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Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The event kicked off with talks by two activists who may go to prison as a result of their online activities; Alaa Abd El-Fatah, an Egyptian blogger and software developer and Thai journalist Chiranuch Premchaiporn. It is the vision of the mission goal that leads to successful projects, rather than just saying, 'I got a cool tool.'"

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Training Afghani NGOs in Cambodia

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Guest Beneblog by Vijaya Tripathi As a Program Associate for the Benetech Human Rights Program (HRP), I train and support human rights advocates who use Benetech’s free and open source Martus program to securely document human rights violations. Past partners have included NGOs and nine truth commissions.

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