Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 10, 2013

From Facebook to Netflix, companies are tracking and analyzing our searches, our purchases, and just about every other online activity that will give them more insight into who we are and what we want. Many activities in the social sphere also generate lots of information. Big Data is all the rage in Silicon Valley.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

Not every student in my class is focused on the same policy issue. They will be placed with organizations working on policies in these areas, many part of large international networks, nonprofits, and government. In fact the range of issues is pretty wide ranging. Facebook reports that almost three quarters of its 1.2

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

This is not to say that social entrepreneurs don’t work in the policy and advocacy space. The common link among our projects is information technology, which can be applied to just about every aspect of the social sector. One of our insights is that so much of social change is about pushing around information.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2013

They plan to do it through policy and regulatory changes. The real bottleneck now is anti-competitive policies that keep prices unaffordable. ZDnet describes it as the product of sensors, technology and networking all coming together to allow buildings, infrastructure and other resources to swap information.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 30, 2011

Organized by the nonprofit group Access and sponsored by Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Skype, Mozilla and other major tech companies, the conference brought together business leaders, policy makers and online activists, especially from the Arabic-speaking world. Google itself, he said, does not have a spotless record.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2017

.” Trend watch summarizes key global trends that make this time in history seem uncertain, chaotic, and toxic beginning with online and the rising numbers that exist inside a filter bubble that serves them information, ideas and news (some of it fake!) that serves to confirm what they already think. The result? Rising polarization.

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