Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 19, 2009

Guest Beneblog by Vijaya Tripathi As a Program Associate for the Benetech Human Rights Program (HRP), I train and support human rights advocates who use Benetech’s free and open source Martus program to securely document human rights violations. The current conflict in Afghanistan has been ongoing since 2001.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Maya recently launched in Sri Lanka and plans to expand into India, Pakistan, Middle Eastern markets and Indonesia. It collaborated with data scientists and linguists and took part in Google Launchpad’s accelerator program, working on tokenization and training its machine learning algorithms.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

This is politics – we need the good and the bad; the cyber army, the 10,000 bloggers claimed to be trained by the national guard, etc. Like Sri Lanka where pictures weren’t getting out. Which causes a lot of Iranian politics to take place outside of the country.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2008

We lecture, and we're also trainers with the US Attorney's Office, so we've given trainings to police on how to identify victims of trafficking. I also lived in Sri Lanka right about the time that sex tourism became a big deal, and saw it firsthand.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Some projects, such as training new hate speech classifiers, are expensive and take many months. Even in countries where Facebook’s tiers appear to limit its investments, Sissons said, the company’s systems regularly scan the world for political instability or other risks of escalating violence so that the company can adapt.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 8, 2025

SASANE is a social company that trains female survivors of human trafficking to become certified tour and trekking guides. Similarly, theres Amba Yaalu at Kandalama, Sri Lankas first hotel run entirely by women. From resort manager to gardener, the hotel has 80 staffall women.

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