Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 10, 2013

From Facebook to Netflix, companies are tracking and analyzing our searches, our purchases, and just about every other online activity that will give them more insight into who we are and what we want. That’s what inspired me to start Benetech , a nonprofit tech company, over 20 years ago. Big Data is all the rage in Silicon Valley.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

Whether it’s Microsoft transforming the PC software industry, or Google or Facebook, it’s clear that the world is different because these companies exist. The difference is that the social entrepreneur pursues change at scale primarily as a tool for social justice, not private enrichment. Credit: Martin, Roger L. and Osberg, Sally R.,

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

At Benetech he’s learning about the nonprofit world and making contacts that he’ll use when he launches his next business, after he finishes his MBA at Babson College. She hopes to use the tools she learned at Benetech – including new programming languages, codes and statistics – to work on human rights projects around the world.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 30, 2011

Organized by the nonprofit group Access and sponsored by Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Skype, Mozilla and other major tech companies, the conference brought together business leaders, policy makers and online activists, especially from the Arabic-speaking world. We talk about values-based approaches to helping activists.

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