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International Human Rights Day 2011

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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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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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President's Update: Summer 2008

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It is open source software, but we're experimenting with a revenue model to sustain the project over the long term. You can visit our Colombia Project Page to read more about this work. We planned a typical beta test size of ten to twenty users, but had over 450 beta testers in more than 65 countries! We've just launched Miradi.

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