Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
MARCH 23, 2008
And, no, we're not looking for people to nominate a Benetech project this year: spread the wealth]. 25 Laureates will be honored at a Gala event on November 12, 2008 and five Laureates will share a cash prize of $250,000. If you know someone whose work embodies technology serving humanity, nominate them by tomorrow!
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
SEPTEMBER 5, 2008
The Social Enterprise World Forum 2008 was great for gaining a perspective on an island with a great deal of innovative social enterprise. I heard from rockstar social entrepreneurs as well as meeting people doing everyday social enterprise (and facing the normal struggles of enterprise). A radical VC, as it were.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
MARCH 16, 2009
Bookshare looks for publishers to partner with us to make books more available to people with disabilities. According to the company, they had a record 107 books on the New York Times bestseller list in 2008, with 35 of them ranked #1.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 5, 2015
The mission of the Lavelle Fund is to support programs that help people with visual impairments, including blindness, lead independent, productive lives. We first extended Bookshare services internationally in 2008 with the launch of Bookshare in India. In 2013, with the most recent (and fourth!)
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
OCTOBER 20, 2015
In 2008, we were the first customer of Samasource as they were getting started. Carol explained that these smart students lacked the connections and people skills to get jobs after graduation, and that Daproim wanted to give them a leg up in going on to tech careers once they graduated from school and from working for Daproim.
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OCTOBER 19, 2013
Majora realized that creating green projects and jobs empowers communities to see themselves in a different light, and that beautiful things happen in neighborhoods where people feel invested in their own economic and environmental well being.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
MARCH 24, 2008
It should be a great day talking about improving access to print for the community of people with disabilities in India. The Seminar to be held on Saturday, the 19th April, 2008 at the Auditorium, ICSR Building, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai. The seminar has been organized by a steering committee led by N.
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