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MARCH 28, 2011

We’re reacting to the following claim: “Data collected using unbounded crowdsourcing (non-representative sampling) largely in the form of SMS from the disaster affected population in Port-au-Prince can predict, with surprisingly high accuracy and statistical significance, the location and extent of structural damage post-earthquake.”

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OCTOBER 29, 2010

He showed that the records are consistent in structure and overall content with many other documents in the archive and were not chosen deliberately or selectively. Guzmán’s expert testimony helped the judges in the case remove doubt about the authenticity and reliability of the documents.

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JUNE 25, 2014

Because it inverts the power structure and pushes innovation to the edges. We’d pick projects that had the opportunity for a five- or 10-fold improvement in results, or might revolutionize the way people do something. The solutions that catch fire with their intended users would then be scaled up. Why is this idea exciting?

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JUNE 22, 2013

The digital text can be accessed, but there is impaired access to the structure of the document. Common problems are the inability to go back, pause, spell words (or names) or access footnotes (or be forced to hear all footnotes).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 7, 2012

How is it structured? This early portion of the Skoll conference is for Skoll awardee staff, the Skoll Foundation and key resources to grow the field. The social entrepreneurs had rapid-fire questions: How can I do that? How does it interact with your existing, core programs? Where do you find the donors? How much have you raised?

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AUGUST 25, 2007

One concern about PRIs that I've seen is the high cost of doing them: you have to spend a lot of time and legal fees structuring the transaction. PRIs are supposed to be for mission (program) reasons first and financial return second (although you can make a return). It explains a complicated topic well.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 30, 2009

It's structured as an unconference, where the 300 or so folks showing up design the conference program of roughly 70 sessions in about an hour the first night. I just got back from Foo Camp 2009, which was a blast as usual. I think this is my third or fourth Foo Camp, and the energy around public uses of technology was palpable.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 18, 2007

Finally, Papilia has a fully compliant opt-in structure that is based on permission-based communication. My goal is see more voices emerge from Benetech: to keep my founder's voice going (and still answering my own email), but to see the distinctive voices of our other leaders and projects come through. So, sign up and state your preferences!

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MAY 2, 2012

Our lower cost model made it practical to invert the power structure. Instead of us deciding what people with disabilities should read, we let our readers decide which books should be scanned and shared under an exception in the U.S. copyright law. As a result, we quickly became the largest online library for people with print disabilities.

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OCTOBER 3, 2006

And, often this can be structured as a social enterprise. For example, if you have a great new method for tutoring kids, you might have a bigger impact by publicizing that method so that other people can use the improved approach. Of course, I also try to be realistic.

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JANUARY 25, 2007

Jonathan Zittrain made a strong analogy that the Internet today is as structurally weak as AT&T's telephone network was back in the days when you could get free telephone calls using a Cap'n crunch toy whistle. By extension, wondered what things would be like if Microsoft had spent as much efforts on protecting your private information.

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AUGUST 17, 2006

After the question of where to find capital, the question of structure is the next most frequently asked question posed to me by aspiring social entrepreneurs. From Allen Bromberger (When considering how to structure your social enterprise) The two most important issues for you are liability and taxes. FOR-PROFIT OR NONPROFIT?

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APRIL 18, 2007

It's a low profit LLC specifically structured so that private foundations can invest in it and not have to go to the IRS for a letter ruling to approve this form of PRI (program related investment). This meeting moved the conversation forward. One new initiative that I got to hear about was the L3C proposed in North Carolina.

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APRIL 20, 2007

And, the social sector isn't structured by its nature to encourage scale like the for-profit sector. Of course, I'm thinking that just maybe this isn't a fair way to measure the social sector. After all, small businesses generate a whole bunch of those great jobs created by entrepreneurial energy, and they rarely scale.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2008

As an intern, I was working for Bookshare in Chennai, India, as their "on-the-ground" person, doing outreach and helping to establish a structure that will support their service there. An example of a Hindi phrase translated into a phonetic Braille code My internship consisted of two basic components.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Our lower cost model allowed us to invert the power structure. Instead of deciding what people with disabilities should read, we let our users decide which books to scan and share with each other, which was all made possible by an exception in U.S. copyright law.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2006

Groups like Kaiser are interested in testing this product, because Kaiser is structured in a way that encourages them to take long term responsibility for their members. It connects to the way people actually behave.

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JANUARY 20, 2010

Governments creating tax policies and organizational structures to encourage capital for and the formation of social enterprises. . * For example, European and American governments, publishers and entertainment industries should actively support the proposed Treaty for Access for the Visually Impaired under current consideration at WIPO.

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JANUARY 15, 2007

It's a great idea that could help society, but where the financial structure right now does not seem to offer an attractive for-profit opportunity. We already have companies giving large incentives to buy hybrids, or paying for public transportation, or removing the de facto subsidization of free parking.

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JUNE 5, 2010

The bigger question is about how to structure the second phase. It’s not clear that money awards would be an important driver of this Phase: the gift of attention to the issue would be the main payoff. Awards programs are around providing incentives to encourage certain kinds of behaviors. Are they intended to inspire students?

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DECEMBER 30, 2009

The Structure Of Evolutionary Theory 16. Conversations With Nostradamus: His Prophecies Explained, Vol. 1 (Revised Edition & Addendum 2001) 10. Designing Great Beer 11. Pantheism: A Non-Theistic Concept of Deity 12. Elements of Pantheism 13. Brethren: Raised by Wolves, Volume One 14. Each One Believing 15.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2009

He was very proud of how he had structured the settlement as a education and college trust fund for the injured boy. It wasn’t a problem with the combine; the boy’s 16 year old brother had left the combine running unattended. The company was in the right: it was the brother’s fault. That was our dad!

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FEBRUARY 3, 2004

Outside the normal power structure of the corporation (or government), these leaders are interested and clearly stimulated by talking directly with other attendees about these issues. And, they do engage, with enthusiasm. The interactions are at a peer level, without the normal screening that typically protects these leaders.

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JULY 27, 2011

Answer : The draft document is structured so that it can be put forward either as a recommendation or a draft treaty. For example, a person who “is unable to read printed works to substantially the same degree as a person without an impairment or disability.” Question: What’s the big open issue remaining?

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OCTOBER 12, 2012

Over 80% of our revenues are structured as “pay-as-you-go” contracts, rather than grants. Department of State, which similarly structures our award as a cooperative agreement, not a grant. This means that crucial information, including revenue, doesn’t appear on the balance sheet. students with print disabilities.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2016

family structure? Which individuals and households are most at risk – the youngest children, all children, women, the elderly? single-adult households, multi-generational households? What “micro” factors raise the poverty risk for persons and households – age? employment attachment and educational level of adult household members?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2012

For example, there are many just in the area of open source foundations: nonprofit organizations structured as social enterprises writing open source software for the benefit of society, with many examples in each of the five claimed areas. The application is against the public interest.

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JULY 11, 2013

We’re actively participating in initiatives such as the Taproot Foundation Pro Bono Summit and the A Billion+ Change campaign , and we’re working closely with tech giants like HP and VMware to match and structure the right opportunities for their engineering teams to collaborate with our Project Partners.

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AUGUST 25, 2004

We have learned that the problems vary widely even inside a single country.

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DECEMBER 31, 2007

And on top of the global army of biodiversity samplers and barcoders there is already an organizational structure - CBOL, the Consortium for the Barcodes of Life - beating the drum, nudging the teams, exhorting the converted and the skeptics alike.

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Life Sample Global Library 100