Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2005

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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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Carinne Brody is a doctoral candidate in public health at UC Berkeley. She did a joint Masters in Public Health and Economic Development at Columbia University. She did a joint Masters in Public Health and Economic Development at Columbia University.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Facebook recently announced a test in Sri Lanka, Bolivia, Slovakia, Serbia, Guatemala, and Cambodia. The goal of this test is to understand if people prefer to have separate places for personal and public content. So the Newsfeed algorithm tries to predict what each user wants to see in their Newsfeed. So they test and tweak.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Panelists include: Susan Pointer, Google’s Director of Public Policy & Government Relations. Given the difficulties of face to face politics and public space control, many of the people 30 and under stay home where they can be online and be free. Like Sri Lanka where pictures weren’t getting out.

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