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DECEMBER 10, 2011

Our new and long-term Martus partners crossed a milestone and backed up to our public servers over 200,000 bulletins, each of which captures crucial, sensitive information about incidents from a victim’s story or from a field investigation. All HRP’s publications are available online. and the European Union.

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International Colombia Guatemala Analysis 150

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JANUARY 25, 2012

Just last month, the University of Texas at Austin made a large portion of the Archive available to the public unveiling a digital repository that contains 12 million of these critical records.

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National Guatemala Texas Online 206

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MAY 10, 2013

Wofford received the 2012 Presidential Citizens Medal from President Obama for his seven decades of public service. Senator, helped launch the Peace Corps and led the Corporation for National and Community Service. Last February, Sen. After visiting India in 1949, Wofford became a lifelong advocate of Gandhian nonviolence.

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Technology India Washington America 172

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

The Commission has one year to do research, hold public hearings and make recommendations to Congress on what should be done to make higher education materials more accessible to students with disabilities. Opportunity to higher education is a crucial need for all students, and especially students with disabilities.

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Instruction Instructional Student Law 100

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FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Benetech’s Bookshare library continues to expand its international service providing accessible books and publications to members in more than 30 countries. People with print disabilities around the world have a right to high-quality ebooks that they can read with assistive technology.

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International Brazil Austria Library 166

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JUNE 12, 2014

This is an immense victory for fair use as the basis of a balanced intellectual property system, and we, at Benetech, are delighted by it and by its tremendous positive implications for the public interest. What is this court case and why do we care so much about it?

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Accessibility Copyright Law Library 205

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MARCH 18, 2012

Write technical descriptions of HRP methods and projects at many levels of detail for academic publications, white papers, grant applications, grant reports, and internal documentation. Automate generation of publications based on data using LaTeX and Sweave. Perform a little bit of GNU/Linux system administration.

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Analysis Statistics Chart Language 150

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MARCH 13, 2011

I just spent a couple of days in Vancouver with the team at the Public Knowledge Project , a terrific example of an open source social enterprise. Their largest project is Open Journal Systems, software for running a scholarly journal.

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Accessibility Open Project Journal 133

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FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Most recently, Nadine comes to Benetech from Water.org, where she developed and executed the organization’s public affairs strategy. Previously she was an independent consultant working with The Chicago Council on Global Affairs on the 2012 NATO Summit, Chicago Ideas Week, news platform Syria Deeply and FEM Inc.,

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Team Los Angeles San Francisco Chicago 167

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APRIL 26, 2009

Michelle Obama was a big part of Public Allies and is a huge fan of national service Public Private partnerships. There is interest from other groups in the government and the White House, like OSTP and the Office of Public Engagement. They have four staff right now. They have three areas of focus: Service. Social innovation.

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JULY 28, 2014

Gerardo has publically shared many of his presentations on these and other topics, which are available via SlideShare. Clean Water Project , an effort to strengthen the capacity of Latin American clean water organizations through enhanced data platforms.

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Open Source Literacy eBook Accessibility 184

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NOVEMBER 15, 2009

Why have public decision-making? Far better would be the open accessible public policy process we’re used to, not secret negotiations that are likely to cause substantial collateral damage to people with disabilities. The secret nature of the negotiations is disturbing. Why have a World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)?

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Accessibility Adobe Copyright eBook 100

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APRIL 23, 2010

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. All of personal information has been removed from the published dataset to protect the identities of the victims and statement givers.

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Liberia Data Statistics Analysis 100

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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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Library Giving Camera Interview 158

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JULY 5, 2008

is the first public release of this software that was created as a joint venture between Benetech and CMP, a consortium of global conservation organizations committed to improving the practice of conservation. public release. Miradi 2.0 Miradi was beta tested by over 600 users in over 80 countries prior to the 2.0 Read the Miradi 2.0

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JULY 8, 2009

It was exciting to note the publication of my big article on Benetech in MIT Press' Innovations journal. I just received the PDF and was able to post it on Benetech's site. As many of you know, I'm committed to doing a book (and am holed up at Caltech's Athenaeum this week working on it).

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PDF Journal Press History 100

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APRIL 22, 2009

When as the Bookshare librarian I fill out membership forms for different library organizations, I want to check all the boxes, as Bookshare is at once a school library, a public library and an academic library. Bookshare is a unique library. This is one way Bookshare brings worlds together. I’ve been working in libraries for nine years.

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Library National India Wikipedia 100

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JUNE 11, 2015

License: CC0 Public Domain Imagine I have the detailed plans and specifications of Safe Number One, sufficient to build an exact copy of that safe if I had the right materials and tools. It could be the safe is made of plywood painted to look like metal in the catalog, and made from thin sheet metal. I know which one I’d choose!

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Open Source Open Software License 100

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FEBRUARY 8, 2013

True equality of access means the ability to buy ebooks like the general public and to be assured that assistive technology will work with those ebooks. That is, we want the ebooks that are purchased by the general public to be fully accessible. What can we do today to build that accessible future?

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Accessibility Global eBook Copyright 155

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JULY 3, 2013

of legally blind children in public and residential schools used braille as their primary reading medium. And today, braille is not being taught to most blind children. Data from the American Printing House for the Blind’s annual registry of legally blind students shows that in 2012 only 8.8%

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Literacy eBook Images Accessibility 208

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MARCH 18, 2009

I'm especially excited about the significant focus on public policy and advocacy for social entrepreneurship. I'm getting ready to head to the Social Enterprise Summit 2009 next month in New Orleans. We were lucky to have the support of the Surdna Foundation for a policy-specific conference track.

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Social Policy Advocacy Influence 104

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

public school population) who could benefit from accessible books but currently go without them or get them at great cost in both time and funds to schools and educators. Thousands of students with differing learning styles and language requirements can also benefit greatly from accessible books. There are some 7.5

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Student Accessibility Copyright Library 173

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AUGUST 10, 2012

The discussion, and this (to us) risky recommendation from a publication with a long history of covering these issues, led Benetech chief scientist, Dr. Patrick Ball, to respond. The relevant Wired.com editor responded with an endorsement for use by Middle Eastern dissidents of Hushmail, an online web mail site with a similar design.

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Online Government Tech Design 171

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

A great radio story aired today on Public Radio International's show, The World, on Guatemala's civil war records. It talks about National Police Archive in Guatemala, and has a quote from Patrick Ball. Clark Boyd of The World took a team to Guatemala earlier this month, and was there for their big election.

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Guatemala National International Public 100

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NOVEMBER 11, 2008

We've just started up a new publication, The Bookshare Bulletin. It's amazing to me how much our team has gotten done over the last year! There are easily a dozen articles in this first issue about our new website, international work and many more. I'm quite excited about a new initiative which is the last article in the newsletter.

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Wiki Newsletter Issue International 100

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JUNE 13, 2009

There are different variations of public service. Customer service is a form of public service. Our government's public servants have been released to their jobs better. I'm not going to quit my day job in customer service. Customer service is done with good will and in conscience. A: No top three.

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Interview Government Afghanistan Iraq 100

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FEBRUARY 27, 2013

We see tremendous innovations in social enterprise, but these are merely part of larger, global changes in the ways in which society organizes itself to create public goods. Ron Schultz's latest book, Creating Good Work Creating Good Work arrives at a critical time for the social entrepreneurial movement.

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Develop Social Library eBook 144

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MARCH 13, 2014

The summer of Snowden and revelations about the NSA have brought the public and private debate about digital privacy into the mainstream. In the absence of standards that protect that information, the lives of suffering people—victims, witnesses, and the defenders who collect their stories—are all too often put in harm''s way.

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Data Empowerment United States Government 176

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OCTOBER 12, 2011

Controlling trachoma also has important auxiliary benefits to public health, such as improved sanitation and per­sonal hygiene. Of course, we are huge fans of prevention and applaud the efforts to get trachoma under control so that millions of people can be spared the painful and disabling path towards low vision and blindness.

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Ghana Tanzania Kenya Africa 165

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FEBRUARY 5, 2009

As a public speaker in the technology and social sectors, I think that TED represents the top of our craft. The last TED conference I attended was TED2, which was more than 20 years ago! Many people are aware of both the social focus and high quality videos that come out of TED.

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Brain Game Conference Application 100

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OCTOBER 3, 2006

The SER is one of the leading publications in the social enterprise field, and I think it's now one of the membership benefits of joining the Social Enterprise Alliance. For example, if you have a great new method for tutoring kids, you might have a bigger impact by publicizing that method so that other people can use the improved approach.

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Tech Long Beach Build Social 100

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JANUARY 11, 2013

Our collection includes children’s books from Scholastic, contemporary books from Arab Scientific Publishers in Lebanon and literary books from the public domain from Kotobarabia in Egypt.

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United Arab Emirates Qatar eBook Language 162

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DECEMBER 17, 2010

They revealed the culpability of powerful people who never expected that these records would ever be exposed to public scrutiny - let alone scientific analysis. Discovered by chance, these police and prison records told the stories of serious human rights violations from the perspective of the perpetrators.

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Chad Guatemala Data Liberia 124

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MAY 16, 2010

The software also helps them present the end results of their conservation efforts to a wide variety of audiences and solicit public support for their projects. You can check out a very cool case study that includes more details about these projects here. with new changes based on feedback from our users.

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Norway Conservancy Sweden Software 133

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FEBRUARY 17, 2010

The woman who was our guide showed us the N.N.s’ placards with tiny vases of flowers placed in front of them or a few memorializing words quickly scrawled on them (in the night when no one would know, she said). One lone sepulcher Were these gifts from a kind stranger, hoping to honor some unknown person?

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Colombia Statistics Analysis Data 122

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JULY 5, 2013

We were worried that a bad treaty might even negatively affect our ability to serve our users in the United States.

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Morocco United States Copyright Library 127

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MARCH 28, 2011

The problems will be much worse if SMS streams are used to try to measure public violence. We don't think that SMS was a very good measure of building damage, relative to the obvious alternative of using a map of building locations.

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Issue Data Haiti Stream 160