Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

From people in Latin America who face severe water scarcity to at-risk human rights defenders and students with disabilities, our users and their families are the ones who best convey the impact of our work. Martus is our free, open source, secure information collection and management tool. billion poor and unbanked.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, VP and General Manager, Benetech’s Global Literacy Program. With the goal of promoting braille literacy, this landmark meeting brought together braille experts from around the world to Perkins’ campus in Watertown, Massachusetts.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Every day, American nonprofits, charities, and libraries rely on TechSoup's product donation program for the information they need to make smart decisions about technology. The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in. Central and South America.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

On the morning of July 7th, a page was created for the events taking place in central London and as both television news and personal witnesses revealed more information the page content grew – by the minute. Wikipedia was a popular resource and established as a citizen-driven information source. Examples from Haiti.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We develop free and open source software to help groups capture the stories of human rights abuse, and store and back them up securely in another country. We work in North Africa Latin America, Asia: most of the places where large scale human rights abuses are going on. Endangering Human Rights Activists. Wonderful stuff.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2013

This week check out the launch of the new Global Open Data Initiative, the pursuit for the release and use of open data in Latin America and thoughts on open data and democracy in Africa. Facilitating global literacy about Big Data is viewed as important for the media, civic hackers, and civil society.

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