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Benetech Human Rights Data Analysts Uncover Critical Evidence

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In 2010, Benetech’s Human Rights Data Analysis Group examined once hidden government documents from Guatemala and Chad that provided key evidence needed to hold former national leaders and security forces accountable for human rights violations. Guzmán’s testimony was based on HRDAG’s analysis of the 31.7

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The Tech Awards - Technology Benefiting Humanity

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I just attended the 2010 Tech Awards Gala Even. A Guest Beneblog by Teresa Throckmorton, Benetech's CFO Walking into the Santa Clara Convention Center last night looked very much like so many other black tie events – but that’s where the similarity ended. Inside there were 20 stations set up with this year’s laureates.

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Benetech’s Daniel Guzmán Publishes Account of Landmark Guatemalan Human Rights Case

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In October 2010, Guzmán stood before three judges to defend his statistical findings, which supported the prosecutor’s case against the police officers. We have been working in partnership with the archive staff who have been using Benetech’s Martus software to secure the data.

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The International Institute of Social Entrepreneurship

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This year they had 23 participants from 20 different countries and in 2010 they will train 40 students to , “run their own social projects” The program that is run with the help of a few staff and catalysts, has a two month internship also built into it.

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Bookshare in Chennai

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Two years later, Maria who was affected by polio at the age of one and has to use a wheel chair and calipers, is now soon to be married on Jan 18th, 2010. Maria was raised by the sisters of the local Chennai Church, given a basic education and was sent off to Worth Trust to learn life skills.

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My remarks just made at WIPO today

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with print disabilities, with more than 70,000 copyrighted works in our library, the majority of which have been created under the US copyright exception by volunteers, mainly people with disabilities themselves, helping each other. • We now have global permissions for around 8,000 copyrighted books out of our 70,000. •

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Benetech’s New Image Description Tool Improves Accessibility of Graphical Content for Students with Print Disabilities

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The DIAGRAM Center was launched in May 2010 by Benetech with support from the US Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP). Any ebook in the DAISY 3 format can be submitted for image descriptions and read by DAISY compatible software that supports image description playback.

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