Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

A great radio story aired today on Public Radio International's show, The World, on Guatemala's civil war records. It talks about National Police Archive in Guatemala, and has a quote from Patrick Ball. Clark Boyd of The World took a team to Guatemala earlier this month, and was there for their big election.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 5, 2007

Two good articles recently covered the Guatemala secret police archive project that we are supporting. Guatemala struggles to find war crimes justice was in the San Francisco Chronicle, and captures the personal side of this work. Many people want to know what happened to those who disappeared in Guatemala's civil war.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 10, 2008

Frontline World is airing a terrific piece on our Guatemala work tonight on KQED in the Bay Area (9 pm PT). You can view it online right now. It already aired on the east coast. I don't think we've ever had such extensive and thoughtful coverage of a topic: there are the video segments, slideshows, extended interviews and more.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2006

One of our hottest human rights projects is our work in Guatemala, helping with the huge secret police archive that is being analyzed there.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 25, 2012

This repository is an important step forward for the people of Guatemala and those seeking information about human rights abuses that occurred during the country’s 36 years of armed internal conflict. You can read more about the Guatemalan National Police Archive digital repository here.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Highlights of this Letter: SocialCoding4Good CityOptions Read2Go and Route 66 Literacy Selected Program Updates Human rights: Legal victory in Guatemala, PBS NewsHour stories Literacy: Major milestones for Bookshare at home and abroad SocialCoding4Good Just funded by the John S. and James L. This is a huge legal victory!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Benetech statistician Daniel Guzmán has just published his account of one legal case which set a historic precedent for human rights in Guatemala. Discovered by chance in 2005 in an explosives storehouse in Guatemala City, the archive contains what archivists estimate to be 8 kilometers or approximately 80 million sheets, of paper.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Specifically, I presented the audience with the following questions: Were acts of genocide committed against the Mayan people in Guatemala? How many Kosovars were killed between March and June 1999? How much did Hissene Habré know about political killings during his presidency?

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Candid

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Council members currently include representatives from El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Canada, Kenya, and across the United States. We took the movement global, which led to the creation in 2022 of the CCF Global Council , of which I am a member.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 18, 2006

Benetech's Human Rights Program is helping the Ombudsman's Office in Guatemala with the Archives Project. To date, the history of state violence in Guatemala has been understood primarily through accounts by victims, witnesses, and the press, because these were the main sources of available data.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

HRP members produced scientifically sound analysis that is advancing the process of legal justice in Guatemala. In a recent blog post , I described how HRP statistician Daniel Guzmán’s expert testimony in a breakthrough legal case against two former police officers helped score a remarkable victory in the fight to end impunity in Guatemala.

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TechSpot

JUNE 1, 2022

Over the next two weeks, they'll come to 24 other countries, including Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Ecuador, Greece, Guatemala, Ireland, Jamaica, Korea, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Romania, South Africa, Taiwan, Ukraine, the UK, and.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The Novi pilot was originally available in the US and Guatemala, but WABetaInfo notes that users in Guatemala won’t be able to access the new WhatsApp payments functionality. pic.twitter.com/dGz3lejri7 — Stephane Kasriel (@skasriel) December 8, 2021. Instead, they’ll have to continue using the standalone Novi app.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Co-founders Roberto Arroyo and his brother, Nicolas Arroyo, bootstrapped the company for almost four years and reached profitability while expanding into Chile, Guatemala and Argentina. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 27, 2012

They are already active in Africa and Latin America, in countries like Uganda, Rwanda, Liberia, El Salvador, Mexico, Guatemala and Nicaragua. The founding team includes leaders from each of the first three Gold Standard clean cookstove projects (and these projects delivered more than half a million stoves). The economics are compelling.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 13, 2007

This tremendous growth is due in large part to the continued use of Martus by our partners working in Guatemala with the National Police Archive, and projects gathering data about Burma, Iraq and the Philippines. We now have over 60,000 bulletins which have been backed up to secure Martus servers by over 1000 users across the world.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 23, 2006

They are doing a big project in Guatemala around open source software for the Maya community (including translating Open Office into Kiche), as well as several technology initiatives including Application Service Provider (ASP) implementations for NGO IT needs. They have a large array of IT projects focused on the Spanish speaking NGO world.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Cayman Islands, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Curacao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Montserrat, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, St. Kitts and Nevis, St.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2011

One of the most compelling products of the Producers Institute is a project associated with the award-winning film Granito: How to Nail a Dictator , which depicts the genocidal civil war in Guatemala. In Granito, veteran filmmaker Pamela Yates returns to the subject of her first film, When the Mountains Tremble.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

Dear Sophie, I’m an entrepreneur in Guatemala and would like to come to the United States to expand my tech company. company to own your company in Guatemala. However, if you’ve already distributed shares in your company in Guatemala, this could be a cumbersome process that might best wait until you’re ready for a funding round.

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The Verge

JUNE 30, 2020

Of these, TechCrunch notes that Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Mexico previously included some lyrics support from other providers, as does Japan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

A Learning History of the CARE LAC - Institute for Strategic Clarity Guatemala Poverty Project. The map illustrating this post was developed by a couple of dozen people in Guatemala from their mental models, to support CARE to vastly enhance its impact. See larger image here: Map from: Waddell, Steve.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

The observations presented in this blog post deal with some of the things we have learned while founding and then running a small community development NGO in an indigenous Guatemala village of about 1,500 families, called Chocolá. We consulted the Guatemala NGO Network in Antigua for guidance and attorney/accountant referrals.

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VisionLink

AUGUST 18, 2015

The team also visited Obras Sociales Del Santo Hermano Pedro, hospital and clinic in Antigua, Guatemala to interview patients, staff and volunteers regarding how quality medical donations are saving lives and why more are desperately needed.

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Fast Company Tech

JUNE 18, 2025

It could also bring 2 to 4 inches (6 inches maximum) across Chiapas, Michoacán, Colima, Jalisco, and Mexico City—and to Guatemala. Erick is expected to move inland or be near the coast on Thursday, prompting a hurricane warning from Acapulco to Puerto Ángel and a hurricane watch for west of Acapulco to Tecpán de Galeana.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Guatemala: Taller para hacer un “elevator pitch” Wednesday, October 2. Guatemala: Drupal Camp de Guatemala - 2013. Guatemala: DalGT: Actividad de DAL en Guatemala - 26 de Octubre. Guatemala: Meet Latam - convocatoria preliminar. Abbotsford, Canada: Network, Connect and Talk Charity.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 19, 2009

Panelists at the conference included the Guatemala Forensic Anthropology Foundation (FAFG), Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), ICTJ, and DC-Cam. You can read about some of the NGOs that have used Martus to back up their data in Guatemala, Sri Lanka, the Phillippines, and Colombia.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Guatemala City, Guatemala: Taller de como hacer Estilos Sociales para el mundo digital. Guatemala City, Guatemala: Taller de Automatización de QA para dispositivos móviles y aplicaciones web. Guatemala City, Guatemala: Taller de Automatización de QA para dispositivos móviles y aplicaciones web.

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2014

Guatemala City, Guatemala: Naranya en Guatemala - proyectos con moviles. Guatemala City, Guatemala: Tecnologia y educacion - Evento - 7 de agosto - TEC. Wellington, New Zealand: A new #Net2Welly website in an hour? July 2014 meetup. Wednesday, July 30, 2014. New York, NY: Intro to Google for Nonprofits.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

On a support page , Sony lists the following as “supported countries”: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Japan, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, the US, and Uruguay. The expanded rollout, which Sony stresses is a gradual one, will start first with the Americas, the company says.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Guatemala: JWebes de Apps - Guatemala. Guatemala: Taller de e-emprendimiento y e-promocion del Campus Tec. Guatemala: The Social Good Summit Global Conversation 2013 - Guatemala. Guatemala: The Social Good Summit Global Conversation 2013 - Guatemala. Guatemala: CampusTec - evento de Google.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Join a Social Media Surgery in Vancouver and Peterborough, Canada; Guatemala City; or Cambridge and Manchester, United Kingdom. Guatemala: Social Media Surgery - Campus Tec. Guatemala: Evento de Wayra Day de Guatemala - Convocatoria Preliminar. Guatemala: JWebes de Apps - Guatemala. Live in the USA?

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The Verge

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The letter comes hours after Facebook launched Novi, a new digital wallet, as part of a “small” pilot program in the US and Guatemala. Facebook first announced its plans to enter the cryptocurrency industry over two years ago, but the digital currency project, called Libra, was halted after heavy criticism from lawmakers and regulators.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 22, 2008

He had spotted the Frontline PBS special on our work in Guatemala, which had led to him deciding he wanted to visit us. He made a special point of wanting to meet with our Chief Scientist Patrick Ball (also head of our Human Rights Program). Patrick was able to explain our human rights work articulately and passionately as always!

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Guatemala City, Guatemala. Charla con Scripps Networks Interactive en Guatemala. HourofCode Guatemala via @delvallegt. Guatemala City, Guatemala: #Pechakuchagt #Antigua 5 de Octubre en Impact Hub. Birmingham, United Kingdom: November Meetup: Open-Source Tools. Central and South America.

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VentureBeat

JUNE 16, 2025

Countries represented by project contributors include Argentina, Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras, Italy, Mexico, The Netherlands, The UK, and the U.S. The team is a collective of artists, writers, creative technologists, researchers, and activists dotted across the globe.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 2, 2007

My new favorite is how the Human Rights Ombudsman's Office of Guatemala (PDH is the Spanish acronym) uses our Martus human rights software. Guatemala has a sad history of large scale human rights abuse. Few of these violations have ever been prosecuted.

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