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Bookshare without Borders: #2/3

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Together with our partners in the nonprofit, technology, government, academic and publishing sectors, we participate in new cultural and technological movements, deriving new knowledge that we apply for social gain. Our goal is to provide accessible books to many more people worldwide, rather than make the maximum financial return.

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Fascinating Meeting at the Copyright Office

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We discussed Chafee, especially in the context of the Amazon text-to-speech brouhaha, and the proposed international treaty that was tabled at the WIPO SCCR meeting in Geneva last month. We believe that print disabled people should be able to buy accessible books at the same time and at the same price as nondisabled people.

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[VIDEO] Using WhatsApp to Increase Engagement with Multicultural Communities

Bloomerang

And another thing, make your communication accessible and inclusive. So this is me in the Amazon. So I was working in the Amazon for a really long time. I hadn’t lived in the Amazon before. So as I said, when I was working across Latin America, especially in the Amazon. It started only in Brazil.

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Nonprofit Technology News for June 2013

Tech Soup

The leaders in adoption are China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Russia, Nigeria, the Philippines, Brazil, and Mexico. Get ready for Internet-connected smart devices that you’ll wear on your wrist or face or access in your car in 2014. In retail, Amazon is so 2012. There are now 2.4 They’ll be voice- or gesture-controlled.

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Big Vision Podcast: Interview with llyse Hogue Rainforest Action Network

Have Fun - Do Good

I certainly get inspired by getting to touch and be a part of some of the vast wilderness left on the planet, so the job has allowed me the privilege, which not everyone has, of going to Indonesia, and going to the Amazon in Brazil, and certainly that is fuel that will fill my engine for a very long time.

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