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Protecting Guatemala's National Police Historical Archive

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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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Improve Your Fundraising Approach and Skills at NetSquared Meetups

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Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. A Free Database Tool from Google. Guatemala City, Guatemala: Pechakucha Guatemala — Historias Digitales Vol. Tuesday, October 10, 2017. Columbus, Ohio: Nonprofit IT Forum. Decatur, Illinois: Free and Low-Cost Resources for Nonprofit Software.

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A NetSquared Happy Holidays

Tech Soup

Boston, Massachusetts: DataBasic Intro Workshop — Learn 3 New Tools for Finding Stories in Data. Honolulu, Hawaii: Bi-monthly Code for Hawaii Project Night. Guatemala City, Guatemala: #Tecday2015 del #CampusTec. San Francisco, California: SFN2's 2015 Meet, Mingle, and Make Merry Holiday Happy Hour!

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Wikileaks War Data Reveal Underreporting of Iraqi Civilian Casualties

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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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Training Afghani NGOs in Cambodia

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This type of documentation is often a critical step in the large-scale data analysis projects conducted by Benetech’s Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) in partnership with human rights organizations. My first presentation discussed principles of documentation, developing databases, and analysis.

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Benetech: President's Update

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Based on hitting that number two years early, we’re now projecting that we could serve perhaps twice as many students, 200,000, by the 2012 milestone date. We’re helping the environmental movement become more effective through using Miradi to manage its conservation projects and to better steward environmental assets.