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Martín Burt’s Best Kept Secret

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

So I was recently taken by surprise when I discovered by mere coincidence that he had become the Chief of Staff for the Interim President of Paraguay, Federico Franco! It was a daring venture: Paraguay was then still under a military dictatorship and it was extremely difficult to advance social work.

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Posts from the Skoll World Forum

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

At last night's awards ceremonies, the highlight was seeing four short films on four of the Skoll Social entrepreneurs. There are sixteen social entrepreneur award winners this year: three are past Skoll grantees, but this is our first chance to be on stage for the big award ceremony.

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