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Social Enterprise Alliance Summit

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The environment is also conspiring to make this a hot ticket: social enterprise and social innovation are big this year following our little global economic blip. So, we're expecting a great turnout from our international peers in the social enterprise movement.

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Recruiting Geeks for Human Rights!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We use free and open source software whenever possible, but we're pragmatic and work with what our human rights monitoring and advocacy partners need, so our environment is a pretty eclectic mix. Data archeology: recover data from ancient files in odd formats.

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The Tech Awards - Technology Benefiting Humanity

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Awards were presented in five areas: Environment, Economic Development, Education, Equality and Health. A Guest Beneblog by Teresa Throckmorton, Benetech's CFO Walking into the Santa Clara Convention Center last night looked very much like so many other black tie events – but that’s where the similarity ended.

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Kipp and Philip of the Social Development Network in east Africa

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

They felt these new initiatives would all contribute to a better human rights environment in the region. Kipp explained that they wanted to take a broad approach to improving human rights, and so had expanded into other areas in the social sector.

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Benetech Truths

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Our work has significant impact on users, partners, and the fields of social enterprise, human rights, disability and the environment. While respecting individual privacy and our other values, we foster a collaborative work environment through open communication. We honor our commitments to all our stakeholders.

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Ethics and Responsibility in Technology-for-Good: A Human-Centered Approach

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The cost of prototyping and deploying new technology tools is now extremely low and data has the potential to accelerate social progress in areas ranging from poverty to human rights, education, health, and the environment.

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Work on the Biggest Social Challenges of Our Time!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Success in this position means you have built and delivered products that have scaled in the marketplace, understand the ins-and-outs of the technology sector, and are able to foster collaborative environments between diverse groups and organizations.

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