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Two Leaders Join Benetech’s Senior Team!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

When connecting with reporters, she draws heavily on her own experience working in the newsroom for leading PBS news programs. Nadine’s extensive experience in policy communications will allow us to build upon our recent efforts—including rolling out the updated Benetech brand identity and redesigned website—and taking them to the next level.

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Snowden and Techies: First Do No Harm!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

As we collect sensitive information about health, ethnicity, LGBT identity, refugee status, experience of violence, we need to encrypt that information, to avoid making the people we serve, targets or victims by current or future governments! Snowden taught us that governments are vacuuming up every shred of communications they can.

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Thank You, Gerardo!

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These efforts helped drive Benetech’s new work on accessible widgets, experiments with scalable vector graphics (an open standard for rendering graphics in web browser, developed by W3C), annotation as a tool for accessibility, and more.

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SocialCoding4Good Going International with Random Hacks of Kindness

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It’s a terrific experience to spend a weekend hacking for social good. RHoK Global presented a perfect opportunity to support the sustainability of an existing partner and thus connect individual developers and corporate teams around the globe with the chance to apply their energy, enthusiasm and experience for social benefit.

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Recruiting Geeks for Human Rights!

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Experience or interest in: Qualitative text mining & analysis. Strong interest or experience with our main tools: Python and R. Interest or experience with other technologies we use, including Java, LaTeX, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, bash scripting, make, SWeave, BibTex, Weka, svn, Django, and xml processing.

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Benetech, Bookshare and Google Summer of Code

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My first-ever experience with Google Summer of Code has been with Benetech. When I’m looking down the road I have traveled, it has been a wonderful and fruitful experience. I’m Thushan Ganegedara, a 3 rd year undergraduate from the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.

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Benetech's Human Rights Spin-off

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We're looking for someone with great human rights experience with tech cred, or someone with great tech experience with human rights/social justice cred! We hope our own successful experience with HRDAG’s spin-off, too, inspires other social enterprises to shape their own spin-off strategies and fuel their innovation process.

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