Showing posts with label human rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label human rights. Show all posts
Big News in Benetech's Human Rights Program: New Funding and Enhanced Tools!
Big Data Means More Than Big Profits
This post originally appeared as part of an online debate about How Big Data Can Have a Social Impact, which the Harvard Business Review Blo...
Promise and Peril: Martus for Human Rights in Burma
Why You Don’t Want this Job!
Almost anyone from the human rights field will tell you that the work can be as rewarding as it is challenging. When you look at the barrier...
Benetech Spins Off Human Rights Data Analysis Group
From a Project to an Organization: Benetech Successfully Spins Off the Human Rights Data Analysis Group Benetech is celebrating a major mile...
SocialCoding4Good Going International with Random Hacks of Kindness
It’s a terrific experience to spend a weekend hacking for social good. Knowing that you’re working with literally thousands of others worldw...
Cart Before the Horse, Part 3: AHRQ's "Health IT Hazard Manager"
Funding Innovation for Skoll Social Entrepreneurs
I was recently at the Skoll World Forum, probably the best conference in the world for meeting with top social entrepreneurs. As a longtime ...
Human Subjects Experimentation Directives Ignored in the Grand Health IT Experiment?
The following represents some very inconvenient truths that have long been ignored. Health IT is an experimental technology. The literature...
Recruiting Geeks for Human Rights!
Scientist / Data Analysis Engineer / General Techie Want to help save the world with your code? Like going to hackathons and wish you could...
The First Global Martus Users Group Meeting
Guest Beneblog by Vijaya Tripathi The first ever Martus users group meeting took place earlier this month in Chiang Mai, the capital of Nort...
Interning in Guatemala on the Archive Project
Dr. Karen Ramey Burns
A Guest Reflection by Dr. Patrick Ball, Benetech's Chief Scientist I am terribly sad to learn today of the untimely death of a friend an...
Guatemalan National Police Archive Goes Online
Guest Beneblog by Ann Harrison In 2006, the Benetech Human Rights Program was asked to participate in one of the most important human rights...
International Human Rights Day 2011
Today, December 10th, the international community is observing Human Rights Day to commemorate the 63rd anniversary of the creation of the U...
Benetech: President's Update
