Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 22, 2013

Caltech’s small size makes its faculty and students incredibly agile when it comes to understanding a broad array of fields: there is a need here to be able to explain your work, and to understand the work of others. Support open data, open access to research, open content and open source. That’s the Caltech advantage!

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Syria Guatemala Open Source Lecture 196

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 10, 2013

From Facebook to Netflix, companies are tracking and analyzing our searches, our purchases, and just about every other online activity that will give them more insight into who we are and what we want. We’ll learn much about things like how (or whether) textbooks get used and which approaches to a specific learning objective work best.

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Profit Data SWF Syria 171

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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News Technology Phone Nonprofit 54

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Save the Children’s Ettoré Rossetti, Director of Digital Marketing & Social Media for Save the Children USA, emailed me an infographic on the impact of the Syria crisis on children. The crisis in Syria is now entering year three and the situation is getting worse for children not better. Seems a little edgy?

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Syria Children Channel Campaign 108

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 30, 2011

Organized by the nonprofit group Access and sponsored by Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Skype, Mozilla and other major tech companies, the conference brought together business leaders, policy makers and online activists, especially from the Arabic-speaking world. When you restrict me from doing this, you violate my human rights."

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Conference Yemen Syria Skype 167