Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
MARCH 14, 2012
Martus is Benetech's free and open source software package designed for human rights activists to collect stories and data about human rights abuses. When Benetech first began designing Martus, we began by incorporating input from human rights partners on the frontline. For me personally, the meeting was a rare experience.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
APRIL 20, 2013
The book famine may be receding here in the United States with Bookshare and the increasing advent of universally designed and accessible ebooks, but globally we have only scratched the surface of the need. However, in the immortal words of Revolutionary War naval captain John Paul Jones, “I have not yet begun to fight!”
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MAY 7, 2013
This event is a biannual training workshop on information, communication, and technologies for citizen media, community health, and civil society development in Mekong Region and included participants are coders, journalists, and NGO staff from Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. Training Design' Photo by Be Chandra.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 19, 2008
I joined the various Burma Facebook groups early on because my colleagues in Cambodia were involved from the beginning and documented some of the activism. I helped her track down the people behind the Support the monks Campaign and Facebook Burma Group, an unofficial representative in the UK named Imran Jamal, Burma Global Action Network.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
NOVEMBER 25, 2013
Beyond those top organizations, almost no groups had good technology designed for human rights documentation. You can read more about the many faces of the Martus user community and the impact that Martus has had on human rights groups , from Africa to Burma to Guatemala.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JULY 9, 2008
The 15-page PDF includes the pros and cons of using Facebook for activism, a step-by-step guide to organizing an activism campaign on Facebook, and examples of campaigns from Burma, Morocco, and Egypt. Facebook isn't designed for activism. It is a quick read and very useful. Content on the site is disorganized. " I agree.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 25, 2008
Drew Bernard has a review of a new guide by the good folks at Tactical Technology Collective called " Visualizing Information for Advocacy " Nonprofits are from Mars, Designers/Techies are from Venus from the alldaybuffet describes some classic communications issues between nonprofits, designers, and technology staff.
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