Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature…” These great qualities of ideas led to our legal system regulating the propagation of ideas differently than physical objects.

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

"(T)o provide a platform for understanding, visualizing and analyzing global energy systems that will help the world accelerate the transition to cheap clean energy for all." s focused on an important problem ? To encourage all interested people to understand and analyze energy systems and their impacts on the environment. *

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

"(T)o provide a platform for understanding, visualizing and analyzing global energy systems that will help the world accelerate the transition to cheap clean energy for all.". There has been a rising consensus that we need to transform our global energy system to reduce energy usage and to shift to less carbon intensive energy sources.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

This resulted in us creating a “sneaker-net” approach to providing basic asynchronous ICT services to rural villages: a complete offline Wikipedia that fit on a CD-ROM, and severely restricted bandwidth throttling to allow community radios to access the Internet (via prepaid RBGAN) for $2-3 a day. .

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

It's the definite article that causes problems, implying there's an easy way to think about the issues surrounding the inequitable access to technology -- and perhaps an easy solution. Setting aside the problems with his numbers -- he notes that "While only 3.6% And who needs libraries when we have Wikipedia and Kindles?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

No, there are scores of companies building and selling systems today that deliver very real value via the real-time web. Time then to ping mainstream news sources, image search and his Wikipedia page to check for updates. Here's our list of ten cool companies or services that make use of real-time web in what they do: 10.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Furthermore, all of the vendors should commit to a policy that if the front-end or API is unable to download or connect to their data- typically because of performance problems- then the vendor should provide the data or access for free. at 3:23 am I think your definition of SaaS is aspirational rather than factual.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

It morphs this way and transmogrifies that way and reveals new cracks in the systems we use each and every day -- from our cellphones to ATMs to voting machines -- providing fertile ground for those with malicious intentions to infiltrate our data and productivity. Wolfe , Marin Institute. Security is always changing and evolving.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

AUGUST 9, 2005

I'm not sure software innovation will do anything about easing ego problems, but it has certainly eased the need to travel between Virginia and Philadelphia to work on a document together. Probably the most dramatic wiki project is the wikiPedia - an online encyclopedia edited by -- the entire world. Self-evident, indeed!

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. However if you, as a well-meaning representative of an organization, try to inject your side into the debate, your edits might be summarily deleted and you may be accused of violating Wikipedia rules in quite harsh terms.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. However if you, as a well-meaning representative of an organization, try to inject your side into the debate, your edits might be summarily deleted and you may be accused of violating Wikipedia rules in quite harsh terms.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JANUARY 3, 2006

The old approaches to application development seemed not to be working anymore: development staff were finding that by the time they had designed and built the elaborate systems being requested, they were already obsolete. Daily Scrum meetings encourage honesty about problems, delays, and difficulties that may be encountered on the way.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

But here's the problem. And here's the bigger problem. How many times have you visited a museum site in search of a phone number or email address and woken up two hours later dizzy from the painful and ultimately unsuccessful phone system nightmare? I don't entirely trust these reports.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2012

Sites includes Wikipedia , Reddit , BoingBoing , and Global Voices are “going dark” and will black out the Global Voices Advocacy site for 12 hours on January 18 beginning at 8 am. In countries with less independent judicial systems, abuse of copyright law to repress activism is both simple and frequent.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

I show people how to use ancillary services, including an RSS feed reader and social bookmarking system to find and store content that may end up on their blog. Then I show them Wikipedia, and I used to demonstrate Wikalong, but the page history of that service is broken and thus so is the wiki as far as I'm concerned.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2014

Brigade will merge Votizen and Causes to create a political organizing site that will that will “tackle the problem of declining citizen power and engagement in democracy.” It’s a new international charity classification system that will pave the way for better grantmaking, especially online and international philanthropy.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

She’s currently working on “spatial quantile regression” and has learned at Benetech how to use statistics to address real-life problems. For the past five years he worked customizing and integrating a single set of software systems that Benetech could use globally. His specialty: user testing.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2007

But as George Bernard Shaw told us: "The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place." And so we arrive at the challenge when software guys sit down with organizations to make the system do what their users need. Image of George Bernard Shaw from Wikipedia Commons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Act 1: The Problem. In many smaller organizations, where there are not enough resources for a high-end knowledge management system, people end up using their browser favorites or forward links to one another via email. For a more detailed definition of tags, see the Wikipedia entry here. sharpie.???

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2014

" According to Wikipedia, the sharing economy (sometimes also referred to as the share economy, shared economy, mesh, collaborative economy, collaborative consumption) is a socio-economic system built around the sharing of human and physical assets. What Is the "Sharing Economy?"

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

This attitude is often self-serving: it’s also a practical problem for those who actually want to create change. The problem is that my current audience is vocal and my future audience is silent. Both libraries and museums are (somewhat frustratingly) lumped with the K-12 public education system.

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