Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 1, 2014

As toolmakers, our ultimate impact is measured by what other people build with our tools. Bookshare is the result of joint efforts of our partners in the education, technology, publishing, student, parent, and volunteer communities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

The digital measures designed to defeat piracy usually end up equating accessibility with piracy. Accessibility of digital media has been repeatedly and systematically denied because of digital measures to “protect” content. The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is being negotiated in secret.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 9, 2014

I had the opportunity to speak with both Gallucci and Roy about this unique funder collaborative and more specifically about how the Partnership to Strengthen Innovation and Practice in Secondary Education would measure the impact of their investments.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 20, 2012

To create as much public good as possible, philanthropists need information about the performance of potential grantees: whether they have clear, measurable goals and the organizational capacity to realize them.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Each year, we look at the pipeline of dozens of good, new project ideas and measure them on this framework. But our measure of success goes beyond what any one of our initiatives alone can achieve.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 14, 2006

The issue is that people are human (surprise) and most of them drop off in their compliance with measuring their blood sugar. The blood sugar measurement device has a pager transmitter to send the test results to CPI. The light globe glows different colors when the person with diabetes measures (or fails to measure) their blood sugar.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 5, 2013

The treaty also allows us to work around digital rights management and associated technological protection measures to ensure access for our users. Me delivering Benetech''s closing statement to the conference.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 16, 2010

Miradi is a joint venture between Benetech and the Conservation Measures Partnership (CMP), a consortium of global environmental organizations committed to improving the practice of conservation. Miradi is the first software program designed especially by and for conservation planners based on a common set of environmental metrics.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 5, 2008

Here's more information: Benetech and the Conservation Measures Partnership (CMP) have released Miradi, a user-friendly software program that allows nature conservation practitioners to design, manage, monitor, and learn from their projects to more effectively meet their conservation goals.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 28, 2014

Andrew’s challenge wasn’t an empty one: his team could measure the effectiveness of interventions we might try and see how well they work. Of course, we’d have to focus on local language content. While English might be very useful in Nairobi, Swahili would be the language needed in rural Kenya.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

What we do: Benetech's Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) develops database software, data collection strategies, and statistical techniques to measure human rights atrocities. We're Benetech's Human Rights Data Analysis Group, and we're hiring right now !

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 31, 2008

They have also done extensive measurements of their impact and see real progress on advancing literacy. Hundreds of millions of people now see these videos, eager to learn the words of their favorite videos and becoming literate along the way. Another example of scale, South Asian style!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 11, 2007

Our core beta testers are drawn from the Conservation Measures Partnership , coalition of the leading biodiversity groups (such as The Nature Conservancy, WWF and WCS). Our new environmental project management software, Miradi , just went into its beta testing.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 4, 2010

And that’s the true measure of our impact: it’s what our partners and users do with the technology and the knowledge we provide that matters. And we’re helping schools and teachers and parents and most of all people with disabilities get access to the information they need for school, work and society.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 15, 2009

That’s why we, in conjunction with the Conservation Measures Partnership, have developed Miradi , our groundbreaking software application for running biodiversity and conservation projects. And you can bet they will be replanted! Knowing whether one’s strategies to help the environmental actually work, is rarely so simple. Miradi (Miradi 3.0

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 25, 2014

Moreover, since the nature of technology is such that it comes instrumented for measurement, this approach also supports the development of best practices in the delivery of social outcomes, which is essential in order to create meaningful, lasting change.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2012

It's trying to predict how many miles you have left in your range (as a one-way measurement), depending on battery charge, your driving habits, speed, temperature, use of climate control and so on. This causes range anxiety , which is the fear of being stranded on the side of the road because of exceeding the range of the battery charge.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 4, 2005

We were delighted to get this recognition, which is a measure of our move into the education field with Bookshare.org. Bookshare.org is Rookie of the Year Finalist from EdNET.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

As toolmakers, our ultimate impact is measured by what our users create with our products. These new releases take big steps forward towards helping communities interested in secure collection of crucially important stories of human suffering, whether on PCs, Macs, or Android smartphones out in the field.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 11, 2006

This is core Benetech work: using science and technology to measure human rights abuse and provide careful analysis of the scale of such violations. Approximately 18,600 (+/- 1000) Timorese were killed or disappeared, while the remainder died due to hunger and illness in excess of what would be expected due to peacetime mortality.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

Embracing measured risk, The Fund has been willing to make early bets on Benetech, and has repeatedly chosen to invest in our prototype projects. I’d like to share our experience with Lavelle, where they took a series of calculated risks in grantmaking.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 29, 2010

What a great kick-off for a day! Conversation Two I had agreed to act as a mentor to a Global Changemaker, in this case Mousa Mousawy, an Iraqi teenager now living in Jordan.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

My biggest concern about OERs has been that few people developing them have been measuring the impact: they celebrate the creation of the open content textbook or coursework, but don't collect the information on whether anybody is using them. OERs are the open source equivalent of open source software.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 17, 2004

Mine injuries and deaths are relatively easy to count, but you would like to measure demining by other measures. If you reward groups with more money using certain measures, you create the incentive for those groups to deliver higher numbers, whether or not these numbers represent reality.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 13, 2008

We have a large non-profit sector that has many zones where it does not work well (measured by long-term addressing the social mission). So, if you're a for-profit promising market investment returns, you're back in the situation of having to choose between serving society or delivering market returns.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 7, 2013

Technological Protection Measures. We think of this latter capability as crucial for equality and autonomy for our members, to have the ability to choose the books they want to read without needing an intermediary. These are the digital locks that make it hard to copy digital content.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 20, 2007

Of course, I'm thinking that just maybe this isn't a fair way to measure the social sector. People came up with a mix of names, but Carl didn't go for many (Habitat and Teach for America he did agree to). After all, small businesses generate a whole bunch of those great jobs created by entrepreneurial energy, and they rarely scale.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 6, 2009

When more than one person is working on coding, it is important to monitor a measurement known as inter-rater reliability (IRR). IRR measures whether different coders, given the same source material, produce the same quantitative output (e.g. the same number of victims and the same number and type of violations).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

For a start, more than a decade into the digital book era, technological protection measures (TPMs)—that is, tools designed to restrict the use or access to a work— still prevent people who are blind from using ebooks they purchase. However, I don’t want to understate the challenges we face.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 24, 2006

One measure is that there are at least fifteen people with whom I have a specific follow-up task to pursue (I'll start on those right after this blog!). So, the highlights were all people.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

I’m measuring this entire effort by how it much it does to change this sorry state of affairs, in both the short and long term. It is abundantly clear that the great majority of people in the world who cannot pick up a book and read it effectively are at a terrific disadvantage in society. The Proposals A.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

We need to do a better job of understanding social needs, both to improve our programs and measure their ultimate impact. Data is a bigger and bigger topic in social change. I spend more and more of my time talking to leaders in the sector, helping advance the use of data for action and impact.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 16, 2018

The common thread of all of these big hairy audacious goals is that they are measurable – and they involve ecosystems of dozens, hundreds, or thousands of organizations businesses and government agencies. Complicated – but it’s good news for us geeks. Can you imagine getting any of these goals without better software and data?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2012

The social enterprise movement is a global one, so we hope that the measured approach of the USPTO to this application is echoed by peer trademark authorities in other countries.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 11, 2014

Technology lowers the cost of and barriers to listening to the voice of individuals in disadvantaged communities, responding to their needs, and aggregating large amounts of data to measure overall effectiveness and shape policy interventions.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 13, 2012

We measure what we do, so that we know we’re getting stuff done. Those activities must be on the path to accomplishing something big. This means that we fully commit to the fields where we operate, to ensure that we learn and follow through on the promises we’ve made.

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