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MARCH 28, 2014

Idea Three: Recovering Cognitive Function The final session of TED included an interview on stage with former Representative Gabby Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly , by Pat Mitchell. It was unusual to get that challenge on territory I find so familiar, like helping blind people. Well worth a try!

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2006

One of the most interesting things from a recent Gathering of the Social Enterprise Alliance was having an interview with a Hong Kong film crew that was doing a piece on social enterprise. I am an enthusiastic support of the social enterprise movement, people who are operating enterprises that have social outcomes as a primary goal.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2007

I was wandering by Second Life interviews onsite at Davos. Second Life, the on-line parallel universe, is a controversial topic. Some folks are fanatical about it, and it's touching a lot of real world places. At the same time, I have heard that it is overhyped and that the number of participants is exaggerated.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2011

The free and open source software, which is a joint venture between Benetech and the Conservation Measures Partnership (CMP) , guides users through a series of step-by-step interview wizards, based on the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation.

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MARCH 14, 2012

We gathered input from other current and past users via online surveys and phone interviews, and we’re still gathering feedback. All of us at Benetech felt that it was absolutely essential to once again rely on our user community as we plan how to utilize these limited resources most effectively.

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JUNE 23, 2014

Based on that message, at the following 30th TED conference in Vancouver, Canada, I delivered an onstage exhortation to fellow technologists to secure their customers’ sensitive information in response to Edward Snowden’s surprise virtual TED interview.

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APRIL 22, 2010

As it turns out, BBC journalist Peter Day did an extensive radio interview of the three social media panelists (and me) at the Forum in Oxford. Who fan, I had Tim take a picture of me in front of the Tardis (Doctor Who's time travel machine disguised as a standard old English police box). Coincidence? You decide!

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JANUARY 20, 2005

BBC Radio 4 interviewed me about the international expansion possibilities of Bookshare.org: it's a 20 minute long segment about the desire to access a Bookshare.org-style service in the UK. Disability technology is my major focus this week. has just passed a law mandating this standard in education for students with disability.

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DECEMBER 10, 2011

In the case of J-FLAG, Martus enables the organization to protect the identity of victims of abuse who come forward to tell their stories, to secure the information from their interviews, to report on the types of crimes documented, and to aggregate evidence for future court proceedings.

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JANUARY 2, 2007

By announcing this in many press interviews, I've managed to create lots of external pressure on myself to get this done! For example, I'm planning on going to India and Bangladesh next month for the first time, and to Uganda and Sudan next year.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

That was my message in a recent interview, which you can read on the Benetech blog series, The Impact. Tech entrepreneurs can change the world through their philanthropy. They will achieve the greatest bang for their philanthropic buck by prioritizing the better use of community-driven software and data.

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OCTOBER 21, 2008

The program guides environmental project managers through a series of step-by-step interview wizards similar to the popular TurboTax program.

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APRIL 7, 2013

To understand the grave risks involved, consider this one account from a ND-Burma observer about her trip across the border: After interviewing and collecting information from witnesses and victims in Burma, this woman had to hide scraps of paper with scribbled notes on her person and then cross back over the border.

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APRIL 19, 2009

Human rights documentation can take many forms including interviews, photographs, and official documentation. It is vital to the work of human rights investigations, and it serves many purposes. Sometimes this material is generated in the context of providing relief services, legal aid, or other support to victims.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Interviewed several candidates for executive positions at Benetech. Met with a big NYC disability services provider about a possible Bookshare partnership. Met with a major international human rights defender group about our Martus technology and digital security more generally. And much more… Washington, D.C.

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