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President's Update: Summer 2008

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

In essence, we're being paid to deliver – free – accessible books to all students with print disabilities in the United States for the next five years. This response is a measure of how eager the environmental field is for a tool that helps better manage projects. Humanity United (founded by Pam Omidyar) funded this work.

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Preventing Human Trafficking: An Interview with Christina Arnold

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We do a lot of education here in the Washington, DC area, actually all over the United States. A lot more airtime has been given to sex slavery, especially here in the United States, and researchers have found that a lot of this talk is unsubstantiated by research. Are there other tools?

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Training Afghani NGOs in Cambodia

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Human rights activists there operate in a dangerous climate and it is important that they be trained and supported with the very best tools. You can read about some of the NGOs that have used Martus to back up their data in Guatemala, Sri Lanka, the Phillippines, and Colombia.

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