Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Access to information and knowledge is a basic human right and a necessary first step towards personal, economic, and social development. It supports international human rights treaty commitments, especially the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. · It is politically popular.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 6, 2013

This might seem rather obvious when you consider the behavioral-economics insight that the average person is risk-seeking when stakes are small. You might find this offer much more enticing. You may even end up gladly altering your commuting habit.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 19, 2014

Encrypt all personally identifiable information with strong, open source crypto, and take a big step on the road towards doing no harm while bringing the benefits of technology to the world''s most vulnerable populations!' As software developers entrusted with sensitive information, we have a duty to protect the people we serve.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 19, 2013

We’ve started a Benetech blog that will feature voices from across our organization (one that is separate from my personal Beneblog ). I hope you get involved personally and join us in our work to make the world a better place through technology. We think that’s an exciting risk worth taking! And I hope you like our new site!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 16, 2011

She missed what was supposed to be her first in-person board meeting because she had the flu. She was supposed to go to Palo Alto this year to meet other board members in person," Joi Sorensen said. One piece of news struck me as being particularly poignant. Other meetings had been via teleconference.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 5, 2015

Every once in a while, the Beneblog features something of personal importance to me. I'm very excited (and proud) about an exciting concert coming up soon in Palo Alto. My daughter, Kate Fruchterman , will be returning briefly to the area the evening of June 17th to give a concert.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 26, 2013

As a person who parlayed a Caltech education into social entrepreneurship (an atypical choice for Techers), I could sympathize with her desire to make social impact! It was exciting to hear that Iram had ditched her career as a brilliant scientist to become a filmmaker. She says it's because of her impatience to change society faster.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 3, 2011

The annual observance of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD) is today, December 3rd. The Day aims to raise awareness of disability issues with a focus on the rights of persons with disabilities and the benefits derived from their integration in the social, economic, cultural and political life of their communities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 25, 2016

Fall detection better than that of an on-person accelerometer. (Two rooms away is more challenging: you probably need another beacon.) She demonstrated fall detection, heartbeat, breathing detection, and more. The possibilities are exciting. Gait tracking to detect health challenges (gait is apparently a huge flag of issues).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 1, 2016

With access to the information collected by a person’s smartphone, it’s probably straightforward to figure out everything important about that person. We need to make it harder to find out our sensitive personal information, whether it’s our medical information, or when our 11-year-old child is home alone. Who they love.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 13, 2014

And this creates serious personal threats in an era where numerous organizations around the world collect individually identifiable data that regularly leaks into other hands. Think of refugee acceptance at the border of any conflict zone: today''s refugee could be tomorrow''s targeted person based on ethnicity or political affiliation.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

This post is my own personal take on those expert recommendations. The Treaty should allow an individual person with a disability to import the book they need directly. I wrote a post at the time with the detailed suggestions from the expert group about the text of the draft. My core point: Don’t put up bureaucratic barriers to access.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 25, 2012

Fuentes says archivists have found more than 900,000 personal dossiers containing names, photographs and fingerprints of individuals, as well as notes about their political activities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 3, 2014

Last year, I was able to meet Jamila in person in Marrakesh, while I was there for the negotiations on the Treaty for People who are Blind or Print Disabled. Over the time I corresponded with Jamila by email, she started becoming better known in Europe.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 14, 2012

For me personally, the meeting was a rare experience. I’ve been journeying to Chiang Mai and other parts of Thailand to meet with ND-Burma and its member organizations for three years, and I found it personally rewarding to see other users meeting and learning from ND-Burma’s experiences in their day-to-day environment.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

Mary made the climate change goals of 2100 tangible in a deeply personal way. The headline goal of the Paris Agreement is to ensure that global temperature rise by 2100 is no more than two degree Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit). That date always seemed like a long way off.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 22, 2013

Why Circumvention for the Purposes of Access is Crucial A Bookshare Briefing Paper Prepared for the Diplomatic Conference for Visually Impaired Persons The distributors of digital content often use technological protection measures (TPMs) to discourage the making of unauthorized copies.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 27, 2011

A cover letter that articulates why this person wants to work for Benetech in this role and a resume is all we need. There are exciting new projects we could be launching today if we had more of this kind of risk capital. So, if you know someone highly capable, who would be energized by the challenge, send them our way.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 19, 2014

On rare occasions, I choose to share something personal on my blog, which focuses normally on Benetech, technology for good and social entrepreneurship. Two weeks ago, I wrote the following to friends and family: Our beloved Australian shepherd, Calypso, turned 14 years old today. I just took her on a walk around the block.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 10, 2015

If making top dollar is a personal requirement or the chance to make social good doesn’t make your heart sing, stop reading, we’re not your next gig. Flexibility: We expect the work to get done, and provide our professional staff a high degree of flexibility on how to get it done. What’s the catch?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Mifos is building a world where each person can access the financial resources needed to create a better life for themselves and their family, truly demonstrating the power of technology to empower peoples’ lives every day.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 3, 2011

Public Interest Capitalism is his personal brand of social change. I recently had the opportunity to visit with one of their main funders, George Hara, in San Francisco. George is a financial mastermind with one foot in Asia and the other in California.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 1, 2011

7 We are committed to personal and professional development. Benetech seeks to create leaders by fostering personal learning, growth and service. Benetech is committed to communication and cooperation with employees, whether physically present or not. We want to expose all of our team to our technology and our customers.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 18, 2014

If you ever wondered how you could have a job in the technology sector that truly helped the people who most need technology but are the least able to afford it; If you ever wondered how you could personally work on the biggest social challenges of our time; And if you ever got frustrated by having to abandon a great idea that could help entire communities (..)

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 23, 2010

All of personal information has been removed from the published dataset to protect the identities of the victims and statement givers. We are pleased to announce the publication of the data and the accompanying data dictionary from the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The statistical dataset is available on our website.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

So, we’re creating a new place where techies can find social tech applications that resonate with their personal passion for change! Route 66 pairs this reading content with teaching tools and learning exercises, effectively empowering any literate person to become an early reading instructor.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

We simply act to ensure the person who needs an accessible book can get it. And thus we have a book famine, where the typical blind person in the world has no accessible books, and depends on the charity of others to read books aloud. We don’t have to ask for permission from the publisher or author. exception model works well here.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 10, 2009

But, I think Stevie Wonder is the top person in connections (example, when Stevie dedicated I Just Called to Say I Love You to Nelson Mandela while he was imprisoned, his music was banned in South Africa). The idea is to have stories about people in the past, and the connections between people, with a wiki approach with some extra structure.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

One of the bracketed sections on commerciality makes the exporting authorized entity responsible for knowing the state of specific book distribution in the country where the disabled person lives.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 16, 2011

The intention is to define an XML content model which will make it easier to present alternatives to the original graphical content for persons who are blind or print disabled. We are also building a content model for making images more accessible.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Entitled The Gift of Insight , the story recounts Viji’s personal journey and how it inspired her to work with members of our Bookshare service who have print disabilities that make it difficult for them to read traditional text. I’m proud to work with people like Viji who brings her personal commitment to service with her to work each day.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

We believe that all ebooks should be fully accessible, so that a person with a disability can effectively use the exact same ebook that somebody without a disability gets on their Kindle or iPad. If you want to speak with me about this personally, or know someone who would (or should), I would love to get together with you!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 10, 2012

At this point, we believe that the risks of straight web-based solutions are too high to recommend them to activists and dissidents who run personal safety risks in their work. We want to make sure that security doesn't suffer when it comes to serving those at greatest threat from repressive governments.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 18, 2008

He has taken on delivering print access as his personal project after his retirement from a senior police force role. He also has learned how to build electronics and program in assembly language, as well as being the sort of person who manages to convince anybody who's anybody to join his effort to bring equity to access to print.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2015

Our dream is that every person on the planet with a disability that gets in the way of reading will have access to the content they need for education, employment, and full social inclusion. Along the way, we expect to drive innovations that will make learning better for all students around the world.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 18, 2007

Since technology is becoming essential to education, business, personal finance, politics, entertainment and shopping, if we don't do something, we may find someone we love, or even ourselves, left behind. We need to commit ourselves to delivering a base set of technological capabilities to all people, starting with Californians.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

It was all work between them, figuring out how to prepare accented elvish and format footnotes until the day he wrote, “Not to get too personal, but I really like ketchup,” and she impulsively bought a half gallon bottle of Ketchup at Super K-Mart.

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