Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. This is one reason why our Human Rights Field Team is supporting LGBTI rights groups from the Caribbean to the African regions with targeted Martus and capacity building trainings. But what about everybody else?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 24, 2010

This was first introduced (to my knowledge) in the Stakeholder's Platform discussions, which were the quickly ginned-up alternative option created in response to the original introduction at WIPO of the Treaty for the Visually Impaired ("TVI") by Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay (and now co-sponsored by Mexico). The concept of TIs uses U.S.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 31, 2012

We learn to use mobile production tools, cooperative social sites for group curation and unique filesharing services like Dropbox , Skype along with new tools like Instagram, WeVideo , Stroome and many new apps to edit our captured video and photos for story creation. employers in Brazil and the US. In Brazil, David wrote and directed.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Each of these groups provided insights into the challenge, determined a focus area where technology can help, and developed a solution. Molly’s background spans nonprofits and direct service, including work with small farmers in northeastern Brazil and upstate New York.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 8, 2015

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2012

We learn to use mobile production tools, cooperative social sites for group curation and unique filesharing services like Dropbox , Skype along with new tools like Instagram, WeVideo , Stroome and many new apps to edit our captured video and photos for story creation. In Brazil, David wrote and directed newscasts for CurrentTV.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 8, 2004

I just returned from Brazil yesterday: an exciting and meaningful trip that I'll talk about more later, I hope. Today I was at the beginning of the Microsoft Global Library Forum, and Bill Gates spoke to our (reasonably small) group.

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

There are 54 ethnic groups in Vietnam. The Viet people are the most numerous ethnic group. English, Dutch, and numerous dialects (over 700) are spoken across 300 ethnic groups. Indonesia has the world’s second highest level of biodiversity (after Brazil). English is increasingly favored as a second language.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2005

The heads of major information technology companies invited me to attend multiple meetings to discuss the progress they had made as a group in bringing technology to students in Jordan and their desire to replicate that success elsewhere in the Middle East, as well as a major program in Brazil.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 31, 2004

Peer learning is the most valuable part of participating in these groups: I learn a great deal from my peers and hope to have some learning to offer in return. At the moment, I'm en route to Brazil for the Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur Summit. We have common challenges and a common interest in changing society.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 31, 2006

I have been blogging for Social Edge this week, and have grouped together several of my blogs from there for the Beneblog! Rodrigo Baggio (of CDI in Brazil) and I are trying to find more time together since we're both in the IT space: we know there's a joint project here somewhere.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

The hot topic was the proposal made by Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay, for a global treaty (a treaty for which I was part of the expert drafting team). But, the advocacy groups present in Geneva felt that the U.S. delegation was against the Treaty solution.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

We’ve since welcomed virtual Sprinters from 25+ countries around the globe, including Australia, Japan, Senegal, Ethiopia, and Brazil. If you’ve ever sought out a list to compare similar apps on the AppExchange, you may have come across the resources of this legacy Community sourced list, now a group in the Trailblazer Community.

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Global Giving

DECEMBER 30, 2021

To get a sense of the complexity involved in connecting these groups to make an impact, take three countries’ unique nonprofit data stories: Organizations have a variety of registration types. In Brazil, the Receita Federal holds nonprofit registrations in dense files alongside information about every taxable entity in the country.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

PR: I was in Brazil a few months ago, and in this village in Brazil there are about eighty or ninety families that are all very small coffee growers. It's about three hundred dollars a year to send a kid to high school in this region of Brazil. And when we say small in the coffee world, we're talking about one or two acres.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

So it is grouped in the category of social media because people use it a lot. And in a group and people can interact in the group or you can mute the group and then only one person can, you know, give updates and you can unmute the group at any time so people can talk, mute it again. In the U.S.,

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 15, 2004

Rather than being held in Geneva at the headquarters of the World Economic Forum, Pamela and her team moved the summit closer to some of the social entrepreneurs by holding the event in Brazil. Her group uses volunteers as the main engine of activities. I went to Rio de Janeiro and visited Vera Cordeiro and Rodrigo Baggio.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 26, 2006

Pointed out that most of the public does not know what social entrepreneurship is, and that in the nonprofit world it is such a buzzword that all groups seeking funds are saying they are social entrepreneurs. Sounded like she needs something I've seen in Brazil, and so I hope to make the connection.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 2013

The leaders in adoption are China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Russia, Nigeria, the Philippines, Brazil, and Mexico. The movement is apparently being spearheaded more by anarchic groups like Anonymous. Is it accurate to say that groups like Anonymous lead the way? There are now 2.4

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Met with a major international human rights defender group about our Martus technology and digital security more generally. The Africa Forum is the premier meeting of blindness groups across sub-Saharan Africa, and it’s held roughly every three years. Interviewed several candidates for executive positions at Benetech. Visiting the Hon.

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