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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society - Untitled Article

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Benetech's Patrick Ball was on National Public Radio's Morning Edition show today in a piece entitled Uncertainty the Rule in Gauging Deaths from Tsunami. Our staff are actively working in the region in Sri Lanka and East Timor, but on December 26th were not in harm's way.

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Wikileaks War Data Reveal Underreporting of Iraqi Civilian Casualties

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

In reaction to the release of SIGACTS data , Les Roberts of Columbia University wrote that both IBC and SIGACTS are ‘systematically prone to under-report deaths’ and that his previously published estimations of total death tolls are likely to be well below the actual numbers he and his colleagues previously estimated.

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