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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society - Untitled Article

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I covered our Human Rights program, including the Martus Project and the Human Rights Data Analysis Group (which joined Benetech last year). This is based on a talk I gave in Sri Lanka last year at the University of Peradeniya, but with a heavier technology component given the engineering audience.

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President's Update: Summer 2008

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Human Rights Patrick Ball recently spent a month at the International Criminal Court (ICC), where he held office hours and helped prosecutors use quantitative data and statistical analysis to pursue war crimes cases. We've also had major efforts in Burma, Sri Lanka and Guatemala, to name a few; efforts we expect to continue this year.

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Training Afghani NGOs in Cambodia

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This type of documentation is often a critical step in the large-scale data analysis projects conducted by Benetech’s Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) in partnership with human rights organizations. My first presentation discussed principles of documentation, developing databases, and analysis.

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