Welcome to the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference 2018 in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. We are very pleased to be joined in the studio today by Mr Karol Okonski, who is the Secretary of State for Poland. Mr Koonski, thank you for joining us in the studio. Thank you for having me here. It's good to see you again. Yeah, it's always actually appreciate the time I can take part in the ITU events. It's like something I would say extraordinary to gather in one place. So many people actually being responsible at the same time for the ICT topics, but also open to the discussions and just building relationships in the meantime, so I appreciate it. Now there's been a lot of attention being paid to harnessing the power of information and communication technologies, ICTs, as an enabler for good, for development, for the benefit of people, of communities, of nations. I wanted to find out what's your perspective on this. You're right. I think it is very important to see that with the proper use of ICT, you can really change, like, right, for good, for something systematically applied, the way that actually the society and especially in some areas that are actually underdeveloped, that you can actually take the ICT solutions and make the people just close those gaps that they might have in both the communications and also in the literacy, I would say, digital literacy that you can get people actually involved in some of the areas, either with the government or with the private sector, with ICT can be this right link that can allow people to participate in some of the activities. For example, one of the projects that we are very proud of in Poland is the project where she aims at connecting all public schools to high-speed broadband. And then you connect the schools, you say, okay, it's fine, but it's just also an enabler then for the whole society, for both the children, the teachers, you can actually also provide the content, the digital content, organized centrally or distributed of high quality that you can just pass through and use in those schools. And also, from the very beginning, you let the people understand the benefits but also some risks that are connected using the high technology because in the end, like you said, ICT is a big enabler, but at the same time, it has to be used wisely. Now, this is this planning potential conference. This is the first one since the world agreed to the sustainable development goals. I just wanted to find out, as ICTs, as enablers for these, and what's your perspective on that? And also, how is Poland contributing to that? Yes, well, I think here the important fact is that we involve, in anything, in any activities connected to ICT projects and ICT capabilities, we build them, consulting and taking into the discussion, bringing into discussion all stakeholders that are involved. And I think very important is that if you provide the new, taking, for example, the topic of artificial intelligence, something that actually is seen as a potential, one of the factors that can influence dramatically in a positive way, the fact that we can achieve the goals that we also, in terms of sustainable development. And then it's very, very important to make sure that when we develop a new legislation or a new standards, that from the very beginning, from the very start, address the needs of all the parties, all the stakeholders that are involved in the process. So, not that you actually provide a long, iterative process, but from the very start, you take into consideration the different point of views that we might have from different parties, different parts of society. And then it makes it much more effective, and actually I think by this way, by this multi-stakeholder approach, so also very much charged at the United Nations agencies, that in the end, the results can be actually achieved much faster because you don't experience the obstacles at the moment of implementation, but you're actually, at least, to a much, to a much extent, foresee any difficulties you might have, and we're just involved and incorporate some actions from the very beginning. Now, about half of the world's people are connected to the Internet, the other half is not. What is your country doing to get everyone connected? Yes, it's true that especially in countries that have some diverse terrain and some spots that are actually of diverse density of population, Poland is actually one of them.  What we are doing actually is to, first of all, to make sure that we have them marked, that we are aware that there are those areas. And then we actually, in Poland, we provide the special funds to actually subsidize the companies that actually develop, that do the telecommunication investments. Being sure that if there is no clear profit behind the investment, it will be very hard actually to persuade someone to close this gap and to provide the necessary connectivity. So by doing it in a focused way, that equates in different areas, you can actually also make sure that you invest money wisely of the public, of the government, and that in the end you step by step by providing the up-to-date map of your country, of mapping of the infrastructure, and just gradually will come up to the situation that actually every household in Poland and then in Europe have its connectivity. Absolutely great. And in terms of your message, your message to participants here at PPAT, perhaps you would like to, in a nutshell, diffuse it to our wider audience here on the IT YouTube channel. Yes, thank you. I think what is important here is to make sure that whenever we, talking with different kinds, whenever we want to regulate something, just to make sure that we came through the phases of self-regulation, because what we would like to avoid is to hamper any creativity or any free thought that people might have by actually from the start making very strict frames and guidelines for them. So we should do it when we see that it is necessary, but I would very much prefer the testing and experimenting first before actually implementing some hard laws, because in the end I think also at the level of ITU, combining both the expertise but also the creativity of different countries, we can come up with some solutions that will be actually self-regulatory, and then when we see that there is some special additional help needed from the government to protect, for example, the citizens, then of course we should do it, but not to overdo it from the very beginning. Karol Gonski, Secretary of State of Poland, thank you very much indeed. Thank you very much.


Minister for Housing and Local Government Hon. Richard Fedrick says government is moving with due haste with plans for land rationalization across the island. Hermadi Mack has the details. Minister in the office of the Prime Minister with responsibility for housing and local government Hon. Richard Fedrick has announced that the government of Zinduja is seeking to provide individuals living on parish-owned lands in the Henry South constituency the opportunity to own the property at affordable rates. The announcement was made during a recent swearing in ceremony at the council. This forms part of the government of Zinduja's thrust to promote local land ownership. You have indicated to me that loads of houses in the Henry South are on parish land. Mr. District Rep, where is Lorraine Matthews? Are you here? Yes, you're somewhere there. I need you to be in contact with the District Rep like yesterday. Let us acquire those lands and let's give title to the people of Henry who up to now are occupying those parish lands. We are doing it all over. I can promise you before next year end I want most of those people to have title at a very, very cheap rate. You see, about two weeks ago we were in Tirochet and I went to a development there. There are about 14 people with houses, nice houses on the land. And as minister I urge the government to move in the direction of giving the land to those people for free. It is time solutions get a part of Zinduja. Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Security and Rural Development and Parliamentary Representative of Henry South, Hon. Alfred Prospe while addressing the newly sworn in councillors highlighted the areas in the constituency that require constituency council's attention. You are responsible to take care of the needs of the community. You are responsible to help address the issues confronting us in the community and you know there are many. And with the support of the Parliamentary Rep, with the support of the Government of Zinduja, we will make it happen. If you walk along the beachfront now you would see the mess that this beachfront is in. You go to the fishing port, you would see the mess that the fishing port is in.  You would see so many of those booths are just sitting there empty. These are just suggestions I am making for the Henry constituency council to consider. Nine new councillors were appointed to the Henry South constituency council. Dexter Michael Landers serves as chairperson of the constituency council and Ronnie Francis, deputy chairperson from the Government Information Service. The Maddie Mark reporting.


Bitcoin is about to explode and this time I fully prepared myself to get in on the upcoming gains. Welcome back to my channel, my name is Johannes Bottle and in this video I will explain to you why I believe that Bitcoin will surpass $100,000 per coin by the end of the year. If you're new to this channel, make sure to watch this video up here where I predicted Bitcoin to hit $25,000, which it never did. So basically you can say I was completely wrong. I personally don't think so. Even though Bitcoin never touched $25,000, it did touch $28,800 once, which for me personally is close enough and makes me stick to my theory or idea that I had to begin with. The Wickev distribution was all over social media a couple of months ago where everybody was talking about the Bitcoin manipulation and how big companies, whales made money while we were losing money. This was a big topic when Bitcoin dropped from $60,000 all the way down to $30,000. Now I believe we're in a different phase and nobody seems to talk about this. I'm talking about the Wickev accumulation, which I believe is happening right now with a very clear end in sight. Before I show you some charts that validate my theory or my idea of what's going to happen with Bitcoin, I'd like to invite you to help me out with the YouTube algorithm by liking this video. Just a small little smash of Rony and that's it. So this is the Wickev accumulation theory and that is the Bitcoin for our chart. I know it's not identical, but it's very close, which gets me very excited. Let's just start with the Wickev accumulation. So here is what it looks like. So when you look at this chart, I believe that that was the downtrend from $60,000 down to $30,000, which then hit the first mark, the SC, which stands for selling climax. This is the point where heavy selling or panic selling is absorbed by so-called whales. Because those whales are hungry, they eat up all the cheap Bitcoin at once, which rallies up the price from their buying power to the AR, which stands for automatic rally. After they accumulated the first cheap bitcoins, they stop buying, which then brings down the price again. So because the whales stop buying, this drops the price and brings us to the secondary test. As you can see in phase A, ST secondary test. This is where the demand and the supply balance is tested to see where we are at in the market. This continues in phase B until we find the spring, which I believe was the moment Bitcoin hit $28,800. The spring is technically another test for whales to just see where we are at, what's the supply, what's the demand, and they can just scoop up a lot of Bitcoin at a very low price. On top of that, they confuse or mislead the general public because now we have a massive drop to $28,000. Everybody's panicking and everybody's selling again to the whales. So basically the whales are just opening their mouths and they're like, okay, let let it happen. And then panic selling happens. They absorb everything because they have so much money, so much buying power, the price jumps back up. According to the week of accumulation, the spring is followed by another test, which I believe already happened too. So I personally believe that we are really close to the end of phase C, really close at the edge of phase D already. So this brings me to my theory that we will see another $45,000 Bitcoin very soon. And don't ask me if it's going to happen in one week or six weeks. I don't know. But according to the week of accumulation, if that's actually happening and right now it's perfectly aligned with the Bitcoin charts. So I believe we will see a $45,000 Bitcoin very soon, which then leads us to the SOS, which stands for sign of strength, which usually also brings a high volume into play. And as you can see in the chart after the SOS, we will see a very bullish trend. If the week of accumulation is correct, we will see a couple bounces after the SOS, probably between $45,000 to $41,000 before we arrive in phase E, which then has a very bullish trend. I believe that we will see new all-time highs, but I don't want to predict the price right now. Will it surpass $100,000? I strongly believe it will, but I don't know how high we will go. This is just my personal opinion, my theory, which brings me to a very important point. I am not a financial advisor. This video is for entertainment purposes only.  It's your money, it's your responsibility. So how high can Bitcoin go by the end of the year? I honestly have no idea. I've been trying to gather as much information as possible, but to predict the price of Bitcoin by the end of the year, it would just be irresponsible for me to just say a random number right now. I just want to make sure that I make a good decision by the end of the year to not sell too early or not sell too late. What I do know for a fact is that I won't be able to time the market perfectly, which is absolutely fine. So I think I will just have to look at the charts whenever we surpass $100,000, look at all my indicators that I'm well aware of, like how to use them, and then I'll just make a decision when we're there. Right now, it's hard for me to say where we're going to land. Currently, I'm not concerned about where it's going to go because I was busy buying more coins during this sideways trend, and I just gathered more and more coins, which also pay me interest on a daily basis. If you have any cryptocurrency laying around that's not producing any interest right now, make sure to check out blockfight.com slash Johannes. You can get up to $250 worth of Bitcoin. Let me know in the comment section below what you guys think will happen with Bitcoin and all your favorite cryptocurrencies. Alright guys, thank you so much for watching. I hope you enjoyed this video. Don't forget to comment, like, and subscribe. I'll see you next time.


I'm the author of Malignan Self-Lover, Narcissism Revisit. Why do narcissists habitually devalue their sources of narcissistic supply upon whom they so depend? Narcissists are forever in pursuit of narcissistic supply. They are oblivious to the passage of time, and they are not constrained by any behavioral consistency by any rules of conduct or moral considerations. The narcissist makes his own law as he goes along. Signal to the narcissist that you are a willing source, and he is bound to try to extract narcissistic supply from you, by any and all means. The extraction of narcissistic supply is akin to a reflex. The narcissist would have reacted absolutely the same way to any other source of supply. Because to him, all sources are the same, and consequently, all sources are interchangeable. Some sources of supply are better than others from the narcissist's point of view. They are intelligent, gullible, submissive, reasonably but not overly inferior to the narcissist, in possession of a good memory, with which to regulate the flow of narcissistic supply. They are available, but they are not imposing. They are not explicitly or overtly manipulative. They are undemanding. They are attractive if the narcissist is somatic. In short, the best type of narcissistic supply source is a Galathea-Egmalian type. But then, often abruptly, and sometimes inexplicably, it is all over. The narcissist is cold, uninterested, remote, it detaches from his source of narcissistic supply. Why is that? One of the reasons is, as Groucho Marx put it, that the narcissist doesn't like to belong to those clubs which would accept him as a member. The narcissist devalues his sources of supply for the very qualities that make them sources of supply in the first place. Their gullibility, their submissiveness, their intellectual or physical inferiority are the prerequisites for making them sources of supply on the one hand, and the reasons the narcissist holds them in contempt and disdain on the other hand. But there are many other reasons. For instance, the narcissist resents his dependency on narcissistic supply. He realizes that he is hopelessly and helplessly addicted to this drug of narcissistic supply and he is in hawk to the sources of narcissistic supply. By devaluing the sources of said supply, his spouse, his employer, his colleagues, his friends, the narcissist ameliorates the dissonance. He says, yes, I am dependent and addicted to narcissistic supply, but it is I who choose who supplies it. This way, by exerting mastery and control, the narcissist reasserts himself, feels better about himself.  Everyone needs sex and intimacy. It is a great equalizer, but the narcissist resents this averageness, this pedestrian commonness. He rebels by striking out to the perceived founds, the perceived sources of his frustration and his enslavement. These people, his spouse, his children, his colleagues, his friends, his employers, they are the ones who reduce him to a rut and routine. Again, by devaluing them, he reasserts himself, he is above them, he is superior. Sex and intimacy are also usually connected with unresolved past conflicts with important primary objects, parents and caregivers in the narcissist past. By constantly invoking these conflicts, the narcissist encourages transference and provokes the onset of approach avoidance repetition cycles. The narcissist blows hot and cold on his relationships in order to try to recreate these primary or primal conflicts and this time resolves them. Of course, he miserably fails time and again. Additionally, narcissists simply get tired of their sources. They get bored. There is no mathematical formula which governs this. It depends on numerous variables. Usually the relationship lasts until the narcissist gets used to the source and takes it for granted and until the stimulating effects of the source wear off or until a better source of supply presents itself. When negative inputs serve as narcissistic supply, well, of course, yes, absolutely. Narcissistic supply includes all forms of attention, both positive and negative. Fame, notoriety, adulation, fear, applause, approval, whenever the narcissist gets attention positive or negative, whenever he is in the limelight, it constitutes narcissistic supply. If he can manipulate people or influence them positively or negatively, it qualifies as narcissistic supply. Even quarreling with people and confronting them constitutes narcissistic supply. Perhaps not the conflict itself, but the narcissist's ability to influence other people, to make them feel the way he wants, to manipulate them, to make them do something or refrain from doing it. All these count as forms of narcissistic supply, hence the phenomenon of serial litigators. Even does the narcissist want to be liked? Well, it's a strange question as far as the narcissist is concerned. Would you wish to be liked by your television set? To the narcissist people are mere tools, sources of supply, instruments. If in order to secure the supply, he must be liked by them, then he acts likable, helpful, collegial, friendly. If the only way is to be feared, he makes sure they fear him. The narcissist does not really care either way, as long as he is being attended to. Attention, whether in the form of fame or infamy, is what it's all about. The narcissist's world revolves around this constant mirroring. I am seen, therefore I exist, the narcissist says. But the classic narcissist also creates punishment. These actions are aimed to elicit and solicit social opprogramming and sanctions. His life is a Kafkaesque ongoing trial, and the never-ending proceedings are in themselves the punishment. Being penalized, reprimanded, incarcerated, abandoned, serves to vindicate and validate the internal damning voices of the narcissist's sadistic, ideal and immature super ego. These are the voices that used to belong to his parents and caregivers and were internalized or interjected by the narcissist. Such punishment confirms his own worthlessness. It relieves him from the inner conflict he endures and the anxiety that attends to it when he is successful. There are conflicts between knowing feelings of guilt, anxiety and shame on the one hand and the need to secure a narcissistic supply on the other. And how does the narcissist treat his former sources of supply? Does he regard them as enemies? Well, yes and no. Narcissists have no enemies. They have only sources of narcissistic supply. An enemy means attention, means supply. One holds sway over one's enemy. If the narcissist has the power to provoke emotions in you, even negative ones, then you are still a source of supply to the narcissist, regardless of which emotions are provoked. The narcissist actually seeks out his old sources of narcissistic supply when he has absolutely no other sources of supply at his disposal. Narcissists frantically try to recycle their old and wasted sources in such a situation. But the narcissist would not do even that had he not felt that he could still successfully extract a modicum of narcissistic supply from the old source. Even attacks, even to attack the narcissist, is to recognize his existence and importance in your life and to attend to him, so it also is a form of narcissistic supply. If you make clear to the narcissist unequivocally and unambiguously that he is not likely to get attention from you, negative or positive, he will leave you alone. If you are an old source of narcissistic supply, first get over the excitement of seeing him again. It may be flattering, perhaps sexually arousing, try to overcome these feelings. Then simply ignore him. Don't bother to respond in any way to his offer to get together. If he talks to you, keep quiet, don't answer.  Even his gifts are unopened. Indifference is what the narcissist cannot stand. It indicates a lack of attention and interest that constitutes the kernel of negative narcissistic supply and is to be avoided by the narcissist at all costs.


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here. Financial News Network. Update. Okay, folks, Larry Pescimento with the afternoon update for TFNN. We've got the stock indices green all across the board, the Russell Dow Jones, E-mini, and also the NASDAQ are higher. Of course, the strongest, of course, happens to be the Dow Jones Industrial. NASDAQ gets back and forth from red to green, but it's still green right now, and the S&Ps actually took out the old high at 42.05. That's to be expected. Remember, folks, tomorrow we're going to have Stan Harley, excuse me, our guest tomorrow is Jeff Hughes of Alpha Insights, and then on Wednesday we have Stan Harley of the Harley Stock Market Letter, who's been suggesting that we would be seeing a high coming in sometime here in early May. We'll get some more information on that on Wednesday show, but those are the ones we're looking. Gold is sold off considerably after making a high up there at 2013, 2014, and now broken down above the $890 level. To me, folks, just looking at these, it looks like we've made some type of a pretty significant top in the metals here these last few days, and we look like we're heading to the downside. How much? I'm not sure, but there's a beautiful buy signal from an ABCD standpoint setting there at 1948. That's down about $40 from where we are in course in gold market. It could be there by the close today or in 15 minutes, but it's going to be very, very interesting to see if we get to some of these levels. We're seeing great volatility all across the board. Stop and think, folks, the bonds have broken through almost four handles down from the high from $133 to $129. This means higher interest rates, and the markets just continuing now because they think that this is going to be the last rate increase that Mr. Powell is going to give us, which will probably be 25 basis points, which would probably be on Wednesday when the Fed brings all their little tools to tell us what's going on. Then, of course, on Friday we have that big non-farm payroll number that's always a joy for traders to trade. That's what we're paying attention here today. When we come back, we're going to be talking about gold. We'll be right back,<PHONE_NUMBER>.


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We're very glad to have you joining us here for the Tracker Planning and Implementation Management Academy. This is a level two academy and we'll go through a little bit of what that means. But first wanted to just give an opportunity to introduce a few of the people that will be facilitating and you'll be hearing from over the course of the next couple of weeks. We have quite an experienced team that have been working with Tracker for some time. You'll hear a lot from different countries and their examples this week. And next week we also have a number of people training on different topics. So maybe I will start with Karolina. Would you like to introduce yourself? Yes, hello and welcome everyone. We're very excited to have you all at this academy. So I'm Caroline Lien. I currently have two roles as a details to project support team lead and a tracker functional analyst. So I'll be mostly watching the Slack, helping out where I can. So remember to always reach out there if there's anything. And yeah, looking forward to a great academy. Great, thank you. Anna, could you go next? Hi, my name is Anna Tursen. I will host a couple of sessions here in the academy regarding planning, budgeting and also a bit of this readiness assessment that you have received earlier, both on the Slack and via email, I think. Day to day I work on several of our larger contracts. I work specifically with immunization and COVID at the moment that also has a tracker component. So looking forward to the academy very much. Thank you. Great, thank you, Anna. Kim, could you please present yourself? Yes, sorry, I'm having trouble with my camera but I'm Kimberly Frost. I am working at the University of Oslo as a clinical specialist, looking at how to use tracker with a clinical perspective, working a lot on the immunization tracker projects and COVID, glad to be here. Great, thank you. There's quite a few other people that you'll be meeting in the next couple of weeks but maybe that's enough to get us started in seeing some of the people that we'll be facilitating. For this academy, we had people signing up from over 60 different countries. So just to recognize that there's quite a lot of diverse use cases and diverse experiences with tracker. So we'll spend a bit of time today going into some of the various ways that people are using tracker and make sure that we all have kind of a shared understanding before we dive into some of the more kind of in-depth topics. But just to give you a sense of what we'll be talking about throughout the course, we have a short slide deck here. The first thing I wanted to say is that this is actually only the second time that we are giving this academy. A little over a year ago, a year and a half ago, we had created the tracker implementation guide and then had the first implementation academy in Ghana in March of 2020. This happened to be right as the COVID epidemic was breaking worldwide. And we ended up being able to do only the first four or five days of this academy and then had to shut the academy down due to the COVID outbreak. So this is for us, the first time now we're repeating this academy. We've updated the materials with all of the things that we've been learning over the last year since that first academy, especially with regards to the COVID implementations and the different challenges as people are using tracker for very large scale vaccine support, vaccine certification, COVID testing, cohort monitoring, many different ways that people have been using tracker. And so we wanna make sure to bring in those considerations that we've learned since that time. So this is an update to the only time we've ever given this academy. To give you a sense of what we're doing here, again, this is not really a strong technical or software focused academy. So we very much want the people that are making decisions about implementation, about how to proceed in their country, whether they already have a tracker implementation or they're planning to do one soon. So we're trying to give an overview of what ways tracker could be used, but also how to think about training and what might be different about IT support and how you would consider approaching the different health programs and what kinds of roles there should be expanded to your team, either an existing DHS2 team or adding DHS2 expertise. We want to give some support around how to plan finances and how to think about the resources that would be associated with your tracker implementation. So again, we're not focused so much on configuration. This is not something where we're going to sign in to DHS2 very often. It's going to be much more about implementation and how to approach planning and how to manage your teams and how to determine readiness and these number of topics. So what we'd like you to be able to leave these two weeks with is the increased ability to plan your tracker implementation. Again, for some of you, that means that you already have an ongoing tracker implementation and this will give you some additional skills and ways to approach managing that implementation.  Perhaps you already have DHS2 experience or experience with other software this way, but this will help you hone in on the specifics around the DHS2 and tracker about what you would need to be considering. We also hope that this is going to lead to an increase in the quality of the tracker implementations. Again, this is something that there has been a lot that we have learned over this last year and over the last five, six years of tracker implementations. Tracker in our estimation is something that is widely used and is quite mature at this point, but there are also many countries that are doing these kinds of projects for the first time where they're really reaching down to the facility level with a reporting system or whether actually trying to do clinical data capture or at the community health level. So what this has been, I think a learning and growth experience for many of us globally over the last five, six years and we'd like to really help improve the quality of implementation and ensure that you're getting the most out of these projects which take a lot of effort, take a lot of resources and demand a lot of the people using them. So we want to make sure that they're of the highest quality implementation. We also will spend a bit of time making sure that you're aware of all the possibilities of how to use tracker. Tracker can be anything from a very simple kind of secondary reporting system where you're simply entering data to a full clinically based tool that is providing decision support and helping clinical health workers play on their day. So there's a wide range of possible complexity, various features that can be used. There are many kind of interesting innovations that various countries and various HIST groups have done to improve on tracker or to use tracker in innovative ways. And again, we'd like to spread that knowledge and make all of you aware of what you could be doing with tracker and see some of the things that might be worth adopting on your end. We are going to have some specific exercises and activities throughout these two weeks. We have one tool in particular which we will share a bit more about tomorrow and which we've got a link to that is to help you do first a readiness assessment for your activity. And again, this may be for an ongoing activity but it's still very useful to sit down and think through kind of the landscape around your tracker implementation. Help you to identify some of the systemic kind of challenges and processes related to tracker, things that you may wanna have mitigation strategies for understanding what the risks are, knowing how to balance those out with the right kind of interventions to take care or mitigate the risks. And try to help you have a better possibility of having a long-term and sustainable implementation around the tracker implementation. So we will spend time particularly today looking at a number of the different use cases, ways the countries are using tracker both in kind of an ecosystem setting and standalone. We're trying to spend time making sure that you know again how others use it, how they take that data and analyze it, how the data coming in from an individual level system differs from perhaps what you've been receiving under aggregate, what kinds of decisions you might be able to make using that data. Also helping to think through capacity building and long-term training and internal capacity. So this is both amongst your actual users of the system and also within your IT support structure. We know there's always with these especially large national scale systems there's quite a lot of turnover and trying to think through how you maintain capacity over time and using the software and supporting the software. There's also long-term maintenance considerations. So often there's a heavy focus at the beginning when introducing tracker and a lot of resources dedicated to rolling out the system. But then if you want the system to last and to be around for a long time there are specific strategies that you can employ to keep your tracker up to date to make sure that it's running well to keep people using it long-term. Ways that you can make sure to adapt it over time based on your needs. One of the key modalities for using tracker is through Android. So we have specific session around Android and what are the different considerations when you're using mobile devices for tracker versus using tracker through the web browser. Again, focusing much more on the implementation of Android than we are on the technology. But thinking through again things like how to manage resupply of devices and what kinds of performance considerations do you need to be prepared for? Thinking through how you're going to manage people's log-ons and how to replace devices over time. So many of the key implementation considerations. We'll provide some guidance as well around outlining the requirements for your tracker implementation. There are a number of kind of starting points for tracker. We'll go into some of that again today around, for example, the existing metadata packages from the WHO. But there always is the need for a specific localization or adaptation of tracker. And so we'd like to give you some frameworks for how to best go about identifying what your requirements are and getting those into your system. What are the kind of skills that you need, the kind of teams that you need, the activities that you would do? Within tracker and especially for all data that you might collect that could be considered sensitive data, personally identifiable data, there are a lot of security considerations. And again, thinking about this from the implementation perspective, who is the security team that would be responsible? What kind of activities must they take? What are the legislative or regulatory things that you should be looking into for your country to make sure that the way that you're using tracker is satisfying the requirements for your area? Thinking through what that means to be hosting personally identifiable information in a ministry environment, for example, and how to relate that to perhaps your other IT systems. So quite a lot to consider there and we will have several sessions devoted to thinking through those considerations. And then also having a framework for assessing your system. Again, over time, thinking through how you do kind of routine monitoring of your tracker system, how do you ensure that the training levels have been maintained, that the system is running long-term, that it's providing the kinds of data that you want? At what point might you make decisions about adapting your system or updating the system? So trying to help you understand what the possibilities are there and to plan for those. So given these kinds of objectives and the learning outcomes that we hope for, this Academy has been designed specifically to be looking towards project leads, development partners, those that are making decisions about where to allocate resources and what resources are needed to do a tracker implementation. The managers at the HMIS side who need to understand what it means to bring in an individual level data collection into perhaps their HMIS or aggregate architecture. IT managers who are responsible for managing and sustaining the systems over time, helping them understand their staffing requirements, what kind of team structure they might need, how they're going to handle IT support going forward, what kinds of kind of key challenges they should be aware of and be ready to have a response to. And of course, technical DHS2 leads, those of you that are already responsible for DHS2 in your country, whether you're using tracker already or you're about to begin to understanding what are the available resources put out by the university, what are the differences between the standard aggregate approach and the tracker approach when it comes to implementation. So these are the audience that this is specifically tailored for. If what you were doing is hoping to come and get insight into specific program rules or how to calculate a key indicator, that probably isn't what we're going to be covering very much of. You're going to get a lot more around planning, around resources, around risk mitigation, these kinds of activities. So we do have other tracker academies that would be more targeted for configuration and for more complex setups around tracker. So you can see that we've divided up the level one tracker academy into two different new courses. The tracker use course, covering data entry and data analysis. And the tracker configuration course, covering configuration of tracker programs. These have, the content has been developed and is in refinement at this point. We're planning to begin those courses in September of 2021. Given the current travel restrictions, we assume those will also be online courses and there will be announcements about those that you can share with the right people in your organizations who should have a better understanding of how to configure or what to do with data entry and data analysis. You can also consider always doing specific in country tracker configuration trainings. There are a number of groups offering support for training of your teams in country. We have our HIST network team, many of which you will hear from throughout these two weeks that are regionally based and would be available to provide specific in country trainings around tracker configuration. So again, you would probably have to consider as the person planning or managing for your tracker implementation that you do want to bring in some support in building up capacity in your internal team. So there's a lot more that I think we'll cover throughout the academy on these topics and give you a sense of where to obtain the resources. But we did want to make sure that we were all kind of on the same page about what is the content of this academy and what we'll be covering in the next two weeks. Hopefully all of you that are signed in and that are here are excited about this topic. We have quite a lot to share in many different sessions. There's never really enough time to finish everything but we hope to put you on the right path towards being able to have the resources and the knowledge that you need for proper tracker implementation. We also again, we'll have a specific learning tool that you will be using on your end which we'll introduce a bit more tomorrow. But this tool is a series of spreadsheets that you will be able to fill out on various topics based around your specific implementation. And so our hope is that by the end of these two weeks you actually will have a fairly detailed tracker implementation plan as the output of what we've been learning throughout these weeks and we'll give time in the academy to discuss your specifics, your plan and be able to share some of the things that your country is going to be going through with tracker. So that I think is my brief introduction of what this tracker academy is. We're gonna spend a few more minutes now with some of the administrative teams supporting this academy so that they can give you an idea of what the tools are and how we'll be using those tools. So I think at this point I will turn it over to Martin to walk us through some of those. Thank you, Mike. Can everyone hear me? Yes, we can hear you. Thank you. Right, so I will just go quickly through our Slack for everyone to see because not everyone are familiar with this communication tool we're going to use for this academy. So let me just share my screen. So what you're seeing right now is our Slack announcement channel. This is where the facilitators will be communicating directly to everyone, posting announcements. You will not be able to post it directly yourself but you can react to any comments. For instance, I'm gonna react now to Mike's comments by giving him a little wave. You could also write a comment, reply in thread if you have a question that's directly related to that announcement, like I'm doing right now. So the other channel you should be already have access to is the Introduce a Self channel. I'm just gonna select this right now. Here I would like everyone to introduce a self here for the benefit of us and also for everyone else attending. Here you can write your message, tell a little bit about yourself and why you're interested in tracker implementation. We also have, there we go, thank you, Sabun. Very nice, very nice. We have a Show Cases channel where you can show off some of your tracker implementation or programs from where you live. And of course, we have a Questions channel where you can write any kind of question regarding this academy. Last is the Project Planning Templates channel. This is where we're going to be posting about the exercises for this academy. Right, that is pretty much sums up our channels. You could also, if you can't find the channel, it's possible to find them here. Go to the channel browser and you can see all the channels that are available and join them. This is only if you're not already in the channel. Of course, you will not be able to join the Instructors channel for these reasons. Well, any questions regarding the Slack, feel free to pop them. Just post them directly in chat and I'll be able to answer them or if anything was unclear. Otherwise, that sums up the Slack introduction. Any questions? Good, good. I'll stop sharing now. Oh wait, let's just think. I'll stop sharing and let's get over to Ghassim who will be shoving off our new badges for the academy. Okay, so I'm going to be introducing today the academy badges that are new for all the participants in DHIs to Academy. Let's first talk about what the community practice is. The community practice is a place for you to join with a global space for you to interact with the Chaisu experts, with his groups, people who have implemented DHIsu from the beginning to almost the end and are still going and improving the DHIsu implementations. And it's a place for you to share experiences, to be part of the solution, be part of the solution in your country and this global good project. So the DHIsu project success is based on the community of the people who do DHIsu community practice is something that all DHIsu Academy participants should be engaged in. If you face difficulty while you're working on DHIsu, you can always go to the community practice and share and ask questions. What are these badges, the new set of badges in the community practice? For DHIsu, the active badges granted to the DHIsu Academy participant, when they're the kind of examples of when you could be posting questions and if I can stand on and so on. Of course, asking good questions shows that you're super active and anything that shows that you're paying attention and really part of the activities and the training or workshop in the DHIsu Academy event. And then there's the super helpful badge. The super helpful badge is granted for anyone who is helpful in the DHIsu Academy. So I won't give you examples but I'm just gonna ask you, how can you be helpful for others in the DHIsu Academy? And then there's the completion badges. There's the completion badges.  There's the level one badge. So when you get the certificate for level one, the DHIsu Academy course, you also get this badge and there is the level two completion badge which you get when you'll finish this course. So please make sure that you are drawing that you have an account in the community practice so that you get this badge. And then there's the Academy participant badge. This badge is granted when you participate in a DHIsu Academy events such as webinars, workshops. So these are the side of badges and I would like to just show you the community practice page. This is the community DHIsu community practice page. Just go to community.dhsu.org and we'll send you the invitation link in the slide group. When you join, please make sure to go to connect and look at the introduce yourself, the different communities here and there's the introduce yourself topic. So try to check it out, check out the categories or support the different topics. And if you're still in the community practice, if you already have a user account, then that's great because you're gonna be receiving your badge. Let me show you the badges in this course. So these badges are in this course in the community practice or when you're engaging, sharing posts, liking posts, you get all these kind of badges. And over here, we have the DHIsu Academy of badges to practice, super helpful. DHIsu Academy participant, DHIsu Academy level one completion, DHIsu Academy level two completion. So when you go to, you have a profile, right? In the DHIsu Academy where you have your picture, your name and what you do in the, you kind of describe, you have a profile like Facebook and LinkedIn, but over here it's for the community you're gonna be interacting with. So it kind of should be related to DHIsu. This is the profile for user experience designer, DHIsu, Joe Cooper. And he received the badge, super helpful because these badges were designed by him. So yeah, as I said, make sure you have an account in the DHIsu community and click on the link, join. So that when you're, while you're interacting in this academy, you have the super active, super helpful, be helpful, be super active. And when you complete the level two discourse and you get a certificate, you're also gonna get badge in the community practice. We'll come and if you have any questions, you can always go to community practice, ask your questions, as well as in the Slack group and for this course. So I'm gonna stop sharing. There's the link, Alice shared it with you, so sorry. Okay, so the community practice is the online global space for you to join and connect with the DHIsu experts with the HES groups around the world who have implemented the DHIsu instances from beginning to almost end and they're still doing implementation is unimproving. It's part of you to be part of the success of the DHIsu project because the DHIsu is really all about the community that DHIsu are the people who are working around the world, who supporting each other and sharing experiences. So the community practice is an online web-based platform where you can join and create a profile, introduce yourself, as well as get to know others, listen from, hear about their experiences, share your experiences, as well as ask questions for support. It's fairly easy to go. You can click on the link, Alice send you in the Zoom chats. And join. You can always go to the community practice and ask questions. And the other point, maybe you missed, is that DHIsu Academy participants are encouraged to be part of the community practice because that's the place where you will develop your educational and professional path by sharing with other students and experts and people who are part of the DHIsu implementations and developments. I hope this is clear. Thank you so much, Gassim. Thank you for this nice introduction. So basically, as Gassim said, one of the key points is that we would like to encourage all of you who do not have yet an account on the community of practice to create your account there. You know, at the end of this academy, you will be receiving certificates of participation along with these certificates of participation. You will also receive a badge of participation on your COP profile. So this is why we would like to give at least one minute to all of you who do not have yet an account on the COP to click on the link that I shared in the chat so that you can create your account. It's very quick. It takes like 15 seconds. So yeah, you have one minute to click on this link and create your account.  Thank you so much. Let's wait a few seconds. And while some of you are doing this, just to highlight the fact that the two over badges that you can get while participating in this academy, meaning the super helpful badge and the super active badge will be allocated to those who are actively are very active on the Academy Slack. So it's also important to join the Academy Slack. I think some of you are not on the Academy Slack yet. So I shared a link to join the Academy Slack. Now, Alice, I'm old. Why do I want a badge? Sorry. I'm old. Why do I want an electronic badge? What's the benefit of having a badge? The benefit of having a badge is basically to... It's a kind of reward because you have your certificates. But when you have your badge, the community can see that you are an active participant within the DHS2 community. So it's a kind of nice and fun way to also reward our community members and the most active ones. Like for instance, in some academies, we can see that we have some participants who are really eager to learn, asking questions and very relevant and important questions or even sharing tips with other members of the community. So we thought that it would be a kind of good way to recognize this contribution as well. So this is why you would like to have a badge, Kim. I'm excited to be part of the DHS2 community and show my support with active participation. Thank you, Kim.