The WaterCredit Initiative applies principles of microfinance to provide small loans to individuals and communities in developing countries for water and sanitation access. Loans are repaid and recycled to help others, as grants alone cannot meet the needs of the nearly 1 billion people lacking safe drinking water. WaterCredit empowers people to address their own water needs on their own timelines in a sustainable way. Early projects in Bangladesh, India, and Kenya have shown encouraging results, with repayments launching second cycles of assistance and communities like Boya in Kenya expanding their projects. Rather than increasing debt burdens, WaterCredit loans can actually reduce monthly water costs for the poor compared to alternatives like private vendors. Going forward, the initiative aims to foster relationships between
All of the presentations from the webinar on "Enhancing investment in soil health and carbon storage: Frontiers for linking finance and carbon accounting" held on 10 September 2020.
This event is co-organized by CCAFS, The Nature Conservancy, 4 per 1000 Executive Secretariat, World Bank and the Meridian Institute. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3k68hkr
Panelists included:
-Ciniro Costa Jr., CCAFS
-Tim Mealey, Meridian Institute
-Deborah Bossio, The Nature Conservancy
-Martien van Nieuwkoop, World Bank Group
-Keith Paustian, Colorado State University
-Stefan Jirka, Manager LandScale, Verra
-Dan Harburg, Director, Indigo
-William Salas, President of Dagan, Inc
-Aldyen Donnelly, Director of Carbon Economics, Nori
-Debbie Reed, Executive Director of Ecosystem Services Market Consortium (ESMC)
-Beverley Henry, Institute for Future Environments-QUT
-Pamela M. Bachman, Digital Agriculture & Sustainability Lead, The Climate Corporation, a subsidiary of Bayer
-Ronald Vargas, Global Soil Carbon Partnership - FAO
-Paul Luu, 4per1000
All of the presentations from the webinar on "Enhancing investment in soil health and carbon storage: Frontiers for linking finance and carbon accounting" held on 10 September 2020.
This event is co-organized by CCAFS, The Nature Conservancy, 4 per 1000 Executive Secretariat, World Bank and the Meridian Institute. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3k68hkr
Panelists included:
-Ciniro Costa Jr., CCAFS
-Tim Mealey, Meridian Institute
-Deborah Bossio, The Nature Conservancy
-Martien van Nieuwkoop, World Bank Group
-Keith Paustian, Colorado State University
-Stefan Jirka, Manager LandScale, Verra
-Dan Harburg, Director, Indigo
-William Salas, President of Dagan, Inc
-Aldyen Donnelly, Director of Carbon Economics, Nori
-Debbie Reed, Executive Director of Ecosystem Services Market Consortium (ESMC)
-Beverley Henry, Institute for Future Environments-QUT
-Pamela M. Bachman, Digital Agriculture & Sustainability Lead, The Climate Corporation, a subsidiary of Bayer
-Ronald Vargas, Global Soil Carbon Partnership - FAO
-Paul Luu, 4per1000
Agriculture Water Productivity "A Tool for Modernizing Irrigation and Water Management", World Bank, Land and Water Days in Near East & North Africa, 15-18 December 2013, Amman, Jordan
The workshop will cover innovative water reuse and wastewater treatment options for commercial, institutional and medium-large residential development applications with an emphasis on environmental protection, cost effectiveness and simplicity of Operations & Maintenance. In addition to regulatory requirements, the key environmental drivers that are the basis for sustainability water management design will be described.
The presenter was Pio Lombardo, PE, President of Lombardo Associates, Inc. (LAI).
Surface Water Management Powerpoint Presentation SlidesSlideTeam
Introducing Surface Water Management PowerPoint Presentation Slides. Take the advantage of high-quality water management plan PPT infographics to give an overview of market size, growth rate, and capital expenditure of the water industry, etc. Demonstrate the process of planning, developing, and managing the optimum use of water with the help of this PPT slide deck. The slideshow effectively depicts the division of the wastewater treatment market. Highlight the key trends that will influence the water industry in the future such as, failing infrastructure, greater conservation, increasing regulation and efficiency. Modify our water resources PPT presentation to portray the natural and human processes that affect water quality. Our groundwater management PPT templates can aptly present the organization chart for the water supply authority. The slideshow also explains various topics like the wastewater treatment process, reuse by sector, and treated wastewater quality parameters. Highlight the water management KPI metrics by downloading this sustainable water management PowerPoint slide deck. https://bit.ly/3yKotPp
This presentation is about Clean Development Mechanism and focus is on power sector. key aspects covered are CDM world statistics, Indian scenario, CER prices, CDM project management, etc.
Water conservation refers to reducing the usage of water and recycling of waste water for different purposes like domestic usage, industries, agriculture etc. This technical article highlights most of the popular methods of water conservation. A special note on rainwater harvesting is also provided.
Water, sanitation and hygience (wash) in india 5th dec'16Dr. Suchitra Lisam
The PPT was given as technical session at the 2 days Annual Strategic planning and BSI project review meeting of Reckitt Benckiser funded WASH/BSI project of ADRA India (for UP, Bihar states)
Water Resource Management Powerpoint Presentation SlidesSlideTeam
Discuss the process of planning, developing, and managing the optimum use of water resources by using Water Resource Management PowerPoint Presentation Slides. This Water resource system PowerPoint slideshow can be used to explain the overview of market size, growth rate, and capital expenditure of the water industry. You can present the survey data for determining water quality by using the water cycle management PPT slideshow. Demonstrate the division of the wastewater treatment market by editing our content-ready water quality monitoring PowerPoint slide deck. You can easily edit our water resources presentation to highlight the natural processes and human processes that affect water quality. Showcase the leading factors that will affect the performance of the water technology market by using water quality assurance PowerPoint visuals. Key trends that will influence the water industry in the future such as increasing regulation, failing infrastructure, greater conservation, and efficiency, etc. can also be presented with the help of our ready-to-use water management PPT visuals. Discuss how you can design an effective water quality monitoring program by downloading our professionally designed water resource management PowerPoint slides. https://bit.ly/3fb5ExJ
Why do WASH projects fail? Their main focus is often the initial investment in hardware, with limited consideration of capacity building, behavior change, and ensuring local ownership. Join us for a discussion of the most common challenges, and we will equip you with tools to plan successful, sustainable projects.
Equity Bank presentation on microfinance for WASH - East Africa workshop on m...Trémolet Consulting
Stephen Macharia from Equity Bank (one of Kenya's biggest financial institution) gives an overview of the bank's partnership with Water.org for the provision of loans for water and sanitation
Agriculture Water Productivity "A Tool for Modernizing Irrigation and Water Management", World Bank, Land and Water Days in Near East & North Africa, 15-18 December 2013, Amman, Jordan
The workshop will cover innovative water reuse and wastewater treatment options for commercial, institutional and medium-large residential development applications with an emphasis on environmental protection, cost effectiveness and simplicity of Operations & Maintenance. In addition to regulatory requirements, the key environmental drivers that are the basis for sustainability water management design will be described.
The presenter was Pio Lombardo, PE, President of Lombardo Associates, Inc. (LAI).
Surface Water Management Powerpoint Presentation SlidesSlideTeam
Introducing Surface Water Management PowerPoint Presentation Slides. Take the advantage of high-quality water management plan PPT infographics to give an overview of market size, growth rate, and capital expenditure of the water industry, etc. Demonstrate the process of planning, developing, and managing the optimum use of water with the help of this PPT slide deck. The slideshow effectively depicts the division of the wastewater treatment market. Highlight the key trends that will influence the water industry in the future such as, failing infrastructure, greater conservation, increasing regulation and efficiency. Modify our water resources PPT presentation to portray the natural and human processes that affect water quality. Our groundwater management PPT templates can aptly present the organization chart for the water supply authority. The slideshow also explains various topics like the wastewater treatment process, reuse by sector, and treated wastewater quality parameters. Highlight the water management KPI metrics by downloading this sustainable water management PowerPoint slide deck. https://bit.ly/3yKotPp
This presentation is about Clean Development Mechanism and focus is on power sector. key aspects covered are CDM world statistics, Indian scenario, CER prices, CDM project management, etc.
Water conservation refers to reducing the usage of water and recycling of waste water for different purposes like domestic usage, industries, agriculture etc. This technical article highlights most of the popular methods of water conservation. A special note on rainwater harvesting is also provided.
Water, sanitation and hygience (wash) in india 5th dec'16Dr. Suchitra Lisam
The PPT was given as technical session at the 2 days Annual Strategic planning and BSI project review meeting of Reckitt Benckiser funded WASH/BSI project of ADRA India (for UP, Bihar states)
Water Resource Management Powerpoint Presentation SlidesSlideTeam
Discuss the process of planning, developing, and managing the optimum use of water resources by using Water Resource Management PowerPoint Presentation Slides. This Water resource system PowerPoint slideshow can be used to explain the overview of market size, growth rate, and capital expenditure of the water industry. You can present the survey data for determining water quality by using the water cycle management PPT slideshow. Demonstrate the division of the wastewater treatment market by editing our content-ready water quality monitoring PowerPoint slide deck. You can easily edit our water resources presentation to highlight the natural processes and human processes that affect water quality. Showcase the leading factors that will affect the performance of the water technology market by using water quality assurance PowerPoint visuals. Key trends that will influence the water industry in the future such as increasing regulation, failing infrastructure, greater conservation, and efficiency, etc. can also be presented with the help of our ready-to-use water management PPT visuals. Discuss how you can design an effective water quality monitoring program by downloading our professionally designed water resource management PowerPoint slides. https://bit.ly/3fb5ExJ
Why do WASH projects fail? Their main focus is often the initial investment in hardware, with limited consideration of capacity building, behavior change, and ensuring local ownership. Join us for a discussion of the most common challenges, and we will equip you with tools to plan successful, sustainable projects.
Equity Bank presentation on microfinance for WASH - East Africa workshop on m...Trémolet Consulting
Stephen Macharia from Equity Bank (one of Kenya's biggest financial institution) gives an overview of the bank's partnership with Water.org for the provision of loans for water and sanitation
Equity Bank presentation on microfinance for WASH - East Africa workshop on m...Trémolet Consulting
Stephen Macharia from Equity Bank (one of Kenya's biggest financial institution) gives an overview of the bank's partnership with Water.org for the provision of loans for water and sanitation.
Knocking out Poverty with Peer-to-Peer LendingThoughtBerg FSP
Ram sharing about RangDe's work in Knocking out Poverty with Peer-to-Peer Lending using micro-credit at 2010 ThoughtBerg's Campus Ambassadors boot-camp
MacroLIQ - Liquid Bio Manure - Why every farmer and every crop in India needs it - Tomorrow's Technology - Today - that's what we call Smart Farming...!
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
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.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
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.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI support
What is WaterCredit ?
1. WaterCredit Q&A
• What is the WaterCredit Initiative?
• Why is WaterCredit needed?
• What are the advantages of WaterCredit over traditional grants?
• Is it correct to say that WaterCredit is a new approach to an old
problem?
• Can you cite some examples of WaterCredit successes?
• Will WaterCredit put poor people further into debt?
• Where do you go from here with the WaterCredit Initiative?
What is the WaterCredit Initiative?
Simply stated, the WaterCredit Initiative applies principles of microfinance to
the water and sanitation sector. By making small loans to individuals and
communities in developing countries who do not have access to traditional
credit markets, WaterCredit empowers people to address their own water
needs. The repaid loans go back into a revolving fund, and are then re-loaned
to the next individual or community.
Why is WaterCredit needed?
Current financing methods to address the world water crisis are not working.
Grants alone will never each the nearly one billion people in need of safe
drinking water. People often are forced to wait years for a grant that may
never come. Meanwhile, they’re getting sick and dying from the unsafe water
they’re drinking—not to mention the hours they have to spend every day
collecting it.
What are the advantages of WaterCredit over traditional
grants?
WaterCredit is demand-driven, harnessing the power of people from the
bottom up. Rather than depending solely on grants from the top down,
WaterCredit enables people to address their water needs on their own
timetables. With WaterCredit, the same dollar can be re-loaned over and over
again, multiplying the number of people who can be helped. It also frees up
grant resources to go where they are most needed.
2. Is it correct to say that WaterCredit is a new approach to an
old problem?
Yes. Up to now, virtually all water and sanitation programs in developing
countries have been grant-financed. Water.org is the first organization to bring
microfinance to the water and sanitation sector across multiple countries. With
the success of our early projects, we believe that the WaterCredit approach
will revolutionize the way water is supplied to the world.
Can you cite some examples of WaterCredit successes?
The pilot projects for WaterCredit began in 2004 in the urban slums of Dhaka,
Bangladesh, and in rural Tamil Nadu in India. The initial results were highly
encouraging, and in both cases, the repaid loans are now in their second
cycle of helping people gain access to water and sanitation. In 2005,
the WaterCredit Initiative was expanded to Kenya, where the focus has been
on community-level loans for wells and infrastructure. The community of Boya
in western Kenya took out a WaterCredit loan of $21,000 to finance a new
water tank and pipes. Now that they’ve seen how the program works, they are
making plans to triple the size of the project.
Will WaterCredit put poor people further into debt?
No. In fact, WaterCredit loans free people from existing burdens – high
monetary investment and high time investment (time spent walking and
waiting in line for water). Water subsidies are actually upside down – the poor
are typically the only ones who pay full price. If the urban poor cannot connect
to municipal water supply systems, for example, they are forced to pay high
prices for water sold through private vendors, often referred to as “water
mafia.” So, WaterCredit loans that allow them to get their water connections
can actually reduce their monthly water expenditures. We’ve met people
so desperate for water and sanitation facilities that they borrowed money from
loan sharks at exorbitant rates—sometimes over 100%—in order to get their
hook-ups. In that context, market rate loans from reputable lenders are clearly
a better deal.
Where do you go from here with the WaterCredit Initiative?
Water.org does not aspire to be the water bank to the world. Instead, we see
our role as accelerating natural market processes. This means fostering
relationships between microfinance institutions and non-governmental
organizations in the water and sanitation sector to help them understand each
other better. Or, in certain cases, even creating hybrids between the two. In
other places, we may provide standby letters of credit to back loans made by
microfinance institutions, encouraging them to enter the sector by mitigating
their risk until they understand it better. Basically, we are willing to do
whatever it takes to get this market jump-started. And once it does take off,
we think people will be amazed by the results.
visit : www.water.org