Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

When we met, he was therefore especially interested in hearing about Benetech’s perspective on issues related to converting software to open source.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 27, 2011

I need a senior partner to help me, our team and our board raise Benetech's profile, communicate our key messages and secure crucial resources. That's our rocket fuel: how we grow our impact by another integer factor and get new ventures started.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

She says that one of the most important benefits of Miradi is that it allows environmental planners to make the best use of limited resources. We don’t focus on threats where the solutions are not effective and we make the best use of time, resources and energy.”

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Veterans Bookshare has always been a great resource for veterans with print disabilities. We have also created a special collection for returning veterans, in addition to our useful career resources collection, and of course tons of books for fun. What if you’re a U.S. veteran, or you speak Arabic, or you live in Korea? Or all three?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 28, 2013

In addition, Benetech is happy to provide hosting technology for new, and existing, authorized entities who would like to take advantage of the generous resources the United States government invests in our Bookshare library. We believe it’s possible to build on top of this asset without recreating it.

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Library Government United States Accessibility 225

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

As Benetech continues to grow, it is essential for us to have an in-house counsel to help our social enterprise teams do the best possible work for disadvantaged communities, and be a resource for partners and policy makers.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 28, 2014

As Gerardo explained in a recent blog post , Schema.org—the organization that keeps a list of agreed-upon tags that all search engines can use in common—adopted our proposed standards, so that search engine users can refine their searches to easily find accessible learning resources online.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 1, 2014

This iterative method helps us focus on building products that are responsive to real needs Treat users as customers, not recipients of charity People in challenging situations must invest their time and limited resources to improve their lives. Our role as technologists is to provide the tools that empower them to do so.

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Technology Open Source Data Exercise 192

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 26, 2013

And new technology and new operational models are needed to do far more good with the same or fewer resources. Practical and creative innovators, like Benetech, need space to operate to ensure those benefits reach those people who are often most in need of new solutions, but are often least able to afford them.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 9, 2014

With focused resources made available by initiatives like The MacArthur and the MasterCard Foundations’ collaborative, we can level the educational playing field for the world’s most marginalized communities. But the 2014 Global Philanthropy Forum clearly highlighted the role that the philanthropic community can play in affecting this shift.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 11, 2015

The combination of a secure design and a good confidential password makes it unlikely that all but the most dedicated and well-resourced attackers will be able to access the confidential information stored in open source security software.

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Open Source Open Software License 100

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 19, 2013

We’ve designed the site to be fully searchable, making it easy to find the information you need, and developed new content to convey the impact of our work and provide resources we hope will be useful. You’ll also find information about several meaningful ways to support our work.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 16, 2011

Should be a huge resource for the field: check out the product matrices in the Research and Development section of the DIAGRAM web site. The initial part of the project was to do a detailed survey of existing assistive technology products, to get a baseline for current support for accessible graphics.

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Images Alternative Student Accessibility 194

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Check out the World Blind Union’s resources for getting involved with efforts to advance the Treaty’s ratification in your country. How You Can Help Benetech is happy to support the World Blind Union in its campaign for the Marrakesh Treaty ratification and implementation.

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Copyright Law Library eBook 100

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 14, 2012

All of us at Benetech felt that it was absolutely essential to once again rely on our user community as we plan how to utilize these limited resources most effectively. When Benetech first began designing Martus, we began by incorporating input from human rights partners on the frontline.

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Global Group Thailand Burma 157

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 5, 2010

For each American who has a disability that affects access to information and communication capabilities, there are tech solutions that could be delivered through broadband to make that resource accessible. Specific comments on the proposed Clearinghouse.

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Accessibility Award Proposal Phase 100

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

There was also an associated effort called the Trusted Intermediary Global Accessible Resources (TIGAR) project, to ease the exchange of accessible book files between libraries for the blind and print disabled. The view of the World Blind Union was that the rightsholders (i.e., The question of licensing pretty much got punted down the road.

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Accessibility License Copyright Library 247

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Department of State, about empowering the world’s billion people with disabilities ; or to talking with my peer Skoll Award winners about writing software for development, social justice and human rights needs—CGI 2013 was a nonstop flow of sessions and exchanges with partners on ways to leverage resources towards each organization’s mission.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Disabled Student Services offices can't supervise the students they serve: there's not enough resources for that, and college students don't need babysitting. But, the weight of evidence is that they can associate learning management system data with an increased likelihood of failure, and then intervene.

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Student France Blended University 113

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

She and her senior policy adviser, Hal Plotkin, are huge fans of Open Educational Resources (OERs), having been involved in starting that movement in community colleges. One of the coolest meetings was with Under Secretary of Education, Martha Kanter, who headed our local community college here in California before getting the appointment.

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Accessibility Content Open Copyright 150

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 18, 2011

Scott McNeil came to Benetech and we talked about their MetaMouse project (getting multiple mice to work on the same PC, so that kids in low-PC resource places can work together). We connected at the recent Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference and decided we should get together.

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Uganda Africa Proposal Survey 124

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 3, 2009

This is what I think about when I dream about Raising the Floor with technology: finding ways to meet society's most pressing problems with the brains and resources of the tech community. Oh, and Vittana needs financial support for its operations as it scales up to viability.

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Education Nicaragua Kiva Amazon 100

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 20, 2015

They focused even more on students, and built online resources that allowed them to recruit from across Kenya, including economic and social screening for the neediest students. Carol shared that they had received an Impact Sourcing grant from the Rockefeller Foundation and scaled up their capacity.

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Kenya Social Student India 100

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 30, 2012

True to this commitment, I draw tremendous satisfaction from mentoring new social entrepreneurs, finding resources for them, and helping them avoid the pitfalls that I had experienced.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

It’s a great resource for organizations that are engaged in spinning off sustainable projects, or that are considering similar strategies. We used it to review our planning as we wrapped up this move.

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Analysis Project Open Source Analytics 174

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

The deep reservoir of pro bono resources provides elasticity for an enterprising and agile counsel who can make the choices of which issues to handle solely inside, mainly with outside counsel, or blended. Until now, we’ve operated with purely pro bono help in the form of two attorneys on our board.

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United States Library Copyright License 134

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 10, 2014

Data is now a core resource. But do they measure the real impact we’re making in the lives of our beneficiaries? Can attribution hold up when it comes to measuring the human experience of hope, self-worth, or reconciliation?

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Data Classroom Measure Accessibility 168

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 29, 2006

I was delighted to see the latest web site in Hong Kong about social enterprise, the Hong Kong Social Enterprise Resource Web. One of the most interesting things from a recent Gathering of the Social Enterprise Alliance was having an interview with a Hong Kong film crew that was doing a piece on social enterprise.

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Social Interview Web Site 100

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Without this service, Bookshare would not be the resource it is today. To continue this work, we depend on the support of generous donors. With a gift of just $50, we can add a new ebook to the Bookshare collection, making that book available to hundreds of thousands of Bookshare members with disabilities.

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Life Gift eBook France 147

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 29, 2010

There is a lot of potential in the archives to find information related to human rights violations that can serve as a resource for these kinds of cases.” “If prosecutors can establish that the archive is a reliable source of proof for them, it is huge,” says Guzmán. You can read more about the case at [link].

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Guatemala Statistics National Analysis 145

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 30, 2006

The individual or team behind the venture should also have identified the role(s) in which an additional graduate student resource would be valuable. Be sure to include: Name, Organization/University Are you a graduate student seeking a venture or a venture seeking a graduate student resource?

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Global San Francisco Social Student 100

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 15, 2010

Or, do you stick with habits honed in resource-famished times? When money goes from being unobtainium to merely tight, what travel restrictions do you loosen? Paying for hotels instead of hostels? Not forcing team members to share rooms? Taking nonstop flights instead of cheaper one-stops?

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Tips Social New York City New York 124

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 15, 2012

DIAGRAM stands for Digital Image and Graphics Resources for Accessible Materials. The DIAGRAM Center team has also created an image data content model which will provide standards to define and enhance the efficacy and interoperability of accessible images as the project evolves.

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Images Student Accessibility Content 133

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 22, 2013

Each new content delivery system is eagerly tested by technically oriented blind individuals or the organizations serving them, often to result in disappointment and widespread advice to avoid wasting limited resources on inaccessible content.

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Measure Technology Audio eBook 181

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 15, 2014

We hope that many other countries will follow India’s ratification.

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Accessibility Celebrate United States Copyright 194

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 14, 2013

It’s a powerful example of this “brave new world” we live in, where private resources are deployed to create and sustain public goods. So, yes, I do feel optimistic. I believe there’s a growing recognition that the world has become a global village and it’s our responsibility to see to it that all “villagers” can improve their lives.

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Technology Pledge Music University 129

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 7, 2012

This early portion of the Skoll conference is for Skoll awardee staff, the Skoll Foundation and key resources to grow the field. The senior social entrepreneurs in the audience were listening in rapt attention. The social entrepreneurs had rapid-fire questions: How can I do that? How is it structured? Where do you find the donors?

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