Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

We learned some tough lessons along the way: for example, that technology alone is no panacea for human rights abuse, or that we had to support the deployment of our technology with global trainings on Martus as well as with human rights documentation and capacity-building trainings.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

I’m honored to join my fellow contributors in sharing practical lessons we’ve learned throughout our journeys towards actualizing positive social change. What I liked most was the idea to create a body of knowledge that’s truly helpful to prospective and emerging social entrepreneurs.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 11, 2013

This post originally appeared on CSRwire Talkback. The staff at Benetech , the nonprofit tech company I lead, recently came together to answer this question: “What values define our identity and drive our work?” It was a very meaningful exercise for our entire team, resulting in what we call “ The Seven Benetech Truths.”

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

We think this was a very useful lesson to all of us who publish crypto software ("mind your p 's and q 's," Heninger wrote), and we are taking the opportunity to review the last ten years of Martus security thinking. We do not think that RSA should be discarded in favor of other public key algorithms, as some have suggested.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 2, 2007

With the support of our largest funder of the project, the Lemelson Foundation, we decided to document the lessons we learned from this experience, in an essay. In the six months since we put this on the back burner, we still haven't received access to the technology.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

You can read much more about the lessons learned from this effort in my Beneblog post and the report and essay to which it points. After a couple of years of trying to gain access to the military technology we had identified, we realized that this access was not imminent and suspended the project.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 19, 2009

Each of us drew on case studies and lessons learned from our own work. Another HRP partner, the Network for Human Rights Documentation (ND-Burma), which currently uses Martus to document human rights violations in Burma , was represented by the Earth Rights Initiative.

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