Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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The Librarian of Marrakesh

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

She would bring books especially for children and women, and conduct a couple of days of workshops on wide-ranging topics about enterprise, culture, history, poetry and books. Her love for books led her to create the Book Caravans: treks each April out to a village in the desert or the mountains of Morocco.

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Open Source and the Promise of Sustainable Nutrition Security

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This week, on September 10-12 at Purdue University, CIMSANS will be co-hosting a workshop and summit focused on improving food systems data and models. I hope the modeling community comes away with a framework for open sourcing the integrated models used to produce sustainable nutrition security assessments.

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Social DRM: It’s About Equal Access for All

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Next month, I will be heading to TOC a couple of days early in order to participate in a W3C Workshop on eBooks and the Open Web Platform, where I will be talking about Social DRM (Digital Rights Management). There is no better place to engage with colleagues about new technologies, changing business models, fresh ideas, and shared standards.

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Spooling up for Day One of the Gathering

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This afternoon there are three choices: the Aspen Institute/SEA session on creating a new hybrid legal form for social enterprises, tours of local social enterprises, and a workshop on earned income ventures.

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Benetech Truths

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

These include formal and informal activities such as individual training by other staff members, workshops, staff brown bags and visiting speakers. With regard to professional development, Benetech’s depth of knowledge and diverse program activities offer great opportunities for cross-learning in the workplace and in the field.

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Miradi and Conservation

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Right before I went to the conference I received a copy of the Proceedings of the Appalachian Salamander Conservation Workshop, held this past May. For me, it was a chance to meet practitioners using our Miradi conservation project management software. And sprinkled throughout the report were graphics clearly from our Miradi software!

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The Many Davos

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

You have interactive workshops and role playing with 40 other CEOs, digging into issues from completely different vantage points. I especially enjoyed the Digital Piracy workshop where a handful of us had to develop and present the "Commercial Pirate's Manifesto!" Sporty Davos You get to drive fast cars.

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