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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
AUGUST 17, 2012
I’m Thushan Ganegedara, a 3 rd year undergraduate from the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. Many thanks to Thushan Ganegedara for this guest post about his summer open source project. My interests are Mobile Development and Computational Intelligence.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 5, 2005
Our staff are actively working in the region in Sri Lanka and East Timor, but on December 26th were not in harm's way. Our partner groups and friends in Sri Lanka have also fared well, to our relief. Like the rest of the world, we have been following the Asian disaster closely.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
DECEMBER 3, 2004
This is based on a talk I gave in Sri Lanka last year at the University of Peradeniya, but with a heavier technology component given the engineering audience. I covered our Human Rights program, including the Martus Project and the Human Rights Data Analysis Group (which joined Benetech last year).
Have Fun - Do Good
OCTOBER 4, 2011
Before and during her studies, she conducted field research for governmental and non-governmental organizations, as well as foundations, on maternal and child health in Sri Lanka, Ghana, Haiti, Somalia, Uganda, Kenya and India. She did a joint Masters in Public Health and Economic Development at Columbia University.
Connection Cafe
OCTOBER 31, 2017
Facebook recently announced a test in Sri Lanka, Bolivia, Slovakia, Serbia, Guatemala, and Cambodia. So the Newsfeed algorithm tries to predict what each user wants to see in their Newsfeed. But no algorithm is perfect. So they test and tweak. Users in these countries can only see Page posts that their friends comment on or share.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
APRIL 19, 2009
You can read about some of the NGOs that have used Martus to back up their data in Guatemala, Sri Lanka, the Phillippines, and Colombia. Martus will protect their sensitive documentation by encrypting it on the local hard drive and automatically backing it up to remote servers if organizations wish to do so.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
OCTOBER 21, 2008
We've also had major efforts in Burma, Sri Lanka and Guatemala, to name a few; efforts we expect to continue this year. We have just completed a new case study detailing our multi-year project with the TRC. We work with human rights groups all over the world. Humanity United (founded by Pam Omidyar) funded this work.
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