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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. You may discover that some staffers aren’t benefiting from the data at their fingertips because they need additional training. But failure to use data effectively can also be dangerous. It’s a stealthy liability that grows over time.

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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 centers are staffed by trained specialists who quickly assess the callers’ needs and refer them to the help they seek.

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

Tech Soup

Their network will help with trouble shooting and data training. 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' Image: NetSquared.

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Award Winning Combinations for Social Change

Care2

Cristi Hegranes, Global Press Institute – Global Press Institute (GPI) advances both responsible global journalism and community empowerment by offering journalism training to women around the world.

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Vote for Your CNN Hero: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Impact

Have Fun - Do Good

Over the past week though, there have been little glimpses of happiness amid the disasters, scandals and economic bad news - stories about the CNN Heroes: Ordinary People Extraordinary Impact. Today, she offers hundreds of children who work in Phnom Penh's trash dump a way out through free schooling and job training."

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3 Simple Truths About Getting Your Nonprofit Noticed

NonProfit Hub

From improving literacy to helping communities recover after natural disasters, nonprofits take on vital roles to do good in the world. Different social channels could be used for different types of audiences, such as using YouTube to train volunteers through video. There are currently over 1.5