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Human Rights and the Duty to Protect Sensitive Data

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We now understand that corporate collection and government interception of sensitive information is the norm, not the exception. At Benetech —a nonprofit technology company that develops innovative and effective applications for unmet social needs—we embrace the notion of individual empowerment every day in our work.

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Report: Insights from the Google AI Impact Challenge

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One valuable section of the report is a catalog of common project designs across different sub-areas of the social change sector, including: Crisis Response, Economic Empowerment, Education, Environment, Equality and Inclusion, Health, and Public Sector. Each area describes the project idea, type of AI technology and data sources.

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8 Apps That May (Actually) Change San Francisco

Tech Soup

The team members came up with a tool to make the cumbersome process of collecting, transcribing, and cleaning data easier for urban nonprofits and government agencies. They designed an open-source mobile browser-based app that allows the user to quickly collect and map data while on the ground.

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Vote and Comment for ALL these Awesome Nonprofit Panels at SXSW

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Real Time Representation - How Social Media is Changing the Face of Government submitted by Erica O'Grady 2008 marked the year of the first Twitter from inside the Oval Office. Open Source Disability Gadgets: DIY for PWD submitted by Liz Henry, Blogher. With snacks! We need to hack the model for accessibility tools!

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The Nonprofit Common Data Model as an Equity Tool

NTEN

For nonprofit data, creating this language is becoming a self-organizing necessity in the same way that the Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESGs) criteria are for the corporate world. Enter the Nonprofit Common Data Model (CDM) , originally stewarded by Microsoft as a founding creator and ongoing community sponsor.

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