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Recruiting Geeks for Human Rights!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We help the human rights movement speak truth to power, because we believe each story of human rights abuse is a tool for justice. Maintain and develop our team's automated data processing and analysis infrastructure (POSIX-environment command line tools built on bash, make, python, and R).

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Concept from Rod Beckstrom

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They believe that SMS will be the most important tool in the first days of any disaster. Their could be different layers for roads, schools, hospitals, patients, water, etc. - [could] a wiki could somehow intersect with a GPS mapping system to enable richer data sharing.

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Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference

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The event helped create an extended dialog between participants of the Arab Spring and the developers of technology tools that activists have used to circumvent government censorship. It is the vision of the mission goal that leads to successful projects, rather than just saying, 'I got a cool tool.'"