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The First Global Martus Users Group Meeting

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Guest Beneblog by Vijaya Tripathi The first ever Martus users group meeting took place earlier this month in Chiang Mai, the capital of Northern Thailand. Martus is Benetech's free and open source software package designed for human rights activists to collect stories and data about human rights abuses.

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NpTech Summary: Red T-Shirt Day - Supporting Monks, YouTube Nonprofit Channel, and Web2forDev Conference Reports

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It's an open source free web meeting service. He will be bringing equipment and provide skills training to the first Community Access television station in Ghana. This group is an international network of people interested in e-learning, is organizing a trip to Thailand and Laos. It isn't dumb dumb.

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Big News in Benetech's Human Rights Program: New Funding and Enhanced Tools!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

On this front, we will collaborate with Internews , which will leverage its 30 years of rights-promoting fieldwork around the world to expand the use of Martus by including it in the suite of digital security tools they train on. Department of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) to realize some of those possibilities.

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