Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 17, 2011

Then they used spatial statistical techniques to show that the pattern of aggregated text messages predicted where the damaged buildings were concentrated.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 9, 2013

The investments that Amazon, Apple and Google, among others, are making in aggregating Spanish-language digital content signal their priority on developing the Spanish-language markets in Latin America. Now we, too, are investing major efforts in aggregating Spanish-language titles.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

In the case of J-FLAG, Martus enables the organization to protect the identity of victims of abuse who come forward to tell their stories, to secure the information from their interviews, to report on the types of crimes documented, and to aggregate evidence for future court proceedings.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 16, 2018

We promised not to criticize anybody’s database publicly, but we did tell them how their database compared to the other ten in aggregate. Just in the San Francisco Bay Area, we convinced eleven organizations that collectively spend seven figures developing their own databases of this information. You won’t be surprised what we found out.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 11, 2014

Technology lowers the cost of and barriers to listening to the voice of individuals in disadvantaged communities, responding to their needs, and aggregating large amounts of data to measure overall effectiveness and shape policy interventions.

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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. It wasn’t a term in use in 2001, but the Napster peer-to-peer model of information distribution was the inspiration for Bookshare.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

The Benetech team is very excited about helping with this important application: we’ve already built an initial prototype of the app for Kipp and his partners to evaluate.

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