Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 16, 2011

The initial part of the project was to do a detailed survey of existing assistive technology products, to get a baseline for current support for accessible graphics. But, it’s turned out to be one of the best surveys of assistive technology we’ve ever seen.

Images 194

Images Alternative Student Accessibility 194

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 18, 2011

KoBoToolbox is a toolkit for making it easy to collect survey data on mobile devices (turns out, I later found out we're already proposing to use this to do a survey in Africa). Plus, we discussed much more exciting tech that's in the De Novo pipeline, contributing to areas Benetech is very interested in!

Uganda 124

Uganda Africa Proposal Survey 124

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 7, 2011

Unsuccessful approach to crowdsourcing data (on a map): Captain Lopez’ political boss turns down her urgent request to use a helicopter to make a survey of the building damage patterns. The helicopter survey is a more expensive, but more effective tool for getting the big picture.

Picture 140

Picture Data Disaster Map 140

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 19, 2009

We're doing the planning by starting with our team: we did an all-company survey and then yesterday we did a two hour meeting to go over the survey results and discuss them. We are working on a new strategic plan, our first in years (we've been working off of the original Benetech plan with minor updates for 8 years).

Volunteer 100

Volunteer Companies Survey Facilitation 100

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

Write and run statistical analysis in R, including survey estimation, geospatial analysis, and general linear model fitting. What you will do: Write computer programs for human rights data analysis projects. Process, clean, and transform data. Run data standardization and de-duplication.

Analysis 150

Analysis Statistics Chart Language 150

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 14, 2012

We gathered input from other current and past users via online surveys and phone interviews, and we’re still gathering feedback. All of us at Benetech felt that it was absolutely essential to once again rely on our user community as we plan how to utilize these limited resources most effectively.

Global 157

Global Group Thailand Burma 157

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 3, 2004

Benetech will conduct statistical analysis of the Commission's four databases, including personal testimonies, gravesite registries, military unit deployment records and a retrospective mortality survey.

Timor 100

Timor Analysis Statistics Database 100