Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Highlights of this Letter: SocialCoding4Good CityOptions Read2Go and Route 66 Literacy Selected Program Updates Human rights: Legal victory in Guatemala, PBS NewsHour stories Literacy: Major milestones for Bookshare at home and abroad SocialCoding4Good Just funded by the John S. and James L. This is a huge legal victory!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Hiptipico is an ethical fashion brand based in Panajachel, Guatemala showcasing Maya artisans and their handmade creations. For every bag purchased, STATE supports children and families in need… they donate fully-packed backpacks and fund special projects with partner charities and schools. 4) Hiptipico :: hiptipico.com.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Guest Beneblog by Megan Price I recently had the opportunity to present several of HRP’s projects to the local San Francisco chapter of the American Statistical Association (SFASA). Specifically, I presented the audience with the following questions: Were acts of genocide committed against the Mayan people in Guatemala?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

HRP members produced scientifically sound analysis that is advancing the process of legal justice in Guatemala. In a recent blog post , I described how HRP statistician Daniel Guzmán’s expert testimony in a breakthrough legal case against two former police officers helped score a remarkable victory in the fight to end impunity in Guatemala.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 27, 2012

He's joined forces with other social entrepreneurs in the field to found UpEnergy , a new for-profit social enterprise that wants to scale the impact of their successful pilot projects. They are already active in Africa and Latin America, in countries like Uganda, Rwanda, Liberia, El Salvador, Mexico, Guatemala and Nicaragua.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Highlights this month include website accessibility in Portland, Oregon; project management in Boston, Massachusetts; and data visualization in Las Vegas, Nevada. Boston, Massachusetts: TNB Roundtable: Managing Nonprofit IT Projects, Tasks, and Teams. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 4, 2014

This September we’re holding our annual digital storytelling campaign (called Storymakers ) and in October we’ll be partnering with Microsoft on the Safer Internet data security and privacy project. We sent official “NetSquared , a Project of TechSoup” cards to 22 groups this summer. Wednesday, August 6, 2014.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2017

Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Guatemala City, Guatemala: Innovagt Next Extended Event de #google. Guatemala City, Guatemala: GirlsinICT 2017 #Guatemala. Guatemala City, Guatemala: SpaceAppsgt 2017 #bigdata #opendata en #uvg. Monday, April 10, 2017.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Guatemala City, Guatemala: Taller de como hacer Estilos Sociales para el mundo digital. Guatemala City, Guatemala: Taller de Automatización de QA para dispositivos móviles y aplicaciones web. Guatemala City, Guatemala: Taller de Automatización de QA para dispositivos móviles y aplicaciones web.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Guatemala: Taller para hacer un “elevator pitch” Wednesday, October 2. Guatemala: Drupal Camp de Guatemala - 2013. San Francisco, CA: Let’s Learn About Project Homeless Connect SF: Discussion and Brainstorming. Guatemala: DalGT: Actividad de DAL en Guatemala - 26 de Octubre.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2017

Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Vancouver, British Columbia: Agile Project Management for Nonprofits. Atrisco, New Mexico: Working Group/Help Desk: Bring Your Projects and Tech Challenges. Tuesday, August 8, 2017.

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2016

Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Guatemala City, Guatemala: Hackathon de TechforGood Guatemala Pepitalabs. Guatemala City, Guatemala: wordswelivein Guatemala. Monday, July 11, 2016. Tuesday, July 12, 2016.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2017

I’ve just returned from a two-week trip to Guatemala hosted by Wake. We worked with a network of women’s rights NGOs located throughout Latin America and Guatemala who traveled to Antigua for the multi-day training. I’ve just returned from a two-week trip to Guatemala hosted by Wake. … Read More

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EveryAction

AUGUST 14, 2017

Their work spans the globe, including promoting the work of a vegetable and chicken farmer in Vietnam , providing financial support to nearly 2,000 families participating in soil conservation projects in Guatemala , and building sanitation facilities in Somalia. Take Action | Twitter | Facebook. Women's Refugee Commission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2011

One of the most compelling products of the Producers Institute is a project associated with the award-winning film Granito: How to Nail a Dictator , which depicts the genocidal civil war in Guatemala. With a project like Granito, the film is only the beginning and serves as an invitation for everyone to share their story.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Guatemala City: Teach an Hour of Code in your classroom. Guatemala City: Taller de e-emprendimiento y e-promocion del Tec. Guatemala City: GET INSPIRED Redefiniendo la noción del éxito! Guatemala City: Protección Jurídica del Software. Houston, TX: NetSquared Houston. Wednesday, December 11.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 12, 2013

They offer an opportunity to convene locally to share ideas, learn from one another and collaborate on projects for real world impact. Peruse this Whitman’s Sampler of their projects in May. Maria Zaghi in Guatemala is bringing her fellow Latin American organizers together for a regional salon (Watch out! Thursday, May 9.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

The observations presented in this blog post deal with some of the things we have learned while founding and then running a small community development NGO in an indigenous Guatemala village of about 1,500 families, called Chocolá. We consulted the Guatemala NGO Network in Antigua for guidance and attorney/accountant referrals.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Arlington, Texas: Bi-weekly Developers Call for the Joseph Storehouse Project. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Guatemala City, Guatemala: Internetgt Carta Magna de Internet en Guatemala. Sunday, February 12, 2017.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Net2Local is a project of TechSoup Global that invites activists, techies, nonprofits and the social good community together to meet monthly in 50 cities around the world. Guatemala: EgarageTec - Charla con E.Zarakov y su experiencia en Apple en Silicon Valley. Tired of sitting in front of your computer all day? Wednesday, November 6.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2016

Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Guatemala City, Guatemala: Campaña de Unicef temas Vituales de Niñez en Guatemala 2016. Columbus, Ohio: Nonprofit IT Forum: E-Recycling. Toronto, Ontario: Online Branding.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Honolulu, Hawaii: Bi-monthly Code for Hawaii Project Night. Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Honolulu, Hawaii: Bi-monthly Code for Hawaii Project Night. Guatemala City, Guatemala: Pechakucha Night en CampusTec Guatemala. Guatemala City, Guatemala: Hackathon: rallymatematico Guatemala.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 18, 2006

On Wednesday, May 10, the Guatemalan National Police Archives Project found a bottle filled with petrol in flames on their premises. It was apparently an attempt to intimidate the project to secure and preserve the estimated 48 million police records found by the Human Rights Ombudsman's office in 2005.

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Tech Soup

MAY 1, 2017

Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Guatemala City, Guatemala: Expouvg #Computacion 2017 Coloquio. Guatemala City, Guatemala: PechaKucha #Fieldoffice #Cayala #Guatemala. Monday, May 8, 2017. Tuesday, May 9, 2017.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 20, 2013

After talking me out of calling it Bookster, he explained how the DAISY format would be ideal for our new Bookshare project, that he had made sure that it would work well for ebooks like the ones we were hoping to provide. And when the idea of a peer-to-peer ebook library came to me, it was George who I went to with the idea.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Guatemala City, Guatemala. Guatemala City, Guatemala: Evento de Ciudades Inteligentes — #smartcityhack. Guatemala City, Guatemala: Edudaygt 26 de febrero. Guatemala City, Guatemala: Edudaygt 26 de febrero. London, United Kingdom: Crowdfunding Your Community Projects.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 13, 2007

Benetech has been seeing incredible growth in our Martus projects over the last year! This tremendous growth is due in large part to the continued use of Martus by our partners working in Guatemala with the National Police Archive, and projects gathering data about Burma, Iraq and the Philippines.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Guatemala City, Guatemala: Pechakucha Guatemala — Historias Digitales Vol. Tuesday, October 10, 2017. Columbus, Ohio: Nonprofit IT Forum. Decatur, Illinois: Free and Low-Cost Resources for Nonprofit Software. Wednesday, October 11, 2017.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 30, 2013

This may be the most overused and least accurate phrase we hear nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) utter in Guatemala. “Our goal is to provide the community with a “sustainable” program.”.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 16, 2015

Seattle, Washington: Project Scheduling for Successful Outcomes. Guatemala City, Guatemala: Coretic2015 via @abg_ebg. Guatemala City, Guatemala: Spaceapps Guatemala 2015 — #USAC. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. Morrisville, North Carolina: Spring Fling Networking Event.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Guatemala: EgarageTec - Charla con la SIB sobre financiamiento a startups. Guatemala: CampusTec - evento de Google. NetSquared (soft) launched our latest project, the Hacker Helper , a wiki that connects social good hackathons with problems that need to be solved. We’d love to help you start a new meetup. November Events.

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Tech Soup

MAY 9, 2016

Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Guatemala City, Guatemala: Lab4U Guatemala en Watsoncoffee Cayala. Guatemala City, Guatemala: Internetday en Guatemala 2016. Seattle, Washington: Preparing for FLSA Overtime Rule Change. Tuesday, May 10, 2016. Wednesday, May 11, 2016.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Las Vegas, Nevada: Project Management Basics. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Portland, Oregon: Get 'Er Done: Surveying Digital Project Management Tools. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. . ## Africa. ## Europe. ## Asia and Pacific Rim. --> North America.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

A Learning History of the CARE LAC - Institute for Strategic Clarity Guatemala Poverty Project. The map illustrating this post was developed by a couple of dozen people in Guatemala from their mental models, to support CARE to vastly enhance its impact. See larger image here: Map from: Waddell, Steve.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

Relationships are formed, projects are started and we feel less alone in what can sometimes be a challenging job. May 31 : Latin America with Maria Zaghi of NetSquared Guatemala. Guatemala: Visita de personeros de BID de Washington al Tec. Guatemala: Netsquared Regional Net2Camp for Central America. Tuesday, May 20.

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Tech Soup

MAY 1, 2014

Relationships are formed, projects are started, and we feel less alone in what can sometimes be a challenging job. Latin America with Maria Zaghi of NetSquared Guatemala. Guatemala: Netsquared Regional Net2Camp for Central America. There’s a special magic that happens when we get face-to-face. Wednesday, May 28.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2017

Boston, Massachusetts: Monthly Pitch Night | BostonSpeaks/Impact Hub Open Project Night. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Burlington, Vermont: Project Management Professional Training in Burlington, Vermont. Guatemala City, Guatemala: PechaKucha #Teclab #Campustec. Monday, June 5, 2017.

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