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Recruiting Geeks for Human Rights!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Check out recent press coverage of our work, featuring the head of our human rights team, Dr. Patrick Ball, in Foreign Policy magazine and NPR's On The Media. Coordinate analysis and writing work with human rights monitoring and advocacy organizations, academic collaborators, and courts throughout the world.

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International Human Rights Day 2011

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Here’s a sample of our accomplishments: Martus , our secure, open-source information management software for human rights defenders continued to empower many human rights groups worldwide to secure thousands of stories of human rights violations and to use this information strategically to advance their causes.

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NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up

NTEN

This Challenge encourages innovations with mobile technologies in human rights investigations and advocacy. Shannon Turlingtion blogs about wikis , Open Source, and changing the way we "manage" participation. NetSquared is partnering with UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center for a Mobile Innovation Challenge.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Free Ranger Rick, Green Geekery, and Blog Day is Next Week!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" New Realisties in Online Advocacy " tagged and Jason from Democracy in Action. And if you're looking for some fabulous manuals for open source software, check out the Floss Manuals. I know there is a similar cooperative in the Bay Area called Tech Underground. Are there others? Global NpTech. What's Hiafux ?

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50 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

This iPhone/iPad app that allows you to easily flip through your favorite news sources and magazines. A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. Flipboard :: flipboard.com. A must-download for nonprofit Twitterers! FrontlineSMS :: frontlinesms.com.

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Collaborative Technologies for Social Impact: How Survivors Connect leverages the web and you can, too!

Amy Sample Ward

I originally wrote this feature for the World Pulse magazine. Survivors Connect is an organization supporting activists and building survivor advocacy networks using collaborative technologies to end modern-day slavery and human trafficking. WordPress is an open source blogging platform that lets you have any number of authors.

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Women's Global Green Action Network: An Interview with Melinda Kramer

Have Fun - Do Good

So our first exchange that we did with Global Exchange was called "Transformative Advocacy in Bolivia." Melinda: There is a new magazine that is coming out, that I recommend people stay attuned to, which is called World Pulse. Britt: Are there any books, movies or websites that inspire you, or that you can recommend?

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