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Bookshare International’s Viji Dilip Profiled in Magazine

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Washington Square Magazine, which is published by Viji’s alma matter San Jose State University, included a profile of Viji in their most recent issue. Viji told the magazine. Even as a volunteer, Viji began bugging me about the need to expand Bookshare’s collection of accessible books and magazines to readers around the world.

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A Human Rights Breakthrough in Guatemala | Smithsonian Magazine

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Rather, this is a hot-off-the-presses Smithsonian Magazine article about our Human Rights Data Analysis Group’s work in Guatamala. Above all there is the musty odor of decaying paper. No, this is not a description of Benetech’s Palo Alto, California headquarters.

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Welcome, Mark Roberts!

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Most recently, he served two roles at Next Issue Media, a magazine service platform founded by five global publishers (Rogers, Condé Nast, Hearst, Meredith, and Time Inc.) that designs, develops, markets, and delivers interactive magazine content to consumers through the digital device of their choice.

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Benetech, Bookshare and Google Summer of Code

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Bookshare has a rich collection of books, newspapers and magazines. It has not yet been extended to newspapers and magazines. Therefore, the application will be extended to allow users to download newspapers and magazines as well as books.

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How Open Source Sparks Innovation and Advances Social Good

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I recently had the opportunity to give an interview for Red Hat’s online magazine, Opensource.com , and discuss Benetech’s culture of “open.” Adopting an open source philosophy has proven to be quite effective for us at Benetech in our work furthering technology-for-good.

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Two Leaders Join Benetech’s Senior Team!

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She was the Assistant Director of Communications at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and then head of media for Foreign Affairs magazine in New York. For more than a decade, Nadine has worked at the intersection of policy and media in major markets including New York, Chicago and Washington, DC.

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Recruiting Geeks for Human Rights!

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Check out recent press coverage of our work, featuring the head of our human rights team, Dr. Patrick Ball, in Foreign Policy magazine and NPR's On The Media. We help the human rights movement speak truth to power, because we believe each story of human rights abuse is a tool for justice. Process, clean, and transform data.

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