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President’s Update: Fall 2013

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Highlights of this Update: Global Literacy Human Rights Benetech Labs Communications Global Literacy Bookshare celebrated a double milestone this summer, reaching over 200,000 available titles in our collection and serving over 250,000 members with disabilities! We also received our largest-ever award for human rights, a two-year, $2.2

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Why I’m Scared of the SOPA Bill by Jim Fruchterman

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We work all over the world, and our Martus software has been translated into Spanish, French, Russian, Arabic, Khmer and other languages. He is the CEO of Benetech, which concentrates on applying technology to challenging problems facing our society, including literacy for people with disabilities and human rights monitoring and analysis.

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5 Things Oakland Taught Me about Civic Hacking

Tech Soup

PDFs are great for preserving the final format of a document, but they are nearly useless for any kind of robust analysis. Oakland currently has more than 30,000 PDFs on its website, which means a lot of data still isn't available in a format that is easy to extract and use for additional analysis.

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