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Unlocking Technology-for-Good Innovation

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We winnow out 90% of the ideas proposed to us based on our New Project Assessment Method , incubate some of the selected 10%, and then pick one or two for follow-on funding. Benetech''s approach to developing social good tech enterprises.

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Receiving the 2011 CASE Award for Enterprising Social Innovation

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The ESI Award recognizes outstanding individuals and organizations whose innovations blend methods from the worlds of business and philanthropy, and that challenge the status quo to create sustainable social value with a potential for large-scale impact.

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Open Source and the Promise of Sustainable Nutrition Security

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Jerry is involved in collective efforts to advance methods for improving data and models that inform government and private industry decision makers about the role of food systems in achieving “sustainable nutrition security”—our ability to meet growing demand for safe, affordable, and nutritious food in a sustainable manner.

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Benetech Statistician Megan Price talks to local ASA chapter

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Despite an audience of fellow statisticians, I chose to focus my talk more on the research questions and challenges posed by our work in human rights and less on the nuts and bolts of our statistical methods (though I did include a few equations and Greek letters!).

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Ethics and Responsibility in Technology-for-Good: A Human-Centered Approach

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This iterative method helps us focus on building products that are responsive to real needs Treat users as customers, not recipients of charity People in challenging situations must invest their time and limited resources to improve their lives.

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Human Rights at the Benetech Board Meeting

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Our human rights program has many important moving parts: Improving the science of human rights statistics Doing major projects to help a country figure out what happened in the last ten or twenty years of civil wars Helping both academics and prosecutors get data usable for their needs Building technology tools like Martus for capturing human rights (..)

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Making the Book Truly Accessible for All Students

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The conditions for launching Bookaccess are on our side: technology convergence is making the production of accessible digital content simply a click of a button away; the federal government is pushing states to find methods to meet the special needs of all their students; and we already get tremendous support from publishers.

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