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President's Update: Summer 2008

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

A pricing manifesto proposes that members of the community that can afford the software should support the project financially. We've also had major efforts in Burma, Sri Lanka and Guatemala, to name a few; efforts we expect to continue this year. People in developing countries will get further discounts.

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Preventing Human Trafficking: An Interview with Christina Arnold

Have Fun - Do Good

There is actually a great piece by a professor at George Washington University, Ronald Weitzer. We need work that can sustain the village community." BB: In the same video you talked about how a lot of the solutions that you're working to support, the people in the community come up with them and they are the ones implementing them.

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Live Blog: Is Technology Really Good for Human Rights

Amy Sample Ward

Technology – internet is about communications. We already have universal access provisions for things like telephones. THe right to community is all about access. Thinking about the right to communicate opens up many interesting issues. Like Sri Lanka where pictures weren’t getting out.

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