Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

T, December 10th, the international community is observing Human Rights Day to commemorate the 63rd anniversary of the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Through projects that integrated statistical analyses into multidisciplinary human rights work, we engaged in the public debate about human rights violations in Colombia.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 8, 2005

Patrick Ball is in Colombia for most of the next three months teaching the techniques of human rights statistics and information processing at the National University there. Plus, we recently spotted this article on the Open Source Africa site. Our human rights group is active all over the place right now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Speaking of personal fundraising campaign, check out the " luck of seven " - an open source journey around the world documenting free culture, social innovators, and global change from noel hildalgo, a new york city-based activist, organizer, blogger, and barcamper. He did a video interview with Dirk Slater , too!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

It is open source software, but we're experimenting with a revenue model to sustain the project over the long term. A pricing manifesto proposes that members of the community that can afford the software should support the project financially. You can visit our Colombia Project Page to read more about this work.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 19, 2009

Guest Beneblog by Vijaya Tripathi As a Program Associate for the Benetech Human Rights Program (HRP), I train and support human rights advocates who use Benetech’s free and open source Martus program to securely document human rights violations. In my next guest blog posts, I will share stories about my work in Beirut and Istanbul.

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