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Human Rights at the Benetech Board Meeting

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Last quarter Betsy Beaumon presented the future of our Literacy program including Bookshare. The centerpiece of our Benetech board of directors meeting this week was the Benetech Human Rights Program. Each of our quarterly meetings tends to focus on big strategic issues facing Benetech. But this week, human rights was front and center.

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A Technology Assessment Connects Intention and Ability

.orgSource

Disaster recovery and business continuity are other areas to explore. People/Skills/Culture How leadership, environment, professional development, and training promote digital literacy and thinking Whether there is adequate talent to achieve the desired goals 6. But failure to use data effectively can also be dangerous.

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One Click Community Organizing: Instant Portals

VisionLink

What about that literacy initiative, or the Jobs Program? Does your disaster relief team have the private space to plan and the public tools to get out important bulletins? Need to focus on Elder Care?

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Data Digest: Global Open Data Initiative, OpenData Latinoamérica, Big Data for Disaster Response

Tech Soup

Facilitating global literacy about Big Data is viewed as important for the media, civic hackers, and civil society. Big Data for Disaster Response: A List of Wrong Assumptions. Open Source disaster recovery data big data' Their network will help with trouble shooting and data training. Image: NetSquared.

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Google’s AI flood warnings now cover all of India and have expanded to Bangladesh

The Verge

Google has long been interested in providing warnings about natural disasters and national emergencies like floods, wildfires, and earthquakes. Even in an area suffering from low literacy, limited education, and high poverty, a majority of citizens act on information they receive,” write the researchers. “So, Image: Google.

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16 Million 2-1-1 Calls in 2009

VisionLink

We are particularly pleased to support those partnerships that weave 2-1-1 operations into a more holistic effort, such as when integrated with elder care, homeless management, or disaster response. 2-1-1 is an easy to remember phone number that connects individuals with resources in their community.

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How clutter affects your productivity (and what you can do about it)

The Next Web

Mark Hurst, author of Bit Literacy , a New York Times best seller on controlling the flow of information in the digital age, put it best when he said : Bits are a new material. I like to keep things neat but when I used to clean my room to perfection, my mom would still see that same room as a disaster. Finding your perfect storm.

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