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NOVEMBER 3, 2008

I collaborated with people at Worth Trust to develop techniques that will improve the efficiency and quality of their work. The first was to work, through an organization called Worth Trust , with a group of disabled employees that Bookshare has hired to scan and prepare books for the India collection.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2004

Ball's chapter looks at the application of data mining and statistical techniques to human rights, and he reflects more generally on the role of science in human rights activism. He concludes "Of course, human rights work is about much more than methodology.

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DECEMBER 10, 2011

Our team members are creating an “accountability toolkit” – a set of innovative techniques for identifying patterns of responsibility for grave human rights crimes. We’re honored to support the process towards justice and accountability at this critical time in Guatemala’s history.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2005

Many of EQUITAS' documents were secured by our Martus software using our "key-sharing" technique, see the Martus manual, section 2g. She and her taxi driver were taken to a remote location where her computer, cell phone and other property was stolen, but thankfully, she and the taxi driver were released unharmed.

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AUGUST 7, 2008

I really don't like Just Another Emperor, and it's because of the spin techniques used to attempt to make the case for the policy changes it advocates. The goal of this critique was to cast significant doubt on these conclusions, by illustrating the spin techniques utilized to reframe and distort the debate.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Individuals with central vision loss can therefore maximize their vision through a corrective technique called eccentric viewing. One important thing to note is that a person with AMD generally retains enough peripheral vision for good orientation and mobility.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 10, 2008

That's too bad, because Michael is starting to actually engage with some of the arguments I'm making, and avoids the most objectionable rhetorical techniques that I keep pointing out. It's true that I have a serious problem with the claims made by Just Another Emperor, and with the rhetorical techniques used.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Moreover, they were produced with techniques and skills that led to products unlike the millions of examples of mass produced products we saw in the tourist markets. They had the most beautiful handicraft work (silk scarves and tapestries, basket weaving that seems like a different level of art than I’ve ever seen).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Her goal while at Benetech: to learn more about the data processing techniques and quantitative analysis methods that HRDAG uses to investigate large-scale human rights violations. Jule has been working with Benetech’s Human Rights Data Analysis Group, HRDAG, which completed analyzing data for Liberia’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 13, 2006

Using the same techniques we apply as business entrepreneurs, any number of us could tackle the problems of the world as social entrepreneurs. The idea that Bill Gates could set out to ensure the vaccination of every child on the planet is completely feasible. What's your issue? Stopping domestic violence? Curing a specific disease?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 9, 2008

I'm excited about the chance to continue to make my case that Just Another Emperor utilizes spin techniques rather than balanced research in its quest to make the case for its policy recommendations. Look at the spin technique being used here. One of the spin techniques I cite Edwards as using is the ad hominem attack.

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MAY 25, 2010

But, I really liked the example of good software development techniques (hashes are really computationally efficient) being used to advance the social goal of reducing the availability of this repugnant material.

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DECEMBER 2, 2005

I begin to learn the techniques and etiquette of shopping, Arabic style. The whole point is to get you to buy a rug as your first experience in the medina, before you can find out what the pricing really is and understand how differently the sales process proceeds here.

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