Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

How can we use technology in a new way to improve people’s lives that is an order of magnitude better? Can we help stimulate the creation of far more technology-for-good ventures? Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

However, technology is transforming innovation at its core and our team at Benetech does quite well in leveraging this “innovation at warp speed” for social good. We’re going to demonstrate what this could look like by piloting Bookshare International at scale in India. Technology for social change is needed more and more.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 9, 2014

Philanthropy plays a role beyond what governments could do—allowing for the testing of innovative models that are responsive to local cultural contexts—and then looks to government for scaling up successful efforts. This is where philanthropy comes in. This is a hopeful time in the long arc of inclusive education.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 11, 2009

LifeLines India allows them to call in and —using a voice activated system in their local language — get advice about their needs. This sustainable model has been in progress for over two years with measurable success. read more.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 13, 2016

I just finished reading Kentaro Toyama’s new book, Geek Heresy, tackling the cult of technology as a cure-all for society’s ills. He’s a geek (former Microsoft Research guy) who is making the case that technology doesn’t make the kind of social impact it claims to deliver. A technology intervention is only a tool, a seed.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Being able to develop the kind of technology we do with The Commons gives us that advantage, those resources, that we need. The Salesforce architecture is actually the simplest piece because it’s built on a common data model. It’s not just useful for offline situations like interviewing people in rural India.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 11, 2013

With this three-part blog series on our expansion of the proven Bookshare model internationally, we’d like to give you a glimpse into the ways in which Benetech provides people with disabilities around the world equal access to knowledge. We’d also like to thank the Mada Center team for its great support throughout this process.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 29, 2009

Meghani came with his two hosts and daughter, and at 86 is still keenly interested in learning how technology can help bring books to the disadvantaged. Tags: India Meghani Bookshare Gujarati. The following account comes from Pavi Mehta, Bookshare's Volunteer Coordinator, and I wanted to post it! It was a quietly special visit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

On Thursday, I was honored to be part of a panel at NASSCOM CSR Track called "Reaching out to the Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP) Through Technology Services and Media." The phrase “bottom of the pyramid” is used in particular by people developing new models of doing business that deliberately target that demographic, often using new technology.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

Situated on the banks of the Vellayani fresh water lake, on the outskirts on Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala, India , IISE is a testimony to social enterprise at its very best. The participants would get hands on training at a non profit organization in India and will train in all aspects of non profit management.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Lighting of the lamp is a traditional way to begin a conference here in India. Can we come up with creative models to build new industries to serve the world in a way that hasn't be done before? It showcases projects that demonstrate best practices in technology in the area of social change. Tags: india.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 9, 2013

These relationships generate countless ideas for using technology for social good. Together with our partners in the nonprofit, technology, government, academic and publishing sectors, we participate in new cultural and technological movements, deriving new knowledge that we apply for social gain.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Recently, Social Misfits Media’s Community Manager, Angharad Francis, interviewed the brilliant Pushpa Aman Singh, Founder of GuideStar India. In this interview, Pushpa discusses her journey prior to founding GuideStar India, her role in helping NGOs and how WhatsApp is driving strong communication among stakeholders.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

exception model works well here. With the advances in publishing and technology, it is now within reach to ensure equal access to books for all. And we’re now making this happen in countries beyond the United States who, like India, have implemented Marrakesh without commercial limitation provisions.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 19, 2006

Just after returning from India and Bangladesh, I received word that one of my key contacts and hosts had suddenly passed away. Visually impaired his entire life, he was a tireless advocate for the blind and visually impaired as well as a shining role model.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2016

Two years ago, in their groundbreaking book The Second Machine Age , Professor Erik Brynjolfsson, director, and Andrew McAfee, co-director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy , described digital technology's transformative effect on business, the economy, and society.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 27, 2008

Their model is to charge 30-40% of their patients enough to pay for their costs as well as the rest of the patients, as well as something extra (which generates funds for capital expansion). India and the region seem to specialize in these kinds of approaches. Certainly, this is an example of where it works well.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2011

A Review of the “Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development” Report. Philanthropists, nonprofits, and the development sector as a whole cannot underestimate the role they have to play in understanding and using technology for development. Four Scenarios: Do You Want to Live in Any of These Worlds?

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

The technology scene today is distinguished by the growing connectivity among devices, mobile phones, the PC, and the browser, which enable people and organizations to access information, communicate, and collaborate in more powerful ways. Many nonprofits have already embraced technology to improve their productivity.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

The technology scene today is distinguished by the growing connectivity among devices, mobile phones, the PC, and the browser, which enable people and organizations to access information, communicate, and collaborate in more powerful ways. Many nonprofits have already embraced technology to improve their productivity.

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Tech Soup

JULY 27, 2015

Other Smart Cane Models. Designed by the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi's Assistive Technologies Group (ASSISTECH), the SmartCane draws inspiration from a surprising source: bats. The SmartCane uses sonar technology to detect objects surrounding the user. XploR isn't the first smart cane prototype out there.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 23, 2007

Mirai Chatterjee of the Self Employed Women's Association in India explains social entrepreneurs as private initiatives that used business models around financial sustainability, self-help and empowerment. He pointed out that SEs are all about breaking away from charity and alms giving and focusing on pragmatic problem solving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

And, if you are attending NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology in March, join me, John Kenyon, Andrea Barry, and Cindy Leonard for a session on designing effective technology training. So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Enabling 1,000 nonprofits through donations of technology, thereby helping organizations to run more efficiently and maximize their potential. For example: SAP continues to invest in their University Alliances program , which provides technology and expertise to educate students throughout the world and cultivate new IT leaders.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2014

Google Global Impact Award competitions have been held in India and the UK, and most recently in the San Francisco Bay Area. The finalists are an impressive roster of charities from diverse fields doing great work in nonprofit technology. It is also developing a scalable model and toolkit for other communities to do the same work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

There are now 990 actively engaged Fellows— across the five focal countries of Ethiopia, Nigeria, India, Pakistan, and the Philippines—regularly participating in the Leadership Development for Mobilizing Reproductive Health network activities. Technology is a dehumanizing. Eugene talked about the importance of modeling to create. "You

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2012

And then the program really got going with a major grant in 2007 from California Emerging Technology Fund. Several models also come with Symantec Norton Antivirus 2012 with system restore capabilities. To be specific, they are our partners in Australia , New Zealand , Germany , France , Italy , India , Poland , and Romania.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

Right now, it’s not in great shape: • No global exception norm, but voluntary agreement by rightsholders (that’s today’s status quo), with model agreements that are terrible from the nonprofit/library side. More restrictive disability definitions, using a medical model, excluding learning and cognitive disabilities in general. •

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

I am very excited about upcoming peer learning projects that I’m working on in 2012, including several for Packard grantees in India, Pakistan, and Africa as well as the e-Mediat project in the Middle East. A few days ago I opened the door on a new learning journey. The last question asks students to tell Mazur what confused them.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

The nonprofit technology news this month reports on the reinvention of the wheel in India and Africa, how nonprofits are leading the wearable computing field, the privacy threat you may not have heard about yet, and plenty more. Reinventing the Wheel in India and Africa. There’s lots of interesting NPTech news this month.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

The third goal would be, on an international level, to take this news, that is really created from the inside out, as opposed to the traditional model of foreign correspondence, which is an outsider coming in, out into the world. We sell our content to mainstream and other media organizations all over the world.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2007

We have seen it in energy, and increasingly now with energy technologies. The way that World of Good has really gone about this is, we have done it in a two-part model. So the pricing models are all based on commodity pricing. We are seeing this in the food industry, with things like the growth of the organic movement.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Helps people get tasks done: Digital platforms can be a toolkit that help users get things done by providing assets like models, datasets, ir even templates . Getting answers from real people: Digital platforms allow users to find and interact with people who have similar work needs and get answers to their questions from real people.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2022

Here are just a few anti-trafficking nonprofit organizations that are leveraging Salesforce technology to fight human trafficking and support survivors of these crimes. Liberty Asia is dedicated to making world class technology available to anti-trafficking nonprofit organizations in Asia. AnnieCannons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

I met Jennifer Aaker about a year ago when she invited me to do a guest lecture in her class, The Power of Social Technology Class , a graduate course, at Stanford Business School. If you want to win this copy, leave a comment that answers any of the following: The Dragonfly Model is: Focus, Grab Attention, Take Action, and Engage.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Voting for the 2012 NTC (Nonprofit Technology Conference) is now open and the competition is fierce. We’ll hear from nonprofits that have used concrete project-based fundraising to build libraries in India, heat the homes of Native Americans in South Dakota and even send 5,000 girls to school in Malawi.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Objective : Using Mobile SMS Technology to increase individual smoking cessation success. Objective : Increase the visibilty and utilization of the Fair & Lovely Foundation’s scholarship program among women and girls in low-income groups in rural and urban India. Cool Factor : Txt2Quit. 480 Customized Text Messages. Wide Reaching.

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