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Conservation Planners Use Benetech's Miradi Software to Help Save Reefs in Guam

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Elaina Todd, an environmental planner who develops social marketing campaigns with the nonprofit conservation group Rare, is profiled in our most recent case study for Benetech’s Miradi software. Miradi, is used by nature conservation practitioners around the world to design, manage, monitor and learn from their projects.

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New Ideas at TED2014

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Of course, that included getting new ideas for software for social good! Since I’m a software guy, I asked about what software could do to help with these two real-world problems. As someone who has been writing software for blind people for 25 years, we were in my element! Improving childhood nutrition.

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Big News at Benetech (and for me!)

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Betsy is a recognized social entrepreneur who has dedicated much of her career to changing the world with software. Our board and I are looking forward to Betsy leading Benetech to even greater impact.

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Open Source Means Strong Security

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“Your secure software is open source: doesn’t that make it less secure?” It’s an important question for us and for all of our peers developing secure software in today’s post-Snowden environment of fear and worry about surveillance. The analogy of the strong safe with an open design is directly applicable to secure software design.

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Using Software and Data to Change the World

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It was a blast to be with an entire conference full of social good software and data people from around the world. Using Software and Data to Change the World We are in an amazing time. We have to use this opening to help advance our goal; using software and data to change the world for the better! A database!

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CEO’s Update: Fall 2014

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SocialCoding4Good brings together individual software professionals as well as corporate social responsibility teams from companies such as Cisco, Google, Hewlett Packard, LinkedIn, and VMware to volunteer their technical skills to nonprofit partners that develop and maintain free and open source software addressing critical social problems.

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Snowden and Techies: First Do No Harm!

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As software developers entrusted with sensitive information, we have a duty to protect the people we serve. And, this responsibility extends to far more software developers today than we thought. Our experience working with human rights defenders, especially LGBT and Tibetan groups, give us direct insights into these challenges.