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Corporate Citizenship and Digital Inclusion: Empowering Communities, Nonprofits, and Public Libraries

Tech Soup

Since 2007, San Francisco has been striving toward becoming a digitally inclusive city. For example, summer camps or after-school programs located in these parks can take advantage of the free Wi-Fi to teach computer classes or stream educational movies. Google's proposed Wi-Fi hotspots using Google Maps (very meta).

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President's Update: Summer 2008

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Department of Education gave us a major award on September 28, 2007. The Corte Madera School now uses Bookshare.org books in a range of classes for disabled students. A pricing manifesto proposes that members of the community that can afford the software should support the project financially. The feedback has been amazing.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

Have Fun - Do Good

She has been the recipient of many awards, including Fast Company's 2007 Social Capitalist Award, and the League of Women Voters' Women Who Could Be President Award. Each year we receive over 3,500 proposals from women's organizations all around the world. -Kavita Ramdas, President and CEO, Global Fund for Women.

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