This was presented by Kersti Ruth Wissenbach from the University of Amsterdam at the Impacts of Civic Technology Conference (TICTeC2016) in Barcelona on 27th April. You can find out more information about the conference here: https://www.mysociety.org/research/tictec-2016/
Amplifying citizen voices and driving civic tech usage through mainstream mediamysociety
This was presented by Justin Arenstein from Code for
Africa at the Impacts of Civic Technology Conference (TICTeC2016) in Barcelona on 27th April. You can find out more information about the conference here: https://www.mysociety.org/research/tictec-2016/
Impacts of Government-Led Civic Tech: US Citiesmysociety
This was presented by Emily Shaw from mySociety at the Impacts of Civic Technology Conference (TICTeC2016) in Barcelona on 27th April. You can find out more information about the conference here: https://www.mysociety.org/research/tictec-2016/
What is Civic Tech: Toward finalizing a basic framework so that we can move o...mysociety
This was presented by Micah Syfry (Civic Hall), Matt Stempeck (Microsoft) and Erin Simpson (Civic Hall Labs) at the Impacts of Civic Technology Conference (TICTeC2016) in Barcelona on 27th April. You can find out more information about the conference here: https://www.mysociety.org/research/tictec-2016/
This was presented by Kate Krontiris (Omidyar
Network, USA) at the Impacts of Civic Technology Conference (TICTeC2016) in Barcelona on 27th April. You can find out more information about the conference here: https://www.mysociety.org/research/tictec-2016/
February 2014 update: Since publishing our original report in December, 2013, we've received dozens of emails from peers in the budding civic tech community proposing additions. On Feb. 26, we released an updated version of the civic tech investment analysis, which includes an additional 34 companies and $265 million of investment. Find out more at http://kng.ht/1cPi3Ar.
Investments by private capital funders and foundations in technology that spurs citizen engagement, improves cities and makes governments more effective is growing significantly, with more than $430 million going to the field between January 2011 and May 2013, according to a major report released today by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
The first report of its kind, “The Emergence of Civic Tech: Investments in a Growing Field,” provides an in-depth analysis of the current state of private capital and foundation investments in civic technology. It aims to help organizations and investors better understand civic tech funding, so that they can strengthen their work and help shape the field. The analysis applies a new approach to research and advances the use of data in the social sector; it showcases an interactive data visualization map that allows users to explore investments across multiple areas of civic tech. Find out more at www.knightfoundation.org/features/civictech
Micah Sifry, Erin Simpson, and Matt Stempeck present a field guide to civic tech at The Impacts of Civic Technology Conference at the Barcelona World Trade Center, April 2016.
Newsout: 30 examples of government transparencyBill Densmore
"E-Democracy Meets E-Journalism: How the Net can support local and state governance and citizen engagement." In a presentation delivered Sat., March 21, 2009 at the Newsout.org symposium in Boston, by Stephen Clift, founder and board chair, www.E-Democracy.Org, provides 30 examples of ways governments can provide public information in transparent and useful ways via the Internet.
Amplifying citizen voices and driving civic tech usage through mainstream mediamysociety
This was presented by Justin Arenstein from Code for
Africa at the Impacts of Civic Technology Conference (TICTeC2016) in Barcelona on 27th April. You can find out more information about the conference here: https://www.mysociety.org/research/tictec-2016/
Impacts of Government-Led Civic Tech: US Citiesmysociety
This was presented by Emily Shaw from mySociety at the Impacts of Civic Technology Conference (TICTeC2016) in Barcelona on 27th April. You can find out more information about the conference here: https://www.mysociety.org/research/tictec-2016/
What is Civic Tech: Toward finalizing a basic framework so that we can move o...mysociety
This was presented by Micah Syfry (Civic Hall), Matt Stempeck (Microsoft) and Erin Simpson (Civic Hall Labs) at the Impacts of Civic Technology Conference (TICTeC2016) in Barcelona on 27th April. You can find out more information about the conference here: https://www.mysociety.org/research/tictec-2016/
This was presented by Kate Krontiris (Omidyar
Network, USA) at the Impacts of Civic Technology Conference (TICTeC2016) in Barcelona on 27th April. You can find out more information about the conference here: https://www.mysociety.org/research/tictec-2016/
February 2014 update: Since publishing our original report in December, 2013, we've received dozens of emails from peers in the budding civic tech community proposing additions. On Feb. 26, we released an updated version of the civic tech investment analysis, which includes an additional 34 companies and $265 million of investment. Find out more at http://kng.ht/1cPi3Ar.
Investments by private capital funders and foundations in technology that spurs citizen engagement, improves cities and makes governments more effective is growing significantly, with more than $430 million going to the field between January 2011 and May 2013, according to a major report released today by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
The first report of its kind, “The Emergence of Civic Tech: Investments in a Growing Field,” provides an in-depth analysis of the current state of private capital and foundation investments in civic technology. It aims to help organizations and investors better understand civic tech funding, so that they can strengthen their work and help shape the field. The analysis applies a new approach to research and advances the use of data in the social sector; it showcases an interactive data visualization map that allows users to explore investments across multiple areas of civic tech. Find out more at www.knightfoundation.org/features/civictech
Micah Sifry, Erin Simpson, and Matt Stempeck present a field guide to civic tech at The Impacts of Civic Technology Conference at the Barcelona World Trade Center, April 2016.
Newsout: 30 examples of government transparencyBill Densmore
"E-Democracy Meets E-Journalism: How the Net can support local and state governance and citizen engagement." In a presentation delivered Sat., March 21, 2009 at the Newsout.org symposium in Boston, by Stephen Clift, founder and board chair, www.E-Democracy.Org, provides 30 examples of ways governments can provide public information in transparent and useful ways via the Internet.
Out of the spreadsheet and into the community: finding data-driven stories wi...mysociety
This was presented by Rahul Bhargava from MIT at the Impacts of Civic Technology Conference (TICTeC2016) in Barcelona on 27th April. You can find out more information about the conference here: https://www.mysociety.org/research/tictec-2016/
By Laurenellen McCann. Edited by Daniel X. O’Neil.
Experimental Modes of Civic Engagement
in Civic Tech is an investigation into what
it means to build civic technology with, not for, real people and real communities. It answers the question, “What’s the difference between sentiment and action?”
The project was conducted by Laurenellen McCann, and it deepens her work in needs- responsive, community-driven processes for creating technology for public good.
This is a project of the Smart Chicago Collaborative, a civic organization devoted to improving lives in Chicago through technology. It was funded by a Knight Community Information Challenge Deep Dive grant given to The Chicago Community Trust by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
Mobile News Notifications: A Two-wave Experiment with Smartphone UsersKnight Foundation
With the proliferation of smartphones and the ability to send
mobile news notifications …
• Do notifications have an economic benefit for newsrooms? Do they drive traffic to the news app or to the news site?
• Do notifications have a democratic benefit? Do they inform the public or simply provide information that could have been learned elsewhere?
Engaging Times - We are the Engagement Generation (Online)Steven Clift
A fresh keynote to the Consultation Institute annual conference in London. 5 key lessons from 20 years of e-democracy and 3 major themes for the next decade. (And two more bonus themes in slides only.)
To schedule an updated version of this speech, contact Steven Clift: http://stevenclift.com
Live/updated Google Slides version from: http://e-democracy.org/learn
Designing for digital democracy - Amelia Loye (engage2)mysociety
This was presented by Amelia Loye from engage2 at the Impacts of Civic Technology Conference (TICTeC 2017) in Florence on 26th April. You can find out more information about the conference here: http://tictec.mysociety.org
How open data and social media can work together to solve some of government's big problems. (Presented to the California Democratic Party Internet Caucus at Stanford University, Feb. 5, 2011.)
Out of the spreadsheet and into the community: finding data-driven stories wi...mysociety
This was presented by Rahul Bhargava from MIT at the Impacts of Civic Technology Conference (TICTeC2016) in Barcelona on 27th April. You can find out more information about the conference here: https://www.mysociety.org/research/tictec-2016/
By Laurenellen McCann. Edited by Daniel X. O’Neil.
Experimental Modes of Civic Engagement
in Civic Tech is an investigation into what
it means to build civic technology with, not for, real people and real communities. It answers the question, “What’s the difference between sentiment and action?”
The project was conducted by Laurenellen McCann, and it deepens her work in needs- responsive, community-driven processes for creating technology for public good.
This is a project of the Smart Chicago Collaborative, a civic organization devoted to improving lives in Chicago through technology. It was funded by a Knight Community Information Challenge Deep Dive grant given to The Chicago Community Trust by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
Mobile News Notifications: A Two-wave Experiment with Smartphone UsersKnight Foundation
With the proliferation of smartphones and the ability to send
mobile news notifications …
• Do notifications have an economic benefit for newsrooms? Do they drive traffic to the news app or to the news site?
• Do notifications have a democratic benefit? Do they inform the public or simply provide information that could have been learned elsewhere?
Engaging Times - We are the Engagement Generation (Online)Steven Clift
A fresh keynote to the Consultation Institute annual conference in London. 5 key lessons from 20 years of e-democracy and 3 major themes for the next decade. (And two more bonus themes in slides only.)
To schedule an updated version of this speech, contact Steven Clift: http://stevenclift.com
Live/updated Google Slides version from: http://e-democracy.org/learn
Designing for digital democracy - Amelia Loye (engage2)mysociety
This was presented by Amelia Loye from engage2 at the Impacts of Civic Technology Conference (TICTeC 2017) in Florence on 26th April. You can find out more information about the conference here: http://tictec.mysociety.org
How open data and social media can work together to solve some of government's big problems. (Presented to the California Democratic Party Internet Caucus at Stanford University, Feb. 5, 2011.)
Presentation used for a seminar at the Jagiellonian University of Cracow (PL).
It provided an introduction to the field of Technopolitics and eParticipation as a research domain.
Presentation included several videos and a lot of animations. It is therefore recommended to download it.
Blocked by YouTube - Unseen digital intermediation for social imaginaries in ...University of Sydney
YouTube is one of the most globally utilised online content sharing sites, enabling new commercial enterprise, education opportunities and facilities for vernacular creativity (Burgess, 2006). Its user engagement demonstrates significant capacity to develop online communities, alongside its arguably more popular use as a distribution platform to monetise one’s branded self (Senft, 2013). However, as a subset of Alphabet Incorporated, its access is often restricted by governments of Asian Pacific countries who disagree with the ideology of the business. Despite this, online communities thrive in these countries, bringing into question the sorts of augmentations used by its participants. This article reframes the discussion beyond restrictive regulation to focus on the DIY approach (augmentation) of community building through the use of hidden infrastructures (algorithms). This comparative study of key YouTube channels in several Asia Pacific countries highlights the sorts of techniques that bypass limiting infrastructures to boost online community engagement and growth. Lastly, this article reframes the significance of digital intermediation to highlight the opportunities key agents contribute to strengthening social imaginaries within the Asia Pacific region.
The Adoption of Social Network Sites for Expressive Participation in Internet...BO TRUE ACTIVITIES SL
The present study is an initial effort to develop a model that explores how uses of ICTs, particularly SNSs, foster expressive forms of participation that result in civic participation. In doing so, we attempt to investigate the acceptance and use of SNSs by members’ e-movements and SMOs and whether these uses turn results in a host of traditional or offline civic participatory behaviours. A theoretical model is proposed and justified, albeit not empirically validated. Thus, representing an opportunity for future research. The ideas extracted from the discussion should be a help for citizens to create social movements on the Internet. In this regard, numerous practical reflections and suggestions are presented.
Note:
Interactivity and animation are lost when the slides are converted to PDF.
Abstract:
In a technological society such as Canada, it is suggested that a specialized kind of expert citizenship is needed (Andrew Feenberg). In the era of big data, others suggest that there is a need to learn how to read algorithms and to study its high priests and alchemists (Genevieve Bell). While, doing citizenship requires a political ethics of technology to thwart technological and quantitative fundamentalism (Darin Barney). Finally, in the midst of a data revolution we need to critically re-conceptualize data (Rob Kitchin). Quite simply, in today's Canada doing citizenship requires data literacy, technical, philosophical and political. Access to print media - books, government documents, academic journals - in libraries and archives enabled a literate society, the prerequisite of a democratic system. I argue that good governance in knowledge producing institutions, is to have technological experts, both data creators and preservers, working to store, manage, disseminate and preserve data so that we have the requisite artifacts to increase our literacy and build upon collected knowledge. Data literacy I suggest, is indispensable in the current democratic system, and that requires having access to data, data infrastructures - knowledge and technology - and dedicated skilled people and resources to sustainably care for them. I consider research data management to be our duty.
Internet and Society: Politics And Democracy 2009James Stewart
Lecture Slides for Internet and Society course and the University of Edinburgh on the topic of the the internet, mobiles, computing and practice and theorisation of politics and democracy
Why aren't Evaluators using Digital Media Analytics?CesToronto
Whether it’s through blogs, tweets, or even the comments section of an online newspaper, the world is increasingly talking online. However, the potential uses for the massive amounts of information available on the internet remain largely untapped in the sphere of evaluation.
This presentation will explore innovative methods to extract these insights from the large and complex collections of digital data publicly available online. In particular, we will examine the unprecedented uses, and potential limitations, of digital media analytics to:
• Measure the outcomes of public outreach, advocacy, communications, and information sharing programs;
• Establish current and retroactive baselines;
• Conduct “borderless” data collection to gain insights from other countries, as well as disapora communities in Canada;
• Identify unknown stakeholder groups and create detailed stakeholder maps; and,
• Provide context and insight to inform further data collection.
Experimental Modes of Civic Engagement in Civic Tech is an investigation into what it means to build civic tech with, not for. It answers the question, "what's the difference between sentiment and action?"
The project led by Laurenellen McCann, and it deepens her work in needs-responsive, community-driven processes for creating technology with real people and real communities for public good.
This project falls under Smart Chicago's work on the Knight Community Information Challenge grant awarded under their Engaged Communities strategy to the Chicago Community Trust "as it builds on its successful Smart Chicago Project, which is taking open government resources directly into neighborhoods through a variety of civic-minded apps"
This document is a compendium of writing by Laurenellen created as a primer for our April 4, 2015 convening at the Chicago Community Trust.
Regulating Access to Information - Alex Parsons, mySociety (UK)mysociety
This was presented at mySociety's TICTeC Show & Tell event, which was held virtually on 28 September 2021. More details on the event can be found here: https://tictec.mysociety.org/showandtells/2021
Watch this space (and pay for it): Alaveteli-driven exposure of the misuse of...mysociety
This was presented at mySociety's TICTeC Show & Tell event, which was held virtually on 28 September 2021. More details on the event can be found here: https://tictec.mysociety.org/showandtells/2021
What are the effects of OpenStreetMapping on the mappers themselves? - Aishwo...mysociety
This was presented at mySociety's TICTeC Show & Tell event, which was held virtually on 25 May 2021. More details on the event can be found here: https://tictec.mysociety.org/showandtells/2021
#PlanTech and the geospatial ecosystem - Ben Fowkes (Delib)mysociety
This was presented at mySociety's TICTeC Show & Tell event, which was held virtually on 25 May 2021. More details on the event can be found here: https://tictec.mysociety.org/showandtells/2021
Open data for local self governance: learnings from five Ukrainian cities - N...mysociety
This was presented at mySociety's TICTeC Show & Tell event, which was held virtually on 25 May 2021. More details on the event can be found here: https://tictec.mysociety.org/showandtells/2021
Digital Champions: community led development monitoring in Tanzania - Janet C...mysociety
This was presented at mySociety's TICTeC Show & Tell event, which was held virtually on 25 May 2021. More details on the event can be found here: https://tictec.mysociety.org/showandtells/2021
Don’t build it: a practical guide for those building Civic Tech - Luke Jordan...mysociety
This was presented at mySociety's TICTeC Show & Tell event, which was held virtually on 20th April 2021. More details on the event can be found here: https://tictec.mysociety.org/showandtells/2021
It takes two: when citizens and Congress Members deliberate online - Samantha...mysociety
This was presented at mySociety's TICTeC Show & Tell event, which was held virtually on 20th April 2021. More details on the event can be found here: https://tictec.mysociety.org/showandtells/2021
Understanding the small hurdles that block community engagement, with behavio...mysociety
This was presented at mySociety's TICTeC Show & Tell event, which was held virtually on 20th April 2021. More details on the event can be found here: https://tictec.mysociety.org/showandtells/2021
Our COVID consultation journey: from a small initiative to the desk of the pr...mysociety
This was presented at mySociety's TICTeC Show & Tell event, which was held virtually on 20th April 2021. More details on the event can be found here: https://tictec.mysociety.org/showandtells/2021
Keeping track of open data in times of political change - David Zamora (Open ...mysociety
This was presented at mySociety's TICTeC Show & Tell event, which was held virtually on 23rd March 2021. More details on the event can be found here: https://tictec.mysociety.org/showandtells/2021
Civic tech vs. illicit pharmacies - Ibraheem Saleem (Code for Pakistan)mysociety
This was presented at mySociety's TICTeC Show & Tell event, which was held virtually on 23rd March 2021. More details on the event can be found here: https://tictec.mysociety.org/showandtells/2021
Find that Charity: a tool to help find charities and improve charity data - D...mysociety
This was presented at mySociety's TICTeC Show & Tell event, which was held virtually on 23rd March 2021. More details on the event can be found here: https://tictec.mysociety.org/showandtells/2021
Civic tech for smartphone beginners: is the future binary? - Arran Leonard (I...mysociety
This was presented at mySociety's TICTeC Show & Tell event, which was held virtually on 23rd March 2021. More details on the event can be found here: https://tictec.mysociety.org/showandtells/2021
How to monitor emergency procurement with open data: lessons from 12 countrie...mysociety
This was presented at mySociety's TICTeC Show & Tell event, which was held virtually on 23rd March 2021. More details on the event can be found here: https://tictec.mysociety.org/showandtells/2021
This was presented at mySociety's TICTeC 2020 conference, which was held virtually on 24th and 25th March 2020. More details on the conference can be found here: https://tictec.mysociety.org/2020
Openly available air quality data: not just blue-sky thinking - Sruti Modekur...mysociety
This was presented at mySociety's TICTeC 2020 conference, which was held virtually on 24th and 25th March 2020. More details on the conference can be found here: https://tictec.mysociety.org/2020
How to last in civic tech (especially now) - Matthew Stempeck & Micah L. Sifr...mysociety
This was presented at mySociety's TICTeC 2020 conference, which was held virtually on 24th and 25th March 2020. More details on the conference can be found here: https://tictec.mysociety.org/2020
Future of tech and democracy at the city of Reykjavík - Sigurlaug Anna Jóhann...mysociety
This was presented at mySociety's TICTeC 2020 conference, which was held virtually on 24th and 25th March 2020. More details on the conference can be found here: https://tictec.mysociety.org/2020
Lessons learned from building democracy’s database - Stacy Henderson (Cicero,...mysociety
This was presented at mySociety's TICTeC 2020 conference, which was held virtually on 24th and 25th March 2020. More details on the conference can be found here: https://tictec.mysociety.org/2020
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
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
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
Le nuove frontiere dell'AI nell'RPA con UiPath Autopilot™UiPathCommunity
In questo evento online gratuito, organizzato dalla Community Italiana di UiPath, potrai esplorare le nuove funzionalità di Autopilot, il tool che integra l'Intelligenza Artificiale nei processi di sviluppo e utilizzo delle Automazioni.
📕 Vedremo insieme alcuni esempi dell'utilizzo di Autopilot in diversi tool della Suite UiPath:
Autopilot per Studio Web
Autopilot per Studio
Autopilot per Apps
Clipboard AI
GenAI applicata alla Document Understanding
👨🏫👨💻 Speakers:
Stefano Negro, UiPath MVPx3, RPA Tech Lead @ BSP Consultant
Flavio Martinelli, UiPath MVP 2023, Technical Account Manager @UiPath
Andrei Tasca, RPA Solutions Team Lead @NTT Data
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
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.
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/
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
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.
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/
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
FIDO Alliance Osaka Seminar: Passkeys at Amazon.pdf
Data revolution or data divide? Can social movements bring the human back into civic tech?
1. Data revolution or data divide?
Can social movements bring the
human back into civic tech?
TICTeC 2016
Kersti Ruth Wissenbach
@kerstiru
2. 1. How do citizens resist massive data
collection by means of technical
fixes (re-active data activism)?
2. How do social movements use big
data to foster social change (pro-
active data activism)?
3. How does data activism affect the
dynamics of transnational civil
society, and transnational
advocacy networks in particular?
PI Dr. Stefania Milan
Department of Media Studies, University of
Amsterdam
Data Activism: The Politics of Big Data According
to Civil Society
3. Expanding civic tech community or
‚selling out‘ tools?
What happens to civic technologies and activism
networks as they disperse into a ‚development
context‘?
And why do we need a new perspective?
4. Civic Tech for this research
Civic
Tech
Activism
• Coding, design, advocacy skills to a cause they
are effected by or feel strongly about
• Empower active citizenry from within the civic
sphere
Transparency and
accountability
Open data
open government
Own creation &
utilization of - new /
localizable
communication
means (data, ICTs)
Trans-local /
trans-national
networksField of action
Direct action
Expansion into
developing
environments
5. ‚Starting points‘
• In development context civic tech and community ‘separated’
– focus on tech implementation [by development agencies] rather
than community
• NGOs acting ‘on behalf of’ local civil society may prevent
growth of civic tech community towards more contextual
action repertoires, diversity, inclusive growth
– Disconnect between wider thematic expertise and related
approaches (inclusion/ participation) and contemporary TA, open
government work?
• Civic tech field risking to replicate patterns of older tech-
deterministic approaches?
– Discourse (not action) around defining civic tech seems to replicate
concerns around tech-domination and limited attention towards
communication and community the ICT4D community has already
processed. (McCann 2015)
6. It‘s about power, not tools
Potential power shifts – civic driven (local, national, transnational)
• ‘Genuine bottom-up expression of public will’
• Removing hierarchies and intermediaries > direct governance
• Building and utilization technologies to open up civil society space
• Strength through community building and mutual support across localities
How does an active community expand, rather than their tools?
• Who is represented in data? [‚data scientists are not social scientists‘ (Taylor 2015)]
• Who is involved in utilization of data, tools, etc.?
• Hierarchies within networks?
• What form of participation is power?
Counter-act prevailing power structures > focus on the
definition and enactment of the civic
7. Change perspective, not the label
MOVEMENTS AS NEW ‚FUNDING TARGET‘? > pressing social
movements into conventional structures but what if the structure is
rotten?
‘RE-LABELING’ = New terms old practises
ISOLATING DIGITAL DIVIDE FROM BROADER PROBLEM OF THE
DEVELOPMENT DIVIDE
Meta discourse: UNESCO, ITU to WSIS [‘there has never been a power shift
(Hamelink: 2016)]
Academia: Development Communication, ICT4D, stagnation?
Practise: Participatory tech hype? / cleavages btw activists, NGOs, donors;
Limitation in organizational structures
10. Mapping the field
Expose links to wider
movements/
transnational
engagements
Grassroots
activism
individuals
organisations
events
democracy/pow
er
ICT4D
data
tools
participation/ag
ency
contexts
information
Development
Communication Participatory
approaches
Citizen media
platforms
(users)
Civic Tech
Activism
tools
Dependency
Modernization
Theories
Behaviour
change
Information
Communication
dialogue
People vs. Media
centred
Mass media
Paradigmatic
challenge to
development
TA (open
government / data)
Technocratic/magic
bullet vs
integrative/particip.
approach
Civic
collective
action
capacities
open
ICT4D
democracy
participation
inclusion
open
development
Social
Movement
Theory
Process
Action
repertoires
Collective
identity
Opportunity
structures
(Emancipatory
Communication)
Activism
11. Baack, S.( 2015) Network tool: Gephi
Contributors
(Github)
Followers (Github)
users
strategists
makers
Civic Tech Activism > How does
collectivity unfold, not technology?
tools
tactics
dialogue
12. What is the nature of collective action
in transnational Civic Tech Activism?
1. What are the action repertoires of civic tech
activists?
2. How is collective identity in the field of civic
tech activism created?
3. Is there a relation between the action
repertoire of civic tech activists and the
formation of a collective identity?
13. Collective Action
Socially constructed field of shared action
Civic organizing + Developing & utilizing
tools and tactics for
socio-political
goal
Civic Tech
Activism
Individuals,
organisations, events
Action
Repertoires
(tools, tactics,
communication,
etc.)
Opportunity
Structures
(political,
cultural, etc.)
Identity
formation
(individual /
collective)
Emotions,
values, etc.
15. With the concepts and tools of SMR it will be analysed
• How civic tech activists make sense of their
involvement
• How the individual interacts with the collective > to
what extend technology is able to shape such
interaction
• How shared values and principles are translated into
practice (action repertoires)
• If they transcend [as tools travel]
16. Contribution to the field
• Respond to lacking empirical evidence as to why
increased ICT-accessibility on its own should drive
democracy and civic participation
• Contribute to fill research gap on civic tech activism (vs
tools /users)
• Provide new, civic-centred theoretical approach to the
field > social movement lens (people and process focus
(communication)
– Not addressed in ICT4D research
– Stagnation in Development Communication research
– socio-political activities in developing countries don‘t need to be
linked to development theory and repertoire of approaches
17. Methodology
Required data Method
Civic Tech Activists
Opportunity structures, identity formation, action repertoire
Concept
use and interpretation of civic tech terminology
Literature / document analysis
Digital methods: Issue crawler
Survey among civic tech networks
Structure
geographic, demographic
Network mapping: data repositories, online groups
Survey: mailing lists / google groups, CT organisations
Group dynamics / engagement patterns
creation, maintenance, expansion of networks;
Challenges; Ways of organizing, patterns/levels of
internal/external engagement
Language, cultures of communicating, etc.
Observation: online and offline gatherings
Interviews: individual activists, community managers
from civic tech organizations
Contexts (motivational, personal)
Reasons for engagement, triggers for involvement
personal contexts
Feeling of belonging (local, national, transnational)
Surveys: mailing lists
Semi-structured interviews: during events, online
Observation: civic tech events
18. Methodology
Required data Method
Civic Tech Activists
Action repertoires
Toos and tactics
Strategies
Communication practices (outreach and
engagement)
Interviews: activists, community managers, potential
project staff of tool utilization
Civic Technologies (within action repertoire)
Technologies built
where, by whom, why
Digital mapping: Githhub scraping
Interviews: civic tech activists and organisations
Utilization of civic tech
where by whom, how, why
Implementing parties, strategies, collaboration
patterns
Document analysis: Collection and analysis of project
documentation / project strategies
Interviews: implementing entities
creation and utilization of data and informational and communication technologies (ICTs) by activists to serve the public good
basically activism rooted practices are pressed into conventional tech-determinsistic development cooperation structures. Why not considering what would happen if the community, rather than its tools would expand on a transnational scale.
What would make the difference in comparison to what is happening now?
The potential for these platforms to invigorate citizen engagement, increase transparency, and broaden public debate has been recognised not only by those in civil society, but by governments, by development agencies, and by philanthropists.
Focus on platforms
Me: focus on processes citizen engagement from both sites > in creating tech and engaging with it (not for the tech but with the process the tech facilitates)
‘The rise of civic technology in this new millennium has been organic and profound. It has not been led by politicians or corporations, nor by powerful knowledge-rich institutions or NGOs, but by individuals and loosely constituted groups with specific digital expertise and an interest in getting things done. Such individuals are not normally considered to be on the cutting edge of political and practical behaviour change. ‘ (Rumbul 2015, mySociety)
Social Movement Lens = Taking a radical different approach towards how to address civic dynamics and potentials in regards to opening up civil society space, local, translocal, transnational
Shifting the narrative > opposing the practice of sticking new labels on existing structures (redirecting funding but within same old ways)
>> so to be clear my intention is NOT to promote the shift within development cooperation to shift to another ‚target‘ (funding movements?)
.. And talking about movements.. Movements are not ‚the new thing‘... They have always been there, they have always been funded and there is much contestation about how to define and categorize movements.. Not uncritizised..
So a social movement lens is not about movements as ‚the new target‘ but about looking into a methodological repertoire which may help to overcome decades of stagnation in moving from discourse to serious shifts in practise (and power)
TO clarify > I am NOT promoting to support movements since this is sth easy to say but not as straight forward to do
Contested field > what is a movement?
Protest movements usually no agenda
Bigger movements are a conglomerate of individuals, orgs etc.. So if going via the bigger orgs.. You might run into the same trouble than before and so we have to think beyond conventional structures and not whom to fund next in the same old way!
TA, later open government and open data
Buzzword
Conceptual vagueness and methodological weaknesses
For civic tech community that means
Transcending community’s ‘collective identity’ not homogeneous groups technological outreach
Stronger cross-disciplinary community structure (not only tech)
Engaging with actors experienced in engaging marginalised communities
Epistemology of action
Move away from a tech-centric perspective on how people use new technologies or collect data towards how people construct collective identity in action and produce unity out of diverse elements of action.
Shifts away from a subject-object separation within change processes, focusing on the direct relation of people’s integrity with certain contexts for political will formation and engagement. It served as the base for several conceptualisations of identity formation within new social movement studies (Huesca 2001).
Approach recognizes the role of transforming identity prior to action and therefore deems both inseparable, seeing the participation in certain movements based on interests bound to own identities. Equally does it recognize the effect of increasing exposure to global challenges (in political contexts) on the (re)formation of identity and therefore transformation of the sense of belonging.
Academia and practise continuously fall short on the recognition of context-relevance and opportunities in direct correlation with the role of identity formation and community building, especially towards the fringes of society, for socio-political engagement
Utilization of data and ICTs within change processes > dominantly addressed within Communication for Change but falling short on recognition of contemporary transformations of human realities and the role of identity formations therein as well as the significant citizen-built and driven character of new ICTs
A relevant concept with the greatest success in ‘defining the properties of the external environment, relevant to the development of social movements’ > political opportunity structures (Della Porta and Diani 2006). However, a broader approach towards opportunity structures, including net-politics, tech-infrastructural and cultural opportunities would be required and would respond to the major criticism towards the political process approach, namely the distinction between “objective” reality and its social construction (Berger and Luckmann 1966).
Tech-centric approach dominating social movement studies and its scholarly fashion of quantitative data analysis has moved the question of collective identity below the radar of digital activism discourse (Gerbaudo and Treré 2015). Despite explorations of new media and collective identity (Milan 2015, Kavada 2015), attention to ICT-related exclusion of entire civil society sectors remains underserved.
Network Analysis of entities involved in Tech4TA
Semi-structured interviews (activists from sampled transnational civic tech communities, disconnected local civic-tech initiatives, organisational bodies of more structured civic tech networks, sample NGO practitioners and local partners)
Ethnographic / E-ethnographic research of sample civic tech communities and their (virtual) interactions (events and hangouts) through participatory observation in order to explore community cultures and collective identities.
Action research bringing together actors from civic tech and NGOs side in order to co-evaluate main obstacles for collaboration.