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Receiving the 2013 Migel Medal

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Earlier today, I attended the American Foundation for the Blind’s (AFB) National Leadership Conference in Chicago where I received the 2013 Migel Medal. Helen Keller, who worked for AFB for many years, was on the original award board for its first twenty years, starting in 1937.

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Benetech Closing Statement on the Marrakech Treaty

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To the Diplomatic Conference in Plenary on June 27, 2013 On the Adoption of the Treaty of Marrakech This is an excellent Treaty. We are a high tech organization that is not organized as a for-profit company, but instead as a nonprofit charitable corporation working to ensure technology serves all of humanity.

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How One Library Is “Loaning out the Internet” Using Mobile Technology

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People rely on their neighborhood library to borrow books, magazines, and movies. How does that work? Providence Community Library (PCL) is leading the way. PCL is a nonprofit network of nine neighborhood libraries that provide free, accessible library services and serve as vibrant neighborhood hubs.

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

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2013 was the year of an ever-widening NSA spying scandal with its revelations of how little digital privacy we really have – even heads of state. The much-heralded wearable computing era arrived with a crop of smartwatches during 2013. A 2013 survey from The Millennial Impact. There are remedies. Smartwatches.

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The Road to Accessibility without Borders: Celebrating the One-Year Anniversary of the Marrakesh Treaty

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One year ago, on June 28, 2013, at a diplomatic conference in Marrakesh, Morocco, the World Intellectual Property Organization ( WIPO ) agreed on a historic international copyright exception for people with print disabilities. HathiTrust.

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On the Future of Braille: Thoughts by Radical Braille Advocates

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Betsy Beaumon I recently had the honor to speak at the first-ever Braille Summit , hosted on June 19-21, 2013 by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) and Perkins School for the Blind. This allows a much broader group of experts to keep working on the problem.

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Working Toward Internet Access for Everyone

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Here's a roundup of recent work to address this issue. There are new and interesting things in the works. Organizations Doing Notable Digital Inclusion Work. The National Digital Inclusion Alliance. The National Digital Inclusion Alliance (NDIA) is a new U.S. Every Public Library in the United States.