Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

For example, a really bright student who can pull everything together just before the exams might present with a red light a third of the way into the quarter, but still be ok. For example, an accessible version of a key book or item of course content. He was quite realistic about the limitations of the system.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 22, 2013

Classic example is a math textbook, where the math equations and diagrams are all presented as images in digital textbooks. Two examples of this are: Bookshare permits the stripping of fingerprints out of its digital books when used to create master documents for Braille production.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 28, 2011

The correlation found in Haiti is an example of a "confounding factor". Here are two other examples of confounding effects. A correlation was found between building damage and SMS streams, but only because both were correlated with the simple existence of buildings.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

For example, this summer, SocialCoding4Good organized “code sprints” at Google and LinkedIn during the companies’ volunteer service events, GoogleServe and LinkedIn for Good InDay. For example, Martus can now be configured in less than 10 minutes by anyone with basic digital literacy skills. billion poor and unbanked. Martus Desktop 4.5

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 13, 2016

For example, I extracted many insights about the international development field reading books like Easterly’s Tyranny of Experts or Maren’s Road to Hell. He’s a geek (former Microsoft Research guy) who is making the case that technology doesn’t make the kind of social impact it claims to deliver.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 13, 2011

I just spent a couple of days in Vancouver with the team at the Public Knowledge Project , a terrific example of an open source social enterprise. Their largest project is Open Journal Systems, software for running a scholarly journal.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 17, 2009

With all the energy around effectiveness and transparency, PWX is a great example of how to operate a network of hundreds of projects in different communities, with the detailed project information available to donors and partners. Wondering about whether a proposed project duplicates one already built? You're known by the company you keep!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 7, 2012

I used the example of Kristen Cibelli, one of our field human rights workers, who got a mini-grant to go to meet with grassroots human rights groups in Liberia. And there were plenty of other examples of how modest innovation funding had led to new programs of major impact.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

To better understand why promoting “breathing space” for creativity is crucial for copyright to achieve its purpose of encouraging innovation, consider some examples from Benetech’s work that demonstrate how copyright exceptions can create a framework for innovation in action. often leads the way towards that better tomorrow.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 28, 2014

Select examples of Labs initiatives in which he was instrumental include: SocialCoding4Good , a major tech volunteerism initiative bridging the open source software, nonprofit, and corporate tech communities. Additionally, Gerardo helped conceive our major new effort to ignite new tech social enterprise through Benetech Labs.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

For example, instead of a 10X return to investors, we’re looking for a 10X reduction in the cost of delivering a social good unit—say, an accessible book to a student with a print disability, or a gallon of clean water to an underserved community in a developing country.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 15, 2010

For example, I almost always stay with one of my cousins in New York City. Do you have an example of penny-wise, pound foolish travel ideas that backfired? * Benetech will give me $50 a night in lieu of staying in an expensive hotel. After personnel, travel costs are one of our biggest expenses. What’s your travel tip?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 7, 2011

Commenter Iraqi Bootleg might have some very helpful ideas/examples here.] Let’s call our example professional Captain Lopez. To continue in this direction, let’s look at how people use this information. The people who are in most need of information about humanitarian disasters are the organized responders.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 3, 2011

It shows how crunching the numbers plus a great data visualization approach, offers a great example of how technology can really serve humanity! Zerofootprint is an exciting social enterprise, and one I hope to see gain expanded adoption.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

For example, our Bookshare online library for the blind, uses several different social enterprises to do data entry and proofreading work on textbooks. Our first partner in this work was Digital Divide Data, an organization that has an outstanding training program in the area of data entry and outsourcing.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 5, 2008

Miradi is a great example of how technology can be used to more fully benefit humanity: now in the field of improving the environment! I'm excited because it's another example of top-quality software created by our technical team in partnership with the conservation movement. Miradi just launched and we're busy signing up users!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

It is supremely ironic that they have been systematically locked out of that content over the last decade through: collateral damage: technology designed to defeat piracy stopping accessibility technology, rights confusion: publishers turning off text-to-speech access because of authors'' claims (which I think are pretty bogus) that these are covered (..)

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 6, 2011

Take for example Hipster Haiku in which the author rages against her urban setting, a far cry from the outdoor scenes set by Bash?. This form of poetry has risen in popularity in the west, though it has come a long way from its beginnings in feudal Japan.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2013

For example, we recognized that Congressional staffers, elected officials, and political appointees across the spectrum with few exceptions are excited about innovative approaches that better solve a social challenge with the same (or less!)

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 10, 2009

But, I think Stevie Wonder is the top person in connections (example, when Stevie dedicated I Just Called to Say I Love You to Nelson Mandela while he was imprisoned, his music was banned in South Africa). The idea is to have stories about people in the past, and the connections between people, with a wiki approach with some extra structure.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

We have been assuming that an exception to help the blind and disabled has to be a great example of a provision that meets the three step test. Many library users are active book purchasers, and we want to encourage blind people who can afford accessible books to purchase them, without denying them access to a library for that content.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 16, 2011

The goal of the DIAGRAM R&D Center is to greatly improve access to graphical information for students with print disabilities (for example, helping blind students get access to important graphics inside textbooks).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 3, 2016

We see the new recommended language as replacing antique and obsolete language (“reading disability from organic dysfunction” is one example) with language that describes functionally someone with a disability that gets in the way of reading print. Here are the three changes of note: Clarifying the definition of a disability that qualifies.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 20, 2010

For example, European and American governments, publishers and entertainment industries should actively support the proposed Treaty for Access for the Visually Impaired under current consideration at WIPO. The great thing about my proposal is that we already have examples of companies, universities, governments and media doing these things.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 17, 2015

It is the primary successful example of the UN’s World Intellectual Property Organization Development Agenda, and will lay the groundwork for more advances in the Development Agenda. · . · It supports international human rights treaty commitments, especially the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. ·

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 13, 2010

For example, we combined the business strategies of Amazon and (the old) Napster to create Bookshare to bring accessible talking books to students who can't read print books because of their disabilities. Social services that were innovative thirty years ago now need to be rebuilt to better meet the needs of today.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 2, 2007

Of course, Sally Osberg kept the social side of the equation by providing real examples of social entrepreneurs making impacts (while working with corporations). I followed up with examples from my journey from tech entrepreneur to social entrepreneur.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 29, 2009

For example, the traditional approach is for an agency to issue a Request for Comment. The systems for participating in government have been long established and formalized. They often make joint discussion hard. Then, people have a certain number of weeks to post comments, but can't comment on each others' work real-time.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 10, 2011

One hypothetical example of this issue that came up in the meeting was SMS traffic after a large earthquake and tsunami. If the groups we're working with don't succeed, then we don't succeed. Selection bias was one of Patrick's core scientific topics: the tendency of humans to believe that the information they get represents the big picture.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 25, 2009

The current president of Sudan is a good example of the challenge. The ICC is still in its infancy: one of the challenges the movie brings up is the inability to get most of its indictees into the court.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

For example, to answer questions such as in which precinct do the most pedestrian stops occur? Sara LaPlante, NYCLU’s data and policy analyst laid out two clear goals for us. First, provide data visualizations to help average New Yorkers contextualize their own personal experiences.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

They should be great examples of accessible textbooks, and allow teachers in training to access them, parents, assistive technology developers and so on. These new textbooks will be available to everybody, with or without a disability, for free, globally.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 15, 2012

For example, through our DIAGRAM Center , we are now advancing tools and best practices to tackle the next big challenge in book accessibility: making the increasing numbers of pictures and graphics accessible.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 6, 2010

Nick Salafsky used the death of George Washington as an example of what happens when you don't use evidence in making decisions. The people attending all believe that we have to focus much more on conservation outcomes: are there more tigers? are there more gorillas? When that didn't work, they bled him again.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

He inspired us, he inspired each one of his children, by his example, by the people and pursuits he loved, to keep our impact on other people in mind. He was a great example of a dad. Newman’s message, and Dad’s, was that a gentleman was always aware of his impact on others. Our Dad was always aware of his impact on others.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

My husband asked his friend for an example, and his friend gave him the name of a newish and off-the-beaten path book. His friend said that sounded nice but thought that if I wanted to have access to current books and a wide variety, I really needed a Kindle. Guess what?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 13, 2014

Take for example a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) rights-focused organization with which we work. The keys to unlock the encrypted data should be kept securely by the user, and not shared with third parties who can be hacked or forced to give up the keys to repressive governments.

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