Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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Fake Facebook Friends and the CIA

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I do have a deadbolt and a security system, because I want to discourage theft. But, a perfect home security system does not exist, and if it were claimed, I wouldn't believe it. I don't leave my front door wide open when nobody is home.

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Open Source and the Promise of Sustainable Nutrition Security

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Jerry is involved in collective efforts to advance methods for improving data and models that inform government and private industry decision makers about the role of food systems in achieving “sustainable nutrition security”—our ability to meet growing demand for safe, affordable, and nutritious food in a sustainable manner.

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Crowdsourced data is not a substitute for real statistics

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Guest Beneblog by Patrick Ball, Jeff Klingner, and Kristian Lum After the earthquake in Haiti, Ushahidi organized a centralized text messaging system to allow people to inform others about people trapped under damaged buildings and other humanitarian crises.

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The Case for Copyright Exceptions and Fair Use

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It’s because our mission depends on a balanced intellectual property system that encourages innovation. After all, our IP system was set up precisely to balance the interests of society with those of creators. We are especially concerned that the IP system ensures that it’s both easy to serve disadvantaged communities and to innovate.

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Welcome, Mark Roberts!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

With his proven execution in scaling business systems and infrastructures that shaped the growth of award-winning service products for multiple high profile Silicon Valley technology companies, he has the perfect pedigree to spearhead engineering at Benetech as we continue to innovate in the technology-for-good space.

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Signals - Stoplights for student success

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Signals blends two key ideas: The patterns of student failure can be spotted early: much earlier than existing systems relying on failing midterms! He was quite realistic about the limitations of the system. Purdue can spot patterns that indicate a much higher chance of failure, and intervene early.

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Big Data Means More Than Big Profits

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The more we use technology in our education and health systems, the more data we collect about how people learn and what keeps us healthy or makes us sick. Of course, data has to be collected in ways that match our value systems and respect ethics, privacy, and informed consent.

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