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APRIL 7, 2011

Captain Lopez helps her team assess the quality, quantity and usefulness of these different streams, each of which plays a part of the picture of the situation. Maps, helicopter overflights, satellite imagery, field reports from first responders, as well as phone calls and SMS messages from the general public.

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JANUARY 5, 2015

These projects ended up becoming successful and found sustainable funding streams, allowing the innovation to go to scale without needing continued funding from Lavelle. Embracing measured risk, The Fund has been willing to make early bets on Benetech, and has repeatedly chosen to invest in our prototype projects.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 24, 2006

And, of course, our team receives a constant stream of great feedback from people with disabilities, their teachers and families. WIPO has just published an important paper on the area of access for people with disabilities, and Bookshare.org is extensively profiled as an important model.

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APRIL 22, 2010

By following the #swf10, #tedxvolcano and the more general #ashtag hashtags on Twitter, I was treated to a steady stream of website links and stories about the airport closures and the volcano. Working the exit options to get home. Offers of shared buses and even possible charter flights flew around.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 12, 2006

But, there does seem to be a reasonably constant stream of people, mostly women, in and out of doors at the back of the room near where I'm seated. I've really lucked out! Of course, I haven't really gotten the ladies service angle, because there aren't any women customers.

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JANUARY 31, 2007

Your time is dedicated to a moderate room in some Davos hotel, as your team runs a steady stream of key customers, suppliers and potential partners through. Deal Davos (aka bilateral Davos) You come to Davos to meet with a handful of specific people who are also there at the same time. Davos as nexus for minimizing global travel.

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AUGUST 13, 2012

We usually have three different revenues streams in mind to make a venture sustainable, but if a fourth approach appears to work, we’ll take it! When you’re creating something new, it never goes according to plan. We need to be alert to better ways to accomplish the social objectives.

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JULY 16, 2006

Any IT setup has to be distributed as we saw so many single point data sources taken out by Hurricane Katrina, with no alternate location for getting same data stream. Sure, not as important as search and rescue, food and water, but I think it's up there with healing from the incident. - Information management on a large scale.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2004

And, the earned income piece of their stream is relatively small. Brazil doesn't have a tradition of personal philanthropy, and there are no tax advantages to making donations. Corporations become the major backers of NGOs (perhaps they can deduct these expenses?). More on the Summit later!

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OCTOBER 30, 2011

This morning we saw live video of democracy protesters in Yemen who have been following the discussions via streaming video. The event helped create an extended dialog between participants of the Arab Spring and the developers of technology tools that activists have used to circumvent government censorship.

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