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The US Department of Defense is using ML algorithms to find airstrike targets

TechSpot

Since early February, the US Department of Defense has employed ML algorithms to identify targets for over 85 air strikes in Iraq and Syria. According to Schuyler Moore, CTO for the United States Central Command (CentCom), the Pentagon began using AI technology in actual battle situations after Hamas terrorists attacked. Read Entire Article

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Big News at Benetech (and for me!)

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Connected Civil Society: Applying machine learning and computer vision to document human rights violations and promote accountability in Syria in collaboration with the UN. Born Accessible: Working with publishers to ensure that any new ebook is accessible to people who read differently - with the goal of one day making Bookshare obsolete.

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Five Social Media Best Practices for Small NGOs in Developing Countries

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Photo and Caption via Mercy Corps : Mohammed and Amna Lelayesh fled their home in Syria with their four children over a year ago. Free photo editing tools like PicMonkey and Photo Gallery enable your NGO to easily re-size and crop photos.

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GitHub says it will now operate in Iran after receiving sanction exemption

The Verge

GitHub has been operating in a very limited form in Iran since 2019 , mostly by making some public code repositories available , due to US trade restrictions that forced the Microsoft-owned open-source hosting site to similarly restrict its operations in Crimea and Syria.

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Big Data Means More Than Big Profits

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Skoll World Forum Skoll Syria SWF Big Data Harvard Business Review Web Reader human rights SkollWF SWF13 Bookshare' Working together, we can show how Big Data makes more than big profits—it can make a big difference.

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Two Leaders Join Benetech’s Senior Team!

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Previously she was an independent consultant working with The Chicago Council on Global Affairs on the 2012 NATO Summit, Chicago Ideas Week, news platform Syria Deeply and FEM Inc., Most recently, Nadine comes to Benetech from Water.org, where she developed and executed the organization’s public affairs strategy.

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Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference

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In the closing session, El-Fatah noted that he had just gotten an email saying that two of his friends had just been killed in Syria. "When you restrict me from doing this, you violate my human rights."