Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 31, 2008

Guest blog from Beatriz, one of Benetech's human rights team members in Colombia. But today's mood in Colombia is more somber than usual. We Colombians are a resilient breed, accustomed to waking up to all kinds of distressing news and still somehow managing to go about our daily business.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 12, 2010

Tags: HRDAG human rights disappearances Casanare Colombia.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 27, 2007

Clinton has a great talent for making everybody feel like they're important: I liked the way he interacted with Vicky Colbert, the great education social entrepreneur from Colombia.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 8, 2005

Patrick Ball is in Colombia for most of the next three months teaching the techniques of human rights statistics and information processing at the National University there. Our human rights group is active all over the place right now. Africa is definitely getting more attention from us. Kristen Cibelli is on her way to Uganda right now.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2005

One of our biggest areas of work is in Colombia, a place where violence and human rights abuses are not a thing of the past. They concentrate on recovering the remains of the many people disappeared during Colombia's complex and violent internal conflicts.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 17, 2010

The past year of research by HRDAG analysts has supported key criminal prosecutions and uncovered the truth about political violence in Guatemala, Iran, Colombia, Chad and Liberia. They revealed the culpability of powerful people who never expected that these records would ever be exposed to public scrutiny - let alone scientific analysis.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

Dance 4 Peace began in Bogotá, Colombia as part of Sara's Fulbright Scholarship project in 2007. New York City, Colombia, the Philippines, and Nepal. Today, the program works in Washington, D.C., You can listen and subscribe to the Big Vision Podcast via iTunes , or on the player above.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Our HumanRights team, including Benetech Research Fellow Amelia Hoover and fieldconsultants Tamy Guberek and Daniel Guzmán, presented our initial findings on violations in Colombia to an enthusiastic audience of ICC investigators and analysts. You can visit our Colombia Project Page to read more about this work.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 11, 2009

A Guest Beneblog by Tamy Guberek (Benetech HRDAG team member from Colombia) There is important news this month from our partners at the Guatemalan National Police Archive, which has worked since 2006 with Benetech’s Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

This method has been used for estimating large-scale killings in Guatemala , Kosovo , Perú , Srebrenica , East Timor , and Colombia , among others. Depending on the degree of overlap of cases between the sources, the number of deaths that were not reported to any source will differ.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2007

The text reads: Colombia, land of images. There is a lot of talk about war in Colombia. nera organized a video blogging workshop at the public library of the poor and often violent neighborhood of La Loma San Javier. ??lvaro Life and scenery. Dance, joy, and entertainment. ??? culture, faith, and hope. ??? We are also.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 15, 2021

We spoke to four food security organizations in Colombia, Portugal, South Africa, and the United States to better understand the challenges facing organizations working in food security and the ways the pandemic has shifted operations for them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Global NpTech: African Civil Society to Colombia Saidia.Org Blog is gathering stories about Web2.0 and African civil society for Web2 for Dev Nancy White is doing workshops in Colombia. He did a video interview with Dirk Slater , too! Check out the nonprofitmanagement wiki ! Follow her trail here.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Since 1997, in Spain , Mexico , Brazil , Chile, Ecuador , Colombia - and soon in Peru - Paco and his team have been serving up their magic brew. It's not a. political party, and it's not Spring Break, and it doesn't happen on. campus, it's. Well, ask anyone under 30 who lives in a Spanish-speaking country about Campus Party.

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AFP Blog

MAY 6, 2016

Why Toms Shoes And AT&T Are Taking A Virtual Reality Trip To Colombia | Co.Create | creativity + culture + commerce : "Almost seven years after that original ad, AT&T once again teamed up with MyCoskie and Toms to show how far the business had come, with another ad profile, this time during the Oscars.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2006

Colombia???s She went on stage confidently and started to tell her story. She told Craig about her project and demonstrated how the electronic glove works. As she made every move everybody was fascinated with her story. s Minister of Communications began to cry in her front row seat; deeply touched, as most of us were.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2007

Most recently Nancy White did a version in Colombia. I done various remixes -- for example most recently for fundraising and a version for Filmmakers. A number of o ther folks have remixed the game -- and it's been translated into different languages too.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 17, 2008

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the Honorable President of Liberia, as well as women leaders from Colombia, South Africa, Malaysia, Liberia, Bosnia/Herzogovina and Egypt will be honored at the event. Ann Curry, News Anchor for The Today Show , and Co-Anchor of Dateline NBC will emcee.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 7, 2017

Catalina Escobar , executive director of MAKAIA in Colombia. Nonprofit Technology Leadership. Amy Sample Ward and Holly Ross from NTEN. Karen Graham and Laura Quinn from Idealware. International NGO Leadership. Janet Mawlyoo , executive director, Kenya Community Development Foundation. Law and Advocacy.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2006

It was a little over 10 minutes long and talked about medical needs in Sudan, the ongoing challenges in Colombia and how people with HIV/AIDS in the developing world are being denied access to new "second-line" AIDS medicine. (My I just listened to the first podcast.

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AFP Blog

AUGUST 13, 2010

Bill Clinton Taps Revamped Causes ‘Birthday Wish’ To Raise Money For Charity: "Former President Bill Clinton is looking to turn his 64th birthday into an opportunity to counter malnutrition in Colombia, reduce childhood obesity in the US, and improve lives around the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2009

Where it has been getting integrated into social justice organizing, it's largely been outside the United States, in places like Colombia and Egypt. With that in mind, I think social media and social networking hasn't entirely matured as part of long-term social change.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Andrea Ortega, Director of Nonprofit Services Andrea hails from Cali, Colombia by way of Miami, FL. She has a master’s degree in Nonprofit Management from the University of Central Florida (UCF) and is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Public Affairs at UCF with a focus in Nonprofit Management.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2014

I also liked the work we did a few years ago to support telecentres in poor communities affected by civil war in Colombia. She says: “I like to reach communities that we haven’t reached before in the developing world like what we’re doing to bridge the digital divide with the Aga Khan Development Network in Mozambique.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 9, 2017

Using a handful of photos and video clips shot entirely on a mobile phone, ShelterBox created a video days after the landslides hit Peru and Colombia in an effort to drive donations in the wake of the devastation. This video created by Animoto customer ShelterBox USA drove $3200 in donations with just a $100 Facebook video ad spend.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 24, 2017

And if you prefer your media in audio-visual form, here are two videos from recent talks about the book: A 12-minute talk about The Art of Relevance for a broad audience at TedXPaloAlto A 30-minute talk plus Q&A, with a slant towards science centers at ECSITE in Portugal Finally, I'll be sharing stories of relevance live and in-person this fall (..)

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

And, in our initial six pilot countries (which include Colombia, India, Indonesia, Kenya and Senegal) we plan to take a deeper look, using national data, research and story-gathering to understand where progress is being made and where it is lagging. .

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

And, in our initial six pilot countries (which include Colombia, India, Indonesia, Kenya and Senegal) we plan to take a deeper look, using national data, research and story-gathering to understand where progress is being made and where it is lagging. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

I gave up on that particular service after I showed someone how they could post a description and link to the lawsuit against Coca Cola for hiring death squad members to kill union organizers in Colombia in the Wikalong sidebar for cocacola.com.and then it was deleted by another user days later.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 26, 2020

Imagine living amidst conflict in Yemen, or avoiding your backyard in Colombia because there may be weapons leftover from war that are contaminating your land. Americans are extremely distracted, but there are Americans who are extremely generous and considerate of those living in worse-off situations overseas.

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See3

OCTOBER 17, 2009

From Colombia, South America… we are very far from a synagogue. TX and via Skype and Yuuguu, watching the service with my 95-year old father who is in NY!! Bless You !!! I live in an area where the nearest shul is 3 hours away. This is truly a blessing. Thank you for inviting us in. – Mayel & Bram Levin.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Last week at the United Nations General Assembly , Equal Measures 2030 launched a multi-country policymaker survey that explored perceptions of progress on gender-related issues and access to and use of data to inform decisions.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 20, 2008

One woman stood up at a keynote to tell the other delegates how expensive it had been for her to come to the Congress from Colombia and how desperately she wanted help and support from other centers to be able to serve her visitors. There was never a sense that we were there to be accountable to and supportive of each other.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2013

Four countries in Latin America now have e-waste laws or rules: Costa Rica, Colombia, Peru, and Brazil. It has had 30 percent growth in mobile adoption over the last 10 years. Africa has a 1 percent recycling rate for mobile phones. Latin America.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 23, 2021

v, AnyRoad, and Unsettled, as well as governments ranging from Singapore to South Africa, Canada to Colombia, Italy to India. Thank you to the book's publisher for sending me an advance copy of the book.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 19, 2009

You can read about some of the NGOs that have used Martus to back up their data in Guatemala, Sri Lanka, the Phillippines, and Colombia. Martus will protect their sensitive documentation by encrypting it on the local hard drive and automatically backing it up to remote servers if organizations wish to do so.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

Cambodia: Somaly Mam Acting for Women in Distressing Situations (AFESIP) Canada: Sheila Watt-Cloutier The Center for Environmental Law Colombia: Mayerly Sanchez World Vision Hong Kong: Anson Chan Hong Kong Committee for UNICEF Liberia: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf The Liberian Education Trust (LET) Mexico: Lydia Cacho Ciamcancun New York: Dr.

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