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The First Global Martus Users Group Meeting

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Since we began developing Martus 10 years ago, we’ve been able to enhance it only incrementally as project specific funding allowed. We held the meeting in Chiang Mai because it’s where our longtime partner the Network for Human Rights Documentation – Burma (ND-Burma) is headquartered.

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Receiving the 2013 Migel Medal

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But, by eventually following Donna’s advice and talking to the Office of Special Education Programs in DC, we discovered the funding and the way forward for Bookshare to begin to realize its potential. Isn’t that where good ideas go to die?” Thank you, George and Donna, for helping us make real our dreams of service!

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Some Thoughts About Remote Presentations: Mekong ICT Camp

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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. The camp took place in Cha-am, Petchburi, Thailand.

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Doing the Right Stuff Right for Human Rights

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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. In many cases, Martus also helped users turn those first-hand accounts into evidence of abuse in order to advance their causes. Photo credits: Rom Srinivasan and Patrick Ball.

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Kiva on FRONTLINE World & the Big Vision Podcast

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Jessica has worked in rural Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda with the Village Enterprise Fund and Project Baobab on impact evaluation and program development. Also note that your local station may list the program for that evening as "Burma: State of Fear" which is the headlining story. microfinance kiva internet microloan

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Big News in Benetech's Human Rights Program: New Funding and Enhanced Tools!

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Collin Sullivan, staff member of Benetech''s Human Rights Field Team, on a field visit in Thailand with a staff member of the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma) As the largest single grant in our Human Rights Program’s history, "On the Frontier of Secure Technology for Human Rights Monitoring” will allow Benetech to deliver a set (..)

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Gift the Gift of Charity: Make A Contribution to any of these Fabulous Organizations

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Help A Family of Five in Burma Stay Alive. When Partners asked the Internally Displaced People of Eastern Burma what they needed to stay alive while they hid from the Burmese army, they named it: 75kg of rice, 5kg of salt, 1 cooking pot, 1 machete, 1 lighter, 1 plastic sheet for shelter. Photo by Jackol.

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