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that this augmentation goes hand in hand with the attenuation, if not the disappearance, of a set of cognitive or motivational capacities which play a major role in the interactions of a human being with the world and with his kind.
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Learning is a process of self-transformation, which is necessary for the human body to adapt to its environment. If this process no longer existed, what would be the consequences?
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Obeying machines makes us obedient machines.
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Not just an intermediary who helps us. It becomes compulsory mediation.
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The great thinkers of technology like Marx or Hannah Arendt, described the tools as being an intermediary between me and nature. Something that prolongs my body. A little later with people like Jacques Ellul, for example, we think of technique as a system. For Leroi-Gourhan, paleontologist, it was an environment.
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his dispositions and his aptitudes, precisely the search for meaning, imagination, spontaneous creativity.
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These questions of meaning are extraordinarily important to humans in general and they are simply not reducible to calculation.
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The summary of a story is not a question of calculating words, or of identifying the number of occurrences of words. It is a question of being able to give a meaning to a narrative sequence of events, and that is something totally different
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I think that if we retuned our astonishment a bit we would get another image, maybe humbler on the side of artificial intelligence and more admiration of human intelligence.
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the question really arises of the distinction between man and machine
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the question of distinction between man and animal.
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The great thinkers of technology like Marx or Hannah Arendt, described the tools as being an intermediary between me and nature. Something that prolongs my body. A little later with people like Jacques Ellul, for example, we think of technique as a system. For Leroi-Gourhan, paleontologist, it was an environment. […]
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Questions of meaning are so important for childhood. These questions of meaning are extraordinarily important to humans in general and they are simply not reducible to calculation.
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www.diplomacy.edu www.diplomacy.edu
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to make decisions related to AI systems as per the rule of law and in line with international law and standards, including in the use of AI systems in their deliberations
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support.google.com support.google.com
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How to judge position of Diplo on search engines
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by appropriate oversight authorities, including independent data protection authorities, sectoral oversight and public bodies responsible for oversight
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a network of independent AI Ethics Officers t
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in their AI governance and to consider adding the role of an independent AI Ethics Officer or some other mechanism to oversee ethical impact assessment,
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public authorities should carry out transparent self-assessment of existing and proposed AI systems
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Such mechanisms and actions should include remediation mechanisms provided by private and public sector companies.
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auditing systems.
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to consider forms of soft governance such as a certification mechanism for AI systems and the mutual recognition of their certification,
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include aspects of anticipation, and effective protection
Interesting for rights of future generations
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aspects of anticipation, and effective protection,
Useful for rights of future generations
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impact assessments
Various aspects of impact assessment
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Ethical impact assessments should be transparent and open to the public, where appropriate. Such assessments should also be multidisciplinary, multi-stakeholder, multicultural, pluralistic and inclusive. The public authorities should be required to monitor the AI systems implemented and/or deployed by those authorities by introducing appropriate mechanisms and tools
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oversight mechanisms, including auditability, traceability and explainability,
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private sector companies and civil society should investigate the sociological and psychological effects of AI-based recommendations on humans in their decision-making autonomy.
Psychological impact.
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The adoption of open standards and interoperability to facilitate collaboration should be in place.
Call for open standards
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Stakeholders include but are not limited to governments, intergovernmental organizations, the technical community, civil society, researchers and academia, media, education, policy-makers, private sector companies, human rights institutions and equality bodies, anti-discrimination monitoring bodies, and groups for youth and children.
Various stakeholders of AI govenrnace
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This para shifts previous balancing formulation on data governance (proper balance between data sovereignty and free data flows) towards more data sovereignty
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Paragraph for trade-off decisions.
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Legal responsibility of physical persons or legal entities.
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sustainable, privacy-protective data access frameworks that foster better training and validation of AI models utilizing quality data
Data-related notion.
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AI systems should not be used for social scoring or mass surveillance purposes
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to the interconnectedness of all living creatures with each other and with the natural environment.
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to ensure peaceful and just societies,
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the unsustainable exploitation, use and transformation of natural resources
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carbon footprint,
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the environmental impact of AI systems
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Paragraph on trustworthiness.
- anchored in the concept of productoin life cycle.
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ethical deliberation, due diligence and impact assessment
new mechanisms for implementation.
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use of social dialogue
link to social contract
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a contextual assessment will be necessary to manage potential tensions, taking into account the principle of proportionality
Two important aspects that will take a lot of time to be negotiated: contextual assessment and the principle of proportionality.
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Values play a powerful role as motivating ideals in shaping policy measures and legal norms. While the set of values outlined below thus inspires desirable behaviour and represents the foundations of principles, the principles unpack the values underlying them more concretely so that the values can be more easily operationalized in policy statements and actions
Relations between values and principles
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AI systems could challenge humans’ special sense of experience and agency, raising additional concerns about, inter alia, human self-understanding, social, cultural and environmental interaction, autonomy, agency, worth and dignity.
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AI algorithms to reproduce and reinforce existing biases, and thus to exacerbate already existing forms of discrimination, prejudice and stereotyping
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both to natural and legal persons, such as researchers, programmers, engineers, data scientists, end-users, business enterprises, universities and public and private entities, among others
List of different 'stakeholders'
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the AI system life cycle, understood here to range from research, design and development to deployment and use, including maintenance, operation, trade, financing, monitoring and evaluation, validation, end-of-use, disassembly and termination.
Important time-component in governance of AI systems.
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data collected by sensors
Important new power of digital systems.
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cyber-physical systems,
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varying degrees of autonomy by means of knowledge modelling
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information-processing technologies
use 'information' - not 'data' processing
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AI systems as systems which have the capacity to process data and information in a way that resembles intelligent behaviour, and typically includes aspects of reasoning, learning, perception, prediction, planning or control.
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It approaches AI ethics as a systematic normative reflection, based on a holistic, comprehensive, multicultural and evolving framework of interdependent values, principles and actions that can guide societies in dealing responsibly with the known and unknown impacts of AI technologies on human beings, societies and the environment and ecosystems, and offers them a basis to accept or reject AI technologies.
Interesting definition that needs to be unpacked
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mental well-being,
It is important that mental aspect of using digital technology is entering political doucments
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as a standard-setting instrument
'Standard' is probably used in wider context or setting guidelines (not technical standards).
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including the human mind, in part because of the new ways in which its use influences human thinking, interaction and decision-making
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missing November
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developers.google.com developers.google.com
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Survey of structed data followed by Google
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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We’re in a new world of biometrics,
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biometric privacy laws that require a company to obtain explicit consent from users.
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A school denies a student enrollment in a special course after voice analysis determines that the student was insincere about their interest in it.
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the voiceprints for their own use.
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Construction firms are building Amazon’s Alexa and Google’s Assistant into the walls of new homes.
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In May, a coalition of over 180 musicians, human rights organizations and concerned individuals sent Spotify a letter demanding that it never use or monetize the patent. Spotify claims it has “no plans” to do so, but the coalition wants a stronger disavowal.
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The technology is based on the idea that voice is biometric — a part of the body that can be used to identify and evaluate us either instantly or permanently.
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all characteristics that some scientists believe are revealed by the human voice.
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now capturing both our words and the timbre of our voices.
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maybe “logical and responsible” or “creative and playful,” two such categories.
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My research suggests many customer contact centers now approach and manage callers based on what they think the person’s voice or syntax reveal about the individual’s emotions, sentiments and personality, often in real time.
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www.crossword-compiler.com www.crossword-compiler.com
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Use of crossword compiler
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backlinko.com backlinko.com
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Nishant Maitresays: Copy writing is not everyone’s cup of tea. Thanks for sharing such valuable information about copy writing. Keep up the good work! Reply Brian Deansays: Happy to help, Nishant Reply
Excellent copywriting coverage
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www.robbierichards.com www.robbierichards.com
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13. Optimize for featured snippets (and rank in position #0
How to rank featured snippets
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backlinko.com backlinko.com
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And if you give the page a legit update, Google (and users) will treat it like a new piece of content.
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Funny thing is, I’ve been seeing news sites publish more evergreen stuff lately.
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Posts With The Current Year In Their Title Are Likely to Become Evergreen
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Content With Engagement on Reddit Has a Strong Likelihood of Becoming Evergreen
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digital marketing, health, and technology.
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6. Content types with the highest proportion of evergreen content include “best of” lists, guides, data-driven research and industry reports.
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5. Posts that include “2020” or “2021” in their title tend to be highly evergreen. This shows that content with recent information is more likely to receive shares.
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1. List posts and how-to posts are the two “most evergreen” content formats. Presentations and press releases tend to be the least evergreen.
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www.semrush.com www.semrush.com
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Use content management approach
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backlinko.com backlinko.com
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skyscaper approach
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www.helpareporter.com www.helpareporter.com
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||DylanF||||StephanieBP|| Coudl we subscribe for this service?
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www.searchenginejournal.com www.searchenginejournal.com
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Popular Q&A Sites
popular FAQ websites
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www.semrush.com www.semrush.com
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Guest Posting
the best tactic to get traffic.
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www.semrush.com www.semrush.com
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Guest Blogging Guide
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Email Outreach: Focus on Real and Personal Communications
tactic to approach editors
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An instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure, used especially in weather forecasting. Something that registers or responds to fluctuations; an indicator
to be used for DW Barometar
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www.semrush.com www.semrush.com
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keyword search with SemRush
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www.semrush.com www.semrush.com
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useful way to organise keyword search strategy
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keywordtool.io keywordtool.io
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a very useful tool for finding right keywords
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www.semrush.com www.semrush.com
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keywordtool.io
long tail keywords
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Google Ads Keyword Planner
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www.semrush.com www.semrush.com
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What content/webpage do you have on your site that would satisfy someone’s search? What words would you search for to find that content?
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www.semrush.com www.semrush.com
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Want to find content round-ups to share your latest piece with? Try these:
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Newsjacking is all about being quick to react and ensuring that you are not trying to shoehorn a comment or piece of content to relate to a news story that isn’t relevant to your brand.
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4. HARO & #journorequest
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Data-Driven Studies
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It is a common misconception that all link building approaches are resource-intensive. That is simply not true, and while many certainly are, if you are looking for tactics that can help you quickly pick up some good links, you will find plenty of quick-win opportunities.
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It places a strong focus on optimizing for human audiences and is seen as a long-term approach to earn sustained visibility on the search engines.
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2. A High Percentage of ‘Followed’ Links
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You can think of links from other websites like votes.
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tass.com tass.com
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Russia is pushing for
- the stronger role of the ITU in IG,
- negotiations of cybercrime convention
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rankmath.com rankmath.com
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Google Trends for Focus Keywords
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en.vietnamplus.vn en.vietnamplus.vn
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www.learndash.com www.learndash.com
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||Andrej|| ||Dragana|| Ovo je detaljnije objasnjenje ProPanel opcije. Pogledajte dijagonalno da li pokriva opcije koje su bitne. Mi mozemo to da podesimo dalje (open source).
Ovo je verovatno kljucno pitanje za LMS na WP
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||Andrej||||Dragana|| Ovo je ProPanel Enhanced Reporting koji daje dosta detaljno izvestavanje o aktivnostima studenata.
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What Is a WordPress Membership Plugin?
||Andrej||||Dragana|| Proveravajuci da li WP moze da bude dobar LMS najvise vremena sam proveo na tome kako se prati korisnik/student i koju vrstu reporting-a mozemo da dobijemo. Mislim da je tu najdalje otisao LearnDash koji je napravljen oko membership plugin-a. Poslacu vam u sledecoj anotaciji link na deo njihovog site-a koji se bavi time.
Pracenje korisnika i administracija su strukturalno pitanje. Vecina ostalih stvari se moze srediti u bilo kojoj WP aplikaciji i HTML5.0:
- dizajn i izlged strane
- QandA
- dodavanje i ocenjivanje assignements
- razlicite video features.
Ostaje samo da vidim sa Dusanom da li bi on mogao da podvuce textus pod membership reporting.
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Text on Stanford Draft on cybercrime and terrorism
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like a regular WordPress blog post,
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You can run a multi-instructor system where you assign roles for the teachers for creating and managing the courses they teach.
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The grade books can be viewed and exported for managing how well your students are doing.
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What Are You Looking for in These WordPress LMS Plugins?
What are features for LMS
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memberpress.com memberpress.com
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Membership software
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This could be a very important feature on our website combining timeline with various segments of website. In my research I found WP Timeline as one of the most powerful. I am fine with any plugin as long as it supports functionality.
Here is the plan:
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install plugin (if there is a need buy licence) on wp4 (Sale can help)
check all options as per this WP Timeline manual
in parallel start updating timeline data. Steph, I found this file . You can see if it is correct. We should have one file from which we will filter data according to categories. I can help with developing logical structure, which should correspond to WP custom post type structure. Thus, when we import excel into WP it can be ready for display.
on input of data into spreadsheet there will be three type of activities:
- Steph (update history of Diplo)
- Mina (history of diplomacy and technology)
- Student/researcher (convert DiploNews info into timeline - e.g. identify important events).
Student/researcher - history of diplomacy timeline.
in 'maintenance' categories we will introduce category 'timeline' for filtering.
Team:
- Steph coordinate + plugin
- Sale: tech help on platform with MilosV helping with WP
- KatarinaA (import data and custom post types)
- JovanK (help)
- Mina (important of history data)
- Intern/researchers (other imports)
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A lot of shortcode parameter
for complex integration such as
- digital diplomacy (topic)
- European Union (actor)
showing timeline of EU on digital diplomacy.
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Ajax load more post
Not clear, but whatever is Ajax could be interesting.
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Timeline side by side support
to be checked if it can put next to each other timeline of Diplo and digital developments.
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Support category, tag, custom post type, custom taxonomy
Excellent for filtering according to tags. E.g. we can have timeline for digital diplokmacy or health diplomacy (integrated into topic page via shortcode.
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Create timeline with any date (BC/AD date support)
important for our historical tour
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WP timeline documentation
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Use of RankMath and AI
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How to uninstall plugin (remove all data generated by plugin)
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corporateeurope.org corporateeurope.org
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to preserve their profit margins and business model.
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they also employ an extensive network of lobby groups, consultancies, and law firms representing their interests, not to mention a large number of think tanks and other groups financed by them.
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Vodafone (€ 1,750,000), IBM (€ 1.750.000), QUALCOMM (€ 1.750.000), Intel (€ 1,750,000), Amazon (€ 2,750,000), Huawei (€ 3,000,000), Apple (€ 3,500,000), Microsoft (€ 5,250,000), Facebook (€ 5,550,000) and with the highest budget, Google (€ 5,750,000).
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Together, they spend over € 97 million annually lobbying the EU institutions.
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lobbying power in Brussels
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corporateeurope.org corporateeurope.org
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lobbying power in Brussels
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meae.gov.mt meae.gov.mt
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by seeking to build capacity through a systematic outreach, mindful of the positive outcomes that a multi-disciplined approach can provide
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The engagement amongst local stakeholders, and the consolidation of international relations at all levels, will determine the level of success of this policy.
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to promote talent in small states,
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Cultural diplomacy
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Maltese citizens abroad can easily access high-quality consular service, advice and assistance, especially in cases of emergencies
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Malta promotes the alliance of civilizations through dialogue of religions and advocating ethical values.
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humanitarian action
Humanitarian diplomacy training
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Malta also recognizes that the regions south of the Mediterranean are also part of Europe’s extended neighbourhood, and development and stability in such regions are crucial.
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Malta needs peace and stability in the Euro-Med region.
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to advance collective security and defend the rules-based international order through contributions to global peace and security and disarmament initiatives.
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the broadening and deepening of its bilateral security cooperation,
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to deliberate in mitigating these threats.
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‘Malta and Africa: A Strategy for Partnership 2020 – 2025’,
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but also strengthened, particularly as an island Member State lying on the periphery of Europe, with different socio-economic realitie
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States that act as mediators have an important role to play, particularly in troubled times. Malta works to continue to enhance its reputation as a sober, modest, steadfast, discreet, and neutral mediator, and intends to continue to develop capacities to contribute to peaceful conflict resolution as a mediator, and facilitate processes in this respect, including Malta’s role as a host state
What about Malta's role in using cyber tools for mediation?
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Engage in relevant bilateral, multilateral and multi-stakeholder fora that seek to promote a global, open, stable and secure cyberspace
Host some of the future IGFs?
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Work through the OSCE to strengthen democratic institutions and human rights, including media freedom.
A possibility to strenghten 'digital' aspect of this work?
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Promote people to people connectedness through cultural diplomacy initiatives.
Link to 'city diplomacy' network in Geneva.
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Malta has chosen security, sustainability and solidarity as the three pillars on which it aims to build its work during this two-year mandate.
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Malta is committed to intergovernmental confidence-building; to provide good offices in relation to cyberspace; and to explore new avenues such as the promotion of science diplomacy. Malta is also committed to engage effectively in cyber diplomacy, which aims to advance multilateral agreements on cyber norms, responsible state and non-state behaviour in cyberspace, and effective global digital governance. The goal is to create a stable and secure cyberspace anchored in international law through alliances between like-minded countries, organisations, the private sector, civil society and experts
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Develop a digital diplomacy profile for Malta, based on legacy pilot projects and the country’s potential to leverage geography, size, expertise, and openness to emerging technologies.
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Malta aims to further develop its digital diplomacy profile by building internal capacity and know-how that can lead to improvements in identifying and exploiting national and international opportunities through digitalisation, using digital technology across its foreign policy work.
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Given Malta’s small market, globalisation is not an option but an inevitable necessity.
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In the 2020 SDG Index, Malta was ranked 32nd out of 166 countries in the implementation of SDGsii.
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A major challenge to the implementation of a foreign policy is coordination and coherence between foreign and domestic policy.
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Rules, dialogue and diplomacy, rather than raw power, provide small yet internationally exposed and connected small countries like Malta with the highest level of protection.
Linking international law to practical security concerns.
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Having agreed rules, standards and norms that govern international cooperation on peace and security, economic, financial, human rights, and social issues, provides stability and certainty.
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with the whole country working together.
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Malta’s neutrality does not mean that it is indifferent to what happens around it.
There was an interesting conference in 1990s. I need to find papers from that conference on neutrality.
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Malta seeks as much as possible to resolve disputes between other countries and commits itself with humility to promote UN charter values of choosing not to be a threat to others and promoting patient negotiations, compromise and peaceful resolution of conflicts.
An important historical role of Malta which was lost over the last few decades. Malta can again become an important mediator, 'track two' dialogue facilitator especially for the Mediterranean region.
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www.zdnet.com www.zdnet.com
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quantum computing
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www.mckinsey.de www.mckinsey.de
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quantumcomputingreport.com quantumcomputingreport.com
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quantum cmputing
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quadlayers.com quadlayers.com
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to select cool timeline or wp timeline
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kayconcrete.com kayconcrete.com
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use of background in timeline
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urbaner-klimaschutz.de urbaner-klimaschutz.de
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Nice graphics timeline
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reneekiley.com reneekiley.com
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nice tumbnail timeline
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wprcentennial.org wprcentennial.org
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timeline - good retro example
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infogram.com infogram.com
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infogram integrations
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Good text on SEO that brings it to the practice of useing RankMath
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OpenGraph Meta
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Focus Keywords
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If the foundation itself is poorly built, then the building that stands on top of it will always be weak, or worse, collapse.
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If you invest 20% time in fixing the basic SEO mistakes, you will already be on the path to getting 80% results.
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www.wpkube.com www.wpkube.com
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Membership Plugins vs. Learning Management System Plugins
Membershp plugin vs. LMS
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What to Look for in an LMS Plugin
typical LMS functions
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Which Learning Management System Plugin Option is Best?
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www.wpbeginner.com www.wpbeginner.com
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You can deliver all your lessons at once or schedule them for the entire course duration with its Drip-Feed content feature.
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1. MemberPress Courses
MemberPress Courses
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bloggingwizard.com bloggingwizard.com
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tracking and monitoring tools SEO
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Activity Log is by far the most complete and easy-to-use plugin for WordPress activity. That’s why it’s used by more than 70,000 WordPress administrators, and among other features, it offers:
Monitor activities on website
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www.wpbeginner.com www.wpbeginner.com
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How to limit access to WP
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blog.hubspot.com blog.hubspot.com
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tracking users
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www.internetsociety.org www.internetsociety.org
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The directive’s scope has been expanded under NIS2 to cover additional sectors including telecoms, social media platforms, and public administration.[5] The NIS2 proposal also removes the distinction between Operators of Essential Services (OES) and Digital Service Providers (DSP) found in the NIS1.[6] Instead, Member States will enforce risk management and reporting requirements for “essential and important entities,” with digital infrastructure designated as “essential” and digital providers as “important entities.”[7]
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Put simply, NIS2 would give carte blanche to other countries to shape the internet as they see fit, including for domestic censorship, surveillance or control objectives.
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Imagine how quickly the internet would fragment if every region or country defined its own rules for how global services should be governed.
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strengthen security in new sectors, particularly for digital infrastructure and digital providers.
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“The European Union supports a vision of the internet as a single and unfragmented, open, neutral, free, and secure network, supporting permissionless innovation, privacy and user empowerment, where human rights and fundamental freedom fully apply.”
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www.interaction-design.org www.interaction-design.org
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we design and power of white space
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www.newyorker.com www.newyorker.com
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Peter Thiel wonders why we don’t yet live in the future of our dreams. Graeber and Wengrow think the first step forward is a reminder of the past we deserve.
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The whole symbolic apparatus of cultural evolution aimed to make freedom—which they define as the freedom to move, the freedom to disobey orders, and the freedom to imagine less hierarchical ways of organizing ourselves—seem archaic and perilous.
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“Portraying history as a story of material progress, that framework recast indigenous critics as innocent children of nature, whose views on freedom were a mere side effect of their uncultivated way of life and could not possibly offer a serious challenge to contemporary social thought,” Graeber and Wengrow write.
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At least some of the Indigenous inhabitants of the Americas, they tell us, were bewildered and appalled by the strange European custom of giving and taking orders.
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began to go wrong precisely when people started losing that freedom to imagine and enact other forms of social existence.”
Crucial point.
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“Our distant ancestors seem, by contrast, to have moved regularly back and forth between them.
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“Humans may not have begun their history in a state of primordial innocence, but they do appear to have begun it with a self-conscious aversion to being told what to do. If this is so, we can at least refine our initial question: the real puzzle is not when chiefs, or even kings and queens, first appeared, but rather when it was no longer possible to simply laugh them out of court.”
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could grow large and manifold without a literate bureaucracy, or the way early literate societies (Uruk, in Mesopotamia) might have managed the trick of participatory self-governance,
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Ancient emperors mostly “saw little reason to interfere, as they simply didn’t care very much about how their subjects cleaned the streets or maintained their drainage ditches.”
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