Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I learned it’s now possible to give immunizations and antibiotics with a needle-free injection system; to capture a blood smear on a small device, called a CellScope, send the image over a cell phone and get a diagnosis; to generate clean electricity for lights and gas for cooking from rice husks and that it is possible to change the world.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

I was able to demonstrate what we do with the files the students help generate, using our Read2Go application on an iPad. I also was able to meet and have dinner with DDD's Chief Operating Officer, Cynthia Hauck, an experienced outsourcing exec based at DDD's Cambodia offices, who has joined DDD recently.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 13, 2009

They have lots of innovations, but my favorite (and how I first heard about them) is their micro-windbelt power generator. There are more and more exciting technology social enterprises all the time. One I'm fond of is Humdinger. I hope they find the right licensees and that I get to buy one of these units.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 18, 2014

Check out the job description for more details and throw your hat in the ring. Join our team and help us make more impact than ever!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 18, 2010

During our first training in April, we dealt with power outages and the failure of the NHRC’s backup generators. On my return trip, we had a weak but steady Internet connection in Abuja and, thanks to the NHRC’s new generator, only one power outage – just after we concluded our last day of training!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 19, 2013

Telling our story is an important way we’re able to accomplish that goal—it allows us to generate the interest and support necessary to develop technology that helps countless people around the world. At Benetech, our goal is to create positive social change through technology.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 14, 2012

It was surreal and incredibly exciting to see these inspiring people, my colleagues and friends, assembled in one place to launch the next generation of Martus. I look forward to planning the next generation of Martus, and to continue to gather input from folks in the field!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Succeeding through partnerships is a recurring theme that runs through all of Benetech’s programs and that informs our activities as we work to deliver the next generation of innovative software solutions for social good.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 25, 2012

HRDAG designed a process to randomly sample the Archive and the archivists began using Benetech’s Martus software to organize and secure information generated from the samples.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 19, 2006

When I first met them several years ago, Waste Concern was processing organic waste from Dhaka into fertilizer, and generating jobs for the poor. It turns out that their work generates carbon credits, and so they've been able to attract millions of dollars of investment. They are not just in Dhaka, but a dozen other cities now.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 17, 2010

A cache of prison records generated by a former state security force in Chad provided data for a 2010 HRDAG report about human rights violations in Chad. Guzmán’s testimony was based on HRDAG’s analysis of the 31.7 million documents in the Guatemalan National Police Archive which was discovered by chance in 2005.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 30, 2012

To us this entrepreneurship-infused leadership position means that we must keep our commitment to help build the field of social entrepreneurship and support the movement that is generating hundreds of technology social enterprises.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 19, 2013

I look forward to seeing her continue to innovate with new enterprises that simultaneously develop viable businesses and generate environmental and social good. South Bronx reshoring Maker culture eco-entrepreneurship Hunts Point micro-manufacturing Sustainability Majora Carter MacArthur urban revitalization social entrepreneurship'

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 26, 2011

Teams from around the world build houses that are expected to be zero in net energy usage: they should generate enough energy to sustain themselves, and be built for less than a certain sum (I think about $350k is the limit). It’s so cool!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 10, 2013

Many activities in the social sphere also generate lots of information. And though they use the massive sets of data they collect to help create a better experience for their consumers (such as customized ads or tailored movie recommendations), their primary goal is to use what they learn to maximize profits.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 5, 2013

We were worried that a bad treaty might even negatively affect our ability to serve our users in the United States.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 28, 2011

As we've said in each post, crowdsourcing generally and SMS traffic in particular is great for documenting specific requests for help. Our critique is that it's not a good way to generate a valid basis for understanding patterns.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

The archive includes documents generated during Guatemala’s internal armed conflict which took place from 1960 to 1996. Guzmán’s testimony in the García case was based on his analysis of this archive which was discovered in a military munitions storehouse near Guatemala City in 2005.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

Automate generation of publications based on data using LaTeX and Sweave. Write technical descriptions of HRP methods and projects at many levels of detail for academic publications, white papers, grant applications, grant reports, and internal documentation. Give technical and non-technical presentations of HRP projects at conferences.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 29, 2010

This analysis has resulted in a clearer understanding of contents of the archive and generated quantitative results that can answer questions about which police units or commanders may have been responsible for disappearances.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 24, 2011

Part of this is that LD was much less diagnosed in my generation, but now we have quite a number of people in their 20s and 30s who have known that they are people with learning disabilities from a young age. I’m sure part of the issue is that society strongly encourages people with LD to stay in the closet about their disability.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 13, 2009

I think of people under 30 as the new civic generation, much like the GI generation. A: These aren't Craigslist projects: they are me acting as an individual, and/or the Craigslist Foundation. Things are changing in our country with a new civic engagement. People like me help get the word out. Q: What things are you working on?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

In fact, the adopted changes are at the heart of the organization’s identity and suggest that every generation reinvents AI. Over the years, AI has altered and expanded its mandate to address new human rights issues and to ease the creative tension between the demands of its grassroots membership and its organizational policy.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 2, 2012

noted that Bookshare pioneered the delivery of low cost, accessible books for people with disabilities, and he looked forward to Bookshare’s 20th anniversary party when we would be demoing the next generation of this technology. Bookshare was one of the early recipients of a Google Grant of online advertising, which continues to this day.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 9, 2013

These relationships generate countless ideas for using technology for social good. Random House Mondadori and Expanding the Spanish-language Bookshare Program Benetech’s strong relationships with numerous partners across sectors are fundamental to our continued success.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

What happens, however, with technology applications that could provide great social benefit but that won’t generate big profits? The entrepreneurial team explains how its product can be monetized, and angel and venture capital funders then invest in the hottest teams coming out of the top incubators. This is where Benetech comes in.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 15, 2006

Vic and his mom, who lives with him, are blind as a result of a [de]generative eye condition which his two daughters also have, and he has a son who is deaf. I never thought until I read one of the articles about the problems of a blind father and a deaf son communicating.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 17, 2008

The main issue she identified was that people with disabilities like dyslexia are not well served by the current generation of DAISY players, and she is completely correct. But, the DAISY Consortium doesn't design the players.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 23, 2005

I spotted a link to the letters generated as a result, and they are from a strong group of people making good counter-arguments. I felt the articles were not at the usual Economist level of analysis, and came across as more a negative editorial than impartial articles.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 20, 2007

Our job is to use science to arrive at the best possible answers to this question and generate facts that will withstand attack from those who seek to downplay the scale of real atrocities or defend human rights abusers in courts and tribunals. We need to recognize the principled nature of some of these arguments.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

At Benetech, we’re expanding our commitment to human rights practitioners and moving forward with our multi-year project of building the next generation of the Martus technology with new funding and enhanced tools, including a mobile application. I invite you to check back on our website for ongoing updates about our work.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 15, 2006

BRAC is run as a social enterprise, and generates over 75% of its own budget through earned income. My primary destination in Bangladesh was to meet with BRAC , which is the world's largest NGO (nonprofit organization) with nearly 100,000 employees.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 21, 2006

More broadly, they hope to generate dialogue about the truth and price of living under an ideologically driven regime. Talk about technology serving humanity! Benetech is proud to contribute to this project.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 20, 2007

After all, small businesses generate a whole bunch of those great jobs created by entrepreneurial energy, and they rarely scale. People came up with a mix of names, but Carl didn't go for many (Habitat and Teach for America he did agree to). Of course, I'm thinking that just maybe this isn't a fair way to measure the social sector.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

In it, we pointed out the irony that the first generation of ebook readers being inaccessible to blind people. This isn’t a new issue. George Kerscher and I wrote a major essay on the topic seven(!) years ago entitled the Soundproof Book.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 27, 2008

Their model is to charge 30-40% of their patients enough to pay for their costs as well as the rest of the patients, as well as something extra (which generates funds for capital expansion). After years of hearing about the incredible Aravind Eye Hospitals , I finally was able to visit this prototypical social enterprise.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

First, last June, the HRP received a generous multi-year grant from The John D. MacArthur Foundation to develop the next generation of Martus. In that regard, we recently got terrific news about our Martus project. and Catherine T.

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