Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Most recently, we co-authored a policy brief for the Toda Peace Institute on the age of automation and it implications for civil society. NPR interviewed ethics expert Mason Marks, a medical doctor and research fellow at Yale and NYU law schools, and recently wrote about Facebook’s system, to discuss the ethical and privacy concerns.

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Global Giving

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Similarly, companies like Amazon are making it easy for anyone to create powerful natural language processing or computer vision models without needing to build their own complex deep learning infrastructure. With the formal launch of the EU’s GDPR law (along with thousands of “we’ve updated our privacy policy!”

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

We discussed Chafee, especially in the context of the Amazon text-to-speech brouhaha, and the proposed international treaty that was tabled at the WIPO SCCR meeting in Geneva last month. copyright exemption for serving the print disabled is commonly called the Chafee Amendment: Section 121 of copyright law. copyright law.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 30, 2021

Tech Against Trafficking was born out of a meeting at Wilton Park which brought together 60 stakeholders from key sectors — including policy makers, law enforcement, business, civil society, and academia — for an expert exchange on the creative uses of digital technology in tackling modern slavery.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

This is not to say that social entrepreneurs don’t work in the policy and advocacy space. Third, we pioneered a novel interpretation of the copyright exception for serving people with disabilities that is built into the basic law of the United States. They then place social entrepreneurs in the direct action and systems change box.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

Imagine someone who can offer to mashup your Advocacy Campaign results with Google Maps, or Fundraising Campaigns with Amazon and eBay. I think the bad things will be that big business will try to push the little guy out of the way and some new legislation will to through in record time calling for changes in the child labor law.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Imagine someone who can offer to mashup your Advocacy Campaign results with Google Maps, or Fundraising Campaigns with Amazon and eBay. I think the bad things will be that big business will try to push the little guy out of the way and some new legislation will to through in record time calling for changes in the child labor law.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2018

The bot, available via Twitter and Facebook Messenger, polls its followers (called ‘U-Reporters’) on a range of topics and uses the data to help influence public policy. Amazon and Netflix use algorithms to manipulate our choices of books and movies. Unicef’s bot has had some early successes. And who determines the line?

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Non Profit Quarterly

MARCH 2, 2022

Electronic transaction platforms like Amazon, Uber, Grubhub, and Airbnb have perhaps permanently changed the way that we live and work. In 2021, the five largest platform companies in the world—Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft—accounted for 19 percent of all US market capitalization, valued at a whopping sum of $10.2

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

” You can find it on Amazon, but I’m going to sort of give you a cheat sheet today and share some of the principles in it with you so you don’t have to buy the book. Or maybe even policy makers who have influence over government, you know, budgets, you know, for the CDC or things like that. Who could you engage with?

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 3, 2022

12 More pertinently, Amazon likely uses the service internally to train its own controversial software, Rekognition, described by the company – in terms as vague as they are sinister – as a tool for monitoring ‘people of interest’. At first glance, it’s not entirely obvious what Amazon gets out of the platform.

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Non Profit Quarterly

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The Stanford professors merged all their disciplines and interests—computer science, policy, and even philosophy—and identified the guardrail needed to guide this unwieldy and increasingly powerful sector toward a higher mission. And we need a set of companies that see this not simply as a compliance issue—that is, “Are we following the law?”—but,

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