Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 9, 2013

Ed is an expert on international digital publishing issues and Editor-in-Chief of Publishing Perspectives , the online journal of international publishing news and opinion that’s been called “the BBC of the book world.”

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Benetech is tackling these issues on two fronts, thanks to the leadership of Enrique Piracés, who joined us last year from Human Rights Watch. Second, we are stepping up our efforts to increase the awareness of this critical issue and practical actions that can be taken.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2009

She got me started thinking along this line at a networks meeting where she was encouraging the branding of issues, instead of specific organizations. Its fun to look at the petition and see people signed up from Djibouti to Brazil There is a cell phone component to the campaign that has caused it to really take off in South Africa.

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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. Gates was well informed about most of the technical issues around this meeting, which is the heads of libraries for the print disabled from around the world. . - Sound generally, but not the whole issue.

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Care2

APRIL 5, 2011

In the early 1990s, he worked in the former Soviet Union—first on environmental issues, and later on privatization and capital markets development. Jeff also built and served as president of a start-up called EnVisto and worked for the consulting firm McKinsey & Company.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

I came away with a much better understanding of the issues they are exploring and certainly did my part to articulate why I support the positions we have. The most interesting part of the conversation was around what I call the “dueling moral high grounds” issue: authors rights and the rights of people with disabilities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2015

She quickly became a national figure with regular appearances on talk shows to discuss the problems with public education in Brazil, despite threats from teachers, administrators, and even fellow students. Gen Z Uses Digital Tools for Social Good, Not Social Currency. Gen Z have (social) entrepreneurial spirit in their DNA.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 31, 2004

At this event, I had the chance to think more deeply on it and realized that the issues are very similar to those I have had a high tech company CFO (a role I've played on and off for over ten years). At the moment, I'm en route to Brazil for the Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur Summit. That's pretty interesting.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 31, 2006

Just some quick examples: - Heidi Kuhn of Roots of Peace: Heidi has actually driven a great deal of real landmine removal, and she is very strong on the human and public side of the issue (somewhere where we are not strong).

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Gen Z is more interested in using digital tools for social good than social currency, partly because living in a digital information age the world’s social change issues are thrust in their faces. Gen Z Uses Digital Tools for Social Good, Not Social Currency. Gen Z have (social) entrepreneurial spirit in their DNA.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2005

Issues of poverty, socially responsible investing, human rights, education and health were an integral part of the conversation. The Schwab Foundation hosted a wrap up session on Sunday with twenty of the social entrepreneurs attending the Forum. One joked about the nine months of follow-up work resulting from the five days at this meeting.

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

" The ASEAN Vision 2020 also intends to "use the ASEAN Foundation as one of the instruments to address issues of unequal economic development, poverty and socio-economic disparities." Indonesia has the world’s second highest level of biodiversity (after Brazil).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

About five years ago, Brazil violated American intellectual property agreements by producing an AIDS drug for a fraction of the cost of the American company who developed it. What are the 3-5 best blogs nonprofits should read to get educated about copyright issue? Lawrence Lessig ( [link] ) - Lessig is the CEO of creative commons.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 27, 2011

Through negotiations, four competing proposals have been merged into a single document supported in June by the Latin Americans (led by Brazil), the U.S., Here are some questions and answers I've prepared on this topic, based on my recent trip to Geneva to attend the first week of discussions on the issue.

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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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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. Brazil doesn't have a tradition of personal philanthropy, and there are no tax advantages to making donations.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

So using everything I’ve learned to spark action across Latin America and to create communities and inspire people to take action on social and environmental issues. And now WhatsApp is rolling out a payment feature in Brazil. It started only in Brazil. So this is me. . What about resistance to sharing the phone number?

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

GCAP , an international campaign fighting to raise awareness about poverty was struggling with this issue. There were some complications with this, we didnt have enough ethnic avatars, so the Brazilian one was a blonde girl, as we knew there were also blonde girls in Brazil. The Implementation: Why did you choose to use Hyves.net ?

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

GCAP , an international campaign fighting to raise awareness about poverty was struggling with this issue. There were some complications with this, we didnt have enough ethnic avatars, so the Brazilian one was a blonde girl, as we knew there were also blonde girls in Brazil. The Implementation: Why did you choose to use Hyves.net ?

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

I felt an emptiness inside, as a woman, that I wasn't hearing from the teachers that I wanted to about world issues. They came from the favelas of Brazil, from Alaska, from the Bronx, immigrant women from the Bronx. Well, first, it started for me at a young age as a young woman. I'm a complete magazine and media addict.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 19, 2006

The 3rd Annual Artivist Film Festival & Awards ' mission is to strengthen the voice of international activist artists and raise public awareness of global issues. .-- Barbra Streisand. This year's festival is November 9-12, 2006 at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood, California.

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Candid

APRIL 21, 2021

I remember visiting a university in Brazil where a police reform course was being taught with a classroom of students and police officers. He did so by summoning the courage to tell his captain that students’ experience with police in Brazil had been one of repression and that they would run from anyone in uniform. Closing thoughts.

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Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

When the BerkShares currency launched in 2006, it involved something of a gamble: that a moribund tradition of local currency issue could still work to bolster local economic activity in the 21 st century. The first wave of local currency issue in the US came in the 1930s, in the wake of the Great Depression.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 8, 2006

So one afternoon I was home in this new neighborhood of mine in Brooklyn and I thought I would flip through The Future 500 and see who was doing stuff that was interesting to me, and that was into the kind of issues that I was working on, and that also if anybody happened to live near me, or be working near me, that would be an added bonus.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 10, 2009

We had a wide-ranging conversation about Bookshare and the current hot disability issues. I found it very exciting as President Obama's position on this developing issue! There are many issues affecting accessibility including available resources, technical considerations, practices and market considerations. Really exciting.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2006

At the polling place it passed by 75%, that we're wanted to protect this watershed, which 75% in an issue-based election is a huge margin. Got the citizens of Austin to sign their names enough times to get it on the ballot.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Attended a networking events for social entrepreneurs, such as the one organized by the Schwab Foundation (the organizers of the World Economic Forum in Davos), where we brainstormed about different issues. Ensuring kids with disabilities get equal opportunity is, fortunately, a bipartisan issue. The Marrakesh Treaty.

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