Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 22, 2013

Top tech companies like Google, Facebook and IBM have figured out how to make vast quantities of money by giving away their core product, or building products on top of open source and free software. To the greatest extent possible, be open. Support open data, open access to research, open content and open source.

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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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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Highlights this month include website accessibility in Portland, Oregon; project management in Boston, Massachusetts; and data visualization in Las Vegas, Nevada. Boston, Massachusetts: TNB Roundtable: Managing Nonprofit IT Projects, Tasks, and Teams. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

Here’s a sample of our accomplishments: Martus , our secure, open-source information management software for human rights defenders continued to empower many human rights groups worldwide to secure thousands of stories of human rights violations and to use this information strategically to advance their causes. and Catherine T.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 20, 2013

After talking me out of calling it Bookster, he explained how the DAISY format would be ideal for our new Bookshare project, that he had made sure that it would work well for ebooks like the ones we were hoping to provide. And when the idea of a peer-to-peer ebook library came to me, it was George who I went to with the idea.

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eBook Award Copyright Syria 221

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 13, 2007

Benetech has been seeing incredible growth in our Martus projects over the last year! 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.

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Tech Soup

MAY 1, 2017

Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Bagels & Bytes "Open-Source Summer Fiesta" San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Monday, May 8, 2017. Kitchener, Ontario: Offsite Hosting.

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