Remove government-industry
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Doing the Right Stuff Right for Human Rights

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Although reports of the massacre appeared in the United States, Salvadoran army and government leaders denied them and, all too soon, El Mozote was forgotten. But, we still have to protect our users from attacks from many repressive governments around the world.

Burma 168
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How do we do make change if we keep doing things the same way?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I want our efforts to reach the broadest possible audience and at yet on a gut level, I loathe the restrictive nature of the journal industry. But most engineers do, and did even in the government-funded R&D world I entered in the 80’s. These resources and tools thus improve equality of opportunity. I’m still using it.)

Journal 100
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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

Airbnb and Uber emerged as platform companies providing services without actually owning hotels (in the case of Airbnb) and vehicles (in the case of Uber—soon to be joined by Lyft), and quickly came to disrupt and dominate their respective industries. Workers are not paid for training time to master a job or for transit time between gigs.

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