Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Highlights of this Update: Human Rights Global Literacy Benetech Labs and Board of Directors Human Rights In the age of hyper-surveillance, it is clear that at-risk human rights defenders are no longer the only ones who need the know-how to protect sensitive information. Photo credit: Katy Steinmetz, TIME Magazine.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 9, 2013

Digitization and globalization are giving rise to growing publishing markets that promise new business opportunities. Globalization and the digital transformation of the book industry also stand behind the recent big news in the publishing world about the mega-merger of Penguin and Random House , says Ed Nawotka.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 27, 2011

Through negotiations, four competing proposals have been merged into a single document supported in June by the Latin Americans (led by Brazil), the U.S., Here are some questions and answers I've prepared on this topic, based on my recent trip to Geneva to attend the first week of discussions on the issue.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

Fair Trade is this exciting new model for addressing poverty around the world. At the heart of Fair Trade is the notion of direct trade, kind of like a farmer's market gone global. PR: I was in Brazil a few months ago, and in this village in Brazil there are about eighty or ninety families that are all very small coffee growers.

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Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

When the BerkShares currency launched in 2006, it involved something of a gamble: that a moribund tradition of local currency issue could still work to bolster local economic activity in the 21 st century. Given the lack of established models, there will undoubtedly be some unanticipated curves ahead. The experiment proved successful.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2006

The newest Big Vision podcast is up , and it is an interview with Ilyse Hogue, the Global Finance Campaign Director for the Rainforest Action Network and one of the founders of SmartMeme , a non-profit collective of long term organizers, strategists, trainers and communications professionals. you know, I thought, "Wow!

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