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Testimony From Benetech’s Daniel Guzmán Helps Establish Legal Precedent and Convictions for Forced Disappearance in Guatemala

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Guzmán and the other statisticians, programmers, demographers and data analysts of Benetech’s Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) believe that scientific arguments can help clarify the past and end impunity. But in order to prosecute perpetrators of human rights violations, the courts rightly demand evidence.

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Leveraging Impact through Technology (LIT)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Yet those who qualify represent but a small fraction of the demographics that can benefit from accessible books. In the U.S., Bookshare is allowed to serve only students with a legally qualifying print disability per the Chafee Amendment to the Copyright Act.

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India's Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The top six they identified were Water, global warming, globalization backlash, TB/HIV, oil peak prices and India's demographic challenge (one of the youngest populations in the world). One of the more interesting sessions was the discussion of the main risks India is facing. and very different.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Gone is the de facto censorship that resulted from publishers of texts in alternative formats trying to cater to their largest demographic. Since any user can contribute a scanned book to the site, it takes just one person to add a book to the collection.

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Understanding Income Inequality

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

How do national-level demographic and labor market features shape the Uruguayan outcomes, in comparative perspective? In cross-national perspective: How do these outcomes in Uruguay compare with those in 50 other middle- and high-income countries (including several in Latin America)? Which outcomes/patterns are unusual? Which are widespread?

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