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!

Syria 196

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.

Profit 171

Profit Data SWF Syria 171

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. It is not about the technology, it is not about platforms.

Conference 167

Conference Yemen Syria Skype 167

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

We’re a former grantee and we hope that our work and Gates funding priorities coincide again in the future. We’ve spent a lot of time over the past few years advocating against cuts to the funding that supports our work, by pointing out how amazingly effective this funding is. That’s all of the legal work-up on a treaty and how U.S.

New York 100

New York Boston Washington Africa 100