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Hosting Harkin at the Hub

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Recently, I had the pleasure to host Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) for exactly such a meeting of minds with ten fellow social entrepreneurs. We hosted Harkin and ten fellow social entrepreneurs at the cool space of the Hub SoMa, in the heart of San Francisco. This is not quite Benetech’s area of expertise, but I took up to the challenge.

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There Are No Online Security Shortcuts for Human Rights

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

To date, we haven't felt we could responsibly design around the intrinsic risks inherent in a web-based tool (although we have been interested in a new set of innovations called host-proof hosting that hold the potential of overcoming these risks).

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Fake Facebook Friends and the CIA

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I'm ok with Amazon hosting sensitive data for us because I know that we encrypt that data so that Amazon can't be pressured into giving up anything more than encrypted (scrambled) lumps of data.

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Contemplating Boulder and Social Impact

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

One very cool thing I learned was that the Unreasonable Institute will be hosted at Naropa for the next couple of years. Chuck and Jerry Colonna hosted a reception at Boulder’s Impact Hub (such a cool organization, I am a founding member of the San Francisco Impact Hub) to connect me with the tech community in Boulder.

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Open Source and the Promise of Sustainable Nutrition Security

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This week, on September 10-12 at Purdue University, CIMSANS will be co-hosting a workshop and summit focused on improving food systems data and models. I hope the modeling community comes away with a framework for open sourcing the integrated models used to produce sustainable nutrition security assessments.

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I Need a Good Lawyer

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We are now looking for a half-time general counsel to join our team and manage the host of legal issues we are always investigating. Benetech Labs: what are our intellectual property policies on Labs projects if we host projects proposed by third parties? Will we act as a fiscal sponsor, something we’ve avoided to date?

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Benetech Closing Statement on the Marrakech Treaty

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

In addition, Benetech is happy to provide hosting technology for new, and existing, authorized entities who would like to take advantage of the generous resources the United States government invests in our Bookshare library.

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