Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 17, 2013

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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Paraguay Award Africa Conservancy 142

Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Each year, the electronics reuse community awards an annual lifetime achievement award at its Electronics Reuse Conference. The winner of this year's award is Charles Brennick, the founder and executive director of the nonprofit refurbisher InterConnection. The previous award winners voted unanimously for him.

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Costa Rica Paraguay Award Seattle 36

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 23, 2004

On Monday morning, the 2004 National Book Award winners in fiction and nonfiction were made live on our Bookshare.org site, providing rapid access to these books to readers with disabilities. Announced in the middle of last week, these two new books are two outstanding accounts of remarkably different histories.

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Paraguay Detroit Ohio History 100

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 31, 2006

At last night's awards ceremonies, the highlight was seeing four short films on four of the Skoll Social entrepreneurs. I am having a blast at the Skoll Forum : spending tons of time talking to people about social change and technology. He tracked me down to explain what we were doing in our new environmental project!

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Paraguay Nepal Brazil Award 100