sheth,Selvam Velmurugan, "Citizen Sensor Data Mining, Social Media Analytics and Development Centric Web Applications," Tutorial at WWW2011, Hyderabad, India, March 28, 2011.
More info at:
http://knoesis.org/library/resource.php?id=1030
http://www2011india.com/tutorialstr27.html
Intelligenza artificiale: uno yin o uno yang per i diritti umani?Speck&Tech
ABSTRACT: Sempre più, quando parla di intelligenza artificiale, la stampa generalista ne sottolinea i pericoli, reali o anche solo presunti, per la libertà delle persone e i loro diritti fondamentali. Algoritmi per la sorveglianza di massa, o che influenzano le nostre scelte, sono certamente una realtà, e abbiamo bisogno di regolamentarne con attenzione l’uso. D’altro canto, l’intelligenza artificiale e le tecnologie dell’informazione possono anche essere di grande aiuto per la difesa dei diritti umani. In questa presentazione, attraverso alcuni esempi, vedremo come Amnesty International, il movimento globale per i diritti umani, si sta attrezzando per affrontare l’impatto che le nuove tecnologie e l’intelligenza artificiale stanno avendo sempre più su di essi.
BIO: Floriano Zini è tecnologo accademico presso Smart Data Factory, il laboratorio di trasferimento tecnologico e di conoscenza della Facoltà di Informatica della Libera Università di Bolzano. Il suo lavoro si concentra principalmente sulla progettazione, lo sviluppo e la valutazione di sistemi informativi per l'assistenza sanitaria personalizzata, adottando metodologie e algoritmi di Human Computer Interaction e Intelligenza Artificiale. Floriano è un attivista di Amnesty International da oltre 20 anni e attualmente è il coordinatore regionale del movimento per il Veneto e il Trentino Alto Adige.
Data Science for Social Good and Ushahidi - Final PresentationUshahidi
The Data Science for Social Good Fellows (dssg.io) collaborated with Ushahidi (Ushahidi.com)
Presented: August 20, 2013
Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eK8HjVG2m0
Tool - http://dssg.ushahididev.com/
Around the world citizens and organizations are using online reporting tools, including Ushahidi to tell their story, amplify and action responses. This is part 2 of a summary of mapping projects. More on our wiki - https://wiki.ushahidi.com/display/WIKI/Anti-Corruption+and+Transparency
Anti-Corruption Mapping (April 2013, part 1)Ushahidi
Around the world citizens and organizations are using online reporting tools, including Ushahidi to tell their story, amplify and action responses.
This is part 1 of a summary of mapping projects.
More on our wiki - https://wiki.ushahidi.com/display/WIKI/Anti-Corruption+and+Transparency
Ushahidi spoke with our community about how to make Ushahidi 3.0. We are building it with their input. Here are some of the original thoughts based on Community input from June - August 2013. There are updated wireframes available.
https://wiki.ushahidi.com/display/WIKI/Ushahidi+Platform%2C+v3.X
Around the Globe Corruption Mapping (part 2)Ushahidi
Around the Globe Corruption Mapping using Ushahidi and Crowdmap. (Part 2) Prepared for the 15th International Anti-Corruption Conference, Brasilia, Brazil. November 7, 2012. By Heather Leson
Around the Globe Corruption Mapping (part 1)Ushahidi
Around the Globe Corruption Mapping using Ushahidi and Crowdmap. (Part 1) Prepared for the 15th International Anti-Corruption Conference, Brasilia, Brazil. November 7, 2012. By Heather Leson
The Kenya Ushahidi Evaluation Project was 9-month Ushahidi evaluation project in partnership with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative supported by the Knight Foundation. Jennifer Chan and Melissa Tully conducted research which lead to the creation of case studies and toolboxes. (2011) This is Toolbox #3: Real-Time Evaluation.
The Kenya Ushahidi Evaluation Project was 9-month Ushahidi evaluation project in partnership with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative supported by the Knight Foundation. Jennifer Chan and Melissa Tully conducted research which lead to the creation of case studies and toolboxes. (2011) This is Toolbox #2: Implementation.
The Kenya Ushahidi Evaluation Project was 9-month Ushahidi evaluation project in partnership with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative supported by the Knight Foundation. Jennifer Chan and Melissa Tully conducted research which lead to the creation of case studies and toolboxes. (2011) This is Toolbox #1: Assessment.
Kenya Ushahidi Evaluation: Unsung Peace Heros/Building BridgesUshahidi
The Kenya Ushahidi Evaluation Project was 9-month Ushahidi evaluation project in partnership with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative supported by the Knight Foundation. Jennifer Chan and Melissa Tully conducted research, created case studies and toolboxes. (2011) The Unsung Peace Heros/Building Bridges Case Study was created by Melissa Tully.
The Kenya Ushahidi Evaluation Project was 9-month Ushahidi evaluation project in partnership with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative supported by the Knight Foundation. Jennifer Chan and Melissa Tully conducted research, created cases studies and toolboxes. (2011) The Uchaguzi Case Study was created by Jennifer Chan.
The Kenya Ushahidi Evaluation Project was 9-month Ushahidi Evaluation Project in partnership with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative supported by the Knight Foundation. Jennifer Chan and Melissa Tully conducted research, created use cases and toolboxes. (2011) The following are blog posts about their work. (previously posted on blog.ushahidi.com)
Ushahidi is incorporating user feedback as we plan for our next stages of the software development.
Gabriel White of Small Surfaces has prepared these User Personas and Scenarios
Testimony
Mesh 2012
May 23, 2012 Toronto Canada
Heather Leson
meshconference.com
Discussion focused on maps for change with a number of Canadian examples.
TedxSilkRoad presentation by Heather Leson on April 11, 2012 in Istanbul, Turkey.
This presentation featured a number of Ushahidi and Crowdmap deployments used for election monitoring, crisis response and civil society activities. The video will be available at a later date.
Presented by Heather Leson @ Public Safety Canada, the Ontario Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services and the University of Toronto
Conference on Social Media for Emergency Management and Crisis Communications, held at the University of Toronto in downtown Toronto, March 29, 2012.
Ushahidi introduction: Re-imagining Citizen Engagement
Webinar provided to the Urban Sustainability Director's Network (USDN)
By Heather Leson
February 24, 2012
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
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.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
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.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
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.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
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:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
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
Volunteer Mappers: Building community resilience with citizen media
1. Volunteer Mappers:
The New Age Ham Radio Operators
Building Community Resilience
Canadian Risks and Hazards
Heather Leson
Conference
@heatherleson
CRHnet.ca
hleson@ushahidi.com
October 19, 2011
2.
3. What is Ushahidi?
Open source software for information collection, visualization
and interactive mapping.
We build tools for democratizing information, increasing
transparency and lowering the barriers for individuals to share
their stories.
Platform Community Movement
ushahidi.com
4. History
"Ushahidi", which means "testimony" in Swahili, was a website that was initially
developed to map reports of violence in Kenya after post-election fallout at the
beginning of 2008.
legacy.ushahidi.com
5. Citizen Media
December 2010 - 319 reports, 156,859 views April 2011 - a lot reports
Help bring awareness to sexual harassment in Egypt Engaging citizens to help design a better New York City
harassmap.com bit.ly/ushahidi_pps
6. Election Monitoring
May 2009 - 202 reports, 20,000 views August 2010 - 1525 reports, 20,000 views
Allow citizen reporting during election in India Monitor Kenya referendum election
votereport.in uchaguzi.co.ke
7. Disaster Response
March 2011 - 8,000+ reports, 144,974 views January 2011 - 99,772 reports, 469,744 views
Monitor fallout of tsunami and nuclear crisis in Japan Monitor the flooding in Australia
sinsai.info/ushahidi queenslandfloods.crowdmap.com
12. Crowdmap
Crowdmap allows you to set up your own deployment of
Ushahidi ‘in the cloud’ without having to install it on your own
web server.
crowdmap.com
14. Data Types Output Methods
Input Methods
Citizen
Generated Map
SMS
News Media Email
Web Form Timeline
API
Ushahidi
NGO data Short Code SMS Alerts
or
Layers
Crowdmap
RSS
Government Mobile Apps RSS
Twitter
Facebook
Public APIs Email
MASAS
Flickr
YouTube
Twitter
So much Information
15. Use all the Channels
Data can be imported and exported. Layers can be added.
Yes we have an API. All of this data can flow to MASAS.
16. iPhone / iPad
Ushahidi mobile application for the iPhone and iPad
bit.ly/ushahidi_ios_app
17. SMSSync
SMSSync is a simple SMS to HTTP sync utility, that turns any Android phone into a
local SMS gateway that sends incoming messages to any Ushahidi deployment.
smssync.ushahidi.com
18. Checkins (CI)
Quick location update which can include an optional photo and
description, sharing “I am here”.
bit.ly/checkins_purpose
19.
20.
21.
22. Stand-By Task Force (SBTF)
“We are the people who map for three hours at night instead of watching TV.
We are the people who wake up early before work,
log into Skype and add a few reports to the map.”
- Heather Leson, SBTF volunteer
standbytaskforce.com
38. Mapping Mukuru by Ground Truth using OpenStreetMap
http://mapkibera.org/
39.
40. Lessons
• Use all the available communication
channels. Your citizens will.
• Build capacity in advance. Train. Exercise.
• Learn from the global models.
• Trust your citizens, your staff.
• You have advocates in your community.
• The Internet is not going away: APIs and
layers are your friends.