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Remote Technology in the Pandemic: Rebalancing Toward Equity and Access

Non Profit Quarterly

Not all leaders think that way, but organizations that value equity of access must consider the plights of those who might be systematically excluded from engagement efforts. Although we did not start with a particular emphasis on equity and access, this theme came up regularly in our conversations with the field.

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Accessibility Excitement in Geneva

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This is totally the “how sausage and law are made” view, so don’t read this unless you want to know more about global accessibility in detail! WIPO has a mandate from its member states, and is working to address the need to change laws and get more accessible books flowing.

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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. To bring the power of books to everybody on this planet, we must make books truly accessible. Love of the print book. It made me who I am.

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How to Make Analytics a Priority – Finally!

Association Analytics

These will support your business case by aligning with your goals: Consistent, trusted data with standard interactive reports using a common language that employees throughout your organization easily understand – all in a secure data warehouse. Communicate to leadership and staff in their language. Don’t forget the intangibles.

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Robin Seaman, Agent of Inclusion

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

In addition, the quality was often not good enough to deliver fully equal access to educational books. And Robin is why we've been able to deliver over 10 million accessible books to readers with disabilities. For the last three years she's been leading the charge for the Born Accessible campaign. That's where Robin came in.

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President’s Update: Fall 2013

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Highlights of this Update: Global Literacy Human Rights Benetech Labs Communications Global Literacy Bookshare celebrated a double milestone this summer, reaching over 200,000 available titles in our collection and serving over 250,000 members with disabilities! While the majority of our members are U.S. million grant from the U.S.

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Words to Avoid—2023 Edition

Candid

As always, this is not meant to be a definitive (or complete) list of dos and don’ts. While we are many years removed from the original definition being commonplace, it is still a word we should use mindfully due to its negative connotations. When communicating about literacy, we should always strive to avoid the term “illiterate.”

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