Human Rights at the Benetech Board Meeting
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. Last quarter Betsy Beaumon presented the future of our Literacy program including Bookshare. Next quarter will be our new projects meeting, where we talk about the pipeline of new ideas for Benetech social enterprises. But this week, human rights was front and center. Patrick Ball, our Chief Scientist and VP of the Human Rights Program, spent a couple of hours with our board talking about the big strategic questions for the HRP. He talked about the opportunities and challenges he sees ahead, especially as technology tools continue to be adopted by more of the human rights community, from cell phones to Facebook. Our human rights program has many important moving parts: Improving the science of human rights statistics Doing major projects to help a country figure out what happened in the l...