Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 18, 2014

Success in this position means you have built and delivered products that have scaled in the marketplace, understand the ins-and-outs of the technology sector, and are able to foster collaborative environments between diverse groups and organizations.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 9, 2013

We trust that this is the beginning of a thriving Spanish-language Bookshare program and we’re looking forward to partnering with many more publishers and other collaborators in the global effort to provide accessible content in Spanish to people with print disabilities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 4, 2009

Skills around technology, creativity, critical thinking, communication and collaboration. FreshBrain is focused on an important problem - filling the gap in the education that our teens receive, specifically in the area of 21st Century Skills.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Against each of these questions we are targeting projects on which we collaborate with some of the leading experts in the field. Through intense collaboration, we are advancing open tools and standards so that accessibility is built into mainstream products. How can we make tactiles easier to produce, use and share?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Three of my peers had really great ideas for software for solving significant problems in their work, and I’m still excited about these possibilities for collaboration. The Skoll Foundation convened an event the day before CGI where at least thirty Skoll Award winners got together, and our conversations continued throughout the event.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

By then they were collaborating on projects to add more books appealing to young boys, holiday books, books about Ireland, Scotland and Wales, mysteries, and science fiction. He moved to Pennsylvania to be closer to her. They worked on projects with many other Bookshare volunteers at the same time.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 15, 2012

This core value means that we include our partners and user communities in planning our products, collaborate with them as we develop our technology solutions, and therefore provide services that are responsive to the real world needs of real people.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

It's a place to plant seeds for future collaborations. of these presentations will end up on the web soon. And, the networking is also great (because of who the performances attract). Well, I need to head off to get my brain packed with another day of cool ideas. I'm glad Jeff Skoll kept asking me if I was going to TED: now I know why!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 15, 2014

Furthermore, the accessibility community can work together to prepare the ground for providing accessible books for people around the world.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

The process took us longer than we anticipated, but that is due in large part to the great things we’ve been able to achieve from the collaboration between the technology and the analytical sides of our work. During that time, HRDAG has also grown to a place where it can be self-sustaining.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

Coordinate analysis and writing work with human rights monitoring and advocacy organizations, academic collaborators, and courts throughout the world. Give technical and non-technical presentations of HRP projects at conferences. You will work at Benetech's Palo Alto office; some domestic and international travel may be required.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 10, 2005

One of the reasons we're here is to make sure we're continuously collaborating," said Peggy Gibbs, vice president of business development for Benetech, a Palo Alto non-profit that looks for ways technology can help solve the problems of disadvantaged communities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 1, 2011

While respecting individual privacy and our other values, we foster a collaborative work environment through open communication. We seek to evaluate our people and our work, and to continue to document and improve our procedures. 4 We prefer open to proprietary (internal and external). Benetech seeks to be open internally and externally.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Conclusion Thanks to the commitment of our supporters, partners, collaborators, volunteers, and staff, Benetech is increasing both the scale and scope of our work. We are determined to do far more for the millions of people around the world who most need the benefits of technology and are often the least able to afford them!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 1, 2012

Harkin is also seeking collaborations with business and social enterprise leaders to ensure that federal policymaking is producing real results on the ground in the form of jobs for people with disabilities.

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Hosting San Francisco Law Education 140

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Dr. Karen Erickson, one of the nation's leading experts in literacy for people with disabilities, invented the original concept for Route 66 and collaborated closely with us on the instructional approach and content.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 22, 2010

In her quest to Bookshare International, Viji also collaborates with other international organizations including the International Council for the Education of the Visually Impaired and Sight Savers. Bookshare International now offers texts in English, French, German and Spanish.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

We are also doing far more to spread the word about technology for rights activists, often in close collaboration with major partners in the human rights field such as Human Rights Watch and WITNESS. The information can then be erased from the phone, to safeguard it from the phone’s possible loss or confiscation.

Literacy 158

Literacy eBook United Kingdom Accessibility 158

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

I collaborated with people at Worth Trust to develop techniques that will improve the efficiency and quality of their work. The first was to work, through an organization called Worth Trust , with a group of disabled employees that Bookshare has hired to scan and prepare books for the India collection.

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Accessibility India United States International 100

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

I was delighted when Ron Schultz invited me to collaborate with him on his latest book Creating Good Work – The World’s Leading Social Entrepreneurs Show How to Build a Healthy Economy. What I liked most was the idea to create a body of knowledge that’s truly helpful to prospective and emerging social entrepreneurs.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

We're collaborative, bringing a valuable vantage point that stems from having worked with hundreds of community-based organizations. But access to technology is just the starting point. Through mentors, professional networks and investor forums, ZeroDivide brings a deep knowledge of what makes a venture successful.

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San Francisco California Philanthropy Director 100

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

For websites and secure email, millions of public keys are published online so that people can make secure connections (Martus keys are not published, but they are exchanged directly among users who want to collaborate). The kind of public key math most commonly used for most applications, including Martus, is called RSA.

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Public Generation Problem Analysis 150

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 24, 2006

Plus, getting a chance to eat and talk together is the best thing for serious collaboration. However, the chance to socialize with other people who understand your challenges is very welcome. The real meat of any conference is not the program: it's the networking. And, that's the speciality of the World Economic Forum!

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China Nigeria India Skype 100

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 21, 2006

They have a reliable and accessible source of information and entertainment that they did not have before, and they understand the benefits of working collaboratively to build an internet-based accessible library. Every time we meet with out Bookshare.org subscribers we hear about the positive impact Bookshare.org has had in their lives.

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Library Phoenix Accessibility Files 100

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

The Benetech Open Referral project approaches this problem in a new way, by enabling many different systems to access the same data, and incentivizing the stakeholders to collaborate.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 22, 2013

On this front, we will collaborate with Internews , which will leverage its 30 years of rights-promoting fieldwork around the world to expand the use of Martus by including it in the suite of digital security tools they train on.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 16, 2018

And so many people forget that these key elements at the heart of Silicon Valley, of the tech industry, are controlled by nonprofits created open standards, open interfaces and open source code – almost all developed collaboratively to solve a common problem.

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Software Data Change eBook 118

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

MagnaFlyer was developed through collaboration between SoftOlogy IdeaWorks , a technology invention company that develops computer technology to help people accelerate the acquisition of knowledge, and an Ensight team of low vision specialists.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 11, 2013

We’re actively participating in initiatives such as the Taproot Foundation Pro Bono Summit and the A Billion+ Change campaign , and we’re working closely with tech giants like HP and VMware to match and structure the right opportunities for their engineering teams to collaborate with our Project Partners.

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Open Source Lesson Tech Project 118

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

We can't share the details because of confidentiality provisions, but we look forward to continued close collaboration with the ICC to document the disappearances and homicides and demonstrate the magnitude, trends and patterns of these incidents. You can visit our Colombia Project Page to read more about this work.

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