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FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Then again, I shouldn’t have been surprised when I heard the playful notes of a street band wafting through the window while in Guatemala with Benetech's Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG). But first: why was I, a fresh graduate of UCLA, in Guatemala in the first place? You see, HRDAG is anything but a typical organization.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Benetech Statistical Expert Testifies in Guatemala Disappearance Case The Benetech Human Rights Program uses cutting edge computing methods and statistical analysis to provide objective evidence of human rights violations. Tags: Guzmán archive National Police Archive human rights trial Guatemala disappeances. The estimated 31.7

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

I announced in this blog last month that judges in Guatemala had found two former police officers guilty in the 1984 forced disappearance of Guatemalan student and union leader Edgar Fernando García. The archive includes documents generated during Guatemala’s internal armed conflict which took place from 1960 to 1996.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

This means new challenges ahead in scaling Bookshare.org to serve every single student with a print disability in the U.S. In essence, we're being paid to deliver – free – accessible books to all students with print disabilities in the United States for the next five years. I bet you're wondering what we must accomplish.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

And, at a time when the international women's movement is facing challenges, it would be great to have a reminder that good news is going on, that good work is being done, that progress is happening. Betty and six of her high school English students founded an organization called the Girl Child Network. We did it together.

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