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MAY 15, 2012

The DIAGRAM Center was launched in May 2010 by Benetech with support from the US Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP). Once volunteer describers sign up as Bookshare volunteers, they can log into the Poet tool, select books, view the images, and enter descriptions for a variety of texts.

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Images Student Accessibility Content 133

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DECEMBER 17, 2010

In 2010, Benetech’s Human Rights Data Analysis Group examined once hidden government documents from Guatemala and Chad that provided key evidence needed to hold former national leaders and security forces accountable for human rights violations. Guzmán’s testimony was based on HRDAG’s analysis of the 31.7

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Chad Guatemala Data Liberia 124

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JUNE 5, 2010

Comments on the FCC's Accessibility Plans (June 2010) My main recommendation to the FCC is to be more ambitious about accessibility. Make it an indispensable tool for people with disabilities, their families, educators, rehab professionals and the assistive and mainstream technology industries.

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Accessibility Award Proposal Phase 100

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FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Have the answers to these questions changed during recent years (2007, 2010, 2013)? And if it does, we’ll have a major new tool for combating income inequality and poverty in much of the world! What “micro” factors raise the poverty risk for persons and households – age? family structure?

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Uruguay Luxembourg New York Database 100

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JULY 22, 2012

Mark Lind-Hanson I have been involved in nonprofit administrative and development work for a decade and a half, and came to Bookshare in the summer of 2010 as a volunteer. I have been working with image description since the project began, first doing QA for the Poet tool and now involved in writing and editing the illustration captions.

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Volunteer San Francisco Team San Jose 129

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APRIL 7, 2013

It was so gratifying to see firsthand how Martus , a free and open-source software tool developed by Benetech, is empowering people to be the change they wish to see. I recently had the pleasure of visiting one of our longtime Martus partners in Thailand, The Network for Human Rights Documentation – Burma ( ND-Burma ).

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