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The First Global Martus Users Group Meeting

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Guest Beneblog by Vijaya Tripathi The first ever Martus users group meeting took place earlier this month in Chiang Mai, the capital of Northern Thailand. Martus is Benetech's free and open source software package designed for human rights activists to collect stories and data about human rights abuses.

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Big News in Benetech's Human Rights Program: New Funding and Enhanced Tools!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

That’s why all of the software work done by Benetech and our technology development partners on Martus is open source: where the software’s source code is open for inspection. Department of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) to realize some of those possibilities.

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Floss Manuals and Open Source Video Editing Tools

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He's over in Thailand now, but was glad to see he had Internet access - looks like free wifi too. I found out that thanks to Adam Hyde of FlossManuals.net , he will be distributing free printed guides to open-source software and he will also be giving out digital cameras to up-and-coming Cambodian photobloggers.

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UniversalGiving: Impact, with a little help from friends (SocialActions)

Amy Sample Ward

People simply choose a country of interest (such as China or Thailand) and an area of interest (such as education or the environment) and find a list of vetted opportunities to which they can donate money or give their time. Social Actions is “an open source database of actions people can take on any issue.

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NpTech Summary: Red T-Shirt Day - Supporting Monks, YouTube Nonprofit Channel, and Web2forDev Conference Reports

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It's an open source free web meeting service. This group is an international network of people interested in e-learning, is organizing a trip to Thailand and Laos. hidalgo is on "an open-source journey around the world documenting free culture, social innovators, and global change." It isn't dumb dumb.

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World of Good Launches Fair Trade Wage Guide

Have Fun - Do Good

The Guide is built with free, open-source technology so that it is easy for artisans to use with their own systems. We have had women's groups write us from Thailand and say, 'We make these beautiful weavings that take us days, and we earned a really high price for them, and we thought, "Wow, this is what is really making us money."

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NpTech Tag Summary: Face-to-Face or Mediated Experience, Open Source Software Communities, and Blog Days

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Social Media Roundup There are places in the world where YouTube has been banned, including Turkey and Thailand. Maybe open Social Graphs will help ? OpenSource and Software Communities Jon Stahl has a thoughtful essay on Nonprofits, Open Source and Leadership. What do you think? Here's a growing list.