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Building a Global Library

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The WSIS conference is going on, human rights activists are getting beaten up, and we're talking about how information technology can help build a better world. I gave my talk here on Tuesday, entitled: Building a Global Library for People with Print Disabilities. Tunisia is very interesting this week!

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High Tech Approaches for Building Social Enterprise:

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

An article of mine just appeared in the Social Enterprise Reporter, entitled High Tech Approaches for Building Social Enterprise. The SER is one of the leading publications in the social enterprise field, and I think it's now one of the membership benefits of joining the Social Enterprise Alliance.

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Crowdsourced data is not a substitute for real statistics

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Guest Beneblog by Patrick Ball, Jeff Klingner, and Kristian Lum After the earthquake in Haiti, Ushahidi organized a centralized text messaging system to allow people to inform others about people trapped under damaged buildings and other humanitarian crises. We think that this is important and valuable.

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How Open Source Sparks Innovation and Advances Social Good

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I describe the open source tools Benetech builds; clarify why it is important that cybersecurity tools in particular are open; explain how Benetech’s culture of “open” shapes its product development as well as broadly serves its social mission; and reflect on the reasons why the open source ethos is well suited for creating social impact.

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Ethics and Responsibility in Technology-for-Good: A Human-Centered Approach

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Context matters Building technology solutions for the social sector isn’t purely an armchair exercise, based on the thrill of empowering people in principle. As toolmakers, our ultimate impact is measured by what other people build with our tools. Let me explain further.

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SocialCoding4Good Going International with Random Hacks of Kindness

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Its mission is strongly aligned with our own at our SocialCoding4Good project: build awareness of technology serving humanity, engage technical volunteers to contribute their time and talents to design and develop it, and foster cross-sector collaboration to amplify its impact.

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A Call for Millions: Ending the Global Book Famine for the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I have good news: For $5 million a year, we can build a global library that provides tens of millions of people around the world who are blind, low vision, or dyslexic free access to books that will work for them. because we rely on the community to build the digital library.

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