Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 12, 2014

They decided that it is fair use both to create a full-text searchable database of copyrighted works and to provide those works in alternate formats that are accessible to patrons with disabilities. Furthermore, they even decided the Authors Guild did not have standing to bring the suit in the first place.

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Accessibility Copyright Law Library 205

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2007

That means you can collect a whole bunch of data from specimens and have a database that links that segment of DNA to a unique or nearly unique species. It also means you can build a very cheap device to gather this data: Dan and Winnie were talking about something well under $100.

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Life Sample Government Database 100

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 16, 2018

We have to realize that our questioner is asking us a question they don’t realize they are asking; they are asking how a database can help their community! A database! Just in the San Francisco Bay Area, we convinced eleven organizations that collectively spend seven figures developing their own databases of this information.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 21, 2006

They are using our Analyzer human rights database system to collect information about the victims in Omid, which is then published to the website. Our Human Rights Program has been advising and working with the ABF since 2002.

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Iran Library Database Websites 100

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 21, 2006

While researching these incidents, HRW compiled a database of reported RAB killings based primarily on reports from Bangladeshi media, Bangladeshi human rights groups and HRW's own research. HRW concludes that between June 2004 and October 2006, the RAB killed at least 367 people in Bangladesh and tortured hundreds more.

Bangladesh 100

Bangladesh Data Analysis Policy 100

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 3, 2004

Benetech will conduct statistical analysis of the Commission's four databases, including personal testimonies, gravesite registries, military unit deployment records and a retrospective mortality survey.

Timor 100

Timor Analysis Statistics Database 100

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 18, 2010

Martus allows human rights defenders to create a searchable and encrypted database of sensitive information from witnesses and victims - and back this data up remotely to their choice of publicly available servers. But the NHRC is developing an information management system that uses our Martus software to keep their data more secure.

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Nigeria Training Train San Francisco 138

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

We were worried because the algorithm (called RSA) is also a central part of Martus , our self-encrypting database that backs itself up to a network of servers. By Patrick Ball On 14 February 2012, the New York Times reported that a Swiss team had found a weakness in a key algorithm used to make secure connections online.

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Public Generation Problem Analysis 150

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

I encourage groups to begin collecting data as part of their basic program activities, and I make the claim that it will eventually allow them to connect their data to other, larger databases and maybe begin to take advantage of big data. This database should be critically important for understanding poverty at a detailed level.

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Uruguay Luxembourg New York Database 100

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 22, 2006

Protecting Guatemala's National Police Historical Archive A Guest Blog By Ann Harrison Benetech Communications Director Since 2003, Benetech's Martus information management software has helped human rights activists create encrypted databases and back up their data remotely to their choice of publicly available servers.

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Guatemala National Switzerland Camera 124

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

These documents, officially known as the significant acts database (SIGACTS), add new insights to the ongoing debate on how many casualties have occurred in Iraq since the beginning of the war. In a commendable effort, they are recoding the SIGACTS data to correct coding errors and in order to match it with their own database.

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Iraq Data Timor Press 134

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 8, 2007

“The One Place” – a single global database for accessible content on top of all of the other, partial databases. But, I thought I'd share some of these ideas so people have some picture of what we're thinking about.

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Challenge Wisconsin Phone Voice 100

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 16, 2006

I think only a nonprofit could roll in with that role on a national level with field people with laptops and cell or satellite phone Internet connections going out and getting people connected with a national database and volunteers manning phone lines or bringing phone to those without. Information management on a large scale.

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Hurricane Disaster National Phone 100

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 1, 2010

Another Schwab social entrepreneur, Richard Jefferson of Australia-based CAMBIA, spoke on behalf of greater transparency in patent databases as a crucial start in realizing greater access to the knowledge embedded in patents.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 29, 2011

We can share that we have multiple K-12 organizations using Bookshare in those counties, as far as we understand the results of a search for those areas in our organization database.

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Student Accessibility New Jersey Learning 145

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 30, 2011

This has significant implications for database developers who must create tools that do not distort the information being captured or mislead decision makers with flawed analytics. He urged participants to remember that the reason the world pays attention to human rights activists that they speak truth to power.

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Conference Yemen Syria Skype 167

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 25, 2010

Microsoft doesn’t actually host a database of these images: they make their tech available for free to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), a nonprofit group that has the mission of combating child abduction and exploitation. And then, Bing won’t serve up that image if it’s requested in a search result.

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Cisco Images Files Children 118

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 18, 2010

Benetech staff member Vijaya Tripathi has trained human rights workers in the DRC to use our Martus data management tool to create searchable and encrypted databases - and back their data up remotely to publicly available servers.

Congo 124

Congo Support Africa National 124

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 19, 2009

My first presentation discussed principles of documentation, developing databases, and analysis. I focused on the importance of this approach when developing successful documentation and database strategies. Each of us drew on case studies and lessons learned from our own work.

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Cambodia Training Train Sri Lanka 104

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 13, 2011

Working with groups that range from front-line activists to truth commissions and war crimes tribunals, we’re using databases, data security and statistical analyses to realize positive change. Our team is helping activists and organizations worldwide ensure that the truth matters.

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Conservancy Norway Congo Sweden 140

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

It allows human rights defenders to create a searchable and encrypted database of sensitive information from witnesses and victims - and back this data up remotely to their choice of publicly available servers. Martus is a secure software application designed to gather, organize and back up human rights information.

Congo 100

Congo Training Train Africa 100

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 22, 2010

These databases may be useful collections of cases, and organizing information in this form enables many non-statistical descriptions of violence. Some of the other sources for the authors’ conclusions are convenience samples.

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Congo Sample Statistics Authoring 118