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Travel Tips for Social Entrepreneurs

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I'm just wrapping up a week of conversation on Social Edge, entitled Travel Tips for Social Entrepreneurs. What’s your travel tip? I'm fascinated not only with the big questions in the social entrepreneurship field, but also the practical practices of doing the job of social entrepreneur better.

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There Are No Online Security Shortcuts for Human Rights

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Those of us in technology who seek to tip the balance back towards advocates of human rights have a responsibility to approach these issues with great care. The tech community has immense power in the global battle for human rights. Tech companies supply the tools to help repressive governments suppress human rights and access to information.

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Are You Passionate about Technology and Social Good? Benetech Needs You!

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You have to feel strongly that the karmic rewards tip the balance to join a social enterprise. Along the way, we expect to drive innovations that will make learning better for all students around the world. Working for Benetech is hugely rewarding, but not necessarily in a monetary sense.

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Silicon Valley’s Developing Conscience: It’s Called Apple

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They were burning all of their records because they had a tip that their government was going to raid them. When we called an LGBT organization in Africa last year for a regular check-in, we found that they took the call from the back yard of their offices. Luckily, their records were already safely stored in Martus.

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Bookshare without Borders: #1/3

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But this is just the tip of the iceberg, as literacy remains an elusive dream for the majority of the world’s people with print disabilities. Bookshare , our flagship literacy program, is the world’s largest accessible library and currently serves more than 230,000 members with visual and learning disabilities.

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Colombia’s “False Positives�

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And, some analysts say, we are just seeing the tip of the iceberg. The actual figures could be much higher. Three Army generals and seventeen other officers have been removed from service thus far.

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Eulogy for my father

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She recalled the weekend that Dad spent calling International Harvester (IH) dealers when it became clear that one of their machines had a defect that could cause it to tip over. Liz pointed out that none of us could remember Dad taking a sick day from work.