Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 10, 2008

Frontline World is airing a terrific piece on our Guatemala work tonight on KQED in the Bay Area (9 pm PT). You can view it online right now. It already aired on the east coast. I don't think we've ever had such extensive and thoughtful coverage of a topic: there are the video segments, slideshows, extended interviews and more.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 5, 2007

Two good articles recently covered the Guatemala secret police archive project that we are supporting. Guatemala struggles to find war crimes justice was in the San Francisco Chronicle, and captures the personal side of this work. Many people want to know what happened to those who disappeared in Guatemala's civil war.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2006

One of our hottest human rights projects is our work in Guatemala, helping with the huge secret police archive that is being analyzed there.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 25, 2012

This repository is an important step forward for the people of Guatemala and those seeking information about human rights abuses that occurred during the country’s 36 years of armed internal conflict. You can read more about the Guatemalan National Police Archive digital repository here.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 22, 2013

open source Syria technology Richard Feynman open content intellectual property science Guatemala social entrepreneurship Caltech' If we can do that, by being as open and sharing as we can be, we’ll better realize the founding values of Caltech and its motto: “you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free!”.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Highlights of this Letter: SocialCoding4Good CityOptions Read2Go and Route 66 Literacy Selected Program Updates Human rights: Legal victory in Guatemala, PBS NewsHour stories Literacy: Major milestones for Bookshare at home and abroad SocialCoding4Good Just funded by the John S. and James L. This is a huge legal victory!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Specifically, I presented the audience with the following questions: Were acts of genocide committed against the Mayan people in Guatemala? How many Kosovars were killed between March and June 1999? How much did Hissene Habré know about political killings during his presidency?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Benetech statistician Daniel Guzmán has just published his account of one legal case which set a historic precedent for human rights in Guatemala. Discovered by chance in 2005 in an explosives storehouse in Guatemala City, the archive contains what archivists estimate to be 8 kilometers or approximately 80 million sheets, of paper.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 17, 2010

In 2010, Benetech’s Human Rights Data Analysis Group examined once hidden government documents from Guatemala and Chad that provided key evidence needed to hold former national leaders and security forces accountable for human rights violations.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

HRP members produced scientifically sound analysis that is advancing the process of legal justice in Guatemala. In a recent blog post , I described how HRP statistician Daniel Guzmán’s expert testimony in a breakthrough legal case against two former police officers helped score a remarkable victory in the fight to end impunity in Guatemala.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 18, 2006

Benetech's Human Rights Program is helping the Ombudsman's Office in Guatemala with the Archives Project. To date, the history of state violence in Guatemala has been understood primarily through accounts by victims, witnesses, and the press, because these were the main sources of available data.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 11, 2009

Garcia disappeared after being placed in police detention in Guatemala City. Montenegro founded the Mutual Support Group (GAM), one of the largest organizations representing the families of the disappeared in Guatemala. Tags: arrest HRDAG GAM Édgar Fernando Garcia archive Guatemala National Police Archive. Photo by Prensa Libre.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 28, 2012

Over the last 17 years, Kar and I crossed paths in Haiti, Guatemala, Colombia, and many times at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, AAAS. Kar was a forensic anthropologist who specialized in human rights cases, and she was a founders of our Colombian partner organization EQUITAS ).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 27, 2012

They are already active in Africa and Latin America, in countries like Uganda, Rwanda, Liberia, El Salvador, Mexico, Guatemala and Nicaragua. The founding team includes leaders from each of the first three Gold Standard clean cookstove projects (and these projects delivered more than half a million stoves). The economics are compelling.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Hiptipico is an ethical fashion brand based in Panajachel, Guatemala showcasing Maya artisans and their handmade creations. Premium blankets for children and for every blankie sold, another is donated to a child in need. 4) Hiptipico :: hiptipico.com. 5) Lucky Iron Fish :: luckyironfish.com.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 20, 2013

From capturing the stories of human rights violations in Guatemala, Burma, Syria and Uganda, to helping a biologist plan a better restoration of a wetlands, or matching up an open source geek with the social good project of his or her dreams, Benetech’s team is using technology to make the world a better place.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 13, 2007

This tremendous growth is due in large part to the continued use of Martus by our partners working in Guatemala with the National Police Archive, and projects gathering data about Burma, Iraq and the Philippines. We now have over 60,000 bulletins which have been backed up to secure Martus servers by over 1000 users across the world.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 23, 2006

They are doing a big project in Guatemala around open source software for the Maya community (including translating Open Office into Kiche), as well as several technology initiatives including Application Service Provider (ASP) implementations for NGO IT needs. They have a large array of IT projects focused on the Spanish speaking NGO world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2011

One of the most compelling products of the Producers Institute is a project associated with the award-winning film Granito: How to Nail a Dictator , which depicts the genocidal civil war in Guatemala. In Granito, veteran filmmaker Pamela Yates returns to the subject of her first film, When the Mountains Tremble.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

A Learning History of the CARE LAC - Institute for Strategic Clarity Guatemala Poverty Project. The map illustrating this post was developed by a couple of dozen people in Guatemala from their mental models, to support CARE to vastly enhance its impact. See larger image here: Map from: Waddell, Steve.

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VisionLink

AUGUST 18, 2015

The team also visited Obras Sociales Del Santo Hermano Pedro, hospital and clinic in Antigua, Guatemala to interview patients, staff and volunteers regarding how quality medical donations are saving lives and why more are desperately needed.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

The observations presented in this blog post deal with some of the things we have learned while founding and then running a small community development NGO in an indigenous Guatemala village of about 1,500 families, called Chocolá. We consulted the Guatemala NGO Network in Antigua for guidance and attorney/accountant referrals.

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2014

Guatemala City, Guatemala: Naranya en Guatemala - proyectos con moviles. Guatemala City, Guatemala: Tecnologia y educacion - Evento - 7 de agosto - TEC. Wellington, New Zealand: A new #Net2Welly website in an hour? July 2014 meetup. Wednesday, July 30, 2014. New York, NY: Intro to Google for Nonprofits.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 22, 2008

He had spotted the Frontline PBS special on our work in Guatemala, which had led to him deciding he wanted to visit us. He made a special point of wanting to meet with our Chief Scientist Patrick Ball (also head of our Human Rights Program). Patrick was able to explain our human rights work articulately and passionately as always!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 2, 2007

My new favorite is how the Human Rights Ombudsman's Office of Guatemala (PDH is the Spanish acronym) uses our Martus human rights software. Guatemala has a sad history of large scale human rights abuse. Few of these violations have ever been prosecuted.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 30, 2013

This may be the most overused and least accurate phrase we hear nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) utter in Guatemala. “Our goal is to provide the community with a “sustainable” program.”.

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EveryAction

AUGUST 14, 2017

Their work spans the globe, including promoting the work of a vegetable and chicken farmer in Vietnam , providing financial support to nearly 2,000 families participating in soil conservation projects in Guatemala , and building sanitation facilities in Somalia. Take Action | Twitter | Facebook. Women's Refugee Commission.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Guatemala City, Guatemala. Charla con Scripps Networks Interactive en Guatemala. HourofCode Guatemala via @delvallegt. Guatemala City, Guatemala: #Pechakuchagt #Antigua 5 de Octubre en Impact Hub. Birmingham, United Kingdom: November Meetup: Open-Source Tools. Central and South America.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

You can read more about the many faces of the Martus user community and the impact that Martus has had on human rights groups , from Africa to Burma to Guatemala. In many cases, Martus also helped users turn those first-hand accounts into evidence of abuse in order to advance their causes.

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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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Everyaction

JULY 23, 2018

This year, we have activated kitchens to respond to the volcanoes in Hawaii and Guatemala. Tim helped us there, led our kitchen in Hawaii, and even came with us to Guatemala. We actually had a Puerto Rican chef impacted by the hurricane who came with us to Guatemala to cook with us. At the same time, each meal has a story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2017

I’ve just returned from a two-week trip to Guatemala hosted by Wake. We worked with a network of women’s rights NGOs located throughout Latin America and Guatemala who traveled to Antigua for the multi-day training. I’ve just returned from a two-week trip to Guatemala hosted by Wake. … Read More

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2017

Guatemala City, Guatemala: Innovagt Next Extended Event de #google. Guatemala City, Guatemala: GirlsinICT 2017 #Guatemala. Guatemala City, Guatemala: SpaceAppsgt 2017 #bigdata #opendata en #uvg. Dublin, Ireland: VR for Social Impact. Central and South America. Wednesday, April 5, 2017.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

I work full - time with Faith In Practice (FIP), a nonprofit organization out of Houston, Texas that does medical mission work in Guatemala. I also work part-time, remotely doing social media for Blood Centers of the Pacific (BCP), the community blood center in the San Francisco/Bay Area.

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2013

Guatemala: TecThursday / foro de e-educacion en Guatemala / gratuita. Vancouver, BC: VIDEO FOR NONPROFITS: Content is King: Video Campaign Strategy. New Orleans, LA: Lifehacks Live: You Don’t Even Know What You Don’t Know! Thursday, July 4. Don’t have a local NetSquared Local group? That’s all for now.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 13, 2014

Guatemala City, Guatemala. Guatemala City, Guatemala. Mukono, Uganda: Second Net2uganda Computer Training Meetup for Poor Rural Primary School and Communit­y. Central and South America. Thursday, October 16, 2014. Pitch Round para Celumanix. Thursday, October 23, 2014. Taller de seguridad en Internet.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2017

Guatemala City, Guatemala: Taller de Certificacion de Auditor Lider de ISO27001. Guatemala City, Guatemala: NetSquared #Pechakucha #Guatemala — Historias Digitales Vol. Bristol, United Kingdom: Tech4Good Global Development. Central and South America. Monday, August 21, 2017. Tuesday, August 29, 2017.

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