Benetech, the leading nonprofit empowering communities in need by creating scalable technology solutions, today announced the appointment of human rights technology and policy pioneer Keith Hiatt to the position of Vice President of Benetech’s Human Rights Program. Hiatt will lead Benetech’s efforts to empower human rights defenders aroundKeith Hiatt Headshot the world by providing technology solutions and capacity building.
This July, more than 18,000 activists, researchers, scientists and policymakers from 183 countries converged in the seaside city of Durban, South Africa, for the International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2016), where news of medical breakthroughs that make it possible to remove the virus from infected cells led some researchers to conclude that a cure may be […]
On Wednesday, June 22nd, Benetech hosted twenty-five global entrepreneurs who were in Silicon Valley to attend the seventh annual Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. This Summit is the seventh installment in a series previously hosted by the United States and the governments of Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Malaysia, […]
Members of Benetech’s Code Alliance team recently organized the first ever CHI4GOOD Day of Service at the annual conference hosted by the Human-Computer Interaction Special Interest Group of the Association for Computing Machinery in San Jose, California. Code Alliance is a Benetech initiative that connects technology professionals to volunteer opportunities with open source software projects for social […]
By guest author Stephanie Seale, Strategic Partnerships Manager, Business Development Benetech was pleased to join the human rights technology community at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco for RightsCon Silicon Valley 2016, organized by our friends at Access Now. RightsCon is where the world’s human rights experts, business leaders, technologists, engineers, investors, activists, and […]
