Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 3, 2004

This is based on a talk I gave in Sri Lanka last year at the University of Peradeniya, but with a heavier technology component given the engineering audience. I covered our Human Rights program, including the Martus Project and the Human Rights Data Analysis Group (which joined Benetech last year).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

You can imagine the impact of Bookshare.org going from a $1 million per year enterprise in 2006 to over $7 million in 2008. Downloads, packaged with support, will cost $250 per user per year, discounted to $150 for nonprofits. Our work in Liberia, funded by the State Department in support of the Truth Commission (TRC) continues.

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Darfur Sri Lanka Liberia Colombia 100

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

We support an open and competitive environment that is based on user buy in. The power of the Obama campaign was translating online activity to real world impact. If you show support you are lazy – no. We already have universal access provisions for things like telephones. Do we want to keep you?

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