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CEO’s Update: Fall 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Human Rights Our Human Rights Program continues to focus on helping activists and journalists securely document the stories of human rights abuses worldwide. For example, Martus can now be configured in less than 10 minutes by anyone with basic digital literacy skills. Martus Desktop 4.5 and Mobile Martus 1.2 I hope you join us!

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Doing the Right Stuff Right for Human Rights

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Although reports of the massacre appeared in the United States, Salvadoran army and government leaders denied them and, all too soon, El Mozote was forgotten. Beyond those top organizations, almost no groups had good technology designed for human rights documentation.

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Reflections on the Science Center World Congress

Museum 2.0

I heard from CEOs whose center is the only one in their entire country (Chile), educators who work with students who have never encountered a computer before entering the science center (South Africa), and web managers whose sites are locked behind federal government firewalls and draconian restrictions (Australia).

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Why I’m Scared of the SOPA Bill by Jim Fruchterman

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Department of State just funded us to help LGBT groups in Uganda securely capture documentation of abuses against those communities (again, our funders are not responsible for this post). We work in North Africa Latin America, Asia: most of the places where large scale human rights abuses are going on. government or even (heavens!)

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