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. I have realized that Benetech is indeed “technology serving humanity.” My interests are Mobile Development and Computational Intelligence.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
DECEMBER 3, 2004
Technology and Human Rights Talk. 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. My talk this week at Stanford was videoed and placed on the EE380 class website.
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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. He's a regional leader in adaptive technology for the blind and I have worked with him for more than a decade.
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
OCTOBER 21, 2008
We're sure we can do this because our technology allows us to cost-effectively and rapidly scale Bookshare.org. I'm especially excited about our efforts to reach students who haven't traditionally had access to assistive technology. We will also expand the number of books in our collection by 100,000 new titles.
Amy Sample Ward
FEBRUARY 22, 2010
Tonight, I attended a live panel discussion on the question of whether Technology is Really Good for Human Rights, or not. We’ve seen potential for those unsympathetic to the cause to use the technology too – a bit of an arms race created. Technology is amoral – it doesn’t care.
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.
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