Good morning, and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am your host, Krista Porter, here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is the Commission's weekly webinar series where we cover a variety of topics that may be of interest to libraries. We broadcast the show live every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. Central Time. If you are unable to join us on Wednesdays, that's fine. We do record the show every week, and then the archive is then posted onto our website. And I'll show you at the end of today's show where you can access all of our recordings. Both the live show and the recordings are free and open to anyone to watch. So please do share with your friends, family, neighbors, colleagues, anyone you think may be interested in any of the topics we have on the show. The Nebraska Library Commission, for those of you not in Nebraska, we are the state agency for libraries. It's just a state library. So we do training and consulting and support and education for all types of libraries in the state. So you will find things in our Encompass Live shows that are for any type of library, public, K-12, academic, museum, historical societies, any kinds of archives, corrections, anything that's got a library. We may potentially have a topic or a show about it, anything vaguely library related. We share things that are products and services that maybe we are offering through the Library Commission to our libraries. Cool things we think you might be interested in. We bring in guest speakers from the outside of the Nebraska Library Commission across the state, across the country actually, talk about things they're doing at their libraries or in their organizations. So it's quite a mish-mash. Really the only criteria is that something library related, something libraries are doing, something we think they could be doing, something we think they might be interested in. We all, of course, have a library commission staff that do sessions as well. And that's what we have today with me is Amanda Sweet. Good morning. Good morning. And she is our Technology Innovation Librarian here at the Nebraska Library Commission. And she does a now monthly, usually the last ones, they have the month unless there's some scheduling things that need to be adjusted, but generally keeping it to the last one of the month. A monthly session called Pretty Sweet Tech, Anything Technology Related. So if tech is your area of expertise or your area of interest, definitely she's, her shows are ones you want to keep an eye on to sign up for. And today we are going to learn about Quitting Languages. Yeah, I know some things about them. I know some languages ish. I've done some of those code hour things for fun. Yeah. I don't know if I've learned anything practical yet, but which coding language, what coding language should I learn is what we'll find out today. So I'm going to hand it over to you, Amanda, to tell us what to learn or how we figure out what to learn. That really what we're talking about here, I think. That is a better question. Yeah, there are so many. Yeah. So there are about a million and one different coding languages and they keep blending them together too. Oh, that's awesome. Yeah. So I do a lot of work in maker spaces across the state and I kind of help people out with trying to figure out which technology tools they want to bring into the library. And one major question I always get is, what coding language should I learn? And then I always ask, well, what do you want to do? I'm cricking. I don't know, but I've just heard that I need to learn how to code. Yeah. I've been told I need to. I've been told I need to teach the kids how to. Yeah. But that's such a vague and broad thing. Yeah. And fun fact. So I know a lot of coders, like a lot of them. My brother's a software engineer. I go to the AI and data driven innovation event on the UNL campus and I go to, I'm involved in. And tech organizations and involved in a lot of like coding organizations and like computers and public schools and different things like that. And not even the experts know exactly which language you should learn. There's a lot of conflict. There's even a lot of conflict about what all this technology actually is. So this is kind of what we're going to go over right here before we start deciding which information resources and which tools to start making technology. But we should actually focus on probably look at how people learn skills. How do people actually pick up this information? And once we know that we can find out how libraries can help because librarians cannot, should not and will not learn all of this technology thoroughly, fully enough to be able to teach someone to an expert level. Oh, gosh, no, that would take about eight million lifetimes. Yeah, I think we're good at the, you know, we'll give you a taste. We can get you started. And then we can tell you where to go to, you know, really dig into it. Yeah. And that's what this is all about. Get your degree or something. Yeah. And that's what this is all about is showing people what's out there.  I have one for robotics, but every library on the planet is doing something about robotics. And I've done a robotic session before and we only have 15 minutes. Yeah. So look for that other session. Yeah. Yes. But I chose this technology because it blends into the background. We don't pay attention to it. And yet that's right. You don't think about what's there behind the scenes making everything work. Yeah. And this is one of my favorite posts that I've come across when I was reading across the gamut. The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it. That's what your phone is. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And it's just, we pick it up and it's just part of life, artificial intelligence, just part of life, the natural language processing that recommends the text that we put out there. Just there. So how do we learn? We start off by knowing absolutely nothing. And we can't learn something if we don't know what's there. And then we move into, I can't know about it. I don't know why I should care. But I learned a little bit about it. And now I can start troubleshooting a little. And then finally, you can start using the skill, but you have to look up a lot of things along the way. You might hit a lot of walls. And then finally, it's just automatic. You can code in your sleep. I know. And I'm sure there's things that you've learned this way that you can match. You see, oh, I've done that about something. Yes, I've had to do. Yeah. And then definitely isn't just coding. I've learned anything. Yeah. Like this happened when my grandma taught me how to learn embroidery. Sure. Just life. But I can now detangle my thread. And then libraries can help people do this just by helping people gain exposure. And we can provide general information sessions and gain like the low cost tools to be able to just show people what this stuff is. And would show TED Talks and different videos about this without even investing any money into it. Sure. You might not choose what to learn if people don't know what it is. If you go out in the street and ask someone, do you want to learn artificial intelligence? They will go, what is wrong with you? Go away. And then so once people know what it is, then you can start providing areas of opportunity for people to practice learning that skill. How do you keep someone with a new skill in the community? You give them areas to use it. You give them a reason to practice it. And then you start getting the other members of the community together to find out how that technology actually works. And then say, you know, we don't all necessarily need to know how to make this ourselves. But we can leverage it. And now we can build different areas of expertise so we can build a better tool and be able to communicate with technologists. And this is one of our major goals and all of this before we even start digging into the specific tools and the specific resources. What do people care? What are people in your community actually trying to do? And are they actually trying to learn to code from scratch? And do they want to know every single little bit of syntax? Do they just want to know how the generic technology works so they can apply it in different ways? Do they want to be able to communicate with technologists to outsource a project so that they don't get a poor quality or like snake oil product? You've got to be able to explain it to the experts by knowing you're just enough to know what you do and don't like or do and don't want it to do. And do the users of this technology just want to keep themselves safe? You hear all these horror stories about artificial intelligence taking over the world or anything. Oh yeah, the Skynet's coming. And like the privacy and security things, people hacking into little bare cams for the internet of things. Like parents would put the little teddy bears with the camera as a nanny cam in their kids' rooms. Then hackers would go in and hack into the feed and then be able to see like a little front row shot of your kids in their play room, which is super creepy. So how do we prevent that? We need to understand this new technology just to keep ourselves safe, just like digital literacy and computers. So how do we start learning? I'm going to go through each one of those major different technology categories and go over some major information resources that are easy to understand by the public and also tap into the resources of the technologist. So I'll start out with this AI for all. And we're not going to spend a ton of time on each one of these individual resources because there's only so much time. But I will share these slides so you'll have access to all these links and all these learning resources. Afterwards, when we do the archives of this, like I mentioned earlier, if there are presentations, we include them as well. So you'll have all of this, all these links you can go in and spend more of your own time exploring if you want to. So this is one of my favorite definitions of AI. And it is simply that right here, branch of computer science that allows computers to make predictions and decisions to solve problems. That is your baseline definition of AI. How does it do that? It needs a lot of data and information. And the reason that AI is hitting this major boom right now is because we have access to so much more information. We generate like two terabytes of information collectively in a very short time span. And now, so that feeds into that little catch-all phrase of big data. And big data is what feeds all of this technology that we're talking about right now to make it work more effectively. And now we're hitting a slew of potential problems and we're hitting a slew of potential awesomeness. So this one is, so AI for all is actually an organization that is doing education outreach to, as it says, unrepresented talent. Mostly they're focusing on high schools right now. So this actually started in Stanford. So you can reach it if you are part of a high school or affiliated with a high school. You can reach out to AI for all to learn more about their summer programs and their educational programs. And then they provide curriculum that can be used as outreach for students. And that's one way that you can incorporate that for schools instead of trying to do it all on your own. Don't read it at the field. Yeah, that's insane. There's a lot of things out there that, like you said, the curriculum that you can use. You don't have to create all of these classes or at least some trainings or exercises or things. There's somebody else who's already done this for you, so it's okay. And then you can also go into, so this one I put in here because it has an awesome chart. Oh, charts. Yeah. So this will basically tell you is what I'm looking at actually AI. And this is kind of your little litmus test looking thing to find out what you're dealing with. And this text on the screen might be a little bit too small, but it's way easier to see on your own home screen without the app. And this also gives an awesome description about what it is and the future of AI. And it's out of MIT, so they know all they know they're talking about. And so then these are also resources from IBM Watson, which is one of the biggest terms you're going to come across in learning about AI. Their focus is on machine learning and deep learning. And there are resources to pour how to learn that on your own in the next slide. And then these are the, these is the resource from Google, which is one of the more popularly used resources. However, I'm also going to open up this link from the New York Times about so there has been a slew of Google employees that have been saying, what we're doing actually really ethical. And Google has had, for the longest time, Google's had this open door policy about employees should be able to speak up about what they believe in, and they should be able to make their voice heard and be able to have an open conversation about the ethics of technology as it's growing into the future. And they started firing people. And that started to get a little sketchy. So this is kind of an expose article about the story behind that. And then you look back here. And this Googles in the name that there are other companies that are also having that problem. Amazon, Microsoft.  And they're struggling and not doing so well. So now we have, this is where we learn. Google, IBM, Google. This is affiliated with Google and IBM. We're learning from companies that now have potential ethics problems. But they're also, if they also try to corner the education market, where else do we learn from? Oh, there's lots of places out there that are not them. Yeah, yeah. But then this is also the number one thing used in the industry right now. So we need to learn how to use this tool, but also keep in like, take with a grain of salt their ethics policy. And start learning it and understanding it well enough for ourselves that we can start having that discussion within the public. And on behalf of the people that are actually using it. So in terms of the actual coding language, that's actually secondary. But Python will get you where you want to go. So Python will get you into TensorFlow. Google AIY is a tool that is based in Raspberry Pi. And Raspberry Pi, this version uses Python as a coding language. And so I'll organize it this way. Code.org is the easiest way to find out this is more for kids and beginners who have never seen machine learning before. It'll give you videos and animated learning options so that you can learn the basics of the concepts behind machine learning in the easiest way possible. And so this is kind of a little sample of it. But this is an interactive game that will help you train your own machine learning model. And it'll show you how the basics of how the data set has to be labeled in order for the machine learning system to be able to learn effectively from it. And then it will give you an idea of the sheer quantity of data that is necessary to be able to train a model that will be put out into the world. And then the end of this activity will start questioning the different applications of artificial intelligence. We can use it to sort out which fish is which, but then can we use it to sort out which fish is happy? Oh gosh. Which fish is angry? Which fish is out to get you? Can we use artificial intelligence for something that's objective? It starts asking those questions. And this has got to be a lot of data for that. Yeah. And so this one also gives you the additional teacher resources. It's code.org so it uses some of the hour of code. And in partnership with Microsoft. I like Microsoft. I'm okay with that. It just, take it for what it is. It's the big guy. Yeah. And then this one, when you're done with all the resources in code.org, you can shift over to Google's Aiy. The Aiy is, it comes with a little Raspberry Pi, and this is just a little cardboard box that acts as a speaker. So you're basically, there's one version where you can kind of make a mini voice assistant. There's one version where you can make a, it'll be able to recognize different facial images. And this is one where it tries to tell you what your mood is based on your facial expression. Ooh, nice to be fun. Yeah, right. If it knows. Yeah. And so this one gives you like a whole bunch of different projects, and it'll kind of walk you through step by step for how to put it together and how to make it. And this one is, it's Python based. So this one is one of those learning by examples. And then. I think that's the kind of thing I need, because I mean, I think, why are you wanting to learn this? Yeah. What can I do with it? Not, yes, learn how to code something, learn what the code is and what the commands are. That's fine and what you enter. But what's the end result? Why do I, like you said, why do I care? What can I do with it? So having some of the real world examples, I think that that for me catches my attention a lot better. Definitely. Then just, yes, you have to code. Yeah. It's like, cool. And then so these are the intermediate to advanced versions. So once you know how an API works, how Raspberry Pi works and all that stuff, you can move into more complicated stuff. So Google put together this resource for teaching. I use the term beginners loosely here. And I think Google does too. Because there's some background information that you need to be able to have before you can be comfortable as a beginner in this environment. And that is where that is why I put Raspberry Pi before this. Because if you just jump straight into this, you'll feel like you're drowning. And you'll get more out of it if you already have a background in the basics of Python syntax. And that's where this comes in. Because there are, Python actually put together a set of resources for different ways to learn Python. And because everyone learns differently. And I can send you to the one that I use to start learning the basics. But that's not going to help everybody. You might actually have, I've had, I had to go through seven different tutorials for Python before I found one that worked for me. And so I worked through about a good number of these. And then eventually it finally just clicked. It's like they got so many different ones in different places, yeah. And some of these are free. Some of them are behind a paywall. Mosh is the one that I use to learn C-sharp. He's delightful. And so here, I didn't put this into a slide, but here was what I recommend for people trying to learn a new programming language from scratch. Start going onto YouTube and start searching the basics of the coding language. And you'll usually be sent over to an hour to a two hour long video that will show you the ins and outs of the syntax in the different areas of the programming language. And as you start to learn more about it, then you'll start learning the keywords to look for troubleshoot. And then you'll be able to find a higher quality program that is behind a paywall. And you'll know that they're covering, they're covering the topics and information that you actually need. And that you are paying for something decent. And it's delivered in a way that you can understand at your current experience level. And that is actually what I used this YouTube video for, is to learn enough about it to know that I'm not getting snake oil. So that's kind of your generic machine learning, start with Python. And that is just going to get you into the door. And then they're going to tell you that there are a million other coding languages that you can also use, like C++ or... You can also use JavaScript with it. That's a good place to start. Question, what can you explain what is Raspberry Pi that some people are not sure about? So Raspberry Pi is a wee little computer. And it will actually open in this. So Raspberry Pi 3B is the one that I have, but the most recent model is the Pi 4. And here we go. It's actually that sort of motherboard looking thing, but it's big. It's the heart of a computer. Pretty much. It's got a little processor in there. It's got some USBs. But there's a little Wi-Fi chip on the back. And there's an Ethernet cable port. There's some charging ports. And actually there's a whole diagram that'll show you what everything is. So people have used Raspberry Pi to build robots. They've used it to build... You can turn it into a voice assistant. You can turn it into... It's not anything. So I'll actually go into this here. You can make a chat bot with it. So this is Raspberry Pi's project page. And a chat bot is like a little a version of artificial intelligence. So when you go to some of those bank websites and you need to ask for help with something like that, a lot of times now you won't actually be interacting with a machine. You might be interacting with a machine. And that machine is programmed to deal with a whole bunch of different specific subject matter questions. So if you veer off of that, it'll probably say something like, I'm sorry, I'm not familiar with that. Let me send you to an agent. Then you talk to a real human being. Yeah. So it handles simple things like depositing a check or verifying your identity and checking your bank balance and things like that. And there's also a... Oh, there's a fluid stuff. I should do one just in Raspberry Pi. Yeah. Oh, definitely. I know. Because it's so easy to get a hold of and get one and not expensive to start with. Yeah. Do you have them? Actually Raspberry Pi appears later in the Internet of Things too. Okay. I skipped one slide here. But chatbots and voice assistants are kind of everywhere. So this one will kind of go over what chatbots are, which is basically... I'll open. I don't want to open. This one is a shorter one. There. Chatbot is a computer program that uses AI to have conversations with humans. So this has gone also in good and bad direction. So they've used chatbots as therapist replacements because they wanted to use a low cost therapy option. And they ran into some trouble. So there was... Let's see if I put this article in here. Okay. I didn't put that one in here, but I'll open this one. So we want to know what we should look for in a good chatbot. And we want to know how chatbots should be applied and how they should not be applied. And can we trust the information that was provided by a chatbot? And we also need to know the different types of chatbots that are out there. How they're made and how information filtered through those chatbots can impact us. Because we're librarians. We care about where information came from. We're very skeptical. Yeah. Healthy skepticism, which is important. Yeah. And when you have a conversation with someone, you think of information differently than you would when you're reading it. So when you read it, you have that litmus test of things that you should look for. Like who wrote the article? When was it published? Who funded it? And all this stuff. When you're interacting with a little Amazon Echo where you just talk into a cube and say, where is the capital of Japan? And it just tells you. But then you start asking it more subjective stuff. Like what should I do with my life? You can get in trouble. How do you ask a voice assistant when the last publication date was? I've tried it. Like I tried both Google Home and Amazon Echo. And I said, give me three sources of information about this topic. And it googled, give me three sources of information about this topic. You can understand what you're really... I got information about digital literacy. But it didn't give me three sources. And I asked, when was this article published? And it didn't access the metadata to be able to find it. I'm sure there are some databases and some sites that will tell you if the metadata was put in correctly, but it wasn't. It needs to be able to, if this is the coding part, needs to be able to know how to find that info and has to be in there for the computer to see it. And the reason I give you this information is not because I think you're going to memorize it all and use it all tomorrow. But it's because you can take this new information about technology and you can go out into your community and start seeing how this is going to be impacting people. And start finding out why people in different professions and why students and why different people will care. And then how can you use this to make the library a resource on technology? Because if you sit down and you ask yourself, if someone walked into the library right now and asked a bunch of information about how to get the best resource to learn about technology, can you help them? Because libraries are an information resource, technology is now one of the most popular topics in the world. Can we help them? Some can, some can't. I can't tell you what your resources are right now, but if you feel that you're lacking in that area, this is here to help. And this is part of the huge maker movement. Yes. All of these beginner level and possibly even some of the intermediate advanced, they're incredibly easy to do in a maker session. And so you start with the beginner and work your way up. And you can give this information for people to know where to go next, because that is one of the hugest problems that are in maker spaces everywhere. We want to help people, we want to give people information for how to get to the next step. We don't have the time or resources to help them personally. Yeah. So start with beginner and then provide them with access to information and then get people on board to help them practice what they've learned. And that's what we can do as a library community. And what is our time? That'll tell me if I want to go in. Okay. And I want to still go over IO. I'll open two of these sources and then we'll keep chugging along. So the Raspberry Pi chatbot we just opened recently. The scratch chatbot is similar, but it's using a different language. And FYI, Python will help you with this too. And Google's dialogue flow is where you want to go to be able to learn more. So this is one where you don't necessarily need to have a coding background. Python will help a bit, but you can get by with just using their built-in information. So on here you will find a practical use guide and a design guide. And it'll tell you how to gather the correct information to be able to build the most effective chatbot. I'll say what are you trying to design and what is your target audience? Which subject matter are you going to be covering? If you're designing a chatbot, what is your context? What are the questions that people are most likely to ask? And what will you do if your chatbot is not able to answer that question? Because I think this is good that brings you right to starting off with what's your ultimate goal? Not let's play around with creating this thing, but what are you trying to do in the end and then work backwards from there? And that's just if you do one single project and don't frame it in any way, shape, or form, you're just kind of... You're building another chatbot that may potentially confuse and frustrate people.  So then we'll hop into Internet of Things. And this is basically the whole world is basically connected. This is what connects different devices to the Internet at large. So if you have a greenhouse and you want to be able to find out what the temperature and humidity is that will help your plants grow the best, you don't have to be sitting in your greenhouse all the time or manually check it. You can set a little alert that says the humidity is over this certain level. You might want to look at that. And then you can take it a step further and you can integrate it with an IO based thermostat so that you can trigger it so that if the humidity or temperature goes above or below a certain level, the thermostat will automatically adjust itself. And then you can take that a step further and you can start putting sensors into your soil to read the nutrient levels and find out when they actually need to be watered. Then you can take that a step further and automate it so that you can set up the sprinkler system so that if it goes below a certain soil level, you can either spritz it with a nutrient or you can spray it with water so that it goes up to its proper saturation point. So good things can happen in your garden. And this will kind of tell you about the different things that you can do with IO. And where it's kind of going. And I won't go over this whole thing because we have a better way to find out what it can do is to just do it. And that is where if this then that comes in handy. So if this then that is exactly what it sounds like. These are kind of like a little system of different devices. If I wake up in the morning at seven o'clock in the morning, set my coffee maker to go off.  And this will tell you the device that you need to get to be able to play around with it. And it'll give you a step-by-step of how to do it, how to set it up. And basically it's just downloading an app and then putting in some settings of a target sleep duration.  You didn't get enough. I am. As usual. Have any all night. So if you want the biggest list of practical applications, go to this site. They've got a lot of them there, yeah. I think that in real life these are things you would actually care about. Yeah. And this is stuff you can get it and do it tomorrow. Some of them are more expensive than others. I have a love-hate relationship with the vacuum robot. Robot? Yeah. But some of them are super cheap. And a lot of them actually run through Raspberry Pi for the Google Assistant. This Google Assistant, I got the mini for like, I got it on a Black Friday sale for like $20. Yeah, you can get them on sales a lot, you know. So options. And this is also a really quick and easy way to set up a maker activity to show people how it works. And then I said that we would bring Raspberry Pi back up. So these are, this also uses IFTT, if this and that. But it integrates it with the Pi. So this will give you kind of a wiring diagram. It'll give you a step-by-step for how to set that up. And some of these will have video instructions for how to do it. I don't, I'm not going to wait for it to bloated that. Like some will give video instructions for how to do it. Some are just written instructions and some are, some are better than others. It's good to have that option of the video because I know some people are better learners. Watching it actually happen. Or sometimes it just helps supplement what you did read. I have that sometimes in trying to fix something or do something. Like, I want to see somebody else do it first. I can read this whole thing, but I want to make sure, you know, what it's supposed to look like when I get to that point. Yeah. And this one has a bunch of beginner level stuff. And some of these leave beginner loosely. You might actually want to start with regular Raspberry Pi projects and get used to the API and how the computer, like how the Raspberry Pi talks to an actual computer and how it interacts with sensors. So that's why I put in this. This is Arduino. Arduino is a microcontroller. It's not actually, it can't really be used as a full-fledged computer, like the Raspberry Pi, but you can use it to also do robotics and you can use it to learn how this microcontroller talks to a computer. And it also uses a bunch of different sensors.  And they're also in your cell phone. So whenever you tilt your phone and the screen knows to switch over to a landscape or a portrait, then those are in play. And then your map system also uses that. And there's also, remember that garden stuff that I was talking about? There are also options for setting up different garden experiments using this because-learning system. And this is designed for the classroom. But it can also easily be adapted into different libraries. Sure. Or if you're a school library, cool. So you can search by the actual sensor, and it will give you different projects, and it will tell you the recommended grade level, and then it will also tell you a step-by-step of how to set this up and how to start learning it for yourself and then how to help people learn it. So Raspberry Pi sometimes kind of reaches a beginner step. Yeah. But this is a good entry level point so that when you're familiar with how the system works and you've gotten the step-by-step informational section, then you start gaining that comfort level and then you can start going into Raspberry Pi.  Rather than coming up with here's the end results that you don't want to figure out. Yeah. I think you're the end product, yeah. And a lot of Raspberry Pi, they are not kind to very, very beginner coders. But this one is-like this one will definitely walk you through and say this is why-this is what this line of code is doing. Try changing this one single number in here and then press play and find out what it's doing. Do what happens. And this is one of my favorite learn-by-doing kind of things because this will-I don't want to say hand-holding, but it gives, like, better description. And it gives, like, a perfect walk-through in an easy-to-understand way and a better, easier-to-understand diagram. And a lot of the Raspberry Pi stuff, it's not- some of the stuff is out of date. Some of it's made by people who aren't used to writing instruction. Oh, yeah. And I've read through some open-source Raspberry Pi tutorials on Instructables and then, like, what? What just happened? But this one will help you get, like, ease into it. Anyway. Close that. And EBITDA is another one that works with Raspberry Pi or Arduino. So do not be fooled by this opening page because there is an education system and there is a source for industry.  And you're like, yes, I am. And then it'll ask you to sign up and it'll shoot you into that STEM section, which is free. The one for educators. Yeah. But what this is actually doing is... Oh, this is a good one. This one.  So they partnered with a whole bunch of different organizations to make this system compatible. And this will- it's more of like a plug-and-play option for being able to download an app onto your phone and then have that app be able to collect data from a sensor that is plugged into a separate device and have that sensor communicate with your phone more easily. And that is... That's the Internet of Things. Yeah, connecting all those things, yeah. And it's used in industry and it's used in education and it's used in lots of different ways. So you can also find more examples of how the Internet of Things is being used in the real world by going into EBITDA. And then it'll also give you better information about how to integrate this stuff and how to use it now instead of after I learn the entire coding language. So once you... Raspberry Pi will open the door for a lot of different things. It's everywhere. And... It's been around for a while. Yeah. It has a good support system and it's got integration into a lot of other different systems. And it's a techie stream. I know. And this will just give you more or less step-by-step instructions for how to do it and what you need before you can start doing it. And most of these sensors are remarkably cheap. So 10 bucks and a $40 Raspberry Pi and an education account you're in business. Easy. Yeah. And then it also gives you the right wiring setup. Anyway, that's why I like this one is because it's easier to understand and it doesn't force you to learn everything before you can just get going. Hey, David, trying to sell me something. Oh, thank you. So since we're getting closer, I'll remind everybody, if you do have any questions you want to ask, Amanda, about any of these things, type into the question section and you'll go to Webinar Interface. Let us know as we're going through these or if you have any comments or thoughts on any of this that you've done, if you've done anything like this or if you've had anybody at your library to ask you about doing anything like this, your experiences or anything, go ahead and type into the question section. We can chat about that. The real people, not a chat box. I know, right? Or is it? Yeah. And so this is where you would go into the more advanced level stuff. And so these I linked straight over to the option that will integrate with Raspberry Pi. And Azure is like, it'll give you a lot more flexibility of what you can do with the Internet of Things and it'll kind of open the door for building the whole system yourself. And some people really want to do that and other people just don't care. But it's an option. Yeah. And Microsoft is also pretty good about building their own training system, too. Because they want you to use their product. Absolutely. They want to teach you how to do it. Yeah, they want you to want to use theirs. They can use it, yeah. And that's why it's easier to find stuff for free on here. Because... They're hoping you'll stay with it. Yeah. And Google has the same thing. Google has like everything. Google has... I mean, even though you did say things like they're having issues with being evil or whatnot, they are good with putting out educational type things but trying to teach you how to do things. Whether it's using their products and services or using other ones. They have... Oh, I think Ben about that. We're here to help you find information. Kind of like librarians. We're here to help you find it, but we're here to help you teach you how to use some across-the-board things as well. Yeah. And so all of my generality is just fun. Yeah. So this one is you hold up your... The most popular method of it is using a mobile phone because most people have one. So you open up an app on your phone. The app accesses your camera. You hold your phone over. When the camera recognizes a certain object, it will overlay a digital image or play a sound or trigger some sort of media to be able to display on the phone screen. And the best way to learn about it, Pokemon Go is the most popular one. So he is pointing his phone out into the beach and there is a poly world. And this is what shows up on your screen when the camera recognizes this one is geolocation based not trigger based. So there is marker based and marker list based. Marker based uses an actual image or a target image to be able to trigger that sound or overlay onto your phone. Pokemon Go uses like a GPS location so that when your phone reaches that point, that's when the Pokemon pops up on your screen. And so if you want to learn more about how this stuff actually works, we have some resources on here. And this is where it's going in the future. Oh, this is going to give me an ad. Go be it. So she is wearing the headset and now she can interact with the digital objects that she is seeing on her headset. That's definitely the future. That's the kind of thing we see in the movies in the TV show, finally. So I'm going to skip to you can press interactive buttons and she is about to play a piano. And you get the idea. So the HoloLens 2 was made by Microsoft. It actually cost $2,500 for a developer's kit. And that's why the Learn the Basics is more of the start with a mobile phone and don't put the money into the really expensive stuff until you know people are going to be interested in it. Yes. The other question is the HoloLens actually going to be able to get to a point where the price point is low enough that they can commercialize it. Yeah, right now, no. And so that is where AR could go. But it's also just really fun in the mobile device too. Yeah. It's not the same after you've seen that video though. I know. That is like the epitome, the exact good and what to be able to do with it. And it's not easily available to people yet. So how can you do it? Start with the merge cube which is it's a little phone cube and it sort of looks like a board cube. And it is integrated with a bunch of different it has support by co-spaces which is an educational app and so honestly this is a terrible picture presenting what this is because it makes it look like he can just see the cube and he's seeing that. But you need to wear the device. So if this were a better picture, this cube would actually be in front of the camera on this display screen and he would be looking at the screen. And he might have a very vivid imagination. But yeah, I should maybe write some a letter. But no, this you can actually only see on your digital device. But you can also integrate this with Tinkercad and Tinkercad is a free system where you can build your own 3D objects and designs. And this is automatically merged into merged into the merge cube so that people can go in build their own 3D design in Tinkercad and then they can pop their image onto the merged cube. And the merged cube I was hoping I would find a better image of it. This is it. Definitely Yeah. So these are their anchor points so that when the camera registers those specific images it pops that onto the cube. And there's also a VR part of this too but it's made out of foam and I've tried putting different sizes of phones into it and it's really easy to break that foam. So if you do get this make sure you have little velcro strips so that you can use that to hold the phone in place because that foam breaks in a hot second. So Unity is the first version and C sharp is the language that you would want to learn for Unity. And then Google's AR core is kind of the next level up. And AR core actually works with Unity game engine. And I don't think I have time to describe Unity too terribly much because I'm already over. But it is delightful. And so these are some places to learn C sharp. When you learn C sharp it'll be easier to animate and manipulate images into Unity game engine. If you don't want to learn how to code but you just want to find out how Unity works Google Unity and before your game engine because before you will let you just pull in different pre-made 3D images and pop it into a system. And these are some other areas that you can find to learn this. Most was just one that I preferred. And virtual reality I have a floating dot. So virtual reality society will tell you pretty much anything and everything you need to know about virtual reality. And basically you can put on this headset and it will block out any any visuals from the world around you. You'll be immersed into a virtual world. And this is being used in a ton of different ways. So these are the different industries currently using virtual reality. And these will give you different ideas of how visualizations is one of the bigger ones. And construction is also another huge one. Oh, that makes sense, yeah. For architects or constructives to see what it's supposed to look like before they get it wrong pretty much. But the board or the whatever in the wrong place, yeah. And then if you want to make it C sharp will also get you there. The same tools that are used to make augmented reality most of them can also be used to make virtual reality. Actually all of them. The only different option here is A-frame. And A-frame uses HTML, CSS and JavaScript. And but honestly appearing if people want to go into industry, Unity is the way to go. And I used A-frame in a previous show on Encompass.ly that was one of the things used in a previous session that we did. I did a quick tutorial just because it's fun. And so if you want to start integrating tech into education in the library some awesome ways to do it are to do basic tech intro sessions using some of the beginner format tools that I put into the previous slides. I didn't click open every single one of them, but they're going to be there for you there. And you can start getting people thinking about what does this mean for privacy and security? What does this mean for us as a community? And what do we need to know about? And then start thinking about sure this technology is cool, but can we actually use it? And does it matter? It may matter in one community but not in another. Not all of these are going to be for your community necessarily. So if you've got here to look into it you're going to have to see what people in your area are interested in. And you can also do just basic access to tools and you can do just a curated resource collection just pop an information session onto your page and let your people go and explore these sites themselves. I think it's being a librarian or working at a library in general you don't have to be an expert in anything really that your community or your users might want. You just need to know how to get them to the places where the experts are. Exactly. And sometimes it's hard to in this particular topic of coding languages where do you even start? We did that work for you. Amanda, not me. So now at least you have here. Here's some things you can go and give them to do it. You as a librarian don't have to learn how to teach this coding. You can just find the places that will teach them. And I learned it from talking to about a million and one people. That's the way too. And so that's about the long and the short of it. I hear a lot of stuff at you. But if you find some of it interesting then cool. Yeah. All right. Does anybody have any we are a little over 11 o'clock our official end time but that's okay. Anybody have any desperate questions you want to ask Amanda while we're still here wrapping up? Type it into your questions section. Nobody had any questions during the show but that's okay. 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Thank you. I appreciate the opportunity to present here. And I think the context is looking for ways for the educational materials group international sort of focus to collaborate with G2MC, which also has an educational working group, which Vajira, Visenayaki, and I co-chair. So by way of introduction, Donna alluded to the fact that I have a day job and it is as chair of the Department of Genetics at University of Alabama at Birmingham and I also co-direct a Center for Genomic Medicine, which is a cooperation between UAB and Hudson Alpha Institute for Biotechnology in Huntsville. I should also say I'm not a stranger to ISCC in the sense that I was there actually at the kickoff meeting of ISCC several years ago and shared the competencies working group at ISCC, which resulted in the genetics and medicine publication on competencies in genomic medicine a few years ago, I guess 2014. That committee then essentially was retired after that paper was published, as it had accomplished its goal. And I was at that time, I think also representing the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics. But since then, I think David Flannery, who's the medical director of ACMG, has assumed that role. It's been easier for him since they're headquartered in Bethesda. And so I've been less active in ISCC during the last couple of years, but occasionally tune in on a meeting, so I have some idea. And I was at the meeting in January and possibly some of what I'll say today. I did mention some about G2MC then. So anyway, what I would like to do is to introduce what G2MC is to all of you that might not be familiar with it, to look at specifically the education working group and what it has been doing and then to explore how it could collaborate with ISCC. And Donna had asked a set of questions and I will end the presentation trying to address those. So G2MC has been around now. I would guess about five years. Jeff Ginsburg from Duke is the chair of G2MC and really the spearhead of it. And the idea was in very broad terms to advance the mobile implementation of genomic medicine in particular to engage in collaborative initiatives that would both foster research and also actually work with providers and the public to look at ways to integrate genomics into medical practice broadly. So it's premised on the idea that we're all dealing with the same human genome, more or less. And the question is how do you use the power of genomics into the day-to-day practice of medicine, but realizing that although it's fundamentally the same genome, there are big differences culturally and organizationally in the way medicine is practiced across the globe. And therefore things that work in one setting may or may not work the same in another setting. And also things that are important in one setting aren't always the same elsewhere. There are certainly lots of examples in genetics and genomics of particular traits that are more prevalent in one area than another, and as a consequence what might be important in one place is maybe less important somewhere else. The training paths in medicine are different. The kinds of people who comprise the team or any particular model of care might be different. So there are significant similarities, of course, and then potential differences in the hope was to find where the common ground is and do whatever possible to try to enhance the integration of genetics and genomics. So this is a list of goals, and a few of these slides were provided to me by Jeff Ginsburg, but it was to serve in part as a clearinghouse for information, best practices, and just dissemination of information about genomic medicine activities across the world to look for demonstration projects and opportunities for collaboration to disseminate best practices and to facilitate the generation of evidence that supports the sustainability of genomic medicine. So specific goals, it provides a context for convening the leaders of international programs to actually create these communities where there can be dialogue to connect the various experts with one another to make statements of which there is one published, I think comes up in another slide that would provide some guidance and hopefully maybe inspiration to groups looking to integrate genetics and genomics into practice to develop a web presence and tools to identify underserved communities and ultimately to secure funding for sustainability. There have been now two meetings and another is soon to occur. The last of the meetings took place in Singapore in 2015, and by virtue of where it was there was a fairly heavy representation of individuals from Asia, as you might imagine, but it also has at that time, I think there was also substantial representation from the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East, but not so much from South America and from Africa. The third meeting is actually just a month away and it will take place in Athens and we'll focus on models for implementation of genomic medicine in practice. Still possible, there are people that are interested in participating in the meeting. Obviously, the agenda is pretty well set, but there's certainly room if people are interested in. I can send around, if it's helpful, a link to the website where registration is done. But in any case, I know that at this meeting we actually have made some effort to engage individuals from Africa and South America and in addition from Australia, Southeast Asia, and Europe. So it's becoming more and more a true global alliance. The point that's going to come up in a few minutes, but it's worth mentioning here now, you could get the impression, and maybe it's been assumed that this is the case, that the participating countries are largely third world countries that are at an early stage of adoption of genomic medicine. Actually, the reality is that I don't think that's exactly the case right now. We're actually trying to pull in more people from individuals or from countries that are less well served. But this is a list of some of the large scale genomics initiatives that have been described at the various now previous two G2MC meetings, and there'll be more of this at the upcoming one. But many of the countries here on the list are really quite far along in terms of genomic medicine. So this is not a group of largely underserved countries that are interested in learning, but haven't been doing very much. I think we probably need to reach out more to those kinds of environments, but the countries that are represented so far are actually quite sophisticated in terms of major large scale projects. And it's been one of the interesting things about going to the meetings is learning about how some of these projects have been organized and executed and some of the outcomes that they're generating. I mentioned that there is a publication and so there was a paper published in Science Translational Medicine in 2015, which as you can see has a large number of authors. And I think it reflected a lot of the discussion that took place at the original meeting which was in Washington, D.C., I think in probably 2014. So there is this one paper now that describes some of the findings in terms of ways that genomic medicine was being implemented in different areas of the world. Most recently, there's a global alliance for genomic health, I think it's called. There seems to be a great tendency to use letters and numbers in these acronyms for whatever reason. But in any case, this is a group that also is attempting to galvanize activity from multiple countries that are interested in genomic medicine. And they are very focused on some of the things that are listed here, information, technology, data standards and so forth. And there are many areas of overlap in quitting education. And they actually now are collaborating with G2MC and I think are providing some of the sort of staff coordination and website development resources which had been an area of challenge for G2MC since funding for that initiative has been relatively slim. So GA4, GH now, staff are organizing working group meetings on behalf of G2MC. So let me give you a sense of the different working groups that are listed here. I won't go into great detail about each one of them, but these have met at the two previous international meetings and to some extent have maintained an ongoing dialogue. Probably honestly more in some areas than others. Any of you who are involved in working groups know how critical it is to have staff support to keep the ball rolling. And it's only recently that with the Global Alliance that has actually been the case. And so some of these committees have moved farther along than others, I would say. But let me focus now for a moment, since it's probably most relevant to this presentation, on what the actually, education working group goals have been. So as I mentioned, just on the yaki who is a geneticist in Sri Lanka and I co-chair this group, and there have been three things that we've wanted to take on. One is to collect information on what the different training paths in medical genetics are internationally. For example, there are organized and board certified genetics professionals in some countries, maybe not in others. Genetic counseling exists as a discipline in some places and not in others. And so one thing we've wanted to do and frankly haven't gotten very far with productive staff support and we're hoping now that that will change is to collect information, which is not, I suppose you could say the most stimulating past undertake, but a useful one. And so we are hoping at the Athens meeting to get people moving forward on just trying to define the different training paths. Second is a G2MC Grand Rounds and that has moved pretty far and I'll say more about that in just a moment. And then there's been a hope of creating some cases that could be shared and customized in different regions. I'll say more about that in a second. Here's a screenshot of one of the G2MC Grand Rounds presentations and I'll show you in a moment also a list of some of the others that have taken place. This is not an easy thing to do. You'll probably appreciate this. Maybe you already do just from setting up this particular webinar. But when you want to become global, the price you pay of course is that it's at a convenient time only for one small slice of individuals. And this has been hosted by Pajera's group in Sri Lanka and therefore it usually takes place during working hours there, which happened not to be working hours for me, for example, in Alabama. So we've made an effort to make this available both in real time and also to record these and have them available asynchronously. But I've had the pleasure of hosting one of these at 4 or 4.30 in the morning on one occasion or giving talks at 11 p.m. at night. So when you do something global like this, part of the challenge is obviously synchronizing time zones, which is not even possible to do. But anyway, this has been going on now since last May. We took a break from January through May of this year partly to regroup and decide how we want to go forward. And one of the goals of the Athens meeting is to get further discussion about this. But anyway, you can see there have been several sessions. I guess I realize the titles are probably unreadable, but they have included, for example, a really interesting presentation by a group, I believe. I'm not hearing you. That is common there. So there's been, I think, a really excellent group of talks. And they are attended, I would say, on average by about 15 to 20 people with no surprise as concentration of Southeast Asians. Not necessarily because they're more interested, but because the hours are working when that's where it's being hosted. And what we have not really had is a good dissemination of... Bruce, do you cut out? Oh, I'm not sure why. So you were saying you need better dissemination? Yeah, can you hear me now? Yes. Okay, I'm not sure what happened there. I'm sorry. Yeah, so we're really looking to partner with the GIF, the Genomic Alliance group and actually any others to spread the word about these, both in the real time and the recorded. There are far more hits on the recorded than there are live. Another idea we've had is having the hosting take place at different parts of the world at different times so that the live presentations can be... This is a product that actually has been up and running for better part of the past year. And we expect to resume these in May just after the Athens meeting. The third thing are cases. And so we actually have prepared a set of cases. This is one on tuberous chlorosis complex and its treatment. This is one on the use of microarray and diagnosis of a child with autism spectrum disorder. This is one on the diagnosis of cardiomyopathy. And this is one on... Actually, this focuses on incidental findings in the setting of all exome sequencing. And I'll stop to hold these slides for a moment at that point. The premise behind this is that a particular case that you might write, let's... These were all written by me and presented. Actually, I used it as a presentation I gave to a Southeast Asian education group now a couple of years ago. And if you write a case in the U.S., it may or may not work for somebody in another part of the world because, first of all, they may or may not have access to the technology. Secondly, some of the conditions that you may talk about may not be that common in some parts of the world. And thirdly, the kind of context for how genetic medicine is practiced might be different in different places. So you can't assume that the way you do it is the way someone else would do it. What we had in mind was to create cases that would be essentially put into an open source platform and could be modified by local groups. Obviously, they're not going to use them all because some of them just don't make sense in their environment, but many of them would. And they would have the ability to edit them to fit local culture. So if we say, for example, that a genetic counselor gets involved in providing information to the family and this is going to be used in a country that doesn't have genetic counselors, they can change the case so that it uses the staff that are available in that part of the world. So these cases are there. We haven't really posted them in a central place, partly so we didn't have one. There really wasn't an organized website. So at this point in time, you know, there actually are these four cases are pretty well developed. And we've been really kind of on hold waiting to have a place to put them. And again, hopefully that will improve. And maybe with ISCC, it could be an area of shared involvement. Yeah, I absolutely think this is an area where we could collaborate and grow. You're probably familiar with the G2C2 website, Genetic Genomics Competency Center, and we just recently submitted the three cases that the ISCC cases working group created. That might have been why you were still actively involved with ISCC. So they created three cases that are currently posted on the ISCC website. In fact, there's the fourth one now. And those have all been submitted to the G2C2 editorial board for review and inclusion by the five different disciplines that are active in reviewing resources that go into G2C2. So the team is still working on that, but I think just having looked quickly at the reviewers comments, all of those cases have been accepted into the physician discipline category. And so if we get a critical mass of cases, which I think three or four is close to that kind of point, then we're going to adjust the search strategies on G2C2 to have a whole category for cases. So I think if your group has well-developed cases, then I would recommend a submission of those cases to G2C2 to build this body of cases. And we're also working very hard on disseminating G2C2 itself as a repository for resources, but we want to highlight certain aspects of G2C2. So I can see an article kind of evolving that could go on genome.gov, which has a really wide distribution. And we might be able to say, we now have whatever 10 cases that are available through G2C2 and other sources that can be adjusted, as you say, for specific needs of different institutions. So something to keep in mind. Well, you know, we could make that happen pretty quickly, because we do have these four cases that are already written. And although I guess it would help me, since I wrote them all, to see what format you're using so I can synchronize these with those, they don't absolutely have to be exactly the same, I don't suppose, but you get to see how you're approaching it. These have not been reviewed by any peer review system. Certainly I'm glad to let that happen. And then it would be important, I believe, if these are going to be useful to permit some kind of repurposing or editing in different environments, just realizing that to be really helpful, they're going to have to conform to the culture and medicine practice in a given part of the world. But if all that works, certainly as a pilot, we'd be happy to share the cases I've done. That would be great. You and I can connect and I can share some of the templates. But to your second point about revisions here at the Genome Institute, we're also considering an idea of having a library of resources. And there are some mechanisms whereby we could have people check out a case, as you say, and then modify it and then resubmit it to the library. And then that would be a way to allow adjustments, but also make use of the G2C2 platform as a way to disseminate and let people know that the cases are there. That'd be great. And so that would be a pretty low-hanging fruit sort of thing to do. Let me just make a couple of comments in reference to questions you asked as we were setting this up. So what are the unique contributions of ISCC and G2MC? How are they similar and how different? So from my memory of ISCC, and I think it's probably still true, the two things that were, I think, core of it were one, to engage people from different disciplines, not specifically from genetics, and to use that as a vehicle to reach out to physicians. And I think it was mainly physicians in multiple different disciplines. G2MC has not specifically tried to engage professional societies anywhere, and the membership at G2MC, I think, was probably, I wasn't involved when it was set up, mind you, but it was known leaders in genomic medicine in different parts of the world. I don't think there was much more going on than that. So it does not represent professional societies in different countries, and the people who come to the table are mostly individuals who were known for a strong interest in genomic medicine in different regions. So it's not quite the same focus, but I think there's a shared mission, which is if we're going to be successful in integrating genetics and genomics into medicine, we have to engage professionals from a broad sort of platform. It can't only be the aficionados who are familiar with genetics and genomics, but it is a different membership, and I don't think we have any particular reach to G2MC into the professional infrastructure at any of the member countries. So the second point about ISCC would like to invite G2MC to become a member. That was discussed in January, and I have talked with the G2MC Steering Committee about it, and I think what would, my understanding of what's being proposed here is in essence to treat G2MC like another professional society as a member of ISCC. And I think G2MC is happy to be involved that way. Probably what would be helpful, I don't know if this is how things work now, but to have a short formal invitation, which I could then share with the Steering Committee, and then they would presumably agree to accept that, that might be the best way to formalize this. And I don't think too many of the members of the Steering Committee really know much about ISCC other than what I've told them, but if there's any summary of it they could also see would probably be helpful. So the third point about, and by the way it would be really helpful to have that before the Athens meeting in April, because that's where we'll be a face-to-face meeting of the group and be the perfect time to present it. There's a third point about the represented groups needs. I'm not actually sure that, as I mentioned earlier, that that's really the case. Because of the way G2MC was formed, the people who represent different areas are actually quite sophisticated, and the groups that were interested in getting involved largely were those that already had pretty well-developed genomic medicine initiatives, some of which are exceedingly advanced. You're probably somewhat familiar with what's going on in Estonia, for example, which is moved very far towards a major national genomic program. So there's, I wouldn't say that underrepresented groups are as heavily represented as we actually would like them to be. We have now for the Athens meeting specifically reached out to groups in South America and Africa, which were completely unrepresented at previous G2MC meetings, and now there will be some representation. But obviously these are big continents, and we certainly don't have representation across either of those. So there's plenty more to be done. And obviously, although you could argue that other things than genomics are important in the kind of public health environments in many of these areas, there's still, we think, plenty of opportunity in genomic medicine. So we're trying to reach out to them. I don't know that we necessarily have been so far so successful in doing that. So anyway, right now, actually what we've mostly learned is how expert groups in other countries have approached this. And it has been really fascinating to see just how far some groups have gone. We already talked about the sharing of G2MC cases. So that's certainly something we are glad to pursue. And I guess I would add to this disseminating and engaging even ISCC in our Grand Rounds format would be something we'd be quite happy to do. But I think that might be my last slide just wanted to acknowledge Pajera who I don't think has joined because this is probably some crazy hour of the day for him. But in any case, he's worked very closely with me in trying to build this educational working group and really he spearheaded the Grand Rounds. And Jeff Ginsburg is the overall leader of G2MC and provided a lot of the slides that I used to summarize it. So I think that is all I had and hopefully didn't run too far over time. And if there are additional questions, I'd be happy to try to answer them.


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Thank you all very much. It's been a busy day and the coffee breaks are obviously moments of great interaction. We're very honored to be welcoming today the State Secretary to the Foreign Minister, Johanna Sumovori. She's a busy woman these days. Finland's a busy country these days, and we're delighted that she was able to join us. It's a historic moment for Finland, obviously. When I was about 20, my parents came to live in Finland, and in those years there was a bifurcation in many ways in its identity. It was moving towards the West very fast economically, but diplomatically it was equidistant or seemed equidistant at the time. But a succession of visionary Finns guided the country towards its European Union membership in 1995, am I right? And that was, I think, a decisive moment for Finland. It was very warmly welcomed in the European Union, and ever since it's played a significant role and always a positive role in the European Union. Now, I should remind you all that not just does Finland host wider, but it also, with two other actors playing a less important role, provided the significant financial endowment of wider. And so we're extremely grateful for that since it's what allows wider to do in-depth research, the income from that endowment. And of the State Secretary, she's been very active in politics in this country, but she took a three-year break, I believe, to go and live in London as press councillor in the Embassy there. She's been a city councillor and she's obviously also a parliamentary figure. We're very grateful that you've joined us, State Secretary, today at such a busy time for the country, with a historic vote. And you're most welcome now on the podium. Thank you so much. Thank you very much. I hope you can hear me. Greetings, warm greetings from my minister, Pekka Harvester, who is for obvious reasons now very busy in the Parliament House. So we had today quite historic vote in the Parliament. Finland voted in favour of submitting a membership application to NATO by a rate of 188 to 8, if I remember the figures right. So this has been a very historical day for Finland, but I think it's very good to be here today with you, because this is something that resonates with the values and interests of the Cabinet as well, what you do, and also the topics you've been discussing throughout your programme here. So I'm very pleased to be here, and as I said, the Minister sends you all his best regards. The theme of the UNIVider conference, the puzzle of peace, is very topical as we all know. The events that have unfolded in Ukraine, Russia's aggression to Ukraine, and its impact on the global order has made the topic of peace ever more urgent and current. And we are living in an era where the respect for human rights or democratic values and the very fundamental notion of freedom from fear are being challenged to an unprecedented degree. Protracting violent conflicts, climate change, natural disasters and global pandemics have led to an increasing number of people living in fragile and conflict-affected countries. The number of people living in extreme poverty is rising, as well as the number of refugees and internally displaced people. It's been estimated that 20% of the world's population live in fragile states, and by year 2030, over 80% of global poverty will be in countries suffering from violence and fragility. Tackling state fragility and placing emphasis on conflict prevention are ever more urgent. And even though, like here in Finland, we have talked a lot about war, for obvious reasons. There's a war in Europe, a war that has been started by our neighbouring country. And we are talking about joining the military alliance, but we haven't forgotten peace. This is why we do everything we do today, trying to enhance security, but also talking about peace-building and peace and conflict prevention. And it's at the very core of Finland's government programme, as well. One of the main objectives in strategic goal of globally active Finland is peace-building. It states in the heading, Finland is building peace. And it means peace-building throughout the conflict cycle, from preventive measures to reconstruction, and of course, in the midst of the conflict, all those measures needed. On top of this, the long-term effects of COVID-19 pandemic are not yet fully known. There's actually been a kind of a cluster of crises now happening. People were just, and still haven't recovered fully. On the global scale, we still haven't recovered fully from the COVID. There's still a problem in many countries. And on the top of that, we got this new crisis in Ukraine. And I have to say, always when we talk about the Ukraine situation, it's something that we want to remember that we have to keep our eyes on other conflicts going on in different parts of the world, as well. So even though it's, of course, understandable that we living here in Europe are, of course, interested in what happens in Europe, but it doesn't mean that we are kind of slipping off from our other commitments to advance global peace and stability. So Finland wants to do its share in addressing these challenges. And in recent years, there has been a steady shift in our focus toward addressing fragility. Today, we approach fragility through the triple nexus, which we're talking a lot about nowadays, also in the parliament. And it's a shared vision that puts into effect the synergies between members of the humanitarian development and peace community. And I'm sure that you all know all about it. Furthermore, in 2020, this government established the Center for Peace Mediation at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in order to enhance our efforts, our national efforts, even more on this field. So, dear friends, dear participants, Secretary General Antonio Guterres recently remarked that war is becoming increasingly complex and so is mediating peace. And I know that you have addressed in this conference a number of issues aiming at unpacking the increasing complexity of finding solutions to sustainable peace. Topics such as ethnicity, inequality and inclusion, or praetist and social movements, or conflict legacies and post-configure recovery are all parts of the puzzle of the peace. These panels and papers debated sound very interesting, and I wish I had the time to attend some of these sessions. But let me now add a note on Finland's efforts to address peace. Finland places a high priority on conflict prevention, mediation and peacebuilding in our foreign policy, as stated. Finland aims to enhance the significance of conflict prevention and mediation in international organizations as well, including the UN, the OSCE and the African Union. We also promote a comprehensive role for the European Union in mediation and conflict prevention. Cooperation with civil society actors and the research community supports Finland's actions on this. Dialogue and mutual respect are essential elements in peacebuilding and without dialogue, there is little chance of resolving conflicts. Local ownership and understanding the context are key when the aim is peace. We can share our values and experiences, but we cannot force them on others as a condition for dialogue. Finland ranks the number one in many international indexes. For instance, we have been the least fragile country in the world for many years according to the Fund for Peace Fractual States Index. This has provided an opportunity to share our path from a poor conflict-ridden agriculture-based economy at the turn of the 20th century to a post-modern industrial information society. Actually, one of those recent rankings is the UN Happiness Research Index, or Happiness Research, where Finland has now been declared as a happiest country in the world for the fifth time in a row. I have to tell you, I was doing my public diplomacy work in London when we were first time the officially happiest in the world, and I remember that. We tried to do some social media posting on that, and some Finns were, interestingly, joining the conversation and saying, what? This can't be true. Are other nations unhappier? How is this possible? Are we happier? But actually, what they did when they did this research, or what kind of measures they did, or what kind of issues they took into account when defining what constitutes the state of happiness. It wasn't the happiness we feel, it was happiness with something that comes from the society, that you feel secure, you trust in your institutions, your governmental or local institutions, there's a good education system and social welfare model networks, and that is, I think, the reason for the happiness. It's not that we are all the time showing a happy face, it's just that we feel content in what kind of society we live in. Rule of law is something which is also very important to us as a basis for peace, and this is actually something that is now challenged also, and also the international or rule-based order now, for example, with this Russians invasion of Ukraine. Last year, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs established a rule of law centre together with the University of Helsinki, and the purpose of the centre is to connect expertise, produce information and promote the development of the rule of law with different projects, especially in developing countries. Finland plays a high value on gender equality as well and inclusion in peace processes, giving voice to marginalised and oppressed groups and fostering, they're having a say in decision-making processes that affect their lives, are building blocks to a more sustainable future, and by saying that I mean meaningful inclusivity, meaningful participation in decision-making processes. Respect and dignity are also key components of inclusion. We encourage the implementation of UN Security Council resolutions 1325 on women, peace and security and 202050 on youth, peace and security, and I have to always say this in this context that we are the first country that outlined our first national action plan on youth, peace and security, and we have been doing lots of, a lot of outreads for different, with different countries, with our like-minded partners and different other partners who are looking at this fair, so it's something that we would be in the future also interested in cooperating on or about. They are integral parts of the peace puzzle which has been mentioned here and they need to be placed high on the peace-building agenda. We're also, of the view, the peace-building humanitarian aid and development cooperation, also known as the triple nexus, which have been mentioned here before, need to be coordinated in a more comprehensive way that has been the case until now. I was actually personally leading the parliamentary committee on crisis management last year and that was a cross-party committee, so there was members of the parliament represented across the political spectrum, including the opposition parties, and everyone agreed on triple nexus and we wanted to also go deeper into what does it actually mean and we were discussing a lot that it have to include the planning stage of different operations or missions, kind of having the common understanding of what the security picture is or the security environment and what kind of measures are needed and also throughout the conflict cycle there should be kind of a good cooperation between different stakeholders, be them humanitarian or development or military or civilian crisis management actors and also that also goes to the assessment of any mission or operation, how did it go, what other lessons learned and that's something that should be, I think, looked in deeper, not only in Finland but also together with our international partners. I was just visiting New York a few weeks ago in the UN peace-building financing high-level meeting and I actually was talking a lot about triple nexus there and one reason was that I believe that triple nexus is something that actually helps to also to kind of contribute or allocate the financing more effectively if all the different stakeholders are kind of contributing to the planning and having this common view as who is doing what, where, when, simple things sound simple, it's not simple in real life but actually the financing part is very important part of it. An example of a long-term perspective is our peace mediation capacity building program with the African Union. We have actually quite new Africa, national Africa strategy in Finland. It was conducted last year and it's a government-wide strategy and it's looking at our political and trade and economic relations with African countries and African partners so it's not development strategy and one of the major themes there is actually security and peace and security and cooperation with African countries in that realm. Since 2009 the program has supported African Union peace mediation missions, trained peace mediators and produced manuals, established annual high-level peace mediators, retreats and supported FEMWISE Africa, the network of African women in mediation. And I have to make a statement on this as well, on gender equality in peace mediation. I think it needs deliberate choices and decisions also from any country and we need more women on high-level peace mediating roles as well. And I think this is something that we have to do also by leading by example and it does mean meaningful participation. It's not just that you have a seat at the table if there's not tangible real possibility to actually have a voice or have an impact on the political processes. I wish to underline that all this has been done in close collaboration and in the spirit of partnership with our African Union colleagues. And to conclude our difference, I gather that the Union wider conference has deepened our understanding on the puzzle of peace I hope and believe and served as an excellent platform for knowledge exchange. Your deliberations are highly valued and welcome and we need evidence-based research and facts to feed the policymaking processes. That's also something that this government has been very active on. There's kind of a commitment part in our government program and one commitment is to be in continuous dialogue and interaction with the scientific community and fact page that kind of enhances our fact-based policymaking as well. And I'm sure that this conference has inspired participants to identify policy decisions to a common effort to achieve SDG 16, peace, justice and strong institutions. So I look forward to seeing the results of your important work, finding its way to peacebuilding policy and practice and I'm sure that we all have a clearer understanding of how puzzle of peace is constructed and works in practice. And my final words say that we do have men at the foreign ministry as well. I just heard that all the visitors from from Minister for Foreign Affairs or guests or participants have been mainly women but we do have men there as well including my minister who as I said since he won't regard so now I have a couple of time for maybe one of the questions and then then I probably have to leave but thank you very much for giving me this opportunity to address you this event. Please any of you who would like to engage the minister be thinking I have a question I'm going to ask her one first but you've touched on a lot of what I was going to ask you about and that is I think the anxiety not just in Africa but in much of the developing world that the industrialized north is now going to turn away from the global south and it's it's quite intense you probably sensed it in new york when you were there and so if there's anything you'd like to add to your comments on that point we they'd be most welcome. That's actually a really good question and I did sense that in New York I had a chance to meet with three U.N. Ambassador, African U.N. Ambassadors, Ambassadors from Ghana and Djibouti and also Ambassador of Ethiopia and they all wanted to bring out this concern of global justice also because some countries for example in the Horn of Africa are now simultaneously suffering from heavy fraud but also they have now they are running out of weed supplies because most of the weed for example is coming from either Russia or Ukraine so there's a food crisis in the making and maybe it could be also said that it already is there it's already there and if we now don't look at that the narrative that for example the Russia is spreading also on an African continent and elsewhere might get more foothold so I think we have to be very active in tackling this food crisis and take our development commitments as serious as before and then also to think look at the strategic messaging what we are now from so-called West you know trying to to put forward and my message was to the to the those ambassadors I had a chance to discuss with that this is not the war in Ukraine it's not about only about Ukraine it's not only about Europe it's a global global crisis because it already has an economic impact on so many countries and the those ambassadors I had a chance to discuss they said that they agreed they already see it in the in their countries the impacts of of this so I think we are all together in this this is not only a European issue and that's why it's ever more important that we as I said we take our commitments seriously which we have done before one question from the floor perhaps uh who would like to ah there's a gentleman there down the aisle and if you wouldn't mind when the microphone comes to you to identify yourself that will be helpful the microphone's coming to you right now yeah my name is Darryl I'm an environmental ecologist um I just have a very quick question and one is that you've informed us that Finland um respects the rule of law and equality what I want to ask you is does Finland achieve justice for all I believe that we are a very rule a rule of law based society and also uh we have a very effective media as well which is always in the the freedom of press rankings at the very top or high and I I think this kind of a watchdog kind of a role that also the media is having uh is very healthy so I think there's the Finnish society is it's based on a kind of a transparency I would say and if there would be a problem uh then it it usually it's it's getting tracked quite quickly and of course in any society they might emerge some problems or or cases that you have to look more into details that it has but have we really been you know on the path of rule of law and that's why this kind of we need this kind of feedbacks feedback loops from from different institutions so uh I I believe that we are we are in a good place in that great well thank you very much the minister has an onward engagement we have to get her off to that um I'd like to thank her very warmly for having joined us here one of your colleagues and the foreign ministry is going to join us on the next panel so the ministry has been very well represented throughout our conference we're really grateful to you for coming today speaking openly about sensitive issues and addressing straight on the questions everybody has on their minds that's typically Finnish so thank you very much no any other way thank you