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Meaningful Networked Action in the Cyclone Aftermath

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If you are thinking you want to volunteer your time, Natalie Jesionka has a post on Our World titled " Responding to Burma Crisis " that includes a list of opportunities to travel to the Burmese border and volunteer your time and energy to the underground grassroots NGO activity. Women's League of Burma.

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Some Thoughts About Remote Presentations: Mekong ICT Camp

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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.

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International Human Rights Day 2011

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

First, in partnership with Colombian NGO CorporaciĆ³n Punto de Vista, we assessed a methodology for studying conflict-related sexual violence in the country. The Benetech Human Rights Program (HRP) is hard at work to ensure that technology and science best meet the needs of human rights defenders in these critical times.

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NpTech Tag: Roundups from and about Facebook and More

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Many blogs, like the Razoo blog , went red on Thursday as part of Free Burma: International Bloggers Day. So, do check out the Audio/Video Edition of the NGO-in-a-Box which includes a collection of Free and Open Source Software tools. Second Life Ruby has an update on the demonstrations occurring in Second Life in support of Burma.

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President's Update: Summer 2008

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We've also had major efforts in Burma, Sri Lanka and Guatemala, to name a few; efforts we expect to continue this year. We've identified key NGO partners that we believe would benefit from our technical assistance and are developing our plans and identifying support to continue our work on Darfur this year.

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Training Afghani NGOs in Cambodia

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Another HRP partner, the Network for Human Rights Documentation (ND-Burma), which currently uses Martus to document human rights violations in Burma , was represented by the Earth Rights Initiative. You can read about some of the NGOs that have used Martus to back up their data in Guatemala, Sri Lanka, the Phillippines, and Colombia.

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