Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

It also underscores just how critical a balanced copyright law is for technology innovation. As a different kind of Silicon Valley tech company—a nonprofit with a pure focus on social good—our goal is to see that the best of technology gets applied to social needs left unaddressed by for-profit businesses. copyright law.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2012

But, everyone can raise their data literacy, especially visualization. So, as I curate resources on this topic, I was excited to discover Rahul Bhargava – a data nerd who writes the Data Therapy Blog for the MIT Center for Civic Media. And community organizations can use data to illuminate the challenges they face.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

My personal goal is to channel the aspirations of the technology community to do more social good. More and more of my time is spent around both raising money and raising awareness of how much more could be done with technology to increase social impact. Are you excited about technology benefiting the world?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Although reports of the massacre appeared in the United States, Salvadoran army and government leaders denied them and, all too soon, El Mozote was forgotten. The human rights technology we eventually built and that anchors our Program— Martus —has since played a crucial role in strengthening the human rights community.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 20, 2013

"We hope that free Wi-Fi will be a resource that the city and other local groups will be able to use in their efforts to bridge the digital divide and make their community stronger," said Veronica Bell, a senior manager for public policy and government relations at Google, in a statement. Powering Communities with Tech.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Nonprofits and libraries can use the infographic to help local government and other community leaders understand why increasing information technology access and use should be a critical community-wide goal. For example, the infographic shows that using the Internet to find a job reduces the time spent unemployed by 25 percent.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 20, 2010

I live in Silicon Valley, a place that exists to drive creation of new and exciting technology. What about literacy and education? If you give all knowledge away freely, you'll discourage people and companies from investing in creating valuable technology and content. We often leave 90% of the planet out of these discussions.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 29, 2014

It scary to think that your activity online can be tracked by corporations, the government, hackers, and other nefarious (and seemingly un -nefarious) entities. Privacy has always been an important topic in digital literacy. " Use concrete examples. The Drawbacks of Digital Inclusion. Simple Steps for Teaching Privacy.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. Today, we are poised at a moment in time where we can transcend the limitations of past book technologies and bring the power of books to all humans.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 15, 2016

For example, while many businesses have resisted building more energy efficient buildings, it's now clear that doing so reduces their costs over time. For example, for domestic violence advocates, the monetizing pain point to hit is the billions of dollars that domestic violence costs American businesses alone.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

One finalist's pitch was: "We have buy-in from the community, we have rich networks on the ground, and we are building on pre-existing technologies." Empowering Marginalized Communities Using Technology. Dd's mission is "to empower marginalized communities to use technology to defend their rights."

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 18, 2010

Over the past few years, I have seen human rights groups become much more sophisticated about how they use technology to document human rights abuses. While visiting the country, I met with members of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) who are using a growing collection of technology tools to confront reported human rights incidents.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 1, 2012

Harkin’s work, especially his efforts to guarantee that every child has the opportunity to pursue quality education, infuses everything we at Benetech do through our Literacy Program to transform the lives and outcomes of individuals with disabilities. million to 6 million by 2015.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2011

The first time I really "got" the power of accessible technology (AT) to improve the lives of people with disabilities was when I saw the PBS documentary Freedom Machines. This simply means that disabled people often have little money and can't afford the assistive technology that would greatly enhance their lives.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 30, 2014

The LIM is a highly visual tool that uses mapping technology to plot success stories in a global context. We want you to tell us how you are using TechSoup product donations to promote digital literacy. A specific example of the positive impact it made in the life of a constituent, in the area of digital inclusion. b) Content.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 30, 2014

The LIM is a highly visual tool that uses mapping technology to plot success stories in a global context. We want you to tell us how you are using TechSoup product donations to promote digital literacy. A specific example of the positive impact it made in the life of a constituent, in the area of digital inclusion. b) Content.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

In 1999, Blackbaud pioneered the nonprofit technology market by introducing reliable, secure, and donor-friendly online donation forms. For example, 65% of charities still do not pre-select a mid-range gift on their donation forms even though the data shows this approach performs better. Get supporter consent – now. Time is up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Henry Jenkins notes that it isn't about the tools and that it was more about the culture growing up around the technology. He noted that media literacy has to be integrated as a skill set in all places. Media literacy and creation skills can't be add-ons in schools, but have to be integrated across the curriculum in all subjects.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

So often, government control, or just lack of access to information and media, prevents people from really being able to be educated and informed about serious issues that are going on around them. It was written in very scribbled Nepali, her literacy skills were incredibly rudimentary, but what she ended up writing was a piece of journalism.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 12, 2012

Our financial story begins with Benetech’s forward thinking funders: our users, individuals, foundations, corporations, partners, and government agencies. For example, our 2008 major human rights grants from the Oak Foundation and the John D. For example, our largest single funding arrangement is a competitive award by the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Let me give two specific examples that came up in my first conversation with a lawyer about the proposed bill: 1. Ironically, many of these users might buy commercial ebooks, but the anti-piracy technology built into many ebook systems are not compatible with the technology these users employ to get the books in Braille or synthetic speech.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2015

" He told CityCamp attendees that civic hacking is not about the technologies being used. For example, Priforce described Martin Luther King, Jr. It's not just technologists or data experts, but also community members, activists, and government officials. as "one of our greatest hackers. Not so in Oakland.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

The speakers were part of a presentation during the "Broadband Technology Summit" held as part of the United Minority Media Association's Midwest/Southeast conference on October 15. He spoke about FCC's expansive efforts to increase "digital literacy" for both individuals and small businesses.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2013

It aims to share principles and resources for governments and societies on how to best maximize open government data opportunities. Through identifying successes, it will provide a roadmap of policies and institutions that governments can use to create meaningful new open data initiatives.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2007

government tells them, or what the corporate media tells them. Britt: Are there other examples of centers or businesses with this triple bottom line? Our main goal is to educate the American people about what is really going on in the world, not what the U.S. We do that in a number of ways. You see it with wind energy.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

The goal, from IMLS’s standpoint, is for NAS to create a report that can address the fundamental issues facing museums and libraries in the 21st century, with an intended audience of industry professionals, trustees, funding sources, and government representatives. Of course, that audience is a long way from seeing such a report.

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