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CEO’s Update: Fall 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

My personal goal is to channel the aspirations of the technology community to do more social good. Martus is our free, open source, secure information collection and management tool. In this update, I’m delighted to be able to share Benetech’s latest efforts to do both. billion poor and unbanked. Martus Desktop 4.5

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12NTC: Open-Source Mobile Apps for Social Change

Tech Soup

session, Open Source Mobile Apps for Social Change. Why Open Source? Open source is not just about software distribution. Open source as a philosophy also promotes accessibility, transparency, inclusivity, open data, and integration with other tools. What the Mobile Revolution Means.

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Promise and Peril: Martus for Human Rights in Burma

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

It was so gratifying to see firsthand how Martus , a free and open-source software tool developed by Benetech, is empowering people to be the change they wish to see. ND-Burma member groups regularly send observers, at great personal risk, across Burma’s borders with India, Bangladesh, Thailand and China.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Face-to-Face or Mediated Experience, Open Source Software Communities, and Blog Days

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As one person in the comments of Michelle's posts notes, "Holly and Michelle are right to argue for context. Blog Carnivals tend to be topic driven with a smaller number of participants compared to blog action projects that are advocacy or marketing driven and may include larger groups of bloggers. I think it means nothing.

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Benetech's Human Rights Spin-off

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Patrick has become widely recognized as the world's leading human rights statistician, something that I personally already felt was true when I recruited Patrick to Benetech! During that time, HRDAG has also grown to a place where it can be self-sustaining.

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Great reads from around the web on December 15th

Amy Sample Ward

Shareable: The Open Source Guitar – So many good pieces to think on from this post (thanks for sharing it with me, Billy!) Here's just on that's got me thinking: "We're now beginning to experience a shift from a global-objective index of needs and providers to a personal-subjective one."

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International Human Rights Day 2011

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Here’s a sample of our accomplishments: Martus , our secure, open-source information management software for human rights defenders continued to empower many human rights groups worldwide to secure thousands of stories of human rights violations and to use this information strategically to advance their causes.