Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 22, 2013

Address on receiving Caltech’s Distinguished Alumni Award May 18, 2013 Caltech was founded to give back to society through science and engineering, to discover knowledge and apply that knowledge. Support open data, open access to research, open content and open source. I want to advocate for “giving the sleeves off your vest” strategy!

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

It’s no longer a question of whether young people can take leadership, it’s whether the rest of the world can keep up with them.” – Jayamatha Wickramanay, UN Youth Envoy. It won’t be the content creators that change the world in a world where everyone creates content, it will be the content curators. “It

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We write software for people with disabilities as well as human rights and environmental groups. We’re getting very worried that our organization and the people we serve: people with print disabilities (i.e., Bookshare is an online library for people who can’t read standard print books. Unfortunately, that’s not the case.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Last month it was Facebook’s Internet.org initiative to develop very low-cost Internet on mobile phones for people in developing countries. ” The initiative plans to work with two to three countries in year one, expanding to 10 to 12 countries in years two and three to make the Internet much more affordable for ordinary people.

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