Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 10, 2009

The idea is to have stories about people in the past, and the connections between people, with a wiki approach with some extra structure. I saw a neat demonstration at TED, when I got the chance to meet Janice Fraser of Emmet Labs. The focus is on pre-1970, so we have lots of kings and queens featured.

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South Africa Africa Wiki Music 100

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

We've now made it easy to report quality issues with Bookshare books, and we have a new wiki-style webpage where all of the reports are posted and updated as the issues are resolved. I'm quite excited about a new initiative which is the last article in the newsletter.

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Wiki Newsletter Issue International 100

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Descriptions of our project, plus the projects with MiX and Global Pulse, can be found on the Data Without Borders wiki. Several of us plan to remain involved in NYCLU’s proposed analyses and look forward to staying in contact with Sara and the other members of the team. The next Data Dive will be held here in San Francisco on Nov.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

Maintain and develop our team's internal groupware websites: a MoinMoin wiki, a rietveld code review deployment, and several small custom sites built on Django. 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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Analysis Statistics Chart Language 150

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 29, 2004

Check the Wiki at the above link for more information. We're actively translating Martus into roughly ten languages. This event was organized by Tactical Tech and Aspiration , two of the sparkplugs in the social movement around free and open source software.

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Poland Open Source Artist Wiki 100

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 12, 2006

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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Pakistan Disaster Wiki Google 100

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 30, 2011

He said the databases that he will create in the next few years will look much less like a traditional database and more like a mash up between a wiki, a blog and Facebook. Ball added that activists need to create detailed narratives that help them get their work done efficiently in familiar formats.

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