Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 14, 2012

Guest Beneblog by Vijaya Tripathi The first ever Martus users group meeting took place earlier this month in Chiang Mai, the capital of Northern Thailand. Martus is Benetech's free and open source software package designed for human rights activists to collect stories and data about human rights abuses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

Social Media Roundup There are places in the world where YouTube has been banned, including Turkey and Thailand. Maybe open Social Graphs will help ? These are events where a group of bloggers write about a particularly topic on a particular day. He outlines what each group can learn from one another. What do you think?

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 28, 2009

UniversalGiving is making great impact on communities around the world, both in the work, funds or volunteer efforts contributed to individuals and groups via their platform, but also in effectively and passionately empowering donors and volunteers to contribute. .&# Or at least something like that!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

OpenPlans is a platform for social activism to bring groups together to promote causes, make plans, and get things done. It's an open source free web meeting service. This group is an international network of people interested in e-learning, is organizing a trip to Thailand and Laos. It isn't dumb dumb.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2007

The Guide is built with free, open-source technology so that it is easy for artisans to use with their own systems. We have had women's groups write us from Thailand and say, 'We make these beautiful weavings that take us days, and we earned a really high price for them, and we thought, "Wow, this is what is really making us money."

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 22, 2013

And to support these enhancements, Benetech will develop new visualization, mapping and other features to the Martus software that can help human rights groups better understand their data and communicate their findings. Department of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) to realize some of those possibilities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 7, 2013

I recently had the pleasure of visiting one of our longtime Martus partners in Thailand, The Network for Human Rights Documentation – Burma ( ND-Burma ). It was so gratifying to see firsthand how Martus , a free and open-source software tool developed by Benetech, is empowering people to be the change they wish to see.

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