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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APRIL 21, 2023

One private school set a reasonable goal of $4,000 to help raise relief funds for the earthquakes in Syria. Montana is the first state in the United States to implement a TikTok ban and Congress is actively exploring a national ban. Another participant from the Greatest Generation achieved tremendous success through her campaign.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 30, 2011

The event kicked off with talks by two activists who may go to prison as a result of their online activities; Alaa Abd El-Fatah, an Egyptian blogger and software developer and Thai journalist Chiranuch Premchaiporn. Premchaiporn was charged after comments allegedly insulting the Thai royal family appeared on a website she edited.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 19, 2009

Over 8 weeks this last fall, I had the privilege of working with NGOs from Afghanistan, Cambodia, Iraq, Lebanon and Syria, in a series of trainings that took place in Phnom Penh, Beirut and Istanbul. My first presentation discussed principles of documentation, developing databases, and analysis.

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