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[Opinion] Millennials and the Fight Against Hate

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Tensions with North Korea. As Achieve’s Director of Research, Amy is responsible for identifying and devising appropriate methodologies and data-collection strategies for projects like the Millennial Impact Report and the Millennial Running Study. Restricted rights of women and the LGBTQ community. The horror of Charlottesville.

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Mobile Storytelling: An Evolving Story

NTEN

By Nam-ho Park, Director, Mobile Service, Forum One. Curtis Wong of Microsoft Research has a wonderful presentation of Microsoft’s World Wide Telescope project where the tool for presenting the universe around us sets a stage for storytelling by allowing researchers and students alike to create a narrative through the interface.

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Crowdsourcing Skills for Human Rights via Movements.org

Tech Soup

" I had the opportunity to speak with David Keyes, executive director of Advancing Human Rights , to learn more about this project. It's crowdsourcing for human rights." The Evolution of Movements.org: Making a Meeting Place for Human Rights. The original version of Movements.org was founded in 2008 by then-U.S.

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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

In quick succession I met the medical director who oversees the doctors in the hospital, and then the hospital CEO, Dr. Sam Thenya. She is a University of Minnesota law school professor who was born in Africa and is a terrific advocate for the Treaty and its empowerment of the blind community. Bookshare was there with two offers.

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