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Ireland's inaugural Internet Governance Forum (IGF) took place last week, 22nd May in Dublin. This landmark event was hosted by .ie and organised by a multi-stakeholder team made up of experts that are passionate about internet governance. The event brought together experts from across business, government, education and civil society to work together to shape how the internet is managed in Ireland. The Internet Governance Forum (IGF), formally established by the United Nations in 2006, is a global initiative to promote open policy discussions that shape the future of the internet. Besides the Global IGF, many nations or regions host their own local IGF events to bring together the local internet community and discuss local internet policy issues. Ireland's trusted national domain registry, .ie, believes it is now time for Ireland as a digital nation, home to some of the world's leading tech companies and a strong internet ecosystem, to join the global conversation. This inaugural IGF in the country welcomed a variety of prolific speakers across government, academia, business and industry to engage with current and emerging trends surrounding internet governance and look ahead at Ireland's digital future. The predominant themes underpinning the IGF included regulating online spaces, moving beyond a compliance checklist focus, diversity and inclusion in internet governance, and ethical approaches to AI. One of the crucial areas of focus for the forum was the threat to cybersecurity across the globe, due in part to growing geopolitical uncertainty. Cybersecurity and Geopolitical Uncertainty The 20-year review of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS+20) is set to happen this year. The creation of the IGF is an outcome of the first WSIS, and its mandate is set to expire in 2025. It is crucial for Ireland to be a part of the global conversations around the future of how the internet is governed. In a time of such political and economic disruption, the digital world is also turning its focus to cybersecurity threats which have heightened amid ongoing geopolitical risk. The World Economic Forum has shown that cybercrime increases during times of global crisis, with major events like pandemics, wars, tariffs and climate change events often being used by opportunistic cyber criminals to capitalise on confused or well-intentioned individuals. During the Covid-19 outbreak in 2020, the online world experienced a 'cyber-pandemic' of its own. As so many individuals and businesses shifted online rapidly, bad actors were quick to take advantage of people's naivety and fear, with the scale and quantity of cyber-crime exploding from this point onwards. Closer to home, a 2025 report from the Banking and Payments Federation found that almost half of Irish adults (45%) report being targeted with more scam communications than the same time last year. At a time when innovation is accelerating, yesterday's forum explored the need for Ireland to maintain a people-centred approach to technology - through ethical AI, inclusive governance, and safer online spaces for all. Digital Divide Impact on Internet Governance The forum also addressed the ongoing problem of the digital divide in Ireland. .ie's 2024 Domain Profile Report, launched in January of this year, identified evidence of an ongoing digital divide based on location, size and sector, in particular for micro-SMEs with fewer than 10 employees.[iv] As digital policy decisions increasingly affect every part of our lives, the question of whose voices are heard in those decisions is more urgent than ever. Speakers at the forum explored ways in which Ireland can ensure that internet governance is inclusive, equitable, and accessible - particularly for marginalised, vulnerable, and underrepresented communities. David Curtin, Chief Executive at .ie said "Events like the IGF Ireland do more than spark conversation - they build connections and drive solutions. By bringing together stakehol...

1ère partie de notre sujet consacré à l'intelligence artificielle et le développement. Fin mai dernier à Genève se sont tenus des événements majeurs tels que la 77e assemblée mondiale de l'OMS, lA For Good Summit et le WSIS (en français le sommet mondial sur la sécurité informatique).  Quelques jours auparavant, soit le 22 mai dernier, deux table-rondes réunissant des ambassadeurs et membres des missions permanentes, avaient été organisées sur le thème de l'IA, par la Mission Permanente de la  République Centrafricaine près l'ONU à Genève appuyée par l'OIF l'Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie. L'événement faisait suite à la rencontre tenue en mars dernier sur le sujet et dont avait pris part l'Envoyé spécial du secrétaire général des nations Unies pour les technologies.  Dans ce 1e épisode, nous entendrons, depuis le Palais des Nations , le Dr Mehdi Snene conseiller principal de l'Envoyé spécial du secrétaire général des Nations unies pour les technologies. 

Le Sommet mondial sur la société de l'information (SMSI) , plus connu sous son appellation anglaise, WSIS+20, célèbre vingt ans de coopération mondiale dans le domaine de la société de l'information, se tenait du 27 au 31 mai dernier.  En réunissant des leaders, des experts et des acteurs de tous horizons le WSIS a permis d' évaluer les progrès réalisés et la définition des stratégies futures.  Cet événement multisectoriel met en lumière les avancées technologiques, l'inclusion numérique, et les défis contemporains tels que la cybersécurité et l'intelligence artificielle. Avec plus de 13 000 projets numériques alignés sur les Objectifs de Développement Durable (ODD), le WSIS a joué un rôle crucial dans la réduction de la fracture numérique et la promotion de l'égalité de genre. Le forum inclut des dialogues de haut niveau, des sessions interactives et des expositions, et s'efforce d'intégrer les jeunes et les diverses parties prenantes pour façonner une gouvernance numérique efficace et inclusive pour l'avenir. Monika Gehner, Cheffe de la Division de la communication institutionnelle, à l'UIT est interrogée par Épiphane Amanfo. 

Auch im September gab es einige spannende Affiliate-News, die wir wie immer für euch in unserer Auslese zusammengefasst haben. In unserem neuen Impulse sprechen Marius und Alexander über aktuellen Themen. Zur Auslese geht es hier entlang: https://www.projecter.de/blog/affiliate-marketing/affiliate-marketing-auslese-september-2022/ Zum Interview mit WSIS geht es hier entlang: https://www.projecter.de/blog/affiliate-marketing/was-soll-ich-schenken-net-die-trends-der-content-publisher/

In this episode, we talk with Heather Couture about how to make deep learning models for tissue image analysis more robust to domain shift. Supervised deep learning has made a strong mark in the histopathology image analysis space, however, this is a data-centric approach. We train the image analysis solution on whole slide images and want them to perform on other whole slide images - images we did not train on. The assumption is that the new images will be similar to the ones we train the image analysis solution on, but how similar do they need to be? And what is domain and domain shift?Domain: a group of similar whole slide images (WSI). E.g., WSIs coming from the same scanner or coming from the same lab. We train our deep learning model on these WSIs, so we call it our source domain. We later want to use this model and target a different group of images, e.g. images from a different scanner or a different lab - our target domain.When applying a model trained on a source domain to a target domain we shift the domain and the domain shift can have consequences for the model performance. Because of the differences in the images the model usually performs worse...How can we prevent it or minimize the damage?Listen to Heather explain the following 5 ways to handle the domain shift:Standardize the appearance of your images with stain normalization techniquesColor augmentation during training to take advantage of variations in stainingDomain adversarial training to learn domain-invariant featuresAdapt the model at test time to handle the new image distributionFinetune the model on the target domainClick here to read Heather's full article on making histopathology image analysis models more robust to domain shift.Visit Pixel Scientia Labs here.And listen to our previous episode titled "Why machine learning expertise is needed for digital pathology projects" here to learn more about the subjects and learn how Heather and her company can help.

Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2020.11.13.381871v1?rss=1 Authors: Lai, Z., Guo, R., Xu, W., Hu, Z., Mifflin, K., Dugger, B. N., Cheung, S.-c., Chuah, C.-N. Abstract: Neurodegenerative disease pathologies have been reported in both grey matter (GM) and white matter (WM) with different density distributions, an automated separation task of GM/WM would be extremely advantageous for aid in neuropathologic deep phenotyping. Standard segmentation methods typically involve manual annotations, where a trained researcher traces the delineation of GM/WM in ultra-high-resolution Whole Slide Images (WSIs). This method can be time-consuming and subjective, preventing the analysis of large amounts of WSIs in a scalable way. In this paper, we propose an automated segmentation pipeline combining a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) module for segmenting GM/WM regions and a post-processing module to remove artifacts/residues of tissues as well as generate XML annotations that can be visualized via Aperio ImageScope. First, we investigate two baseline models for medical image segmentation: FCN, and U-Net. Then we propose a new patch-based approach, ResNet-Patch, to classify the GM/WM/background regions. In addition, we integrate a Neural Conditional Random Field (NCRF) module, ResNet-NCRF, to model and incorporate the spatial correlations among neighboring patches. Although their mechanisms are greatly different, both U-Net and ResNet-Patch/ResNet-NCRF achieve Intersection over Union (IoU) of more than 90% in GM and more than 80% in WM, while ResNet-Patch achieves 1% superior to U-Net with lower variance among various WSIs. ResNet-NCRF further improves the IoU by 3% for WM compared to ResNet-Patch before post-processing. We also apply gradient-weighted class activation mapping (Grad-CAM) to interpret the segmentation masks and provide clinical explanations and insights. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info

The guest of this episode is Donal O'Shea, the CEO, and founder of Deciphex. He has been active in the area of digital pathology essentially since its beginning. He worked in academia and founded several successful digital pathology start-ups before his current one.Deciphex, in contrast to most digital pathology companies, is focused on non-clinical pathology, and its mission is to facilitate the complete digitization of this space and to contribute to the faster turnaround time of drug development. The means to achieve these goals are two software products: Patholytix preclinical and Patholytics AI. One of the reasons that the world of toxicologic pathology was lagging behind the world of diagnostic pathology in the digitization efforts was the lack of solutions tailored to this market. Deciphex decided to address all the particularities and nuances of the toxicopathologic workflow through close industry collaborations and by bringing the users to the table during the product development process. This resulted in software that delivers nearly an analog user experience away from the microscope. Non-clinical pathology may seem like a very niche market, but it is one with very high throughput, handling millions of glass slides every year. Accelerating the review of those slides can contribute to tremendous efficiency gains in the pharmaceutical industry. Deciphex is tackling this challenge by enabling organizations to do digital pathology peer reviews of toxicopathologic studies. Pathology peer review is typically connected either with the travel of the peer review pathologists or with the shipment of the slides to them, both of which are time-consuming, costly, could result in glass slide damage and disrupt the normal pathology workflow. All this could be eliminated with a digital workflow, which is extremely desired especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Digital peer review (and in the long term also digital primary review) can be enabled by the Patholytix preclinical software Another area where Deciphex is focused on helping the pharma industry gain efficiency is artificial intelligence-based generalized abnormality detection in the whole slide images (WSI). This image analysis-based decision support system would flag abnormalities in the WSIs requiring a pathologist review without indicating a diagnosis. This would be of especially great benefit to toxicologic pathology in comparison to diagnostic pathology because most of the slides in a toxicopathologic study are normal. If the review of normal slides could be accelerated by reducing the number of normal slides requiring pathologists' evaluation and allowing them to focus mostly on the abnormal ones the time necessary for study review would decrease tremendously. These improvements would be made possible by the Patholytics AI software as an addition to Patholytix preclinical.To remain agile and responsive to the newest computer vision and digital pathology trends Deciphex products maintain an open framework allowing for experimenting with different current and future AI-models. To learn more about Deciphex and follow their journey visit the Deciphex home page and their LinkedIn and Twitter accounts.

Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2020.08.02.233197v1?rss=1 Authors: Diao, J. A., Chui, W. F., Wang, J. K., Mitchell, R. N., Rao, S. K., Resnick, M. B., Lahiri, A., Maheshwari, C., Glass, B., Mountain, V., Kerner, J. K., Montalto, M. C., Khosla, A., Wapinski, I. N., Beck, A. H., Taylor-Weiner, A., Elliott, H. Abstract: While computational methods have made substantial progress in improving the accuracy and throughput of pathology workflows for diagnostic, prognostic, and genomic prediction, lack of interpretability remains a significant barrier to clinical integration. In this study, we present a novel approach for predicting clinically-relevant molecular phenotypes from histopathology whole-slide images (WSIs) using human-interpretable image features (HIFs). Our method leverages >1.6 million annotations from board-certified pathologists across >5,700 WSIs to train deep learning models for high-resolution tissue classification and cell detection across entire WSIs in five cancer types. Combining cell- and tissue-type models enables computation of 607 HIFs that comprehensively capture specific and biologically-relevant characteristics of multiple tumors. We demonstrate that these HIFs correlate with well-known markers of the tumor microenvironment (TME) and can predict diverse molecular signatures, including immune checkpoint protein expression and homologous recombination deficiency (HRD). Our HIF-based approach provides a novel, quantitative, and interpretable window into the composition and spatial architecture of the TME. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info

On this episode of JM in the AM, Nachum welcomed renowned lecturer and author Rabbi Manis Friedman to the air to focus on love and marriage. He spoke with Charlie Bernhaut about the upcoming WSIS kumzits and he got the latest Ma'ayanot news with Pam Ennis and Mrs Tamar Appel. All that along with Morning Chizuk with Rabbi Dovid Goldwasser, great Jewish music, and news from Israel.

What lies around the corner for the Internet .. and how do we avoid it? How can we study and affect the future of the Internet using the distributed power of the network itself? This is Jonathan Zittrain's inaugural lecture at the University of Oxford. This inaugural lecture by Professor Jonathan Zittrain proposes a theory about what lies around the corner for the Internet, how to avoid it, and how to study and affect the future of the internet using the distributed power of the network itself, using privacy as a signal example. Jonathan Zittrain holds the Chair in Internet Governance and Regulation at Oxford University and is also the Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Visiting Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School. His research interests include battles for control of digital property and content, cryptography, electronic privacy, the roles of intermediaries within Internet architecture, and the useful and unobtrusive deployment of technology in education.

What lies around the corner for the Internet .. and how do we avoid it? How can we study and affect the future of the Internet using the distributed power of the network itself? This is Jonathan Zittrain's inaugural lecture at the University of Oxford. This inaugural lecture by Professor Jonathan Zittrain proposes a theory about what lies around the corner for the Internet, how to avoid it, and how to study and affect the future of the internet using the distributed power of the network itself, using privacy as a signal example. Jonathan Zittrain holds the Chair in Internet Governance and Regulation at Oxford University and is also the Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Visiting Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School. His research interests include battles for control of digital property and content, cryptography, electronic privacy, the roles of intermediaries within Internet architecture, and the useful and unobtrusive deployment of technology in education.

What lies around the corner for the Internet .. and how do we avoid it? How can we study and affect the future of the Internet using the distributed power of the network itself? This is Jonathan Zittrain's inaugural lecture at the University of Oxford. This inaugural lecture by Professor Jonathan Zittrain proposes a theory about what lies around the corner for the Internet, how to avoid it, and how to study and affect the future of the internet using the distributed power of the network itself, using privacy as a signal example. Jonathan Zittrain holds the Chair in Internet Governance and Regulation at Oxford University and is also the Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Visiting Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School. His research interests include battles for control of digital property and content, cryptography, electronic privacy, the roles of intermediaries within Internet architecture, and the useful and unobtrusive deployment of technology in education.

What lies around the corner for the Internet .. and how do we avoid it? How can we study and affect the future of the Internet using the distributed power of the network itself? This is Jonathan Zittrain's inaugural lecture at the University of Oxford. This inaugural lecture by Professor Jonathan Zittrain proposes a theory about what lies around the corner for the Internet, how to avoid it, and how to study and affect the future of the internet using the distributed power of the network itself, using privacy as a signal example. Jonathan Zittrain holds the Chair in Internet Governance and Regulation at Oxford University and is also the Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Visiting Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School. His research interests include battles for control of digital property and content, cryptography, electronic privacy, the roles of intermediaries within Internet architecture, and the useful and unobtrusive deployment of technology in education.

Zu Gast bei Chaosradio Express ist Markus Beckedahl von netzpolitik.org. Im ersten Teil berichtet Markus von seiner Teilnahme am World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Tunis vor einigen Wochen. Es werden die Player im internationalen Kräftemessen und die Zuständigkeiten einiger Organisationen im Internet vorgestellt. Dazu gibt es Hintergründe zu den Zensurmaßnahmen und der aktiven Verhinderung von zahlreichen Nebenveranstaltungen unabhängiger Gruppen durch die Tunesische Exekutive. Im zweiten Teil geht es um das Thema Vorratsdatenspeicherung wo am kommenden Mittwoch Entscheidungen im Europäischen Parlament anstehen, die es zu verhindern gilt. Nehmt wenn möglich Kontakt mit eurem Europaabgeordneten auf und macht ihm klar, dass es so nicht geht. Im letzten Teil richten wir den Blick nach Frankreich, wo das Land gerade an seiner kulturellen Selbstzerstörung arbeitet und eine massive Verschärfung des Urheberrechts bzw. dessen Durchsetzung plant. Dieses Gesetz (DAVVSI) bedroht unter anderem auch zahlreichen Open Source Projekte.