Volunteer Mappers: Building community resilience with citizen mediaUshahidi
Building community resilience with citizen media
Canadian Risks and Hazards Conference
October 18, 2011
Presented by Heather Leson, Director of Community Engagement, Ushahidi
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
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.
Volunteer Mappers: Building community resilience with citizen mediaUshahidi
Building community resilience with citizen media
Canadian Risks and Hazards Conference
October 18, 2011
Presented by Heather Leson, Director of Community Engagement, Ushahidi
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
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.
Digital Communication Network empower a new generation of communicators and influencers, facilitate the formation of communities and develop open spaces for cross-training, sharing and creating media products and services, adapted to a dynamic information environment
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
Data! Action! Data journalism issues to watch in the next 10 yearsPaul Bradshaw
Keynote at the Nordic data journalism conference #NODA16 - an outline of issues facing data journalism which journalists and academics need to focus on in the next decade.
From KPIs to KOLs: Regulating social media and influencers within VietnamUniversity of Sydney
The recent Facebook livestream by Nguyen Phuong Hang, which lasted for over three hours, vocally criticised, and called-out online celebrities for their dysfunctional behaviour, signifies a new era for social media and influencers within the country. As a key opinion leader (KOL) herself, Nguyen Phuong Hang has the capacity to swing public opinion, triggering a key regulatory moment for the Vietnamese government. As an already regulatory-tight country, Vietnam faces a paradoxical social media regulation moment: significant investment in its digital media future, while maintaining a consistent political line. As a result of this Facebook livestream, the Vietnamese government are looking to pressure KOLs and online influencers by increasing control over livestreaming: any social media account that has more than 10,000 followers must provide their contact information to the authorities. Social media platforms will be asked to remove content that has been flagged as problematic by government officials, highlighting Vietnam’s position on regulating foreign social media platforms, not only YouTube or Facebook specifically. This research draws on algorithmic visibility literature to examine the current state of regulation for Vietnamese social media users with a specific focus on KOLs. Drawing on several recent case studies, we highlight the current state of social media regulation in Vietnam, while also extrapolating the tension the country faces as it invests in and develops its digital and creative industries.
Digital Image of the City - Infrastructure
Bowdoin College
Fall 2014
Roya Moussapour, Alex N'Diaye, Karl Reinhardt, Alexi Robbins, James Wang, Max Wolf
Presentation given on 12/10/14
Smallholder market competitiveness for beef production in Botswana: A quantit...ILRI
Poster prepared by Kanar Hamza (NIIA) and Sirak Bahta (ILRI) for the Agrifood chain toolkit conference: Livestock and fish value chains in East Africa, Kampala, 9-11 September 2013.
Digital Communication Network empower a new generation of communicators and influencers, facilitate the formation of communities and develop open spaces for cross-training, sharing and creating media products and services, adapted to a dynamic information environment
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
Data! Action! Data journalism issues to watch in the next 10 yearsPaul Bradshaw
Keynote at the Nordic data journalism conference #NODA16 - an outline of issues facing data journalism which journalists and academics need to focus on in the next decade.
From KPIs to KOLs: Regulating social media and influencers within VietnamUniversity of Sydney
The recent Facebook livestream by Nguyen Phuong Hang, which lasted for over three hours, vocally criticised, and called-out online celebrities for their dysfunctional behaviour, signifies a new era for social media and influencers within the country. As a key opinion leader (KOL) herself, Nguyen Phuong Hang has the capacity to swing public opinion, triggering a key regulatory moment for the Vietnamese government. As an already regulatory-tight country, Vietnam faces a paradoxical social media regulation moment: significant investment in its digital media future, while maintaining a consistent political line. As a result of this Facebook livestream, the Vietnamese government are looking to pressure KOLs and online influencers by increasing control over livestreaming: any social media account that has more than 10,000 followers must provide their contact information to the authorities. Social media platforms will be asked to remove content that has been flagged as problematic by government officials, highlighting Vietnam’s position on regulating foreign social media platforms, not only YouTube or Facebook specifically. This research draws on algorithmic visibility literature to examine the current state of regulation for Vietnamese social media users with a specific focus on KOLs. Drawing on several recent case studies, we highlight the current state of social media regulation in Vietnam, while also extrapolating the tension the country faces as it invests in and develops its digital and creative industries.
Digital Image of the City - Infrastructure
Bowdoin College
Fall 2014
Roya Moussapour, Alex N'Diaye, Karl Reinhardt, Alexi Robbins, James Wang, Max Wolf
Presentation given on 12/10/14
Smallholder market competitiveness for beef production in Botswana: A quantit...ILRI
Poster prepared by Kanar Hamza (NIIA) and Sirak Bahta (ILRI) for the Agrifood chain toolkit conference: Livestock and fish value chains in East Africa, Kampala, 9-11 September 2013.
Value chain analysis: Gender and market participation in livestock marketsILRI
Poster by Elizabeth Waithanji, Jemimah Njuki and Nabintu Bagalwa presented at the CGIAR Gender Network workshop on “Closing the gender gap in agriculture: Opportunities for collaboration in gender-responsive research”, Seattle, WA, 25-27 July 2012.
Strategies in increasing women’s participation in commodity value chain devel...ILRI
Presented by Lemlem Aregu and Ranjitha Puskur at the Gender and Market Oriented Agriculture (AgriGender 2011) Workshop, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 31st January–2nd February 2011
Ushahidi introduction: Re-imagining Citizen Engagement
Webinar provided to the Urban Sustainability Director's Network (USDN)
By Heather Leson
February 24, 2012
The Role of Community Radio in Promoting Community Participation in Local Gov...AJHSSR Journal
ABSTRACT: The study investigated the community radio as a tool that promotes community participation in
local governance. Multi-stage random sampling method and purposive method was adopted. Data collection
was undertaken using questionnaire and interviews. The datawascollected in three Sectors (Muzo, Kivuruga and
Gakenke) of Gakenke District in Northern Province of Rwanda. Overall research results indicated that 93% of
respondents (citizens, local authorities, and journalists) agreed that PAXPRESScommunity radio debates
enhance the knowledge and awareness of the citizens. For the role played by PAXPRESS community radio in
promoting dialogue on community issues and needs, the overall research results indicated that 20% of
respondents strongly agreed and 74% of respondents agree that PAXPRESS community radio promotes
dialogue on community issues and needs as well as educating on household decisions making. On the
contribution of PAXPRESS community radio in improving the relationship between citizens and authorities, in
general, 70% of respondents believe that the relationship has improvedand 18% believe that it has changed a
little while 10% believe that maybe it exists while 2% do not agree. The good practices and lessons learned for
the promotion of community participation in local governance through PAXPRESS community radio include (i)
Paxpress debates engage community and authorities in these debates; (ii) Paxpress debates provide dialogue for
the community with disabilities; (iii) Paxpress debates allow rural community to interact with authorities and
journalists; and (iv) Paxpress debates enhance the knowledge of the citizens on their rights, household decision
making and government policies. Challenges outlined by the research include: difficult to convince citizen to
talk through radio; difficulty to convince local authorities who seem not informed about the laws of access to
information and freedom of expression; Misinterpretation of some authorities face the media's role or mission;
(v) Financial limitations. The research recommends: (i) to make a follow up after debate; (ii) allocating enough
time to the debates; (iii)managing citizens‟ emotions; (iv)toinform people on the topic to be discussed before,
and give enough time to authorities to explain their concerns instead of challenging them only; (v) emphasize on
the debates that strengthen the relationship between the community and authorities. If well done, this would be
an utmost achievement for the government.
KEYWORDS:Community Radio, localgovernance, community participation,PAXPRESS
This ppt first define the meaning of media and it's types then the role of social media that how it give voice ( channelize /viral the issues) of the voiceless people (mainly discussing the marginalized people).
Grand challenges online Lebanese NGOs strive make citizens’ voices count-PACE...PACE LEBANON
Article Highlighting the grantees of the USAID funded program,Promoting Active Citizen Engagement (PACE) in Lebanon and focusing on their use of the Media
A presentation of Vouliwatch.gr, a crowdsourced digital platform and social initiative to monitor parliamentary politics and promote open public institutions in Greece.
Social Media and PoliticsLearning objectivesLearning objec.docxjensgosney
Social Media and Politics
Learning objectives
Learning objectives include an understanding of the following:
· The role of social media in democracy
· The role of social media in advancing political reforms
· How social media create polarization
Introduction
Social Media are now a central component of democracy. The media are increasingly associated with political organizing, elections campaigns, accountability, and generally a more engaged citizenry. Social media are a dominant platform through which everyday citizens can share, organize, and communicate their ideas. People regularly use the media to acquire information about leaders and public policy related areas like the environment, education, health and so on. Many public offices now have websites that include social media functions in their communication with the public. Collectively, social media provide a public sphere where individuals can interact with likeminded people on political issues and provide criticism and support for leaders. However, while social media platforms make many issues accessible to increasingly large groups, the media have the potential to create polarization. Specifically, many blogs are quite subjective while some forms of media promote hatred and intolerance. Additionally, it is also difficult to examine the extent to which social media really alters public opinion as more research is needed. Lastly, questions remain on how much time users are prepared to devote their time on the social media for political problems.
Social Media and Elections
Popular social networks have transformed the use of the internet as a political tool for democratic transitions. Barack Obama’s historic in 2008 win was attributed to a new media strategy inspired by popular networks such as MySpace and Facebook. The campaign’s website My.BarackObama.com, allows supporters to join local groups, create events, sign up for updates and set up personal fund-raising pages. The campaign was spearheaded by Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook. The social networks helped Obama raise more than two million donations of less than $200 each (Stelter, 2008). This success was based on huge investments on social media. The campaign spent $3 million on online advertising that targeted potential voters and online tools providing details of voting locations (Stelter, 2008).
Similarly, social media was extensively used in Canada’s 2011 elections. The elections were dubbed the “social media elections” or “election 2.0.” Harris (2011) observed that the social media served as “a one-stop shopping for parodies, speech remixes, gotcha moments, unconventional ads, and attacks so fiery, they risk scorching your computer monitor.” Two "vote mob" videos simultaneously held spots in the Top 10 on YouTube. A satirical video juxtaposing a Harper speech with an address by Star Wars' evil Emperor Palpatine drew more than 114,000. The University of Guelph's "vote mob" videos were viewed more than 33,000 .
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's First Academic Webinar was held on Friday, November 11, 2011. This presentation was by Jessica Colaco and Hilda Moraa of the Ihub Research Lab. For more details: http://www.meetup.com/Ushahidi-Community/events/37206692/
zkStudyClub - Reef: Fast Succinct Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Regex ProofsAlex Pruden
This paper presents Reef, a system for generating publicly verifiable succinct non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs that a committed document matches or does not match a regular expression. We describe applications such as proving the strength of passwords, the provenance of email despite redactions, the validity of oblivious DNS queries, and the existence of mutations in DNA. Reef supports the Perl Compatible Regular Expression syntax, including wildcards, alternation, ranges, capture groups, Kleene star, negations, and lookarounds. Reef introduces a new type of automata, Skipping Alternating Finite Automata (SAFA), that skips irrelevant parts of a document when producing proofs without undermining soundness, and instantiates SAFA with a lookup argument. Our experimental evaluation confirms that Reef can generate proofs for documents with 32M characters; the proofs are small and cheap to verify (under a second).
Paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1886
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 5DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 5. In this session, we will cover CI/CD with devops.
Topics covered:
CI/CD with in UiPath
End-to-end overview of CI/CD pipeline with Azure devops
Speaker:
Lyndsey Byblow, Test Suite Sales Engineer @ UiPath, Inc.
Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing DaysKari Kakkonen
My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
Climate impact / sustainability of software testing discussed on the talk. ICT and testing must carry their part of global responsibility to help with the climat warming. We can minimize the carbon footprint but we can also have a carbon handprint, a positive impact on the climate. Quality characteristics can be added with sustainability, and then measured continuously. Test environments can be used less, and in smaller scale and on demand. Test techniques can be used in optimizing or minimizing number of tests. Test automation can be used to speed up testing.
GridMate - End to end testing is a critical piece to ensure quality and avoid...ThomasParaiso2
End to end testing is a critical piece to ensure quality and avoid regressions. In this session, we share our journey building an E2E testing pipeline for GridMate components (LWC and Aura) using Cypress, JSForce, FakerJS…
Communications Mining Series - Zero to Hero - Session 1DianaGray10
This session provides introduction to UiPath Communication Mining, importance and platform overview. You will acquire a good understand of the phases in Communication Mining as we go over the platform with you. Topics covered:
• Communication Mining Overview
• Why is it important?
• How can it help today’s business and the benefits
• Phases in Communication Mining
• Demo on Platform overview
• Q/A
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 6DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 6. In this session, we will cover Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI webinar offers an in-depth exploration of leveraging cutting-edge technologies for test automation within the UiPath platform. Attendees will delve into the integration of generative AI, a test automation solution, with Open AI advanced natural language processing capabilities.
Throughout the session, participants will discover how this synergy empowers testers to automate repetitive tasks, enhance testing accuracy, and expedite the software testing life cycle. Topics covered include the seamless integration process, practical use cases, and the benefits of harnessing AI-driven automation for UiPath testing initiatives. By attending this webinar, testers, and automation professionals can gain valuable insights into harnessing the power of AI to optimize their test automation workflows within the UiPath ecosystem, ultimately driving efficiency and quality in software development processes.
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into integrating generative AI.
2. Understanding how this integration enhances test automation within the UiPath platform
3. Practical demonstrations
4. Exploration of real-world use cases illustrating the benefits of AI-driven test automation for UiPath
Topics covered:
What is generative AI
Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath integration with generative AI
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
In the rapidly evolving landscape of technologies, XML continues to play a vital role in structuring, storing, and transporting data across diverse systems. The recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) present new methodologies for enhancing XML development workflows, introducing efficiency, automation, and intelligent capabilities. This presentation will outline the scope and perspective of utilizing AI in XML development. The potential benefits and the possible pitfalls will be highlighted, providing a balanced view of the subject.
We will explore the capabilities of AI in understanding XML markup languages and autonomously creating structured XML content. Additionally, we will examine the capacity of AI to enrich plain text with appropriate XML markup. Practical examples and methodological guidelines will be provided to elucidate how AI can be effectively prompted to interpret and generate accurate XML markup.
Further emphasis will be placed on the role of AI in developing XSLT, or schemas such as XSD and Schematron. We will address the techniques and strategies adopted to create prompts for generating code, explaining code, or refactoring the code, and the results achieved.
The discussion will extend to how AI can be used to transform XML content. In particular, the focus will be on the use of AI XPath extension functions in XSLT, Schematron, Schematron Quick Fixes, or for XML content refactoring.
The presentation aims to deliver a comprehensive overview of AI usage in XML development, providing attendees with the necessary knowledge to make informed decisions. Whether you’re at the early stages of adopting AI or considering integrating it in advanced XML development, this presentation will cover all levels of expertise.
By highlighting the potential advantages and challenges of integrating AI with XML development tools and languages, the presentation seeks to inspire thoughtful conversation around the future of XML development. We’ll not only delve into the technical aspects of AI-powered XML development but also discuss practical implications and possible future directions.
A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...sonjaschweigert1
Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navy’s DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
- Reduction in onboarding time from 5 weeks to 1 day
- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
Development teams can ship efficiently and ensure applications are cyber ready for Navy Authorizing Officials (AOs). In this webinar, Sigma Defense and Anchore will give attendees a look behind the scenes and demo secure pipeline automation and security artifacts that speed up application ATO and time to production.
We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
Unlocking Productivity: Leveraging the Potential of Copilot in Microsoft 365, a presentation by Christoforos Vlachos, Senior Solutions Manager – Modern Workplace, Uni Systems
Enchancing adoption of Open Source Libraries. A case study on Albumentations.AIVladimir Iglovikov, Ph.D.
Presented by Vladimir Iglovikov:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/iglovikov/
- https://x.com/viglovikov
- https://www.instagram.com/ternaus/
This presentation delves into the journey of Albumentations.ai, a highly successful open-source library for data augmentation.
Created out of a necessity for superior performance in Kaggle competitions, Albumentations has grown to become a widely used tool among data scientists and machine learning practitioners.
This case study covers various aspects, including:
People: The contributors and community that have supported Albumentations.
Metrics: The success indicators such as downloads, daily active users, GitHub stars, and financial contributions.
Challenges: The hurdles in monetizing open-source projects and measuring user engagement.
Development Practices: Best practices for creating, maintaining, and scaling open-source libraries, including code hygiene, CI/CD, and fast iteration.
Community Building: Strategies for making adoption easy, iterating quickly, and fostering a vibrant, engaged community.
Marketing: Both online and offline marketing tactics, focusing on real, impactful interactions and collaborations.
Mental Health: Maintaining balance and not feeling pressured by user demands.
Key insights include the importance of automation, making the adoption process seamless, and leveraging offline interactions for marketing. The presentation also emphasizes the need for continuous small improvements and building a friendly, inclusive community that contributes to the project's growth.
Vladimir Iglovikov brings his extensive experience as a Kaggle Grandmaster, ex-Staff ML Engineer at Lyft, sharing valuable lessons and practical advice for anyone looking to enhance the adoption of their open-source projects.
Explore more about Albumentations and join the community at:
GitHub: https://github.com/albumentations-team/albumentations
Website: https://albumentations.ai/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/100504475
Twitter: https://x.com/albumentations
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
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.
7. Disaster Response March 2011 - 4,000+ reports, 144,974 views Monitor fallout of tsunami and nuclear crisis sinsai.info/ushahidi uchaguzi.co.ke Election Monitoring August 2010 - 1525 reports, 20,000 views Monitor Kenya referendum election
8. Citizen Media December 2010 - 319 reports, 156,859 views Help bring awareness to sexual harassment in Egypt harassmap.com urbandesignweek.org By the City / For the City (NYC) Integration of social media into placemaking practices, which are community centered, encouraging public participation, collaboration and transparency. Communities
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10. Volunteers Public /Victims Public / News Consumers Responders Public / News Producers Advertisers Funders Donors Activists Government Policy
11. 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. We are the people who may drop everything to map for four days. We are communications and friends. ” - Heather Leson, SBTF volunteer standbytaskforce.com
12. Libya Crisis libyacrisismap.net The Libya Crisis Map deployed by request of UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
Ushahidi is a global free open source software provider. We create tools for information collection, data visualization and interactive mapping. Our team is committed to support the communities of people around the world. In fact, we are delighted and a touch overwhelmed by their efforts. My name is Heather Leson. I started as volunteer within the community and then happily joined in July 2011 as Director of Community Engagement.Today I will share stories about how people use our software and, more specifically, highlight how Universities and university students can connect to change the world.
We are over run with signal to noise. It is important to consider all the information channels including the context of use. Peter Drucker wrote years ago about the Art of Information. The point that struck me the most was the rise of the knowledge worker and how powerful that is in the evolution of society. Ushahidi is one platform and community in this ecosystem. What does it mean to be a civil society? How can we be more global and connected? How can we use the power of our brains, our networks, our communities within or external to existing institutions.
Ushahidi is Swahili for “ Testimony ” and started in 2008. The co-founders believed that citizens have a voice and will use it if you give them a platform to share it. At the core of this are two questions: “ What do you see? ” and “ What do you need? ” People provide their information using multiple communication channels often in real-time.
We are committed to support those who want to use your software to encourage transparency, build accountability and, most of all, share their community with the world. While a map (location plus information or layers of information) is not always the right solution. It can be very effective in providing supplementary story telling. But it is only as effective as the project plan and the audience around it. Plus, the complexity of using this as part of the communication toolkit is still being defined. So, we encourage research, review and iteration.
And the number of Ushahidi deployments keep on growing, now with over 15,000 maps
A bit more about our growing community and software. Ushahidi is free open source software, we are widening the toolkits to meet the diverse mobile tools and information needs. Last year we launched Crowdmap ( A cloud-based service) This has been widely accepted. So, we are working to expand the plugins and extend the software to serve the needs. Languages are important. We are growing localization and are very fortunate to have community members provide translations on an ongoing basis. We even crowdsource this via twitter. Just last week we got more help for Korean translations. (One of our staff actually lives in South Korea and is learning the language while being the Director of Crowdmap.)
It ’ s also played a key role in Disaster Response. This winter was a busy time with the Christchurch Earthquake and creation of eq.org.nz. This was closely followed by the map team of OpenStreetMap and various other communities collaborating to monitor the fallout of tsunami and nuclear crisis in Japan. Volunteers from the NZ map and others helped Hal Seki. There is a global community of crisismappers which are building the knowledge.
It ’ s also been used for Citizen Media like HarrassMap (HarrassMap helped bring awareness to sexual harassment in Egypt.) and Plan International ’ s VAC map in Benin or Shemeer ’ s Maps4Aid focused on Violence against Women map in India. Communities and city building (place making) is becoming powerful with CIC in Monteray Mexico, alert.md in Chisnau (Moldovia) or By the City in NYC.
These are some of the projects from around the world. The people who worked on these range from international politics, environmentalists, health science (doctors), software developers, journalists, and NGOs. ANd more.
How does it all fit together? Each of these groups have roles and actions. Sometimes a project can be done by one person or hundreds. A project is 90 % and the tech is 10 %. The Knight Foundation funded the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative to help us create evaluation toolkits.
Problem : Too costly and time consuming to retrain volunteers with each new disaster. Solution : A group of 220+ dedicated volunteers in over 30 countries that can be activated on short notice to help humanitarian groups. First deployed in New Zealand during the February earthquake eq.org.nz Note, Stand-By Task Force is part of the community although it is not an official arm of Ushahidi
On March 2nd, UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) requested the Stand-By Task Force be activated in Libya. This was a very difficult map to volunteer and execute. Next week at the Crisismappers conference in Geneva, that team will present their analysis and lessons learned. The initial map was password protected to ensure safety of reporters, but later made publicly accessible. The SBTF is training people around the world to prepare. And, they are building on each exercise, activation and volunteer deployment.
I ’ ve mentioned a number of products and projects. U4U is core to today ’ s talk. Ushahidi for Universities is a program lead by a number of former students from Fletcher School, Tufts. This is a program that we feel very strongly about. And, we are working to expand our relationship with academics, researchers and embed it in the classrooms.
Columbia University, Fletcher School of International Affairs at Tufts, Simon Fraser University, Grant McEwan College (University of Alberta), Royal Roads, Goldsmiths (University of London, CAST), and more. These are just some of the universities that already including Ushahidi as part of their curriculum. It is not a comprehensive list because often we find out after the class. Courses range from International Politics, Software Development, Emergency Management, and Communications/Media Technology. We want to do everything we can to encourage and support this type of growth.
Can it fit into your programs? Here are some the use cases that we have found for using Ushahidi. But, we are constantly surprised by the extendability of the software and people ’ s desires to try new things. We are here to support those efforts. In fact, we like to have people mentor each other. And, we will do our best to great them started. Some complex projects need a deployment partner or a trusted core developer. We have a number of these people within our community.
We have a two strong academics embedded into our team - Patrick Meier and Heather Ford. I actually think that each deployment should have an academic or a student embedded to ask “ Why? ” to a deployer ’ s “ What if? ” . A map is only as useful as the lessons learned and built on. And, it outcomes, analysis and a call to action are not included, then it is just shiny dots on a map. A community of thinkers and knowledge workers would be best to work around it. We answer research questions frequently. Datasets are available on the site and we keep a record of all the research on Ushahidi. As well, we are looking for critical thinking blog posts that might be useful to our greater community and their audiences.
I ’ d like to take credit for the timing, but we are a team at Ushahidi who are all focused on building relationships with academics. This will be recorded tomorrow for future use. We hope to continue to build relationships with academics and researchers. And, encourage feedback into our software to improve and meet people ’ s needs.
There are volunteer communities in this space that need students, NGOs and academics to support their mission to create open source software for good. I encourage you to contact me about Ushahidi or one of our collaborators: crisismappers, rhok, crisiscommons, geeks without bounds, frontlinesms, meedan, sahana, openstreetmap, InSTEDD,Huridocs, Mozilla. As well, RHoK Zurich is in December. I will be meeting with the team this coming Saturday. We will talk about Ushahidi and Rhok in general. One of the core wins for RHok, is that many have been held within academic institutions. And, it is a great chance to mentor and share with people to test problem definitions and exercise collaboration. Who knows what people can create when they share and drop the barriers!
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Thanks! Here ’ s to more universities, academics, students and researchers being engaged.