I want to thank all the media members for joining us for this important announcement. This recall of 29 million Ikea chests and drawers is one of the most comprehensive consumer safety recalls in American history. And as you're going to see today from this demonstration, there's a reason for that. Every two weeks, a child in the United States is killed in a tip-over incident involving either furniture or TVs. Think about that. Every two weeks. And in that time, hundreds more are injured. And many of those injuries are very, very serious. These are tragic numbers, and they include just from these Malm products alone, a two-year-old boy from Pennsylvania, a 23-month-old boy from Washington, a 22-month-old boy from Minnesota, and three other children who lost their lives after an Ikea chest or a dresser tipped over and fell on them. To protect young children in millions of American homes, CPSC and Ikea together are announcing a joint recall, as I mentioned, of 29 million of these Ikea chests and drawers. If you have or think you might have one of these products, please act immediately. It is simply too dangerous, I repeat, it is too dangerous to have the recalled furniture in your home unanchored, especially if you have young children. We have worked with Ikea to make this recall as simple as possible. There are two options. Take the chest or dresser back to any Ikea store and get a full refund or store credit depending on the age of the product. Or if you're set on keeping the product, call Ikea for a free anchoring kit and anchor it yourself. If you are unable or unwilling to take your chest or dresser to a store, call Ikea and ask them to come and remove the product from your home and you will get your refund or store credit. I want to repeat that. If a consumer does not want to or is unable to take the product back to a store, Ikea will come free of charge and remove that product from the consumer's home. Same with the installation of the anchor. If a consumer is unwilling or unable to anchor the product, Ikea will come free of charge one time for an in-home installation. Please do it right now and you can save a child's life. If you have an Ikea chest or drawer, we are imploring you to please act on this recall. I do want to stress that Ikea has worked cooperatively with the CPSC on this comprehensive and necessary recall. I do want to commend them for this huge step forward on safety. Ikea has been a leader on many product safety areas. They have protected children by phasing out unnecessary chemicals and furniture, by phasing out deadly cords in window blinds, and by phasing out cloth crib bumpers. And now they are taking this leading step on furniture safety. The company has made an important commitment to us, the federal government, and to the American public to sell in the U.S. only dressers that comply with the most up-to-date performance standards for furniture stability. I fully expect all furniture companies to do the same. Those failing to do so should pay very close attention to the details of this particular recall with Ikea, as those companies should be expecting to be hearing from us as well. CPSC will seek recalls of other brands that pose an unreasonable tip-over risk to innocent children. Today's announcement is not the end of the work that we are doing on this hazard, nor should it be for the furniture industry. In fact, one of our top engineers was in Sweden a few days ago to meet with the engineers at Ikea's headquarters to discuss new and innovative ways to protect children from this ongoing and deadly hazard. Ikea has several promising ideas to prevent injuries, and I again commend them for their willingness to work on creative solutions. And I do believe in the ingenuity of the entire furniture industry. I also want to recognize those families across the country that have turned tragedy into advocacy. They've made it their life's mission to prevent another child from being killed in a tip-over incident.  Lisa has spent her time since that tragic accident educating the public about the hazards of furniture tip-over and working tirelessly to improve furniture stability standards. And as I've told Lisa when I've met with her numerous times now, I think of her son Shane and his story every night as it do with many of the parents who've lost children when I kissed my own two boys to sleep, and I'm so grateful that I've had another day with them. So for Lisa and for all the families, this is a big day, and they've had a huge part in that. We certainly share their sense of urgency. Consumers, especially parents with young children, need stable furniture in their homes. I've seen firsthand that innovative furniture designs that enhance stability are functional, they're attractive, and they're definitely possible. Now is the time to embrace new, more stable designs and to make these tragic tip-overs a thing of the past. I am calling on the furniture industry to accelerate bringing safer designs to market. I know we can have a thriving furniture industry and safer children at the same time. Now is definitely the time to make this happen. We're going to now do a demonstration with the CPSC staff to show you what is happening real life in American homes and why it is so urgent to act on this recall. So what you're going to see here now is a simulation, and this is real. This is an actual way that these units are tested in acting what actually occurs based on real incidents. A child sees something on top that he or she is attracted to. It happens in all of our homes, despite best efforts by parents. A toy is left up there, remote control. Children climb. Again, I've got two boys. I know it. They do it all the time, despite me trying to stop them. Child gets up on the furniture. Parent has turned his or her back for a moment, and this is what happens. That is as real as it gets. And for that family, that is it. This is a sixth drawer, model of the mom. Now we're going to show you the same demonstration on the five drawer. So I hope that that conveys the gravity of the situation. Again, we want to urge consumers to immediately take advantage of it. Both IKEA and CPSC are urging consumers if you cannot immediately get an anchor or take the product back to the store, at least take it out of where a child can access it. That is the most important step immediately, is to take it away from where a child can get access to it until you can take advantage of the recall. Please get a refund, get a repair kit, whatever works best for you, but let's end this tragic scenario. Thank you. I'm happy to take one-on-one interviews.


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Hi friends, we are going for Yojna May month decade, the name itself says next 10 years is going to be the focus of technology, so that is the understanding of this term. In this Yojna, we are going to see this 5 news articles, owners potential of India's ITEC sector or education sector, second is leveraging technology for transforming healthcare, cyber security challenges in 5G era, quantum computing transforming technology and use of technology in urban planning, so these are 5 topics we are going to see. So, this first one is potential of India's education sector, so paragraph 1, so paragraph 2 and paragraph 3, so paragraph 1 speaks about education technology, so education technology are popularly we called as ITEC or education tech, EDU tech and right now this is the primary focus of government and also academics and policy circles that is given there, the primary focus. So, paragraph 2 says what is education tech is, ITEC is that is use of information and communication technology that is software and hardware, what they called as software and hardware for enhancing teaching and learning to enhancing teaching and learning, so teaching is for the teachers and learning is for the students, so to enhance both the things we are using technology that is given paragraph 2. Paragraph 3, it speaks about the potential, so the potential of this education sector is one is related to underprivileged students, underprivileged students and also focusing on far and wide, so geographical dimensions, so underprivileged students are students who have socio-economic issues in getting education and they are being properly served through this education technology or EDU tech and also it can reach far and wide means it can reach any part of India because of technological penetrations, so that is given as a potential here, so next page paragraph 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 and 6, so in paragraph 1, so the primary potential another potential of education technology is potential is one is quality of education, we will see why quality of education is improving a lot and this quality of education with no age limit, so anyone can get quality education at any age if they are willing to learn, so that is given in paragraph 1. And paragraph 2 speaks about certain facts, so it says that by end of 2023 that is by financial year of 2023, so there will be a spending of US dollar 144 billion in ICT, information and communication technology, in that 52 percentage spending will be on service oriented, service is nothing but they are speaking about EDU tech, so they say that major spending will be on these areas, so there is a great potential for education technologies that is given here and paragraph 3 speaks about internet usages by 2010 to 2022, they are giving some data, this data can be used not only for this particular news article, any other news article regarding technology ICT you can use it, it says that right now internet usages, internet users has increased 10 times, 10 times that is around 932 million users, so just it started with 92 million users, right now it is reached to 932 million users in 12 years that is the data given here and it is expected by 2040, it will be around 1.53 billion users, so this is the data that is a great potential for internet usage in India and one of the primary reason is cost of data is one of the primary reason it said that 1 GB cost is around 14 rupees right now, it is 90 percentage of, 90 percentage reduction of 2013, so in 2013 the cost was 90% high when compared to this today's rupees 14 for 1 GB, this is the primary reason why internet penetration is very high in India that is given in paragraph 3 and paragraph 4 speaks about smart phone another important criteria apart from data smart phone, so there is a same for same time period that is 2010 to 2022, so there is increase of 27 times, so right now 931 smartphones are there in India, whereas in 2010 it was around 34 million, again the same thing 1.53 billion smartphones will be there by 2040 similar to the previous data and primary reason is average selling price has decreased 12% each, so price lowering that is another primary reason why cell phone penetration is very high that is around 12% is given with the same time period, so as in paragraph 5, so these are the data which you can use it anywhere, you can say about that this data can be used for e-governance this data can be used for anything related to technology or even you can use the data regarding cyber security how it is very challenging because of this data you can use it there, so paragraph 5 the primary aspect is helps to students they are giving it, so they are giving some data, so primary values are one is inclusive, affordable, inclusive means anyone having access to technology that is smart phone and data usages, so it is inclusive for everyone and also affordable cost of data is very low, so in paragraph 6 what are the advantages learning while playing, so there is no physical requirement of students to sit in the class, so this helps them wherever they want to learn they can learn it, so that helps them very best and also pedagogies that is by making models and all these things can easily thought through technology based education, so that is also another important aspect which is being primary reason why it is called as learning while playing and next we go for next page paragraph 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8, so in paragraph 1, so another is reasons why it is required as classes anywhere and anytime this does not need to be explained, so because of having education technology accessing classes by an individual is their personal choices they can do it anytime and anywhere, so that we can see it and access of quality teachers paragraph 2 quality teachers, the physical constraint of teachers is being eliminated through this technology assume that is there is a subject where the best teacher is available in one part of India, a student across India can access the teacher through the technology and his classes can be accessed, there is a elimination of this physical boundaries here, so that is a primary advantage of education technology that is given here and how it helps the teachers that is given in paragraph 3 especially they can focus on pedagogies, pedagogies is nothing but the method of teaching, so where it can be more practice oriented because of having a technology, so practice oriented where they can make some models and all those things which they can easily show to the students which can be effectively used there, so pedagogy can be more effective and apart from this it also helps in administration, so that is given in paragraph 4, so how it helps in administration is especially for grading through technology grading becomes very easy and also classroom management, paperless classrooms, eliminating guesswork all these things can be done and classroom management, so what is classroom management? Here simple way of understanding is where teachers does not want to spend lot of time on non-teaching activities, for example taking attendance and all it is not required because of this education technology and all, so where they can easily do it, so that is a possibility there combining with other technologies. Now paragraph 5, so where they get the real time and so where the students skills can be accessed and the proactive plans because of this technology they can easily concentrate on each students because through this technology individualizations can be given and each students performance can be measured and for them proactive plans can be shared that is given in paragraph, these are also some of the merits of the system and also they are comparing with paragraph 6 offline and online, so offline it says that there are lot of inefficiencies, so they say that offline what are the inefficiencies one is aspect of accessibility, so accessibility in the aspect of infrastructures and also teachers, so you cannot have the best teachers available for every student that is also another problem and also infrastructures like labs and all which is not possible, so where in this education technology where you can make that possible by models and also by diagrammatic or by representation to easy to understand them, so that is there and also time is also being saved, so time is also being saved for the students, so these are some of the inefficiencies offline, so infrastructure teachers and times which is the biggest inefficiencies in offline mode and paragraph 7 speaks about interactive learning, there is another important aspect, interactive learning that is what we already said in pedagogy where students can have high level of interaction with staffs and also with the peer groups because of technological enablation, so that is given in paragraph 7 and paragraph 8 it speaks about the growth drivers, why this is feasible, first one is regarding demographic dividend, so regarding demographic dividend, so demographic dividend speaks about the proportion of population in a particular age bracket and the data is given around 35% of Indian population is considered to be, 35% is considered to be within the age bracket of 15 to 34, this really shows the potential of education technology where a lot of people especially this is the age where they want to learn lot of new things that is given here and also apart from this as per new education policy 2020, 2020 gross enrollment ratio, this is the number of people enrolling into education 50% by 2035, it is going to cross 50% by 2035 which in numerical numbers around 80 million, this clearly shows the potential for this particular sector, so that is given in paragraph 8, next page paragraph 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7, so in paragraph 1 it also says about income level that is per capita income, so per capita income has increased in 2022 to 23, it is 1,72,000 rupees, what is per capita income is taking all the populations in India and dividing the income per individual as per government is they are able to get around 1.72 lakhs which is a greater number when compared with the year of 2014, 15, 86,647, what it clearly indicates is what this paragraph says is because of this increased per capita income lot of people especially people in that age group of 15 to 34 want to learn lot of new things and they have lot of disposable income either among their employment opportunities they have they have or with their parents income, so they are able to do it, so that is the data given, so per capita income is an indicator where people spend lot of money for education, so that is given here in paragraph 1 and paragraph 2 says about technological infrastructure, why education technology will prosper because of greater technological infrastructure created in India, so there are lot of things created by India like digital India, Bharat net, these are some critical infrastructures created by India on based on which education sector can easily try, then apart from this paragraph 3 speaks about government initiatives, so government is also creating initiatives for education sector and they have given examples like Dixia, these are the examples you can write it for your answer writing, so these are some of the examples of government initiative which creates contents for students for their enriching their understanding, so these are some of the examples you can write there, so government is also taking initiatives to promote education sector that is given in paragraph 3 and paragraph 4 pandemic related behavior, so due to pandemic as people should not go into close proximity where education is must for every individual especially for kids, education began to transform from offline to online, so this also have a positive impact for education sector and also final last one increase funding, because of all this reason there are lot of money in flowing into this sector where opportunities are available, so people with ideas and lot of money being flowing into it, it shows great potential of this particular sector that is given in paragraph 5 and paragraph 6 about value of this particular sector it says that by 2023 education sector has grown to the value of US dollar 5 billion, which we need to compare with the year of 2020, in 2020 that was around 750 million dollar 750 million, so this you can see the huge jump in education sector's values and this is around CJR 43 percentage, education sector is going, education technology sector is going 43 percentage every year in the last 3 years and also there is a potential by 2027 potential by 2027 it will grow into US dollar 10 billion, US dollar of 10 billion, so right now the current is around 5 billion it is going to double by another 4 years, so that is the potential of education sector that is given in paragraph 6 and paragraph 7 it also shows the way in India it is said that around 400 startups are operating in various part of this sector and it is also said that by 2023 around 7 out of 30 is Indian unicorns and we already saw on the previous Yojna what is unicorns means that is a company with 1 billion dollar evaluation, sound out of 30 unicorns in education sector comes from India, good examples you can take about by Jews and all good examples of it, so that is given in paragraph 7, next page we go for paragraph 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, so in paragraph 1 what are the challenges existing here, so even though we have great potential there are some challenges here, first one is social effects on online classes, social effect is as students are not interacting with their peers and also they does not have interaction with the society, so they are losing some of their social skills that is being said that social effects that is given in paragraph 1 and paragraph 2 perception of parents, so still parents always believes that offline classes are the best one, so that will be a biggest challenge and paragraph 3 pupil teacher ratio, so what is this pupil teacher ratio is even though we use technology still the biggest challenge in education is number of students handled by staffs or teachers, so that should be minimal, so that technology based education be very effective that is given there and paragraph 4 speaks about how to enhance this that is to enhance education sector, so that is given in paragraph 4 to 6, first one is integrating paragraph 4 and 5, integrate practical work as part of this pedagogy, so that is what being advised, though it has a potential that need to be done that is what being said and also multilingual content that is given in paragraph 6, multilingual content, so what is the multilingual content as we can see the facts here, India around 10 percentage of people speak Hindi and 45 percentage speak English which clearly indicates that are the 45 percentage people does not speak Hindi or English, so they are speaking the regional languages or what we called as their mother tongue, either it can be Punjabi or it can be Telugu or Malayalam, so there are around 45 percentage still does not speak of these common languages, so that comes in need for multilingual content and also holistic education, what is holistic education is technology based education should not only focus on training people on information facts and primarily focused on STEM, STEM is nothing but science, technology, max, so where they also says that holistic education is focusing on value based education that should be always promoted that is what the author says, next that is given here in paragraph 1 that is value based education should be promoted and paragraph 2, 1, 3 speaks about the importance of paragraph 2, 1, 3 speaks about the importance of AI enabled education sector, so in near future AI will be playing a major role in this education sector, this AI based education sector will be more fine-tuned to the needs of the students that is given in paragraph 2, 1, 3, the next news article is leveraging technology for transforming healthcare, so here we are going to focus on digital health that is the point here, so digital health paragraph 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, so what is paragraph 1 speaks about digital health that is use of technology, digital health speaks about use of technology for what purpose you are going to use technology is healthcare solutions and also for empowering stakeholders, so what is healthcare solutions that is being given here especially focusing on better quality and high efficiency, so that is the part of this digital health, healthcare solutions regarding diagnosis all these are part of this that is what we called as digital health and here we have terms like in paragraph 2 terms like telemedicine, so telemedicine so what is the aspect of telemedicine is whenever distance become a biggest factor use of ICT technologies, ICT technologies especially to avoid distance in providing healthcare, so to avoid distance in providing healthcare in this what they are going to do is they are going to focus on diagnosis and treatment and also focusing on evaluation, so all are done through telemedicine so that is given in paragraph 2, paragraph 3 speaks about the concept of telehealth, telehealth is more holistic in this apart from this preventive medicines and all those preventive and curative it is also focus on health information services, health information services, preventive, curative so all are taken care, so that is part of this telehealth that is given in that is all done through means of digital technologies that is given in paragraph 3, paragraph 4 digitalization of data, digitalization of data, this is regarding health data, so through means of data stacks, so storing of data in various dimensions and e-registries and health information and analytics, health information and analytics, so all are part of this digitalization of data which helps the providing health services and also it said that internet of things that is given in paragraph 5, the role of internet of things especially in the aspect of health can also have an impact on human health, so that is all given here, there is the aspect of digital health different dimensions of digital health is said in this particular page, next we go for paragraph 1, next page paragraph 2, paragraph 3 and paragraph 4, so in paragraph 1, so the important advantages of telemedicine is given here advantages of telemedicine which says that long distance travel avoid long distance travel and apart from this population who are going to be served with especially old age, so old age has a problem of mobility, so by this telemedicine they can reach to their doorsteps, children's and differentially abled, so they are being properly served through telemedicine that is given here which reduces their health cost, reducing the health cost, this result in reducing the health cost and as per a data, so some report is given which can be used for your answers as per an NGO data under this Aishman Bharat there is a key program of flagship program regarding health, health and wellness center through Aishman Bharat health and wellness center through teleconsultation, so government is providing this teleconsultation, the data is saying that 21 kilometer of travel is being reduced on an average, 21 kilometer of journey is being reduced and also rupees 941 out of pocket expenditure, out of pocket expenditure, this what is out of pocket expenditure is right now in India most of the time health services cost is being taken care by the individual, whereas in western democracies or other countries insurance is being there, in India it is not the case, each individual want to spend their own savings on own money for health services that is called out of pocket expenditure, now the biggest challenge in India which results most of the families running into poverty because of health cost especially chronic diseases like cancer and all where they need to spend a lot of money for it where they lose all the life saving, one of the biggest problem are government want to address, so in that dimensions it is able to save on an average of 900 rupees per individual, so there is a potential of telemedicine that is going in paragraph 2 and paragraph 3 says that through telemedicine WHO says that they are able to focus on sustainable development goals, so sustainable development goals have a target of 2030 and especially focusing on quality health care, so this is a global goal, global goal for all countries because of this telemedicine you are able to achieve sustainable development goals that is going in paragraph 3 and paragraph 4, right now in India we have this, we spoke, we saw about tele-tele-consultation for that in India we have this E Sanjeevani, this is a program for tele-consultation which you can use it for answer writing use of technology for health services, next we go for paragraph 1, paragraph 2, so in paragraph 1 so digital health solutions helps to focus on personalized care plans, so that is another advantage is here digital health, one is personalized care because of all health data they have, so it is possible to provide a personalized care for that individual and monitoring patients, monitoring become very easy monitoring patients and especially remotely that is the most important thing, monitoring patient hands remotely is very possible assume that if there is a village in mountainous area like Arunachal Pradesh through telemedicine they can easily monitor the patients, so that is the advantage here and also improving patient engagement with health services can be improved that helps to minimize health related issues to the individual that is given in paragraph potential of digital health and next thing we have the digital health records, so that is there which we already saw digital health records through telemedicine and telehealth you can create digital health records which is nothing but store of health data, so that is given in the paragraph 2 and paragraph 3 speaks about this Ashman Bharat digital mission, so we will see that in the next page, paragraph 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and we can see some of the initiatives in India regarding this digital health that is given here, in paragraph 1 Ashman Bharat digital mission which stores data and information which can be used for health related improvement that is health related personal information being created, so that is given in paragraph 1 and paragraph 2 says that what are the mechanisms for it there is a 14 digit number, so 14 digit number given for each individuals under this digital mission and so this can be used by other place other stakeholders like insurance companies, insurance companies and which can also be used by hospitals, so there is a great potential of this digital data that is given in paragraph 2 and paragraph 3 they give the numbers, so right now in India they have this 33 crore Ashman Bharat health cards or health accounts IDs in that around 23 crore are right now in digital format as part of this Ashman Bharat digital mission, so right now we have 23 crore individuals health records in digital format that is given here. Next thing is another initiatives which is given in paragraph 3 again that is scan and share services, so this part of hospital environment where advantages each individual when they are outpatient they just need to scan the QR code and fill up the information, so where tokens are being provided for the individuals, so this avoids lot of wastage of time and also digital data are being created and this helps a lot in government hospital records are being created I think you are able to understand what I am saying, so now we go for hospitals people need to stand in long queue to get the access to health services in every hospital they are going to put the QR code where they can scan fill the details automatically goes to the front of us where they give a token and it also people are able to find the time where they want to come, so this is all the better advantage that is scan and share services, so that is given in paragraph 3 and paragraph 4 says about right now in India around 365 hospitals and 365 hospitals has used this scan and share services and 5 lakh patients has benefited a lot, 5 lakh patients have benefited a lot and all this hospitals also is part of government and private hospitals, so both are using this particular services. Next thing is paragraph 5 related to Coven, so this is an app created for vaccination in India which is considered to be the most successful and based on this Coven app around 220 crore dosages of vaccines are being done for Corona, so that is the point here and also another most important thing in paragraph 6 is this comes in Coven app comes in English and 11 regional languages, so there is another important aspect, so next one is we go for this paragraph 1, paragraph 2, paragraph 3 and 4, so in paragraph 1 it speaks about this 10 crore, 10 e consultation which we already saw under eSUNG warning being done that data has been given here and in that data 57 percentage are considered to be women and 12 percentage are considered to be senior citizens, so what importance of this data is around 57 percentage of women are using this telecom counseling is advantage for women is it says lot of time for them and mostly culturally women cannot go out individually in public places in Indian systems where they need to be accompanied especially rural areas by male and apart from this women is not also educated by a facilitator by through teleconsultation, so women get the better health services that is the reason 57 percentage are women users of this teleconsultation, so that is the data which you can use it for answer writing and paragraph 2 speaks about this tele manas that is tele mental health assistance and networking across states, so right now in India health is not only viewed from the aspect of physical dimensions they are also focusing on mental health, so right now we can see by this initiative of tele manas they are able to provide that mental health services to the people through technology or teleconsultation, telemedicine that is given in paragraph 2 this is regarding mental health and next thing is paragraph 3 speaks about allowing toll free number, so that is 1, 4, 4, 1, 6 toll free number again related to mental health which can be accessed by individuals that is given here and paragraph 4 speaks about Nixiaat 2.0 portal and what are the primary focus of this initiative is regarding community support, community support for TB patients, so community support for TB patients, so this is one of the chronic diseases and through this initiative community includes either it can be individuals it can be a corporate or NGOs to take care of this TB patients that is initiative and that is a portal being created for this, so that is given here paragraph 1, 2 and 3, so in paragraph 1 it says about the recent achievement of this particular portal, so right now around 61,000 people are ready to support 95 percentage of TB patients, so that is given here that is around 61,000 Nixia Mitras, so Mitras are volunteers who are primarily focused on taking care of TB patients, so around 95 percentage is being covered by these individuals 95 percent is 61,000 Mitras Nixia Mitras are going to take care of 95 percentage of TB patients, so that is the data which we need to understand from here, so right now in India we have around 13 lakh TB patients by this scheme they are being taken care, so what they are focusing is taking care in the aspect of providing food kits and they are also ready to provide medicines, medicine is free but apart from this other related things all these are being taken care by the system. And paragraph 2 speaks about this health technology assessment, so right now health technology assessment in India it is a part of department of health research, department of health research, so it is initiative created in India in the era of, so I think they did did not give the year, so it was a primary focus of this particular health technology assessment in India as it is regarding data driven health policies, it is collect all the data and based on this data they are going to take lot of health policy choices, so data driven policy choices, so what are the importance of this is right now government is moving towards more efficient health services by collecting all the data, they are not going to create some policies based on some hunch feeling or without any data they are not going to create any policies, so this clearly shows that government is using technology very effectively to serve the people better, so that is the point it is given here, so they are going to provide most efficient services, efficient value for money, what is value for money here is as people's money is used for public services, so that will be better usage of money here, so that is given here. And also right now Ashman Barth health ministry in various states are using this particular health technology assessment in India, so next article is quantum computing transforming technology, this is a emerging technology which is a niche area which is being discussed here in paragraph 1, it says about what is this quantum computing is quantum computing, some of the important terms in quantum computing is qubits, so what is qubits is regarding multiple states that is multiple states of existence of 0 and 1, so whereas in normal computing it is always binary 0 and 1, whereas in quantum computing there will be multiple states of 0 and 1 and what they call it as superposition, this they call it as superposition, so the biggest advantage of this is they can perform multiple calculations, because of this they can perform multiple calculations, so under counter computing at the given same time multiple calculations are performed because of the superpositioning that is given here and that results in faster computing that is given in paragraph 1, you go for next page impact of quantum computing where we can see is especially they can use it in industrial data science applications, what is industrial data science application, for example if you take you are developing a new medicine by this quantum computing you can check the performance on a model, so this all can be done at very faster time when compared with the other systems, similarly if you are going to design a complex manufacturing things where this helps a lot or if you are going to design an automobile you want to check the performance of automobile especially for example they called as wind tunnel testing and all to see the where the pressure on the system is or on the automobile when you drive fast all this can be easily performed especially for aircrafts being designed like a LC light combat aircraft all this importance are there, so that is fast effective use of data science application industrial data science application, second one is mission learning outcomes, so mission learning is another technology where this quantum computing can help a lot, so mission learning is right now moving towards predictive capabilities especially this based on algorithms, so algorithms, mission learning is entirely based on this algorithms and right now they are moving to this predictive capabilities, what is predictive capabilities they want to predict the near events or future events, so right now quantum computing can help a lot in that and especially like combining data from voice, video, picture where we can see quantum computing can effectively use here when all this data are used to predict something happening for example there is a security threat some individual are coming into this country and by collecting all this data, so they can predict what they are going to do next, so all this can be effectively done through quantum computing that is given here, we go for next page and paragraph one, paragraph two, so in paragraph one in next page, so this can be used in various aspects like driverless cars, smart city infrastructures, to understand what is this driverless cars and smart city infrastructure digital public services means because of quantum computing as you know that it provides very fast computing as a driverless cars as the cars are being driven by technology and this computers to generally say that they want to make number of decisions in a fraction of time, where humans have that capacity through evolutions of millions of years by quantum computing they try to mimic that, so that is the advantage that is an example here you can say about driverless cars and second point in the same paragraph one is optimization for complex problems, what is optimization is finding some best solution for the complex problems because under quantum computing you are going to do calculations very fast and that helps to find the best solutions here, so optimization for complex problems assume that right now there is a pollution happening in a river pollution is happening and based on this quantum computing we can identify what will be the impact on the system because complex issues are involved in it ecology, humans all these things are there, so based on that quantum computing help them a lot that is given in second point of paragraph one and paragraph two it speaks about this improved industrialization, so improved industrialization speaks about this industry 4.0 where we can see that internet of things on internet of everything internet of things and they are saying internet of everything, so all this can be enhanced through quantum computing, so an improved process efficiency in next point is improved process efficiency in digital transformations, so if you are using quantum computing for digital interactions, so it will be very fast, so that you can get the best experience of digital services, so it also creates real time data and which can helps in providing the best services, so by creating real time data, so real time data can be easily cross check and all these things can be done and the next article is 5G cyber security challenges, we will go for paragraph one, two and three, so in paragraph one it says about what is this 5G, 5G is fifth generation wireless communication, so that is called 5G and paragraph two speaks about order potential of 5G, so average data rate is around 100 mbps, it can be go for 20 mbps, so this you can think of how much data is being given per second, sometimes we can see this is the storage capacity of some of our pin drives correct, so especially in GB capacity is correct, so in one second that is the potential of 5G and especially this gives lot of mobile data and paragraph three, so 5G networks has a great impact in education, where we can see the impact in common man life because of 5G is one is education sector because data is being transformed very fast and also we can see that telemedicine which we already saw, these are the two things what we already saw and precision farming, operation agriculture, robotics where the potential of this are very high. Next page paragraph one, two, three, four and five, so in paragraph one, so what is the advantage of 5G is high speed, so data is being thrown at very largest scale and low latency, so latency is a technical term if you want a simple layman terms is the buffering will not be there, so this all provides greater opportunity and it is said that by 2035 5G will create around US dollar of 13 trillion worth of economy and it also creates around 23 million jobs, so this is the future of any country or any economy that is given here, paragraph one and paragraph two says that right now in India it is related to India, it said that right now we have by 2024 around 5G users, 5G users around 150 million, so very microscopic when compared to our population by 2024 right now we have 5G users of 150 million whereas population of India is very close to 1.4 billion, so we can see that penetration of 5Gs and the potentials of India that is given in paragraph two and paragraph three says about the role of China here, China and 5G, so right now China is the country which primarily focus on providing this technology and it is being said that China is used not only providing this technology they are also using it to spy on other countries that is given in paragraph three, so China is dropping, by providing this hardware and software to other countries China is able to listen what is happening in that particular country, so this is what given in paragraph three we will see some of the examples here in paragraph four, so in paragraph four that is August 2020, Australia, China, China, China, China, China, China, and Papua New Guinea, Papua New Guinea government, it is an island in Pacific, so identified that it is national data center, they played a major role in national data center, identified that most of the Chinese telecom companies are spying on them or especially regarding government data, from these two countries they are stealing the government data that is given here and Italy also said that data is being stolen, so that is in paragraph four and paragraph five it says about US, US government has identified two companies of China, one is ZE and Huai, they considered to be the enemies of US or national security threat, so that is given in paragraph five, paragraph one and paragraph two, so in paragraph one it says about ban on US corporates to buy technologies from these companies and especially communication equipments and also they asked not to use this Chinese hardware for this 5G networks, that is paragraph two where former UK prime minister that is Boris Johnson has recommended to create D10 correlation, what is D10 correlation is this is primarily focused on 5G technologies, democracy of 10, so where they need to focus on supply chain of 5G technologies to create supply chain for 5G technologies, even Quad has played a role in it, so Quad right now we have Quad, so these are countries of four especially focusing on China, so in this Quad countries are India, Japan, US and Australia, so they also focusing on open run, so this is again to counter Chinese 5G, so this is all the things right now we can see that how 5G as a technology has a huge positive potential, but also some countries can use it for their political objectives, so these are given in paragraph two and paragraph three speaks about why 5G is considered to be most challenging in cyber security point of view, this paragraph three, this paragraph four and paragraph five, in paragraph three the point is especially core network functions of 5G technologies need to be outsourced especially to edges or close to customers, so right now in other technologies being centralized right now it is moved to the edges or close to the customers where lot of outside players are there, third party vendors are there, third party vendors are there, so this create a greater potential for security threat, so it is technologically structurally there are some challenges here that is given in paragraph three and paragraph four says the potential of this challenges by 2025, around 27 billion internet of things devices will be there in global level, so this clearly shows that how global countries are interconnected and this has the potential for malware and botnet distribution vectors, so these are some technological terms you want to know from net you just need to go and check it and disturbed denial of services, so this interconnectivity of devices this can all be created this is all nothing but what we called as cyber security issues, cyber security issues and I said that by the year of 2016, this is an example Mirai botnet exploited unsecured internet of devices, internet of thing devices impact IOT, so this is example given in paragraph four and paragraph five, so quad right now we already serve as quad, so quad is also focusing on space based 6G, so right now they want to move out from 5G to 6G, space based 6G is the idea of this quad, so there is going in paragraph five. Next we go for use of technology in urban planning, so paragraph one, so urban planning as a term, so it is given here urban planning has multiple dimensions, one is physical planning on physical dimensions, social dimensions, utility systems, so like public transportation electricity all are part of this, communication networks and distribution chains, so urban planning includes lot of factors that is given here and urban planners or primary role is focusing on all this things, so urban planning include all this aspects that is given in paragraph one, next page paragraph one, two, three and four, so paragraph one speaks about the importance of information and communication technology in urban planning, in this it says about the concept of GIS geographical information system, so whereas paragraph two says about GIS where it is being used, so geographical information systems can be used for property mapping, use of ICT in utility services like water and also we have this sea wage networks through ICT you can collect all this data and that becomes GIS geographical information system, so this is the potential for urban planning and also we can go for solid waste management, GIS can also be used by transport planners, so by GIS geographical information system you can identify where the road networks are, how effectively road can be created, all this can be done, so that is given in paragraph two and paragraph three, what are the importance of GIS is it helps in decision making by means of all this data helps in decision making and also for policy making, so that is given in paragraph three and paragraph four, so right now they are focusing on 3D visualization, 3D visualization of GIS, so it is enhancing their technology, so these are some of the points which helps in urban planning, paragraph one and paragraph two, so in paragraph one, so through urban planning especially urban planners are able to use technology for enhancing people's life, so they are saying that, so use of technology to enhance people's life or what we called as standard of living, so even they say that cloud computing technologies can be used for it, cloud computing technologies can be used for all these things apart from this GIS and they also can create databases and all these things that is what given in paragraph two also, so by urban planning by means of ICT you can create communities, create communities, so what is communities is enhancing all the things what we called as urban planning, it is not creating cities or infrastructure, create communities and mostly it is self-sufficient communities, thank you.


Welcome to our session Meet the Technical Advisory Board and the Core Developers. I made some slides with the Dean's help and the Dean made some slides and sent them. And the first slide is to introduce the TAB members, several of whom were recently elected. Myself, Sean Davis, Edine, Kasper Hansen, Mike Love, Levi Waldron, Davide Riso, Sheila Gazanfar, Stephanie Hicks, Lori Kern, Charlotte Sonison, Laurent Ghetto, Raphael Irizari, Robert Gentleman, and Wolfgang Huber. I don't know how many of them are on board, but a good number of them are. And so we welcome your questions and your comments. Those who wish to be involved with the Technical Advisory Board can do this by joining a working group. The working group's website is listed on the slide, workinggroups.bioconductor.org. And you can suggest and or lead a new working group and the TAB will be engaging with you to see how we can learn about what you've proposed and help you accomplish the aims of the working group. There is a Slack channel called the Hashtag Technical Advisory Board that can be used to contact the entire board. And there's also any of the members that we've listed before can be contacted to discuss issues related to the technical functionality of Bioconductor. We also have self-nominations and other nomination processes that occur every year around May. And we try to keep the community abreast of this so that individuals who are deserving of participation in the Technical Advisory Board can be elected to that board. Our purpose is to develop strategies to ensure the long-term suitability of core infrastructure for the Bioconductor mission. That's one of our purposes. And so value to the scientific community is something we need to be aware of. We need to understand the overall population of the ecosystem with packages, how it's managed. We do work on end user engagement, approaches to documentation in the web and the support site. And we do developer support and documentation. And the TAB does advise on package that should be used by the developer community. We also are engaged in the pursuit of funding strategies for long-term viability of the project. We have monthly meetings on the first Thursday of every month and the minutes are posted after each meeting. We'll get into the minutes in a moment to see some examples. One aspect of membership in the TAB is that individuals who have funding that is used to operate the project become members of the TAB. I'm one of those. And the aims that we wrote for March 2021 are maintain availability and growth of the ecosystem, enhance reliability and performance of the genome analysis infrastructure components with improved formal testing and modernization of our build system, which is operating every day to build all packages nominally. Aim three was to advance development of genomic methods that leverage cloud-scale computing and data service paradigms. I spoke a bit about some of those ideas in the opening session. And then to enhance education and community engagement processes that have been intrinsic to the project. The TAB governance allows membership of grant principal investigators and the use of the funds has to do with dealing with the balance between community contributions which are not developed by the core and the service project infrastructure packages and the deep stack that I have named in the past few years that is maintained by the core that makes the ecosystem a unified and highly effective tool for a very large participating science of the community. The core developers are here, Natesh, Marcel, Ereve, Jen, Laurie and Alex. And I talk to the core members every week. And this is a hard to see, but this is just a slice of the Trello board at this point describing various things that have to be taken care of. I don't really want to get into the topical structure because if you move this board a bit you start to see things that are a little more topical. But this is one way that the core devs manage their activities. Now the minutes of the tab meetings are available at bioconductor.org and they are under the about tab at the top of the bioconductor.org web address site. And this is an example of some minutes. So for example, we do have a rotating schedule of brief presentations for the TAB and last month we had Rafa Irizari and Natesh Buraga speaking about aspects of improving bioconductors activities in the single cell biology field and also the system that is used to build package binaries which are extremely useful in containerized analysis environments. And the nature of the discussion there is in those bullet points. Going through these minutes is quite instructive for getting a sense of the scope of the project, things that you don't often see. It's usually a meeting that we all look forward to because we are rather far flung, we have people from Europe, we sometimes have an attendee from Asia and people all over the country here get a chance to meet and see what's going on in the project which has to have a new release every six months. So there really isn't a great deal of opportunity to strategize before a new release. So here's a use case where we really need to have a broad input from TAB members and from core developers to deal with this really important asset called the books, the monographs. I hope many of those who are listening are familiar with these, orchestrating single cell analysis, the single R book and the C-Saw book are really very nicely integrated and tested software collections with all kinds of narrative prose that make them monographs. And the maintenance of these things, which are living on top of a constantly changing ecosystem involving both bioconductor and CRAN packages, is delicate. And what we can see now is that in the develop branch, four chapters of the OSCA book are throwing errors. And we know why they're throwing errors and it is a package that needs some maintenance. It's not a core package. The authors of the book are not in control of that package. They may need to change the book so that it doesn't use that package if the package authors do not fix it. And this is just an example of the kind of work that has to be done by the TAV and the core to keep key assets of the ecosystem functioning. And those are the, that is the end of the slides. I hope I have explained enough of the TAV and the DEV core activity so that we have time for comment and question. Is someone watching the chat? Chat is quiet. Chat is quiet. It's a quick question. Yes. You might have said it, but you may repeat those meetings, monthly meetings for TAV. Are they closed? Yeah, the meetings are closed to the TAV and to the core developer group. I don't know that we've ever had much discussion of whether they could be more open. It's usually a pretty packed agenda. But I'd open discussion on that topic to other members of the TAV if they have thoughts about that. At the same time, you mentioned that you provide minutes. The minutes are available very rapidly after the calls. All the minutes for both boards, the cab and the TAV are posted on their respective pages on the main bio-connector page in the about section. There's a page for each board and the minutes are on those pages for each meeting. I would say if anyone from the community felt strongly that they had a topic to address with the TAV or the cab, to reach out like on Slack or to one of the members, because there's been occasions on both boards where we do have like guest presenters or guest topics that was something of interest they felt needed to be addressed with boards. So there's always that option to have a concern that they wanted to raise. Can we build questions about the core of the TAV? Core advisory board is different from the community advisory board or anything? There isn't a core advisory board. There are core developers and we have a, what can I say? We work from release to release for the most part. And there are ideas that come up, for example, advancing containerization, producing binaries so that anyone who's using a container does not have to go through compilation process, but can simply use a binary repository with Bio-C Manager install to get much more rapid inclusion of new packages into a working containerized environment. Those are examples of the kinds of things that crop up. When technology affords new approaches, core devs may decide to experiment and do something that changes the way the core works. For example, Lori is now researching GitHub actions to see how that could, that technology could be mobilized to affect some of the things we do when we ingest new contributions, for example. So I didn't show, and perhaps I should, I thought I had, in fact. I think I showed this in the opening session. But if we take a look at the new contributions, this is a major part of the work of the core, which is to deal with the fact that people want to have new contributions into the ecosystem. And here's a good example of one which may have rather significant ramifications because it uses Rust, and we do not have any Rust using packages in Bioconductor yet. So that means that all the platforms now have to be refreshed to have all the necessary runtimes for Rust compilation. And I don't consider it a bump in the road, but it's something that certainly wasn't planned for. And another thing that we need to do is understand the flow of software into the system through the ingestion process, through the build system to error or success states over time. Because oftentimes when you see something like the errors that I showed you with respect to the books, it is not immediate to understand the cause of the error. You see an event, it's linked to some function in some package, but that doesn't mean that fixing that function in that package is going to make the error go away. Yeah, so please, yeah, please go on. So yesterday there was some discussion about, for example, once a package is accepted into Bioconductor, it's a very rigorous review process to certify the developers have applied the usual standards for documentation, for examples, for a runable substantial thing yet. Now, every so often something kind of sneaks through or perhaps regresses a little bit as versions are bumped and so forth. And one of the package developers mentioned that this was somewhat distressing because it kind of deteriorates the trust of the Bioconductor brand, if you will. And my reply to that was that it's a huge project and it's an ongoing discussion how to scale this up so that it doesn't crush the core developers in terms of review. Because with thousands of packages, it's simply not feasible above and beyond running build every version bump to handle this. But it does seem to be sort of a live problem that crops up every now and then. Is this something where the working groups for the Community Advisory Board are really the tip of the spear for that? Are there, you just meant, when you brought up the build system and how difficult they can be to keep all of the different build platforms up to date for, I guess, the single package builder, the SPB, is the successor to what used to be a nightly rebuild everything. Good part of it, no? It's only for the ingestion process, the single package builder is used and on demand, the nightly builds and checks. So it's just it's a different process. So we use the same builders in the single package builder to try to mimic the daily environment as much as possible review process. But those daily builders are still there. And then maybe you could take it then to where those because I think a lot of people don't know where the daily build checks are. So that might be a good thing to show, too. So once a package is accepted, it moves into the daily nightly build where it still gets installed, built and checked. There's just no bio C check run on accepted packages. It's the standard or install or command build and check that's run on every package. So I think, yeah, if I understood Tim's question, it has to do with the fact that while we do quality control for an ingested package to get into the system, there is no control on what the developer does subsequently to that. If they break that they can remove things, they have agreed, let's say that the API should not change without a deprecation cycle. So things should not come out, but we cannot verify that. We see it sometimes and then ask people to obey the rule that they agreed to. But your point is correct that functionalities can change in release or in develop. And all we have is really this. So if they have changed it in such a way that the package is still showing green, we don't have any reason to intervene. I'll push back a little bit and having been a package developer who depended on something that was deprecated and quite a struggle getting to the point where I could replace it one to one. The triage and deprecation process is real. You know, as fire conductor standards rise, sometimes the package will be squeezed out when the developer doesn't have time to or refuses to update it. So Laurie, I've interacted on that process in fact. So I will push back to say that it's not that there's no quality control. There's no process for it. But it's a heavy lift for a project with thousands of packages. I'm wondering if there's a path forward for this or a degree of trust that once you're in, you're not going to start misbehaving. Well, I think to say that there's nothing that there's daily checks every single night in every single package to make sure that they're actually working with at least not failing. And if they fail, they get deprecated. But then you're relying, I think, on the community to make sure as well that the package is like. Well, things like standards for a compiling vignette that's part of the bill that sort of serves as a not a unit test, but a functional test of competence, if you will, or a fit for purpose test. Sometimes people will put the vignette off of the buying doctor site and won't compile it. I've seen this get shot down in a repair. So I know that on interest, the standards are very high. But sometimes as time goes by, this kind of creeps in. I don't know to what extent I find it important, but I was surprised that one of the actual buyer conductor developers, not core, but it developed with multiple active packages, felt that this was an issue that needed to be raised. So I figured I'd bring it up. Well, I think Larry's starting up the, you know, working group to actually examine some of these, like the triage group. So I think that if it's something that you're interested in, like. Like, let Laurie know, because I think she'd love to have extra people helping. I've got a test that the triage process works as intended by squeezing out a package that I didn't escalate the standards to meet buyer conductors. So I. Yeah. And I want the working groups. So I'm not the only bad guy in the industry. I'm the bad thing is bear a bio conductor right now. Since I'm doing that, and it does get overwhelming for release. And I admittedly I haven't done it as much this release cycle, because I've been tied down with other things, which is why I thought I would kind of cast it off to try to be a new working group. I will say to I think it's been discussed both in the tab and the core. We haven't necessarily implemented yet and we're still trying to figure out how to do it. Right. Because as you mentioned, there's thousands of packages, right? I think we have over 2000 packages and we do install build check on all of them, which is already a heavy load and heavy straining on the build systems. And resources that we have. We run by OC check on incoming packages, which does a lot of those specific bio conductor checks, like having runable examples in the vignettes and everything. We just don't have the resource power to add that in across 2000 packages. I think it's kind of been discussed and maybe this is a good point to bring it off again of either having like a separate system that just runs bioc check and not necessarily as an enforcer, but kind of a snapshot of where packages are with regards to the bioc check since we don't run it. I think bioc check was also introduced. I mean, it hasn't been around forever, right? So that was introduced later on. So we have the standard install build and check from our because that has been. So it might be something that we can kind of consider or look into doing. Maybe as a secondary, it probably wouldn't necessarily be as enforceable for like deprecation, but it would definitely flag us to additional things that were more strict on on submission. We just have to figure out a good way to do it resource wise. I have a question. Do we have any upcoming changes that will be happening in the next release or so that we want to talk about your name? Oh, well, I guess the problem is we are still using master as the default branch name for all the bioconductor get repos. And yeah, it is our intention to change that. I think the candidates now are there will be a develop branch and release. X, Y, Y branch. And that renaming process, I think we are capable of automating. And there's been a fair amount of discussion of how to do that. And the actual event is not yet. Dated as far as I know. Does anyone on the core have a speculation about the data which that could be carried out before 3.16 is released, for example? I have airbase on here virtually, but I know everybody would like to start it as close to after a release as possible so that we would have the full release to get developers used to working with the renaming. So I don't know if he's on or not, but I know airbase push would be like as close to or immediately following the next release as possible. OK, at least from my understanding from maybe sooner, maybe a little later. But sometimes in October or that's what we're shooting for. Yeah, there is there is a comment from someone online asking if people would introduce themselves when when they spoke. Because people aren't sure who who anyone is. What can they see? Hi, I'm Larry, I've been talking a lot. Can you see us? Yes, I think there's some of you who are out of the field of the camera, but it seems like we can see most people. You know, I like physically reorient the camera on 18. No, I'm 18. That's our glory. I think someone is. Maybe it's talking, but I'm talking. I'm Jen, I'm a member of the core team. But I was the one who asked the question about what we're planning to do around the next release or after the next release. And so people aren't scared about that, too. And part of the delay besides, you know, probably crossing our teeth and dotting our eyes is to make sure. I think Jen Natasha, everyone is kind of aware that we need to like update and have good documentation for maintainers throughout this process and throughout this switch. So we're really trying to make sure that all the pieces are in place first and transition for that and get more. So what I've done now is put onto the screen a little more of our Trello boards.  Information on some of the broader topics that we'd like to fold into our work. The BBS activities, the bio conductor build system, this has been speaking. It has always seemed to me that we would like to have a database where we record for historical investigation the state of the different packages on different platforms. As builds occur, we have a number of pieces of hardware that we own or that we rent and a catalog of them and a dashboard that identifies their state, their uptimes and so forth is needed. We have storage in many different environments. And again, a dashboard that shows how it's being consumed when we might run out of space and so forth is something I'd like to see done. This release if possible. We are distributing data in many different ways, data being software packages, binaries, experiment data, annotation data, and it can be expensive when there are egress charges involved. We do not have a requester pays approach for anything. And so there is what I would call forensics that must be conducted when it seems that there's a site that is pulling data robotically that they don't actually need and driving up our costs. We have done some of that. Martin did that a year ago or so. We want to be able to bring new core members on when we have resources to do this. And so there needs to be a cookbook describing all of the activities. We have pretty good documentation in that respect. The Git branch renaming, we've just discussed. There are maintenance activities for the single package builder. Workshop orchestrator, that's something that Sean Davis has contributed that is used in the conference. We also have another implementation of that concept by Alex. And there's a lot of work in Kubernetes. I think there's need for more expertise in the group to grow in understanding container orchestration and what it can do for the deeper activities of the project with respect to compilation and management of the whole ecosystem. So there's a lot for the core to do and the TAB may be interested in some of these and may wish to express desires of prioritization among those many activities. And it's a lot. So when community members get involved and help us to solve problems or to reduce the number of problems, it is much appreciated. She probably mentioned just about grants and things like that. But if people are this is a team. Yeah, so if people are interested in applying for funding, whether it be from NIH or CCI or any other organization, whether that's to support by a conductor at the community level at the technical level or just to help integration of packages where the people in by a conductor are very, very keen to help. Community members get funds to help the whole project grow. So please do contact us. We can help you with that application. We can write your letter support.  Alex. This is the one core member that took it in the name wrong. Do you want to introduce yourself to the folks that are joining your tour? Sure, I'm Alex. I joined in December. I'm the newest working member. Yeah, I do most of the so-called cloud things and these things. Good. I love the community. I like the core team. I came from the Galaxy Project. So I've been like open source, open science, biology sphere for three years now. Yeah, one of the projects that we've been working on is with the Yes for Cure program at Dana Farber. It's a program for junior in high school to junior in college students. We did a cancer data science check. So I made kind of a pipeline to go from on the files to Python notebooks and automatically applied it to this Galaxy instance. So using GitHub actions to automate the whole process with somebody can make a change to an on the file and it gets propagated to a live instance. And students come here, they launch notebooks. It takes about 30 seconds for the notebook to come up and then they can do the course and submit it back to us. And yeah, should we give a background on what Cure is? So that's not the Seattle Children's Hospital. Cure, in this instance, is it's actually an NIH program and the CD for underrepresented minorities. And so it's a program for high school students and also for undergraduates who come from underrepresented minorities and to encourage them to get involved in in cancer research. So we were talking with the Cure group at Dana Farber, Vincent, myself. And we recognize that whilst they had a program to recruit underrepresented minority students into the wet lab research, they didn't really have anything in bioinformatics. And they really recognize this with with COVID recently. So this project is to encourage like to provide a route, I suppose, into cancer research and bioinformatics for students. And so they have recruited quite a lot of from local and high schools and from universities where there is more ethnic diversity. It's fantastic. And I mentioned a young woman of the Regeneron STS program she approached me and if this had existed when we were working together, I mean, she did quite well. She's a standard now, but I would have given anything for something like this to be able to pass on directly. This is phenomenal. Yeah. Well, Alex really made the a lot of bridge work to to make this happen. You know, we're talking about our markdown. I think one of the things we really want to accomplish is helping people to offer effective teaching materials and to make them available for computation as quickly as possible. So you write an our markdown, put it in a package and then the steps required to put it in a system of this type are really very, very simple. So this is just, you know, an idea of, you know, could we could we move this framework into other topic areas in genomic data science and for other, you know, student populations and so forth? I think it is very viable thanks to this kind of work. It's not like first year grad or first year grad school student workforce this year was really where something like this, if I had access to an expertise with it, maybe I left a thousand times this year. So this is pretty terrific. Let's keep in touch, because we should write this up and and get more people to use these types of webinar 25 submitted the sort of thing that they're not going to want specifically for DEF. Yeah. Yeah. And just a structure is running on the Jettstein cloud at Indiana University. So it starts on one of the commercial clouds. So the U of S lectures, three service units instead of actually paying the company for money. And I'm also, I guess, managing the open storage network. We also got an allocation there and we got an AWS open data and collaboration with the Galaxy Project. So we have a bucket where Amazon is just paying for the egos fees for us and that bucket is in Sydney. So we have the open storage network in the U.S. and then the AWS open data bucket in Sydney, both egos free places where we can put data and we just got that a few months ago. So slowly transitioning things to use that one. If students been enrolled in this yet, or when is the first batch of students? Yeah, we started three weeks ago. Yeah. We gave a talk with 100 people and 11 decided to register for this. That's pretty good. Four meetings. Yeah. And they each doing different projects. And is this the training? Is this the through the year training program that they're doing? OK, so this is getting a little off topic. Sorry. This is data science. They all have their own work in wet labs and so forth. So it was just bringing them into a data science scope. It's 9.45 and I think we are due to end. Yeah. So. I really thank everyone who turned out and I hope dialogue between us and others who are interested in the TAB and the core will continue. Any other final parting comments? Questions. Don't be afraid to ask us questions and don't be afraid when the call goes out for new members to boards to apply because we really wanted to first find and get more people in and then we really encourage people if you're interested in getting involved, don't be intimidated to. Yes, absolutely. Welcome. Does Levi or Charlotte want to say something? Maybe I'll just add that you also don't have to wait to be a member of the board to to get involved. That we want to have activities going on outside of the the board meetings in the form of working groups and and you can become involved in that at any time. So if there's something that you have in mind or you see something on the working groups page that interests you, please get in touch and get involved. And that's a good way to make yourself known to the people on the board and and to meet people and contribute to the project. Sure. Sorry, sorry for my self as well. The calories of my daily life. Keep in touch. For champion. It's it's me. Oh, OK. Five. So I'm going to head over to J&B to try and make sure that there's no lightning sparks or anything withdrawing. I'm going to be fine. Benithi, I think it's over there. All right, terrific.


If you're wondering why my cheek is red, you'll have to ask the cameraman. I think I made a response that costed me something. Anyway, so it has nothing to do with what we're talking about now. To now, we are talking about timeout ribbons. And don't forget that timeout is short for timeout from positive reinforcement, okay? So if you're in a particular setting and you can't really disrupt the things that are going on around you, maybe a classroom setting, maybe a training setting in some other situations. Who knows what their setting is, but you don't want to cause a lot of disruptions. And you want to be inclusive. You don't want to be able to take this person, the kiddo, the dog, whatever it is, and remove them from the environment altogether. You could do something like that. You could throw that thing on their hand when they have engaged in inappropriate behavior. And you don't have to snap them like that. But you can just put it on and simply indicates that they are no longer able to receive a certain type of reinforcer from the teacher, whatever it is, at that time. So let's put this in context a little Billy in the classroom acting out. So little Billy's in the classroom acting out. The teacher walks up and gives them, not a snap like that, but gives them a timeout ribbon. The teacher now knows that for the next X number of minutes, she is no longer allowed to give little Billy any attention whatsoever. She's on timeout, right, or in timeout, timeout from positive reinforcement. The ribbon indicates such you don't have to remove them from the environment.