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Big News at Benetech (and for me!)

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Connected Civil Society: Applying machine learning and computer vision to document human rights violations and promote accountability in Syria in collaboration with the UN. Ensured that thousands of human rights activists could securely document human rights abuses.

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CEO’s Update: Fall 2014

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There it brought teams of Google and LinkedIn employees to contribute code fixes and key feature enhancements to the open source mobile tools of our nonprofit project partner Mifos , whose mission is to enable financial institutions to become modern and digitally connected providers of financial services to the world’s 2.5 Martus Desktop 4.5

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Recruiting Geeks for Human Rights!

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We help the human rights movement speak truth to power, because we believe each story of human rights abuse is a tool for justice. Maintain and develop our team's automated data processing and analysis infrastructure (POSIX-environment command line tools built on bash, make, python, and R).

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Benetech's Human Rights Spin-off

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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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Benetech: President's Update

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with the tools to teach reading to adolescent and adult beginning readers, such as those with developmental disabilities. Route 66 pairs this reading content with teaching tools and learning exercises, effectively empowering any literate person to become an early reading instructor. This is a huge legal victory!

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Benetech Truths

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Benetech has a record of success in securing funding, creating partnerships, and delivering products and services that are useful tools for the social sector. We seek to evaluate our people and our work, and to continue to document and improve our procedures. 2 We get stuff done. We honor our commitments to all our stakeholders.

Literacy 145
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Big News in Benetech's Human Rights Program: New Funding and Enhanced Tools!

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Secure tools to document human rights violations, such as those developed by Benetech’s Human Rights Program, have become critically important in efforts to pursue reform and seek justice—and in keeping human rights defenders safe. And they need to be able to trust those tools.

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