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APRIL 10, 2013

This post originally appeared as part of an online debate about How Big Data Can Have a Social Impact, which the Harvard Business Review Blog Network hosted jointly with the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship. Right now I''m in Oxford, England, for the annual Skoll World Forum! Big Data is all the rage in Silicon Valley.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

This is a guest blog from Anna Reid, an Amherst student who interned with Bookshare.org International this past summer. An example of a Hindi phrase translated into a phonetic Braille code My internship consisted of two basic components. I received a copy of her reflections and asked if I could share it with more people.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

I wrote about that visit in my last blog post: Digital Divide Data: our Partner in Laos. Moreover, they were produced with techniques and skills that led to products unlike the millions of examples of mass produced products we saw in the tourist markets.

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