Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 22, 2013

Caltech’s small size makes its faculty and students incredibly agile when it comes to understanding a broad array of fields: there is a need here to be able to explain your work, and to understand the work of others. That’s the Caltech advantage!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 10, 2013

Human rights workers collect massive amounts of information about abuse that occurs in their countries—the individual stories are compelling, but scientific analysis of the collective data can inspire action. The analysis made news globally and expanded an international conversation.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

And, Bookshare’s promise to K-12 students with these kinds of disabilities is that if they need specific titles for school, we’ll get them. Benetech successfully spun off our data team as the Human Rights Data Analysis Group, an independent NGO.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We serve over 150,000 students with disabilities alone with free online services funded by the Department of Education (however, nothing contained in this post has anything to do with our funders). Bookshare is an online library for people who can’t read standard print books. government or even (heavens!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

While the primary goal is for students to learn about strategic use of networks and social media for international organizations, I will also be covering some practical career skills such as effective networking and self-directed professional learning (also called “Social Learning”). There are many labs working on projects.

Policy 103

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