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Digital Divide Data: our Partner in Laos

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The other half of the day they go to university pursuing advanced studies in numerous different fields (I asked a bunch of the students their area of study and heard answers like business, law, accountancy and even forestry). We scan the books in the U.S.,

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Breakthrough Philanthropy - Thiel Foundation event

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The Santa Fe Institute is probably the best known: a research institute dedicated to studying complex problems. Benetech's chief scientist, Dr. Patrick Ball, has spent time there working on the scientific challenges of our work studying large scale human rights violations. I knew of a fair number of the groups already.

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Bookshare Users Downloading Long-Awaited Apple e-Book App

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She studies secular songs and theater music from the English Baroque period of the 1600’s. Our Bookshare members will also get access to additional features such as study tools, images and multiple languages as the application develops. Maria is a historical musicologist who is pursuing her PhD at Boston University.

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Counting the Uncounted

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Just this week, we released a new study on the Colombian state of Casanare. History, victims, and the survivors need to know how many people have been killed and disappeared in Casanare,” said Tamy Guberek, the study's lead author and the Benetech Human Rights Program Latin America Coordinator. “We

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Benetech Featured on the Giving Library

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The Giving Library now enables users to easily locate, study, and communicate with Benetech and other featured nonprofits that fit their giving criteria. Very cool, but I have to admit this is the most sober and serious interview I've ever given because I was trying hard to follow my notes!

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Crypto is Not Broken

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The bottom line: We've consulted with cryptographers and studied the Martus code, and we do not believe that there is a weakness affecting Martus users. study had really found. studied didn't get much entropy into their seeds. However, the Heninger et al. This contained the beginning of an explanation of what the Lenstra et al.

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Robin Seaman, Agent of Inclusion

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About the new edition of the Book Industry Study Group’s Guide to Accessible Publishing, just released yesterday and dedicated to Robin, in honor of her role as the principal editor. About the dozens of tributes we read at Bookshare from students, from teachers, from leaders, from publishers, all appreciating Robin’s work.

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