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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

Instead of providing a scanning tool for independent reading, Bookshare would aggregate the scanning activity of the entire community. Benetech successfully spun off our data team as the Human Rights Data Analysis Group, an independent NGO.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

billion monthly active users around the world access the platform through mobile, while on any given day, almost half of its users are mobile only. Several governments have recognized the power of Twitter relations, actively seeking to connect with their peers around the world. Facebook reports that almost three quarters of its 1.2

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

Back in the day, my generation prided itself on our social consciousness and activism, but we weren’t nice at all. I know that may sound very ‘soft’ as political analysis goes, and I also know that no amount of niceness "fixes" Syria or Ukraine or human trafficking or global warming.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 19, 2009

This type of documentation is often a critical step in the large-scale data analysis projects conducted by Benetech’s Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) in partnership with human rights organizations. My first presentation discussed principles of documentation, developing databases, and analysis.

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