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JUNE 25, 2004

It's time to grow the Benetech team again! Over the next few months, we'll be searching for new employees and fellows to join us in saving the world with technology. Our first position to be formally posted is for the head of our Bookshare.org project. Alison Lingane, who did a great job of designing, launching and operating Bookshare.org for the last three years, has stepped down to take a job (outside Benetech) that involves less travel to better match her family priorities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 20, 2004

More stories from my recent trip to Africa. Although Benetech has no projects planned in the area of HIV/AIDS, I was interested in learning more about this. Being part of the Schwab Social Entrepreneur program, I had met Garth Japhet from South Africa, who works in this field, and I wanted to understand more of what he does. I attended a dinner at the Africa Economic Summit on the topic, and what was surprising was how little interest the business community showed in it.

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JUNE 10, 2004

One of the issues I was exploring on my trip to Africa was the expansion of the use of our Martus software there. When we started working on Martus four years ago, we didn't look too closely at Africa. We assumed that Martus would require PCs and telecommunications that didn't exist there. Times have changed dramatically. Cybercafes are found in quite poor areas.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2004

I am just back from the Africa Economic Summit in Mozambique. I was very impressed with President Chissano, the former Marxist revolutionary who is stepping down next year after leading his country for 18 years. His embrace of business development, reform, and advancing the interests of his people made quite an impression on me. He also has a terrific sense of humor.

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