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President's Update: Summer 2008

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Benetech's newest project is a software tool called Miradi that helps environmental practitioners design, manage, monitor and learn from their projects to more effectively meet the needs of global biodiversity. This response is a measure of how eager the environmental field is for a tool that helps better manage projects.

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Training Afghani NGOs in Cambodia

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

In some cases, the information is intended for use in court cases or international prosecution, to support a human rights report, or advocacy campaign. Human rights activists there operate in a dangerous climate and it is important that they be trained and supported with the very best tools.

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Preventing Human Trafficking: An Interview with Christina Arnold

Have Fun - Do Good

Christina Arnold: My name is Christina Arnold, and I'm the founder of Prevent Human Trafficking, formerly Project Hope International. Are there other tools? I also lived in Sri Lanka right about the time that sex tourism became a big deal, and saw it firsthand. Below is an edited transcript of our conversation.

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Live Blog: Is Technology Really Good for Human Rights

Amy Sample Ward

So, the answer is yes as a tool. Rather than ask if the tool is perfect or not, we should work together to make it a perfect tool, keep the internet platform healthy. But, the tools of the digital revolution are used by those against the regime but are equally used by those in the regimes.

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