The document discusses the shift to open data and government 2.0 with more transparent, inclusive and user-driven communication. It provides examples of open data portals around the world and in Ireland. It also discusses linked open data and potential applications for open data in areas like transportation, budgets and quality of life indicators. Finally, it addresses challenges around engaging developers and citizens with open data and measuring the success of open data initiatives.
Open Data - Can our Data be of More Benefit to the CitizenFingal Open Data
The document discusses how government data can benefit citizens through open data initiatives. It provides examples of open data projects in Ireland, the EU, and worldwide. Fingal County Council in Ireland has launched its own open data portal and app competitions to encourage developers to use the council's open datasets and create applications for residents. The document outlines challenges of open data efforts but emphasizes the benefits of transparency, participation, and economic opportunities through making public data openly available.
Lecture on Open Data and its potential for Participatory Design & Governance given as part of Seminar on Adaptive Governance in School of Architecture, University of Limerick on 25th February, 2013
Lecture on Open Data and its relationship to Civic Governance and Sustainable Place-based Spatial Planning and Development given as part of Seminar on Design and Civic Governance in School of Architecture, University of Limerick on 10th October, 2011
The document discusses open data initiatives in Fingal County, Ireland. It describes how Fingal has published over 170 datasets on topics like transportation, housing, and planning on its open data portal. It also highlights apps that have been created using Fingal's open data, such as apps for traffic conditions, local deals, and trip planning. Additionally, it outlines Fingal's open data competition that resulted in 23 apps and several ideas for new apps.
Open Data - Can our Data be of More Benefit to the CitizenFingal Open Data
The document discusses how government data can benefit citizens through open data initiatives. It provides examples of open data projects in Ireland, the EU, and worldwide. Fingal County Council in Ireland has launched its own open data portal and app competitions to encourage developers to use the council's open datasets and create applications for residents. The document outlines challenges of open data efforts but emphasizes the benefits of transparency, participation, and economic opportunities through making public data openly available.
Lecture on Open Data and its potential for Participatory Design & Governance given as part of Seminar on Adaptive Governance in School of Architecture, University of Limerick on 25th February, 2013
Lecture on Open Data and its relationship to Civic Governance and Sustainable Place-based Spatial Planning and Development given as part of Seminar on Design and Civic Governance in School of Architecture, University of Limerick on 10th October, 2011
The document discusses open data initiatives in Fingal County, Ireland. It describes how Fingal has published over 170 datasets on topics like transportation, housing, and planning on its open data portal. It also highlights apps that have been created using Fingal's open data, such as apps for traffic conditions, local deals, and trip planning. Additionally, it outlines Fingal's open data competition that resulted in 23 apps and several ideas for new apps.
This document discusses open data initiatives in Ireland and examples of apps and projects created using open government data. It provides information on Fingal County's open data portal containing 170 datasets, Dublin Region Innovation Network's data store of over 250 datasets, and publicdata.eu. Examples are given of apps created for competitions as well as crowdsourcing and sensor web projects. Attendees are encouraged to get involved in the open data community in Ireland through groups like Open Data Ireland.
This document summarizes a presentation on open data given on June 22, 2012 in Trieste, Italy. It discusses key principles of open data including being complete, primary, timely, accessible, machine readable, non-discriminatory, using open standards and licenses. It outlines relevant EU directives and notes the potential economic impact of open data in billions of Euros per year. It identifies barriers like fragmentation and lack of use and proposes solutions like networks, community building, and looking beyond apps to uses like business intelligence, ambient displays, physical products, policy implementation and quality of services.
Potential and Impact of Open Data in EuropeePSI Platform
This document summarizes a presentation on open data given on June 22, 2012 in Trieste, Italy. The presentation covered the following key points in 3 sentences:
It defined what constitutes open data according to established principles of being complete, primary, timely, accessible, machine readable, non-discriminatory, using open standards and licenses. It discussed how open data can generate economic value for the EU estimated in the billions of Euros per year based on studies from countries like Spain, Denmark and the Netherlands. It outlined the transition to open data that is underway through directives, strategies and initiatives from the EU and member states to make public sector information more open and reusable to create
Open government data - the three legged stoolLaurence Millar
The document discusses open government data and proposes a "three-legged stool" approach with supply of data, demand for data, and tools to utilize the data. It advocates making government data openly available and reusable to increase public and economic value. Specific examples are given of types of government data that could be opened up like environmental, transportation, and research data. The benefits mentioned include improving data quality, allowing the public to access data they funded, and enabling innovative uses of data beyond what government agencies can achieve.
Presentation on Open Data in Practice to Irish Computer Society/Institute of Public Administration Public SEctor IT Conference 2012 in IPA, Dublin on 24th October, 2012
Lecture on Open Data and how it can support Government 2.0 and new approaches to the design of Public Space given to the Idea Transition Lab at the Science Gallery, Dublin on 30th January, 2012
This document discusses open data in Ireland, focusing on Fingal County Council's open data program. It provides an overview of Fingal's open data portal and the datasets available. It also discusses the Dublin region's open data collaboration through Dublinked and Ireland's national eGovernment plan to promote open data sharing. Both challenges and opportunities of open data are examined, with opportunities including data sharing, economic applications, and community innovation.
People as sensors - mining social media for meaningful informationTom Raftery
The video of this talk is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZdknOPY_jQ
More and more we are all broadcasting information. Geolocation data, “this x sucks” data, weather data, etc.
More and more that data is being parsed and analysed in realtime, such that we have now become sensors.
How does this work, what does this mean, and what risks/benefits will it bring?
The document provides links to resources from the McCormick Foundation about working with foundations to meet technology needs, including their journalism program page, social media pages, a map of 2009 grantees, and links to projects around girls and gaming, journalism and the arts, and youth media. It also lists the speaker from the McCormick Foundation for a panel on the topic at the NTEN Conference in Washington, DC.
1) Fingal County Council in Ireland publishes over 170 datasets from 12 categories on its open data portal at http://data.fingal.ie to encourage reuse.
2) The Dublin Region Innovation Network publishes over 250 datasets from 13 organizations on its Dublin Datastore at http://dublinked.ie.
3) Apps4Fingal was a competition that resulted in 22 apps being created using Fingal's open data, including Discover Fingal, mypp.ie, Hit The Road, ParkYa, and FixYourStreet.
EDF2013: Invited Talk Dominic Byrne: Irish Open Data Reuse ExemplarsEuropean Data Forum
Invited talk of Dominic Byrne, Fingal County Council, Assistant Head of Information Technology, at the European Data Forum 2013, 9 April 2013 in Dublin, Ireland: Irish Open Data Reuse Exemplars
This document discusses data-driven smart governance and describes how governments can utilize data, information, and intelligence through interaction, integration, and influence. It provides examples of how open data, data standards, semantic technologies, machine learning, and public-private partnerships can help power more data-driven decision making and transparent, responsive government services.
The document discusses open data and information management. It covers topics like data governance, availability and usability of data, transparency and accountability, and linking and collaborating on data. Specific initiatives are mentioned, such as open data portals in Belgium, linked open data projects, and ensuring inclusivity and quality of open government data. Legislative and policy frameworks around open data and data sharing in Belgium are also summarized.
The document discusses open government data and defines it as public data that is available in open formats, machine readable, and accessible. It provides examples of open data initiatives in the EU, US, UK, and Ireland. Open data can increase government transparency, public participation and collaboration. It also enables economic opportunities and applications. The document promotes Fingal County Council's open data portal which makes over 65 datasets available under an open license. It outlines possible applications that could be built using Fingal's open data and next steps to encourage its use and expand open data availability.
This document provides an overview of a data journalism workshop presented by Christian Kreutz. The workshop introduces data journalism and covers topics such as finding data sources, cleaning and analyzing data, and visualizing data. It provides examples of data journalism projects and outlines tools that can be used for data analysis and visualization. The goal is to teach participants how to find datasets, work with data to uncover stories, and share findings with others.
Open Data is the idea that "certain data should be freely available to everyone to use and republish as they wish, without restrictions from copyright, patents or other mechanisms of control”. Open Data follows similar “open” concepts that have proven to be valuable in the information economy such as Open Standards, Open Source Software, Open Content and has been followed more recently by variations on the theme such as Open Science and Open Government.
Open Data allows information of common value to be reused without needing to be recreated. The economic benefits of Open Data include cost reduction, organizational efficiencies and the facilitation of commonly held understanding. The costs of implementing Open Data deployment strategies tend to be iterative on top of existing information infrastructure.
This presentation will describe Open Data and its place in the ecosystem of economic and governmental discourse.
Lecture on Open Data and its potential for Participatory Design & Governance given as part of Seminar on Adaptive Governance in School of Architecture, University of Limerick on 21st October, 2013
This document discusses open data initiatives in Ireland and examples of apps and projects created using open government data. It provides information on Fingal County's open data portal containing 170 datasets, Dublin Region Innovation Network's data store of over 250 datasets, and publicdata.eu. Examples are given of apps created for competitions as well as crowdsourcing and sensor web projects. Attendees are encouraged to get involved in the open data community in Ireland through groups like Open Data Ireland.
This document summarizes a presentation on open data given on June 22, 2012 in Trieste, Italy. It discusses key principles of open data including being complete, primary, timely, accessible, machine readable, non-discriminatory, using open standards and licenses. It outlines relevant EU directives and notes the potential economic impact of open data in billions of Euros per year. It identifies barriers like fragmentation and lack of use and proposes solutions like networks, community building, and looking beyond apps to uses like business intelligence, ambient displays, physical products, policy implementation and quality of services.
Potential and Impact of Open Data in EuropeePSI Platform
This document summarizes a presentation on open data given on June 22, 2012 in Trieste, Italy. The presentation covered the following key points in 3 sentences:
It defined what constitutes open data according to established principles of being complete, primary, timely, accessible, machine readable, non-discriminatory, using open standards and licenses. It discussed how open data can generate economic value for the EU estimated in the billions of Euros per year based on studies from countries like Spain, Denmark and the Netherlands. It outlined the transition to open data that is underway through directives, strategies and initiatives from the EU and member states to make public sector information more open and reusable to create
Open government data - the three legged stoolLaurence Millar
The document discusses open government data and proposes a "three-legged stool" approach with supply of data, demand for data, and tools to utilize the data. It advocates making government data openly available and reusable to increase public and economic value. Specific examples are given of types of government data that could be opened up like environmental, transportation, and research data. The benefits mentioned include improving data quality, allowing the public to access data they funded, and enabling innovative uses of data beyond what government agencies can achieve.
Presentation on Open Data in Practice to Irish Computer Society/Institute of Public Administration Public SEctor IT Conference 2012 in IPA, Dublin on 24th October, 2012
Lecture on Open Data and how it can support Government 2.0 and new approaches to the design of Public Space given to the Idea Transition Lab at the Science Gallery, Dublin on 30th January, 2012
This document discusses open data in Ireland, focusing on Fingal County Council's open data program. It provides an overview of Fingal's open data portal and the datasets available. It also discusses the Dublin region's open data collaboration through Dublinked and Ireland's national eGovernment plan to promote open data sharing. Both challenges and opportunities of open data are examined, with opportunities including data sharing, economic applications, and community innovation.
People as sensors - mining social media for meaningful informationTom Raftery
The video of this talk is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZdknOPY_jQ
More and more we are all broadcasting information. Geolocation data, “this x sucks” data, weather data, etc.
More and more that data is being parsed and analysed in realtime, such that we have now become sensors.
How does this work, what does this mean, and what risks/benefits will it bring?
The document provides links to resources from the McCormick Foundation about working with foundations to meet technology needs, including their journalism program page, social media pages, a map of 2009 grantees, and links to projects around girls and gaming, journalism and the arts, and youth media. It also lists the speaker from the McCormick Foundation for a panel on the topic at the NTEN Conference in Washington, DC.
1) Fingal County Council in Ireland publishes over 170 datasets from 12 categories on its open data portal at http://data.fingal.ie to encourage reuse.
2) The Dublin Region Innovation Network publishes over 250 datasets from 13 organizations on its Dublin Datastore at http://dublinked.ie.
3) Apps4Fingal was a competition that resulted in 22 apps being created using Fingal's open data, including Discover Fingal, mypp.ie, Hit The Road, ParkYa, and FixYourStreet.
EDF2013: Invited Talk Dominic Byrne: Irish Open Data Reuse ExemplarsEuropean Data Forum
Invited talk of Dominic Byrne, Fingal County Council, Assistant Head of Information Technology, at the European Data Forum 2013, 9 April 2013 in Dublin, Ireland: Irish Open Data Reuse Exemplars
This document discusses data-driven smart governance and describes how governments can utilize data, information, and intelligence through interaction, integration, and influence. It provides examples of how open data, data standards, semantic technologies, machine learning, and public-private partnerships can help power more data-driven decision making and transparent, responsive government services.
The document discusses open data and information management. It covers topics like data governance, availability and usability of data, transparency and accountability, and linking and collaborating on data. Specific initiatives are mentioned, such as open data portals in Belgium, linked open data projects, and ensuring inclusivity and quality of open government data. Legislative and policy frameworks around open data and data sharing in Belgium are also summarized.
The document discusses open government data and defines it as public data that is available in open formats, machine readable, and accessible. It provides examples of open data initiatives in the EU, US, UK, and Ireland. Open data can increase government transparency, public participation and collaboration. It also enables economic opportunities and applications. The document promotes Fingal County Council's open data portal which makes over 65 datasets available under an open license. It outlines possible applications that could be built using Fingal's open data and next steps to encourage its use and expand open data availability.
This document provides an overview of a data journalism workshop presented by Christian Kreutz. The workshop introduces data journalism and covers topics such as finding data sources, cleaning and analyzing data, and visualizing data. It provides examples of data journalism projects and outlines tools that can be used for data analysis and visualization. The goal is to teach participants how to find datasets, work with data to uncover stories, and share findings with others.
Open Data is the idea that "certain data should be freely available to everyone to use and republish as they wish, without restrictions from copyright, patents or other mechanisms of control”. Open Data follows similar “open” concepts that have proven to be valuable in the information economy such as Open Standards, Open Source Software, Open Content and has been followed more recently by variations on the theme such as Open Science and Open Government.
Open Data allows information of common value to be reused without needing to be recreated. The economic benefits of Open Data include cost reduction, organizational efficiencies and the facilitation of commonly held understanding. The costs of implementing Open Data deployment strategies tend to be iterative on top of existing information infrastructure.
This presentation will describe Open Data and its place in the ecosystem of economic and governmental discourse.
Lecture on Open Data and its potential for Participatory Design & Governance given as part of Seminar on Adaptive Governance in School of Architecture, University of Limerick on 21st October, 2013
Taoiseachs Public Service Excellence Awards 2012Fingal Open Data
Presentation on Fingal Open Data given at the Taoiseach's Public Service Excellence Awards in Dublin Castle on 21st June 2012 on the occasion of Fingal Open Data receiving a Public Service Excellence Award
The document discusses open data from Fingal County Council's perspective. It provides details on Fingal's open data portal including the 170 datasets across 12 categories and apps created through an open data app competition. It also discusses Dublin region's open data network, examples of data reuse, and steps for government agencies to publish open data including assigning responsibility, releasing data without restrictions, and engaging communities.
The document discusses open data initiatives in Canada and how various levels of government are making data more open and accessible to citizens. It outlines principles of open government data and examples of cities and provinces that are sharing data through open data portals or APIs. The overall goal is to increase transparency, accountability and public participation through opening access to government data.
The document discusses the rise of social media and its implications for government and society. It notes that social media usage is growing rapidly among all demographics and that people increasingly expect information and services to be available online. It argues that governments and organizations need to adopt more open and collaborative approaches online to remain relevant, including becoming more transparent with data, engaging citizens through social media, and co-producing services. Examples of innovative social media use by governments are provided.
Web.gov: Observations About, Strategies Relating To, and Lessons Learned from...UXPA International
The document summarizes the US Digital Government Strategy from 2009 to 2013, which aimed to make government more transparent, participatory, and collaborative through digital initiatives. It outlines key milestones and principles of the strategy, including transitioning government services and data online, adopting shared platforms and open standards, prioritizing user-centric design, and ensuring security and privacy. The strategy established guidelines and requirements for agencies and resulted in the consolidation of websites and APIs, as well as the creation of resources like DigitalGov and Code.gov to support agencies in achieving the strategy's goals.
Full Title: Web.gov: Observations About, Strategies Relating To, and Lessons Learned from the US Digital Government Strategy (and how they apply to the Broader UX Community)
Short Description:
The Obama Administration’s 2012 Digital Government Strategy set a high bar for Federal websites, calling for the creation of “information-centric” and “customer-centric” sites and mandating “citizen-engagement.”
This presentation provides an overview of the Digital Government Strategy, discusses how it came into being, and provides specific examples of recent and ongoing work in support of the strategy from a number of federal agencies. It also considers how user experience (UX) professionals can advocate for the Digital Government Strategy and how they can put its tenants to work to better serve their clients (Federal or otherwise) and, most important, the digital content users.
180 Degrees East at Front Trends 2013, Warsaw, PolandHolger Bartel
Slides from my talk '180 Degrees East' at Front Trends 2013, Warsaw, Poland.
Insights on the Asian mobile & web market, statistics and user behaviour in comparison to the western world, cultural differences and personal challenges encountered along the way.
This document discusses the potential for mobile learning (mLearning) in developing countries. It notes that there are now over 5 billion mobile subscriptions globally, with most growth occurring in emerging markets. While mobile phone costs continue to drop, the functionality of phones in developing areas has stagnated. mLearning initiatives could utilize basic phone features to provide tutoring, literacy skills, language learning, health information, and community mobilization in a low-cost manner. Contact information is provided for several existing mLearning projects.
Case Study of Digital Media - Workshop for UNDP - Environment & EnergyYolanda Ma Jinxin
This is the second session of the digital media workshops I delivered at United Nations Development Programme (Beijing Office), to its Environment and Energy Team.
My slides from my talk at Webshaped 2013 in Helsinki, Finland. A look at the Asian mobile market, the mobile web infrastructure, statistics and user behaviour in comparison to the western world, cultural differences and personal challenges encountered along the way.
Smart Cities - Smart(er) cities with geolocative technologiesSmart Cities Project
This guide is for managers at Local Authorities and city management, seeking new ways to deliver local services, and/or to give citizens a greater opportunity to interact with services, from reporting problems to finding the most appropriate information.
Government 2.0 - Open and Participatory GovernmentFingal Open Data
The document discusses open and participatory government through open data initiatives and technologies that enable civic participation and transparency. It provides examples of how Fingal County Council in Ireland publishes over 200 open datasets, hosts hackathons to build apps using open data, and works with other agencies to release APIs and datasets that can be used for civic purposes. The goal is to use open data and technologies to engage citizens and make government more transparent, participatory, and innovative.
This document provides an overview of practical technologies that can be used for community engagement and civic participation. It discusses how social media and mobile phones are ubiquitous technologies that can be leveraged. Specific tools are presented for gathering and sharing information through photos, videos, audio, maps and messaging. APIs, mobile applications and platforms for crowdsourcing, surveys and fundraising are presented as ways to better connect with and involve community members.
This document discusses open data initiatives in Ireland and provides examples of apps and projects that have utilized open data. It lists websites and resources for open data in Fingal, Dublin, and all of Ireland. Examples mentioned include apps created through an Apps4Fingal competition, urban monitoring tools, a parking app called Parkya, a local community data site for Drimnagh, and data visualization projects for election counts and government spending. The document is from a presentation on open data stories and was shared under a Creative Commons license.
Fingal County Council has digitized many of its local government services to put citizens at the center. It has created an online planning system, digitized libraries, implemented digital council meetings and customer services systems, and developed a data hub and open data portal. Fingal has also collaborated with other local authorities on national digital initiatives and tools to share data and better serve citizens.
Presentation on Fingal's Open Data Journey and the challenges in releasing data given as part of Open Data Seminar for Public Bodies in Department of Public Expenditure and Reform on 11th February, 2015
Open Government & Public Services - Local GovernmentFingal Open Data
Presentation on Open Government in Local Government as part of the Open Government & Public Services session at the Open Government Partnership European Meeting 2014 in Dublin Castle, Dublin 2 on 9th May, 2014
Presentation on The Story of Open Data in Fingal and the challenges Public Sector Bodies face in releasing data given as part of Seminar on Open data and evidence informed decision making in NUI Maynooth on 13th November, 2013
The document summarizes two Olympic-themed events taking place in Fingal, Ireland on June 5th and 6th, 2012. On the 5th, 1500 local school children and community members will participate in a 2km Olympic Dream Run from the Deerpark Hotel to Olympic House in Howth. On the 6th, Cillian Kirwan from St. Fintans High School will be the first person in Ireland to carry the Olympic Torch when it arrives at Olympic House in Howth at 8am, where he will meet President Michael D. Higgins and other VIPs. Spectators should arrive from 6:30-7am to watch along Harbour Road, which will be closed for the event.
This document promotes Science Hack Day Dublin 2012 and highlights opportunities for creating applications using open data. It lists several public data sources from Dublin and other cities that could be used for hack projects, including datasets on transportation, environment and government services. Examples are given of existing applications that visualize open data or crowdsource information. The document also describes an "Apps4Fingal" competition for creating apps using data from Fingal County Council.
Greater Blanchardstown Initiative - examination of urban permeability in the ...Fingal Open Data
A presentation on the Greater Blanchardstown Initiative (examination of urban permeability in the Greater Blanchardstown Area) given at the Compass Informatics Annual Conference in Dublin on 25th June, 2009
Presentation given at the launch of the Fingal Open Data Apps4Fingal competition in Fingal County Hall, Swords, Co. Dublin, Ireland on 9th November, 2011
The presentation includes an overview of Open Data and an explanation of Apps4Fingal.
For more information see http://data.fingal.ie/apps4fingal
GraphRAG for Life Science to increase LLM accuracyTomaz Bratanic
GraphRAG for life science domain, where you retriever information from biomedical knowledge graphs using LLMs to increase the accuracy and performance of generated answers
CAKE: Sharing Slices of Confidential Data on BlockchainClaudio Di Ciccio
Presented at the CAiSE 2024 Forum, Intelligent Information Systems, June 6th, Limassol, Cyprus.
Synopsis: Cooperative information systems typically involve various entities in a collaborative process within a distributed environment. Blockchain technology offers a mechanism for automating such processes, even when only partial trust exists among participants. The data stored on the blockchain is replicated across all nodes in the network, ensuring accessibility to all participants. While this aspect facilitates traceability, integrity, and persistence, it poses challenges for adopting public blockchains in enterprise settings due to confidentiality issues. In this paper, we present a software tool named Control Access via Key Encryption (CAKE), designed to ensure data confidentiality in scenarios involving public blockchains. After outlining its core components and functionalities, we showcase the application of CAKE in the context of a real-world cyber-security project within the logistics domain.
Paper: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-61000-4_16
Essentials of Automations: The Art of Triggers and Actions in FMESafe Software
In this second installment of our Essentials of Automations webinar series, we’ll explore the landscape of triggers and actions, guiding you through the nuances of authoring and adapting workspaces for seamless automations. Gain an understanding of the full spectrum of triggers and actions available in FME, empowering you to enhance your workspaces for efficient automation.
We’ll kick things off by showcasing the most commonly used event-based triggers, introducing you to various automation workflows like manual triggers, schedules, directory watchers, and more. Plus, see how these elements play out in real scenarios.
Whether you’re tweaking your current setup or building from the ground up, this session will arm you with the tools and insights needed to transform your FME usage into a powerhouse of productivity. Join us to discover effective strategies that simplify complex processes, enhancing your productivity and transforming your data management practices with FME. Let’s turn complexity into clarity and make your workspaces work wonders!
Building Production Ready Search Pipelines with Spark and MilvusZilliz
Spark is the widely used ETL tool for processing, indexing and ingesting data to serving stack for search. Milvus is the production-ready open-source vector database. In this talk we will show how to use Spark to process unstructured data to extract vector representations, and push the vectors to Milvus vector database for search serving.
Unlock the Future of Search with MongoDB Atlas_ Vector Search Unleashed.pdfMalak Abu Hammad
Discover how MongoDB Atlas and vector search technology can revolutionize your application's search capabilities. This comprehensive presentation covers:
* What is Vector Search?
* Importance and benefits of vector search
* Practical use cases across various industries
* Step-by-step implementation guide
* Live demos with code snippets
* Enhancing LLM capabilities with vector search
* Best practices and optimization strategies
Perfect for developers, AI enthusiasts, and tech leaders. Learn how to leverage MongoDB Atlas to deliver highly relevant, context-aware search results, transforming your data retrieval process. Stay ahead in tech innovation and maximize the potential of your applications.
#MongoDB #VectorSearch #AI #SemanticSearch #TechInnovation #DataScience #LLM #MachineLearning #SearchTechnology
OpenID AuthZEN Interop Read Out - AuthorizationDavid Brossard
During Identiverse 2024 and EIC 2024, members of the OpenID AuthZEN WG got together and demoed their authorization endpoints conforming to the AuthZEN API
Things to Consider When Choosing a Website Developer for your Website | FODUUFODUU
Choosing the right website developer is crucial for your business. This article covers essential factors to consider, including experience, portfolio, technical skills, communication, pricing, reputation & reviews, cost and budget considerations and post-launch support. Make an informed decision to ensure your website meets your business goals.
For the full video of this presentation, please visit: https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2024/06/building-and-scaling-ai-applications-with-the-nx-ai-manager-a-presentation-from-network-optix/
Robin van Emden, Senior Director of Data Science at Network Optix, presents the “Building and Scaling AI Applications with the Nx AI Manager,” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit.
In this presentation, van Emden covers the basics of scaling edge AI solutions using the Nx tool kit. He emphasizes the process of developing AI models and deploying them globally. He also showcases the conversion of AI models and the creation of effective edge AI pipelines, with a focus on pre-processing, model conversion, selecting the appropriate inference engine for the target hardware and post-processing.
van Emden shows how Nx can simplify the developer’s life and facilitate a rapid transition from concept to production-ready applications.He provides valuable insights into developing scalable and efficient edge AI solutions, with a strong focus on practical implementation.
Threats to mobile devices are more prevalent and increasing in scope and complexity. Users of mobile devices desire to take full advantage of the features
available on those devices, but many of the features provide convenience and capability but sacrifice security. This best practices guide outlines steps the users can take to better protect personal devices and information.
Have you ever been confused by the myriad of choices offered by AWS for hosting a website or an API?
Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, Lightsail, Amplify, S3 (and more!) can each host websites + APIs. But which one should we choose?
Which one is cheapest? Which one is fastest? Which one will scale to meet our needs?
Join me in this session as we dive into each AWS hosting service to determine which one is best for your scenario and explain why!
AI 101: An Introduction to the Basics and Impact of Artificial IntelligenceIndexBug
Imagine a world where machines not only perform tasks but also learn, adapt, and make decisions. This is the promise of Artificial Intelligence (AI), a technology that's not just enhancing our lives but revolutionizing entire industries.
Programming Foundation Models with DSPy - Meetup SlidesZilliz
Prompting language models is hard, while programming language models is easy. In this talk, I will discuss the state-of-the-art framework DSPy for programming foundation models with its powerful optimizers and runtime constraint system.
Unlocking Productivity: Leveraging the Potential of Copilot in Microsoft 365, a presentation by Christoforos Vlachos, Senior Solutions Manager – Modern Workplace, Uni Systems
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.
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.
41. Applications Is the quality of the water okay for swimming? What Planning Applications have been submitted near me? How much waste is recycled in Fingal? Where do I vote? Where’s my nearest Bring Bank? Where can I find a disabled parking space? Where can I buy bin tags?
58. Possible Fingal Apps Check bathing water quality for Fingal beaches Find Planning Applications submitted near you See the amount of waste recycled in Fingal Locate the place where you vote Find your nearest Bring Bank Locate disabled parking spaces in Fingal Find out where you can buy bin tags
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Today, I am going to talk about Open Government and the role that Open Data plays; give an overview of Open Data; share our experience with Fingal Open Data look at what needs to happen next.
Web 2.0 has enabled a fundamental shift in the way we communicate Blogs, Social Networking, Microblogs, Sharing sites are all based on concepts of sharing and dialogue
In the past Government communicated using a broadcast model We will tell you what we are doing Opportunities for feedback were extremely limited
Social Media is based on dialogue Everyone is equal – Government and Citizen Everyone should be able to have their voice heard on any issue
… rather than Controlled, Organised, Government-driven
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Government 2.0 or Open Government enables a number of incremental levels of engagement.
Communicate Government can use Social Media as another broadcast communication channel Here Fingal County Council’s is using Twitter to inform citizens of events and service outages
Share We can share information such as images, data and video Dublin City Libraries share video via YouTube
Dialogue Government can engage in two-way conversations with citizens Here is an example of South Dublin County Council responding to a citizen’s enquiry on Facebook about their water supply
Participate Social Media can be used to facilitate participation Kilkenny County Council use Blogs to enable citizens to provide feedback on proposed Plans for their area
Collaborate Ultimately, Government 2.0 is about enabling a new approach to citizens and Government working together in a collaborative manner on matters of mutual concern Ideally, collaboration should be capable of being initiated by either Government or Citizen This is an example from North Sydney Council, Australia in which citizens can participate in determining budget priorities The citizen can choose to increase, decrease or not alter spending under the budget headings Their selections are totalled interactively so that they can see whether they are over or under budget and if over budget what the implications are for rates Citizens inputs are compiled into a report which feeds into the Councils decision-making process
Collaborate This example is from Melbourne, Australia Here the draft City Development Plan is published as a Wiki and the public can directly edit the Plan There is also a discussion page relating to each section of the plan where suggestions can be outlined or changes justified All versions are retained to enable comparison between versions of the Plan Once the public consultation phase is complete, the Council deliberates on the contributions to organise, refine and incorporate ideas in the most practical way
Collaborate In New York City, citizens can make suggestions about the provision of services The Bike Racks website enables citizens to identify a location where they believe bike racks should be provided, to include a photo of the location and to outline their reasons for the suggested location Other citizens can vote on the suggestions Citizens can also check whether their suggested location meets Bike Rack Location Guidelines to see racks provided sooner
Open Data plays an important role in Open Government In particular, it underpins collaboration Open Data is …
Public data Which is not subject to data protection or other limitations
Open Formats Available in non-proprietary formats e.g. CSV, XML, KML, RDF, open APIs
Machine Readable In a format that computers can process
Accessible Available to the widest range of people for the widest range of uses
Why would we publish Open Data?
Transparency To Open up Government and enable the Public to see the underlying information. What is the actual evidence-based reality as opposed to the perceived reality
Participation To increase citizen engagement with Government. If Government and Citizens are to cooperate, then Government can’t be the only ones with the information
Collaboration In addition to Citizen-Government collaboration outlined earlier, also - To enable the combination of data from different public sector agencies To enable other sectors to collaborate with Government.
Economic Opportunities Public sector data can be used as the basis for online services, mobile applications, analytics, etc.
Where did Open Data originate?
Open Data is based on the principles of Freedom of Information & Reuse of Public Sector Information. The 2003 EU Reuse of Public Sector Information Directive was designed to allow European companies to exploit the potential of Public Sector Data and to contribute to economic growth and job creation. In a 2009 report, the EU cited the value of EU Public sector data at an estimated €27B.
In the United States, Barak Obama promised Open Government during his election campaign. This website, data.gov was created in 2009 to share US Government data.
In 2010, the UK Government followed suit and established this website, data.gov.uk to share UK Government data, with Tim Berners Lee, creator of the World Wide Web working on the project.
In 2010, the United Nations established the UN data website to share UN data
There are also many examples of Local Government Open Data websites around the world. In particular, the Greater London Authority have provided us with advice based on their experience with the London Data Store which was created in 2010.
What about Ireland? Up to now there have been no Government Open Data websites in this country. However, a growing number of people have been calling for Open Government Data. This Internet group has been established by interested people to discuss possibilities for Open Data in Ireland.
Opendata.ie has been created by a collaboration of people from the Open Data Ireland discussion group and DERI research centre in NUI Galway Opendata.ie takes data from Government websites, converts it to open formats and publishes it
The new Government has recognised the need for Open Data Both parties to Government have Open Government and Open Data policies The Programme for Government includes a number of objectives The EU eGovernment Action Plan also includes Open Data or PSI objectives
The 2007 EU INSPIRE Spatial Information Infrastructure Directive is designed to facilitate sharing of spatial environmental data The Directive requires public bodies to provide electronic discovery, view and download services The INSPIRE Directive therefore shares many characteristics of Open Data and Re-Use of Public Sector Information
The Greek Government recognised the commonalities in PSI and INSPIRE In Greece, INSPIRE legislation builds on the principles of their PSI legislation and the two are complementary
Tim Berners-Lee has proposed five incremental levels of Open Data deployment Level 1 – just publish it with an open licence Level 2 – publish it in a structured format e.g. excel rather than PDF Level 3 – non-proprietary formats Level 4 – provide a method for assigning an identified to data items enabling linking directly to the data Level 5 – link the data to other data on the web
Linked Data essentially turns the World Wide Web into one huge database The BBC are making extensive use of linked data behind their website It looks like a normal website but there is separate identifier for each component of the page and this enables contextual links to other resources on the web
The Biography section of BBC’s Kate Bush page comes from Wikipedia
The BBC’s Kate Bush page links to MusicBrainz which is an online music encyclopaedia, also built with Linked Data
Previously, like most sites on the Web, individual BBC pages were created separately and linked manually, and then linked manually to the wider Web By adopting Linked Data, the BBC is joined to the rest of the Web in a meaningful contextual manner
How can Open Data be applied in a practical manner? Applications can be built using Open Data to provide information and services to the public.
Examples from around the world include the Melbourne Public Transport App for iPhone. Like Dublin, Melbourne has a number of different transport operators. This app pulls together data from all the operators to enable journey planning from origin to destination. You can see the different forms of transport that you need for your journey, display them on a map and see when the next bus, train or tram is due.
In the U.K., Openly Local is a website that collates information from Local Authorities, presents it in a standardised manner and allows comparison between Authorities.
Ottawa Parks and Recreation App enables citizens to find Parks and recreation facilities on a map, and then find out information about the facility.
This website provides a visualisation of the German Federal Budget. The coloured blocks provide a visual representation of the comparative sizes of different Government Departments expenditure. You can drill down to see the components of a Departments expenditure and compare expenditure from year to year.
From the U.S. we have the County Sin Rankings website This shows U.S. Quality of Life indicator comparisons by County
What about Fingal? The Fingal area covers North County Dublin – north of the Liffey and the M50 including Blanchardstown, Howth, Swords, Balbriggan. It is the 4 th largest Local Authority area by population as per Census 2006 It is the youngest area in the country And it is the fastest growing
Between 2002 and 2006 the population of Fingal grew by 22% Our estimate is that Census 2011 will show an increase of a further 12%
To cope with and plan for the ever-increasing demand for services, Fingal has relied heavily on data for service planning. Fingal has built up considerable experience of data sharing. The Fingal Data Hub was created by the Fingal Development Board in 2009.
The website and the published data is the result of significant research and cooperation between 9 partner agencies. It was designed for sharing of anonymised data between partner agencies, to enable interagency cooperation and service planning. In 2010 the data was made publicly available.
The Fingal Data Hub partners agreed a Data Sharing Protocol which provides a framework for the partners to work together to share data.
Fingal Open Data has evolved from the principles of the Fingal Data Hub and the Open Data movement. It is the first Open Data website in this country. It is available at data.fingal.ie
The website, which you can see on screen, provides public access to source data from Council systems. There are over 70 datasets, some of which can be seen here in the centre of the screen These are grouped into the 12 categories on the left-hand side of the screen.
Detailed information is provided about each dataset, such as Planning Applications shown here, including description, date published and available formats.
The data is made available for download in Open, Machine Readable formats that can be processed by computers.
The data is subject to the Irish PSI Licence, drawn up by the Department of Finance, which allows for fair use of the data.
Earlier I outlined possible services that could be provided to the public based on Open Data. The datasets now available on Fingal Open Data enable the services illustrated here to be developed. Two services had already been developed
This is the first service that has been developed with Fingal Open Data. It was built as an added feature on the ‘Hit The Road’ website It displayed all polling Stations for the 2011 General Election and allowed a user to search for a Polling Station and get directions to that Polling Station using Public Transport It showed data from all 4 Dublin Authorities, but the data was scraped from the other 3 Local Authority websites.
This is an iPhone App that has been built with Fingal Bring Bank data It displays all Bring Banks It allows filtering on the type of recyclable material – glass, cans or textiles It displays information about the selected Bring Bank It also identifies the nearest Bring Bank to your location and will provide directions to Bring Banks
Fingal County Council is also working with its sister authorities in the Dublin Region on a regional Open Data Initiative (Dublin City, Dun Laoghaire/Rathdown, South Dublin) Coordination Identify opportunities for use of public sector data Address technical, legal & commercial issues Collaboration between partners Facilitation Release & sharing of data in an open & free manner Services Provide data catalogue service to facilitate data discovery Provide service to access data
What are the next steps?
We need apps & services built with Irish Open Data Initially this might be Fingal Open Data, but these apps should be built to consume Open Data from any Government agency Beyond that, apps could consume data from other European countries – the EU wants to encourage cross-border apps and services Apps can be developed by business, 3 rd level, volunteers, etc If we are to demonstrate the value of open data and encourage the release of more data, we need to be able to show the practical benefits through practical applications and services
We need to have more Irish Open Data Local Authorities, Government Departments and Agencies should all start to release Open Data They should also examine whether usage restrictions can be removed from data already released There are also opportunities for Open Academic Data, Open Scientific Data, Open Bibliographic Data, etc And why not Open Business Data? Open Product Catalogues; Airline Flights and Fares; etc.
Worldwide, the Open Data Movement has a number of challenges to address
There is a need to make Open Data attractive to developers who will build apps with the data. This can be done through incentivising the development of apps. There is also a need to identify what the potential market is for Open Data apps, so that developers build apps that are needed.
Open Data sites are generally not designed with citizens in mind. It was generally felt that as Open Data is a raw material, ease of access to the raw data for non-developers was not required. However, there is now a growing view that when raw data is published, it should also have associated visualisation tools such as charting or mapping and that there should be links to apps built with the data
Because Open Data is such a new development, it is often difficult to determine whether it is succeeding. Using a metric such as visitor traffic to an Open Data website does not give any indication of whether anything useful has been done with the data. The performance of Open Data should be measured against the reasons for publishing the data. Appropriate metrics need to be defined for these purposes e.g. number of apps created, number of businesses utilising the data as the basis for products, increase in citizen involvement in decision-making, etc.
There is a great opportunity for public sector organisations to start releasing their data. Open Data will enable Open Government and increased citizen participation Open Data will also act as a driver for economic development and as a building block for the smart knowledge economy As I mentioned earlier, Fingal Open Data is available at data.fingal.ie And you can also follow us on Twitter at fingalopendata
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