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Caltech: Founding Values

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

open source Syria technology Richard Feynman open content intellectual property science Guatemala social entrepreneurship Caltech' If we can do that, by being as open and sharing as we can be, we’ll better realize the founding values of Caltech and its motto: “you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free!”.

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Big Data Means More Than Big Profits

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The more we use technology in our education and health systems, the more data we collect about how people learn and what keeps us healthy or makes us sick. million downloads of accessible books through its online library, to over 200,000 people with disabilities such as blindness and severe dyslexia.

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Why I’m Scared of the SOPA bill

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Stopping fund raising and subscription revenue for Bookshare, the largest online library for people who have print disabilities. Bookshare is an online library for people who can’t read standard print books. Let me give two specific examples that came up in my first conversation with a lawyer about the proposed bill: 1.

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Benetech: the Equilibrium Change Machine

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The other axis represents systems change: does the world work better and differently now as a result of these efforts? They put most nonprofits in the direct action without systems change box: groups that do a good (or even excellent) job of delivering services under the existing system. The authors present a two-by-two matrix.

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Why I’m Scared of the SOPA Bill by Jim Fruchterman

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Stopping fund raising and subscription revenue for Bookshare, the largest online library for people who have print disabilities. Bookshare is an online library for people who can’t read standard print books. Let me give two specific examples that came up in my first conversation with a lawyer about the proposed bill: 1.

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